12-24mm Nikkor announced!

[Seachicken]

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0212/02121201nikondxlenses.asp

Just what we've been missing!

[Tom V]

Wow!

First I liked it, then I read that it has a smaller image circle. Now I don't like it so much.

12-24 ƒ4! ( works like an 18-36 ƒ4 on 35mm film cameras, if you don't mind not having image to the edges of the frame!) I wonder if you can mount it on a film camera - I hope they didn't change the mount for this DX lens.

A smaller image circle means that it will only work for on digital cameras with a less-than-film-size sensor, like the Nikon D-100, D1h & D1x, as well as the Fuji S2. This will limit the lens' usefullness on any current or future camera with a full-size sensor, or any current film camera.

Kodak is marketing their full-size sensor camera now (built on a Nikon body), so a choice of full-size sensor cameras could be here in a year or two. Larger sensors will give us better resolution, higher pixel counts, less noise, more accurate color, and all our lenses from the film days will work the same (your 20mm lens acts like a 20mm lens!).

But, if you need 12mm view today, and you are willing to give future compatibility with larger-sensor bodies, this lens could be for you.

[bjnicholls]

All the Nikon based DSLRs have identical mounts and contacts to the film bodies they are based on. You could mount the small circle zoom on a film body, but why? The lens gives you the field of view of 18-35mm on a 1.5x digital camera. The small image circle will make the lens a fuzzy edged sorta circular 12-24 fisheye on a full frame camera. Not an effect I put on my wish list.
This lens will fill a performance gap and if it's cheap enough (slow speed and G-mount should help) and good enough I might get one.

[paco]

I did not see a price.

[teski]

The mount is not changing, but the lens is not meant to go on 35mm film cameras due to the lens size. You could do it, but I believe the pics will look terrible.

Teski