Anyhoo...
Could be a sweet combo between the 12/1.4 and 25/1.4 Leica lenses on an Olympus body with IBIS. Again, I care not a bit about getting the least possible DOF - I'm having enough problems with it as it is, to the point of preferring f/6.3ish aperture on my 16-35/4 (not for the lack of sharpness - this lens seems extremely sharp already wide open) even indoors - but getting some large aperture stuff for the situations when the light is dim would be great. And if they're small and lightweight... well, I got used to carrying the 1D with me every day but sometimes I just plain get tired of it. Getting the 70-300 zoom alongside the 70-200 was an act of desperation in this regard.
Speaking of wide apertures... the Canon 24/1.4 L is not terribly sharp wide open anyway. If I absolutely have to use it wide open (and not at f/1.8~f/2.2 as I prefer), I better hope that an interesting subject is worth the sacrifice in sharpness, and/or can mask it somehow... For amateur astro shots (and I'm an amateur at astro) it may do, but it's becoming obvious that the coma is pretty bad, AND I could only get either the fortress or the stars in focus, but not both (unless I'm getting into some veritable voodoo with focus stacking, blending and whatnot - and I'm not quite there yet).
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(24mm f/1.6)
P. S. Per the Cameralabs evaluation, the new 12mm looks quite a bit better than the 12/2 and the 7-14/2.8 at the overlapping apertures (duh). And f/22 looks... ugly.
Could be a sweet combo between the 12/1.4 and 25/1.4 Leica lenses on an Olympus body with IBIS. Again, I care not a bit about getting the least possible DOF - I'm having enough problems with it as it is, to the point of preferring f/6.3ish aperture on my 16-35/4 (not for the lack of sharpness - this lens seems extremely sharp already wide open) even indoors - but getting some large aperture stuff for the situations when the light is dim would be great. And if they're small and lightweight... well, I got used to carrying the 1D with me every day but sometimes I just plain get tired of it. Getting the 70-300 zoom alongside the 70-200 was an act of desperation in this regard.
Speaking of wide apertures... the Canon 24/1.4 L is not terribly sharp wide open anyway. If I absolutely have to use it wide open (and not at f/1.8~f/2.2 as I prefer), I better hope that an interesting subject is worth the sacrifice in sharpness, and/or can mask it somehow... For amateur astro shots (and I'm an amateur at astro) it may do, but it's becoming obvious that the coma is pretty bad, AND I could only get either the fortress or the stars in focus, but not both (unless I'm getting into some veritable voodoo with focus stacking, blending and whatnot - and I'm not quite there yet).
(24mm f/1.6)P. S. Per the Cameralabs evaluation, the new 12mm looks quite a bit better than the 12/2 and the 7-14/2.8 at the overlapping apertures (duh). And f/22 looks... ugly.