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The Case for APS-C (again)

I'd like to have a new APS-C option for L Mount, but I highly doubt it would come from Panasonic. I believe they have alluded to being focused on M4/3 and FF. Sigma could be a darkhorse in doing it as they have still been releasing their new APS-C lenses in L Mount. I can't imagine they are selling very many of them without a newly available dedicated body. Perhaps it could have been something if they would have released a Quattro body with L Mount. Would also wonder if they would even want to try to shift resources around before finishing a FF Foveon sensor too.

Honestly, I think it could be an interesting move for one of these other lens makers that have joined L Mount Alliance to try to bust on into the market with an APS-C camera. No competition with the others. They could work on having a nice APC-S specific lineup of lenses ready to go at launch.
 
Sigma could try to produce a more mainstream (ie not weird or crippled in some way) camera body with an APS-C sensor. I could see that working, but again, I'm not sure there would be any price advantage over the S9 or S5D.
 
So, a thought that just occurred to me: An APS-C sports-oriented body. Sort of a modern D500. With a modern 40MP sensor, it would have crop capability (pixel-wise) close to the S1RII, but it would also have the 1.5x crop factor of the smaller sensor. You could pair it with the new, fabulous Sigma Sports lenses (200/2, 500/5.6, 300-600 F4, etc) for sports/wildlife, but then throw in a few lightweight crop lenses to grab some wide/normal images while you are out there. I’d love to have roughly 1.4x more reach than my S1RII. If the AF were up to it, I’d seriously consider such a body.

I could see Sigma pulling this off - the CEO has said he’d love to make a sports body.

Fuji has more-or-less done this, but with Fuji glass, of course. There’s a guy (Morris0) on the DPR wildlife forum that posts amazing stuff with a Fuji X-H2S body (26 MP). With a 40MP sensor you’d get even more reach, but then noise will I’m sure be a bigger problem, but you could manage that.
 
Sometimes I miss my Fuji setup. The X-S10 body was smaller than the Lumix G80 I had at the time... so m43 could only compete with smaller and lighter lenses.
But sometimes I look at Sony and Nikon where I actually can have this. One mount and a full-frame and an aps-c body. At the moment of buying into L-Mount I was thinking about an Leica aps-c body, but those are too expensive and no ibis, although beautiful made. And those bodies are relatively old. Old sensor types.

I already decided I wanted to go full frame and my decision to choose L-Mount was because of a big cash-back, good offer for my Fuji equipment, and the Nikon promotion just had ended, thus way more expensive.I decided against e-mount because no emotional binding, felt more like taking pictures with a plastic computer. It was either Nikon or Lumix. Still don't know if I made the right choice though :) But I really enjoy using my S5ii . But an aps-c offering for L-Mount would be great.
 
I have three different sets of lenses to use with my SL2-S depending on my mood-of-the-day; a set of M lenses (primarily 18, 24, 35, 75 and 135mm), a three Sigma set of zooms, 14-24, 24-70 and 70-200, all f2.8’s and the set I have today, the aps-c lenses from the CL outfit, 11-23, 18-56, 55-135 and 35/60mm primes.

Love ‘em all.
 
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