SongRaw Moonlit f/1.2 Primes Get Cheaper, Lighter Simplified Edition

If you shoot portraits or events and you've been watching f/1.2 glass stay out of reach, SongRaw just moved the goalpost. The Simplified Edition of the Moonlit 50mm and 85mm f/1.2 keeps the full optical design intact, including weather sealing and STM autofocus with subject tracking, but ditches the aperture ring and black finish to hit $550 for the 50mm. That's the real story: the glass is unchanged, only the hardware around it changed. For Sony E and Nikon Z shooters, this now sits in a price bracket where Viltrox and Sigma are the competition, except SongRaw is claiming the same coatings and element count as their full-price version. No aperture ring matters less when you're shooting tethered or video with camera-body control anyway. Worth watching once reviews confirm the AF holds up in real conditions.