Joelwexler wrote:
You're saying my Nikon lenses won't mount on the Nikon Z7 without a converter?
Nope. Nikon now has
two lens mounts:
F-mount: flange-to-frame distance 46.5 mm
Z-mount: flange-to-frame distance : 16 mm
Nikon makes an FTZ Lens Adapter.
It does not need a optic, since 16 < 46.5
However:
* Twice as many electrical contacts
* Two bayonet mounts -- looser tolerances
* List price: $249.95.
You probably bought Nikon cameras and lenses so that this wouln't happen to you.
Too bad.
And of course, Nikon, Canon, Sony have all introduced new, incompatible
mirroless lens mounts. There could have been an industry standard, but then
lenses from different manufactures could compete head on for quality can price.
Can't have that.
Canon EF-M FFD is 18 mm, Fujifilm X is 17.7 mm. That 0.3 mm is extremely
important: it insures incompatibility.
Well, the good news is tht Nikon hasn't discontinued its DSLRs or F-mount lenes---yet.
But Sony has already discontinued all but one of its FF A-mount DSLRs.
You're probalby wondering what the Z7 can do that the D850 can't do.
So is everyone else (except the fanboys who always cheer for their team).
But mirrorless is cheaper to manufacture -- althought he savings isn't being
passed along to customers. In Nikon's defense: there wasn't much else it could
do given behemouth Sony's marketing blitz, and consumer gullibility.
All cameras are consumer cameras now, except for Leica, Hassalblad, Miyama.