>>4311374Sure that lens is small, but they didn't even weather seal it, and most of the size savings came from the exotic elements and software corrections. A similar lens would not have been much bigger on EF if they had the technology required to make these bullshit elements, and everyone would bitch about their OVF showing a distorted, heavily vignetting nightmare.
It's not merely the mount. It's manufacturing tech, and the EVF lying to you. Manufacturing tech matters in every field no matter how banal. Today, the bic crystal writes like shit compared to a twsbi eco that lasts for life as long as you dont pull it apart to be a redditor about ink swaps. But when it was made, fountain pens were leaky and prone to drying out, because FP manufacturing wasn't good enough yet, but ball bearing manufacturing was, and it changed the world, just because the older, theoretically better writing tech didn't come with the manufacturing advanced it needed to be well executed.
In the future your relatives children will look back on the days of SLRs and curse us for abandoning them because they will have the manufacturing and optics expertise (like elements that can be transformed with electrical current) to make absolutely tiny SLRs with tiny lenses. They will think "even with the tech of their day, they could have just did that with an SLR and it would be about the same size, but with a glorious OVF and no AI editing out politically controversial objects!". And they will curse us, brother. They will curse us. "Couldnt they have at least had digitally coupled rangefinders instead of lying AI VFs?"
