The Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM development was announced back in February along with 5 other lenses, including a second 85mm f/1.2L lens with defocus smoothing, the Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L DS USM.
We expect the Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM to be officially announced on or around May 9, 2019, and it will be available for preorder on that day.
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But I expect stellar overall IQ hopefully without clinical sharpness but with "realistic" photographic results.
Sharper, smaller, lighter, much faster to focus, tracks the eye as well (and of course it costs more)
Give it a good balance between size, optical quality and a reasonable MFD - in EOS M land the EF-M 32mm is a dream lens if it comes to "balance": Photographic IQ is excellent (maybe it gets sharper but not "more natural"), the MFD or better minimum reproduction ratio of 1:4 results to an image field of ~ 60 x 90mm which is no macro but fully in the close up range.
I would trade in the f/1.4 for 1:2 macro and be very satisfied with f/1.8!
The Leica M lens 1,25/75 mm costs Euro 11900 !!!!!! :eek:
359,100 Japanese Yen equals
$3,253.81 United States Dollar
I guess with Canon predicting declining sales, the price of lenses are going to be more expensive.
So the blue goo wasn't just for wide angle lenses after all.
But the price though...the price lmao.
Either way, thank goodness for mount adapters.
Sigma & Tamron are already filling those gap left from Canon, Sony, Nikon. For 1/2-2/3 the price, you can get close to similar performance or exceed it. Sigma have alot of 1.4 Art lenses.
I have no doubt Canon 85 1.2 RF will be a great lens, but it just a diminish return buying expensive lenses.