Canon has registered two new lenses with Russian certification authorities. Back in October within their third-quarter financials, Canon did mention two more RF mount lenses coming this year. With 2021 ending in a week or so, these two lenses may be coming in January instead.
The registered lenses have the following model numbers
- 5055C005
- 5056C005
In the past, similar lenses have had near the same model number in these registrations, but not always.
What lenses can we expect? I haven't been told yet, but you can check out our RF mount lens roadmap here. Keep in mind that there may be some missing lenses on our roadmap.
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Canon counts extenders as lenses, if you’re not counting them that would explain the discrepancy between your count and theirs.
For once in my life, I'm really loving the cheap non-L series primes. After getting the RF 35mm 1.8, I realized how nice it is having some cheap and light primes for casual shooting with the family or on travel. At $300-400, it barely costs me anything to get them, and not everything needs to be my big and heavy L-series zooms.
That said, I could also see it being the pair of autofocus tilt shift lenses, though I don't think that would make much sense to announce near/alongside a cinema camera.
It would for me be great if some more non-L lenses were added to the range - I'd love to have a light and compact 180mm F5.6 stabilised AF macro (1:1) similar to the one made many years ago by Sigma, but I'm probably dreaming...
... and my guess is that both of the newly certified lenses will be high end L primes - most likely the 500mm F4 and a wide-aperture wide-angle.
Now, if I was a rich man, I'd probably get every single lens that Canon makes.... how nice it would be to be able to choose from all of them.
New bodies are nice, but extra lenses open more doors to creativity.
That sounds like a good guess to me. If we're considering these as two lenses that were supposed to come out this year that are getting pushed back because of all the manufacturing issues that have been plaguing so many industries.
For 2021 they released:
It could be the two auto-focus tilt shift lenses, but I feel like the 5.2mm Dual Fisheye is the niche/unique/statement lens for 2021 and they'd want the tilt-shift lenses in a separate year (still assuming this lenses were supposed to be part of 2021 and just got delayed.)
The only other combo from the roadmap I can see that makes sense would be the 24 1.8 STM, and the 18-45 STM if they're also announcing the APS-C body to be its kit lens.
None of the other lenses in the roadmap make sense, imo.
RF TSE 14mm
RF 180mm macro:
I'll jump ship!
Edit: Or wait...;)
The old EF 180mm macro is my favourite lens. Fortunately, since the latest R5 firmware update, it has become a lot more usable. The update has improved the effectiveness of IBIS with this lens by about a stop. But I'd still jump at the chance to have an improved version, with optical stabilisation. I don't really see a need for a macro to have an aperture wider than F5.6, so the lens could be made a lot smaller and lighter than the F3.5 model. My ancient Sigma 180mm F5.6 AF macro was half the length of the Canon, and a third of the weight...
... and for a fast 135mm L and new RF TS lenses.
But the 35mm comes first!
C'mon Canon! :love:
In addition to this thread being based on a miscount of available lenses (there are already the 26 RF lenses Csnon said there would be), CRguy said something of significance:
The reference is to the fact that such sequential model numbers are generally assigned to a lens released in multiple colors. Perhaps this is an updated EF-M kit lens in black and white versions. As a reminder, one was patented a while back:
Patent: Canon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM II