You are right, I think there is no chance for E-L adapters! It was a bold move from Nikon to make the Z-mount the shortest and widest. So you can adapt nearly anything and you have a lot of options for design. The only drawback is for their APS-C cameras: Huge mount for small cameras…
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Quentinquirelino
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I don't think that was their intention behind the Z Mount.
And that is killing any future of Nikon APS-C line. Noone will invest in an APSC system, if it is as big as fullframe with other brands. Nikon seems not be interested in APSC anymore. Since around 10 years.
Yes, that's what I seem to recall. The E2Z converter is already quite thin; an E2L might be problematically thin. Perhaps hard to even put a reasonable grip on it? Still, one can hope.
Jonathan-Mac
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Neither Nikon nor Canon are interested in APS-C but this goes back much further than ten years. If that wasn't the case then they would have offered a far wider selection of APS-C lenses. APS-C gives them some presence in the cheaper end of the camera market but TBH most cameras in that area these days are hobbled by a lack of a viewfinder and so aren't of interest to many people anyway.
Size isn't the only thing that makes people want APS-C - there's price too, but these days on many systems you can get FF for only a bit more than APS-C and many APS-C cameras are much more expensive than many FF ones. Still, Nikon, after years suffering with the F-mount that was designed too small, over-compensated when they designed the Z mount.
Markuswelder
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I'll admit to being really really annoyed with Canon, for a really long time over that. They kind of tricked me with the release of the EOSM, & the excellent and petite 22 f2 pancake. I'd had all my EF-S gear stolen at the time, & it looked like Canon had finally started down the road of a good selection of compact quality lenses. Unfortunately not. The 22mm & 11-22 were about the only really good ones they came out with. I'd long since moved on when they finally released a good 50mm equivalent, and really glad I did. An 85mm was never seen. And then they killed it. To add insult to injury, you can't adapt EF-M to RF, & you have to buy your APSC lens collection all over again. Not interested in that, that's a pure money grab if I've ever seen one.
One thing it did teach me, never ever buy into a system on what you hope it will become, buy into a system that has what you want, already in existence.