The long-rumored Canon RF 14-35mm f/4L IS USM will be announced soon as reported easrlier this week, and it was a longtime part of the Canon RF lens roadmap.
Canon will also be announcing a Canon RF 100-400mm f/5.6-7.1 IS USM in the near future. This is a non-L lens. While I cannot confirm the aperture range of this lens yet, I have reported it as an f/5.6-7.1 IS USM on the roadmap.
The third lens will be a Canon RF 16mm f/2.8 prime lens. This is a non-L prime lens and has not appeared on the roadmap until now. This is an interesting prime lens for a full-frame sensor. If an APS-C RF mount camera is coming, this would be a nice and compact 25mm f/2.8.
More to come…
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But that said--the combination of the 70-400 and 16mm make me think an APS-C camera is coming soon. Both lenses would make an excellent start to a crop camera if they were cheap enough. The 70-400 sounds like an upgrade over the typical APS-C 70-300 sorta kit lens, though I'm sure that's a full frame lens as well and will make an excellent small travel zoom, especially with the wide end being 70mm.
I don't understand this obsession of Canon making huge 1kg lenses and then trying to save weight on everything affordable by making lenses super dark.
400mm at F/7.1 is a 58mm filter thread, so this is going to be a very small and cheap lens.
Sony has a 200-600 f/6.3 for $2k. And it’s a great lens.
Why can’t Canon at least match Sony?
It is the best & most useful RF lens they've made so far for my purposes.
With that said, it will be nice to see future super tele RF lenses that get closer to 100mm entrance pupils for those with bigger wallets & biceps.
But a 1.6x crop would make it a FF equivalent ~26mm f4.5.
If this was f/5.6 at 300mm or even f/6.3 at 400mm I would consider buying an RF crop body in the future. Since it starts at f/5.6 I doubt it's going to be f/5.6 at 300mm.
I wish they would have made a consumer EF 100-400mm F/4.5 - f/5.6.
The RF100-500mm is a great lens. Sharp at 500mm and perfect for moon shots :)
f7.1 is still manageable even at higher ISO.
Works well with 1.4/2x teleconvertors as well which will give you very narrow apereture.
The 600/800 f11 lenses show that you don't need wide apereture to get good shots in good light.
Not as great in low light/wide aperture though. Big whites will give you that at an appropriate price.
If your uses are exclusively shooting at noon on sunny days, then that’s great, but slow lenses break down as soon as the light drops, even a partly cloudy day at f/7.1 requires a shutter well below 1/1000th. It’s just bad.
Sony gives users 1 stop faster, 100mm extra, for $1k less. Why can’t Canon compete?