What I hear
I've heard people in the know from Canon USA saying they have “no idea what's going on with them” in regards to the current backorder on the 24-70 f/2.8L.
Most people in the know give you ETA's, not in this case. Just another sign.
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if financially interesting, yes. If it makes more sense not to, and to compete in other arenas, they’ll happily leave the 24-70 as-is. It’ll cost them a lot of work and manpower to design a new lens, they can’t just cater every whim online. Not even if Nikon has a better thing (see the 200-400 that is reportedly killing any Canon offering… and still no counterpart).
Everywhere I have looked it is in stock – B&H, Amazon, Dell, etc. I have no idea why it is not available in Canada, but… probably not due to discontinue/replacement. I just sold my 24-105 & 28-70 to by the 24-70 – so if they are going to do something I hope it is fast. Can’t survive long without my fav lens.
It’s backordered everywhere but the USA. Maybe that means when they release the IS version of the lens, which will clearly be very soon based on the backorder status, they’ll sell it everywhere BUT the USA???
That figures!! I will be in Canada in August…. Maybe…
Yes, there will be greater DOF, that is the problem. The increased DOF of the 2.0 crop makes the DOF of a f2.0 lens equal to DOF of a f4.0 lens on a FF camera.
Because the sensor is a crop factor 2.0, a 50mm lens will be equivalent to 100mm on a full frame. In order to frame a shot equivalent to 50mm on a FF at 10 feet away, the photographer needs to stand 20 feet away using the 2.0 crop camera using the same lens. The increased distance gives a photograph with much greater DOF.
Deep DOF is easy to achieve, shallow DOF is not always easy, and is often desirable.
FF 50mm, f4.0, at 10 feet, DOF = 2.94 feet
2.0 Crop 50mm f2.0 at 20 feet DOF = 2.92 feet
I use 10 feet focus distance for FF and 20 feet for 2.0 crop because this example yields the same image in the frame.
You can also do this comparison by using a 50mm on the crop at 10 feet vs a 100mm on the FF at 10 feet. The result is the same, the crop will have a deeper DOF equivalent to 2 full stops compared to the FF.