One of the more interesting trends coming out is the
proliferation of plastic, low cost lenses.
This has been a trend with zooms for some time now, but the interesting
development is the range of primes and more specialised lenses with this
philosophy. These lenses are generally very light, but with no skimping on the
optics.
The proliferation is interesting - Sony released their DT
series lenses for alpha A mount cameras, Pentax introduced a 35mm f2.4, Nikon
the 40mm macro and jest recently Sigma has launched the 30mm f2.8 for NEX and
M4/3 cameras.
I like and applaud this trend. Sure there's nothing like a solid feeling
highly capable lens, but being able to get almost the same thing for a quarter
the price is extremely appealing.
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