These are the first leaked pictures of the upcoming Canon RF 800mm F5.6L IS USM and the Canon RF 1200mm F8L IS USM. Both of these lenses have been on our roadmap for quite some time.
The 1200mm is most definitely a normal optic (a monster lens at that) and not a catadioptric lens.
From the image, they're going to be announced on February 24th.
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Provided these are the real pictures of the lenses.
-Brian
Then you move on to the actual photographers, for shore based surf photography it is a dream lens, I'd think there will be a few astro photographers interested etc etc.
After the initial 5 years, once the pent up demand has eased, I'd think the sales would slow down to a trickle though.
Yeah, it looks shorter, especially the front section with the red ring. Hope it's a new design, not that i will able to afford it...
I will be very interested to see if the MTF graphs that'll come out on launch compare favorably to the 600mm with a 1.4x teleconverter. To launch this sort of a monster I suppose it must.
Also curious about the 800 + 1.4x TC versus the 1200 f/8. If the 1200 doesn't beat the pants off the 800, then it's just a lot more bulk to carry around.
Big "whomp whomp whooomp" to Sony wildlife shooters for the next bunch of quarters before they can marshall something equivalent. And for the next few years for the Nikonians, who have a better chance of getting something from Sigma or Tamron in terms of big pro lens release timing.
The 800mm looks to have different proportions to the EF version, but could be the image distortion.
Also, if you can afford this lens you can probably afford a new R body to go with it.