Which mirrorless system for native lenses?

[Griffin]

I would like to know which system you would buy into if you were only to use their native lenses. I'm not including Leica here, because it doesn't seem to fit in for whatever reason.

 

[Griffin]

So, I would go or Micro 4/3. I like their cameras, I think they have a terriffic lens lineup and they have the (lens) size advantage.

 

[ruby.monkey]

Micro-4/3, without a shadow of a doubt. There are plenty of absolute corkers available natively - probably more than for all the other mirrorless systems put together.

 

[Robin P]

As I mentioned in the legacy lens thread I chose the Samsung NX system for its affordable range of pancake primes.

 

[kxl]

I voted for the NEX FF because it IS fullframe. You have to wait a bit for the FE-mount lens line up to catch up, and they may tend be relatively more expensive, but again, it IS fullframe.

 

[Godfrey]

In my experience, all of the "mirrorless" systems work best with the lenses that they were designed for, or were designed for them as a general rule.

For the Ricoh GXR and the A12 Camera Mount, the best lenses to use are the M-Mount RF lenses that this camera unit were designed for.

For the Olympus and Panasonic Micro-FourThirds cameras, the best lenses to use are the lenses designed for Micro-FourThirds from Olympus, Panasonic, Voigtländer, and Sigma. Second best lenses are adapted SLR camera lenses. Third best are the lenses designed for M-mount and LTM. After that come some C-mount lenses and other oddities. I often use adapted SLR lenses (50mm and up) from Leica R and Nikon SLRs on my mFT cameras, and infrequently use Leica M-mount 90 and 135 lenses as well ... but the FT and mFT lenses out-perform nearly all of them.

This holds true for the Sony NEX and A7/A7r system cameras too, as far as I've seen—use lenses designed for the mount for best results, use others because you like their specific qualities on the camera you choose to use them on.

G

 

[willie_901]

In my experience, all of the "mirrorless" systems work best with the lenses that they were designed for, or were designed for them as a general rule.
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I agree completely. People generally don't appreciate the fact that native lenses are designed specifically to match the system's mount-to-sensor distance and other technical characteristics of the system. This is especially relevant as desired field of view widens.

Of course if you already own a bunch of third-party lenses the availbility of very inexpensive adapters make trying adapted lenses tempting. And you can easily find scores of outstanding photographs made with adapted lenses. But the same is so for the native lenses as well.

 

[gavinlg]

Fujinons for quality.

m4/3 for quantity.

 

[Spyro]

hmmmm
Fuji for up to 90mm equivalent, but only just, and only if the upcoming 56/1.2 and 10-24 zoom are up to expectations. For anything longer fuji is still very weak.

m4:3 is very very tempting with all those pancakes and 2.8 zooms ad Oly primes... But it's all a matter of personal preference really: if 20mm (equiv) is your favourite FL it's worth getting a fuji just to mount the 14/2.8, it's such a killer of a lens. But then it's also worth getting an m4:3 body just for the 25 panaleica or the 45 Oly. Awesome options these days 🙂

 

[DNG]

I picked m4/3, I am a m4/3 user.
When I looked for a Mirrorless systems camera, Fuji was not around, Ricoh was an odd systems camera to me..

m4/3 was the better choice for native lenses.
Sony has never had a good consumer line up after all these years.
(I also think the A7 also will lack a good depth of good native lenses in a year or 2)

Funny thing... I own 2 native m4/3 lenses (P/14mm, O/14-42 MkIIR) and have just under a dozen Nikon and other brands legacy FF glass.

But, I think Fuji will build a good native lens stable by the end of 2015.

 

[GaryLH]

Even though I am a m43 user and I like the m43 native lens offerings, for me it is Fuji. Fuji has shown to me that are producing very good quality prime lenses. While they don't have the lens offerings of m43, I expect them to have a fairly well rounded line up in the next year or so.. I am hoping more third party lens makers will jump on board the x mount now that Zeiss has started offering some lenses.

Sony still needs to show me their commitment to good prime lenses whether apsc or ff. Yes, Zeiss is on board here.... But from Sony it has mainly been so-so consumer lenses.

Gary

 

[biomed]

I have been using u4/3 gear for almost four years. While mainly interested in using adapted lenses, I have found that the extensive native lenses have been my mainstay. The number of available lenses seem to be growing every day.

Mike

 

[jsrockit]

Fuji nerd...

 

[Greg_E]

Samyang has said that their entire line of lenses will be made available in Fuji X mount, still going to be manual, but a step in the right direction.

 

[rluka]

Fuji got larger percentage of relatively fast prime
And less 28~85mm equiv 🙂

 

[angelog]

Why not include the Leica M (240) in your poll?

 

[pvdhaar]

In the balancing act between image characteristics and size, the APS-C size NEX hits the sweet spot in my view. It's only let down by a extremely limited lens selection at the telephoto end; the wide end though is superbly covered by the 10-18. If I were to start over in mirrorless, m4/3 would be a serious consideration, if only for the longer lenses.

 

[defconfunk]

Of the listed cameras, I've only used m43. But the Panny 25mm 1.4 is such an amazing lens, I don't feel like "just a fan boy" clicking m43 on the poll.

 

[dpt2014]

Fuji - without a doubt in my mind.

 

[roundg]

if AF speed is not the most important thing for you, FUJI should be the best --- best quality line of lens and best build-in JPEG processing.