New Wide Angles Lenses in 2013 [CR2]

[infared]

YIPPEE!!!
I just picked up a 17mm TSE...(tried it out last weekend...AMAZING LENS!)....so with this news about the new Wide Angles...I will be putting my 16-35mm II on the block...it is getting less and less use with my growing collection of primes.   I expect the new 14-24mm to be spectacular, (and expensive...YIKES!)....but I plan on having one in my quiver for when I need quick versatility and fast AF!

[JonAustin]

Given satisfactory performance from the final product, I'd be interested in a 16-50 f/4L IS, as well.

I bought a 17-40 right after they came out 10 years ago; I was shooting with a crop-sensor body then, and the 17-40 became my walk-around lens. When I moved to full-frame, my new walk-around became the 24-105.

I'm very happy with my 17-40, but don't use it very much anymore, due to its limited zoom range. I think a 16-50L with current IS and all the other recent tech would be a nice upgrade, and something I would use more often.

In the meantime, I wait (not so) patiently for an update to the 100-400, and -- much longer term -- a 24-70/2.8 with IS (unless my 7½-year-old, heavily used 24-105 dies in the meantime).

[ddashti]

Once the 14-24 comes out, many of those who had converted to Nikon might convert back without second thought.

[Jim Saunders]

Sitting here it seems to me that I'll either have some interesting new choices or pleasantly depressed prices on a 16-35, so either way it's all coming up Milhouse.

Jim

[adhocphotographer]

Great news... 

[Rienzphotoz]

One of the lenses will be the 14-24 f/2.8L, that will complete Canon’s run of lenses covering 14mm to 560mm.

Hallelujah

We’re told one of the configurations in test is an EF 16-50 f/4L IS.

Hallelujah once again

[verysimplejason]

Once the 14-24 comes out, many of those who had converted to Nikon might convert back without second thought.

If and only if 14-24 performs better than Nikon's or at least be on par with it and Canon releases the high MP, high DR model for landscape photographers.  As of now, D800/E is still the best 35mm landscape camera.

[verysimplejason]

I am hoping Canon will put out a CHEAPER and lighter and smaller "GOLD" version of these lenses.  Maybe a refresh of the 20mm F2.8 USM (an 18mm is better) will do it for me.  PLEASE Canon!

[Zv]

Once the 14-24 comes out, many of those who had converted to Nikon might convert back without second thought.

I highly doubt that.

[Rienzphotoz]

Once the 14-24 comes out, many of those who had converted to Nikon might convert back without second thought.

I highly doubt that.

+1

[candyman]

  Anyone want to buy a used 16-35 II?

I'll wait till the 14-24 is out and the market will be flooded with 16-35s

I am sure that a 14-24 f/2.8 will cost up north of 2K euro. That would make it for me less attractive to replace my 16-35 f/2.8 II. But, if a 16-50 f/4 IS would arrive with a price max 1300 euro then I might consider replacing it. It will be a good lens for indoors on FF especially equiped with IS. I am not sure what will be the price I can get for the 16-35 if more of you drop it on the market 

[kennephoto]

I've been trying to decide on a wide angle lens to buy since my 24-105 isn't wide enough for me. Will the 14-24 be bulbus front element and not take screw on filters? I want to take some wide angle photos using ND filters. Guess I shall keep saving and waiting.

[RGF]

I don't agree that canon has massive shoes to fill in the landscape department.  If you are already on a tripod and doing serious landscape work than I'd put the 17 TSE against the Nikon 14-24 anyday.

Sensors are another matter of course.

I would like to see Canon have fixed 17 and 14 both equal sharp as the 17 TS-E (but without the extra cost and bulk of the TS-E).

Or simply license Nikon 14-24 and make it work with the EOS bodies and put a Canon red band on it.

I wish Zeiss would make their lens AF on Canon bodies

[mxwphoto]

What I have always wondered is why the manufacturers do not make the UWA lenses with drop in rear glass filters?  The telephotos have it because nobody's going to make a 200mm CPL, so why can't we have it on wide angles - nobody's going to be making curved CPL filters... I'm sure if they make UWAs with rear drop ins it'll sell like hotcakes! That and Canon can sell their own proprietary filters for it as well, so it's a win win for everyone imo. *Wink wink Canon!*   

[M.ST]

I can confirm that a EF 16-50 f/4 prototype exist.

The EF 14-24 f/2.8 is tested over a long time.