During the a6400 press event a few weeks ago, Sony had several slides showing the advantages of their mirrorless E-mount. Some of the slides were directly targeted at Leica since Stephan Schulz from Leica Camera AG claimed that the Sony E-mount was not designed for full-frame mirrorless cameras (there are several other articles online making the same claim). Sony first tries to compare E-mount with F-mount in order to show that an f/1.0 lens for Sony E-mount is possible: but in the last slide, Sony shows that the Nikon's mirrorless Z-mount is capable of handling f/0.58 lenses: Leica L-mount: f/0.63 Sony E-mount: f/0.63 Canon RF-mount: f/0.62 Nikon Z-mount: f/0.58 Here is the screenshot: This is news to me since previous reports/interviews indicated that Nikon's optical engineers have calculated Z-mount can accept lenses up to f/0.65. Here is the video from the presentation (watch from the 8:10 mark): Via PhotoRumors The post Sony’s presentation shows that Nikon Z mount is capable of f/0.58 lenses appeared first on Nikon Rumors. Related posts: Here is a 58mm f/0.7 full-frame mirrorless lens designed for Nikon Z-mount Shoten/Techart TZE Nikon Z-mount to Sony E-mount adapter (mount converter) to be officially announced next week In case you missed it: Nikon Z-mount can support lenses faster than f/0.95 ...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Tuesday, 12 March, 2019