Rumors Will 2024 be an exciting year for L-Mount?

[Markuswelder]

Okay, how about a 20-40, or 20-50mm f2.8 fixed lens zoom camera? With the S5 sensor. And flippy EVF from the GX8. I think that would make the perfect travel camera, 20mm just wide enough for architecture etc, and 50mm just long enough for portraiture etc. I don't think that's been done before. Panasonic has been on a bit of a roll lately with compact, innovative lenses. Sign me up

 

[Pete_W]

Okay, how about a 20-40, or 20-50mm f2.8 fixed lens zoom camera? With the S5 sensor. And flippy EVF from the GX8. I think that would make the perfect travel camera, 20mm just wide enough for architecture etc, and 50mm just long enough for portraiture etc. I don't think that's been done before. Panasonic has been on a bit of a roll lately with compact, innovative lenses. Sign me up

Sounds good, but hopefully with a tilting LCD, not a fully articulating LCD unless they make it like the S1 that can do both.

 

[RuleOfThirds]

So, might be academic now, but here's that size comparison on midrange zooms I was talking about:

I know they are full frame, but with a much smaller mount… I don’t think it is feasible with AF and a l-mount

 

[Quentinquirelino]

I know they are full frame, but with a much smaller mount… I don’t think it is feasible with AF and a l-mount

The bigger size of the mount doesn't make the lens bigger. It's probably the opposite. The only thing is, you have to increase the actual mounting ring. But that gives you space. You can increase the rear element of the lens and you could make the lens shorter. However AF will need some space, but as we can see with the 100 macro and 28-200, Panasonic is becoming better and better in reducing the size of the AF and the hole lenses. I think the 20-60 could be much smaller now.

 

[Travis Butler]

I know they are full frame, but with a much smaller mount… I don’t think it is feasible with AF and a l-mount

Can they squeeze the 20-60 into the size of that Olympus 35-70? No, probably not.

Can they make a useful zoom with good IQ that is much smaller than the 20-60? I think that's quite feasible. The highlighted words are the key; it doesn't have to be a 3X zoom to be useful, and it doesn't have to be as small as that Olympus for a size reduction to be very important when pairing with a small, light body.

As I said, make it a 35-70; or make it a 24-50 or 20-40 if the wide end is more useful. The important thing is that if you're making a small body, a smaller zoom will be more useful even if the focal range is limited - because having a limited lens that handles well is better than a longer lens that gets in the way of shooting the camera.

 

[Quentinquirelino]

So Richard, are you testing anything new and interesting at the moment??

@Richard Wong probably can't keep himself from laughing, with all the latest rumours and speculation. And he may testing something completely different.

 

[RuleOfThirds]

The bigger size of the mount doesn't make the lens bigger. It's probably the opposite. The only thing is, you have to increase the actual mounting ring. But that gives you space. You can increase the rear element of the lens and you could make the lens shorter. However AF will need some space, but as we can see with the 100 macro and 28-200, Panasonic is becoming better and better in reducing the size of the AF and the hole lenses. I think the 20-60 could be much smaller now.

With (d)slr there is a mirror so if you would only change the mount to of the smaller lens to l-mount, it would not work because the focal point is not projecting correctly on the sensor. In other words, some of the size of the old lens is in the mirror box. I guess that if you add the size of an lmount adapter to I.e. your 35-70 example it doesn’t look that much smaller anymore ?

Just guessing here

 

[RuleOfThirds]

I think a 24mp aps-c sensor l-mount camera would be fun, to replace the gap Leica left by discontinuing their CL/TL camera’s. Sigma already has small (aps-c) l-mount lenses. Nikon does have that option in their z-mount.