*Update* We're told that the Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM will be officially announced and be available for preorder on May 9, 2019 (in North America), the global release will be at the same time.
According to Nokishita, the Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L USM will be the first of the six new unreleased RF mount lenses. There was no word whether or not the DS (Defocus Smoothing) version of the RF 85mm f/1.2L would also be coming at the same time.
Canon RF lenses to come:
- RF 85mm f/1.2L USM (May 2019)
- RF 85mm f/1.2L USM DS
- RF 15-35mm f/2.8L IS USM
- RF 24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM
- RF 24-240mm f/4-6.3 IS USM
- RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
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I would love to have that 70-200 to use this summer. I need it! :D
Also, don't worry about the order of that list. It's just primes and zooms in numerical order.
EXEC: "Nah, screw that. Just clone some more EF L lenses and mark the price up. "
ENG2: "What about my idea for a $9000 8-12mm 1.2 L ? "
EXEC: "Genius! You're promoted!"
I don't think they'll do extenders for RF. If you want an extender you'll probably need to stick to EF lenses.
Why? because the EF lenses that use the Canon extenders all need to have that gap at the back for the extender to fit into. The whole benefit of the RF lenses is their compact nature, so that is ruined if you have to design the lens around having a gap for an extender.
There are teleconverter designs for EF that will work on any lens as they don't protrude into the lens, but generally they're not very good optically.
I believe that instead of teleconverters you'll be encouraged to upgrade to a body with a higher pixel count and use cropping.
Maybe in the long term they'll replace the big whites with RF versions, but that will only happen once they stop selling EF bodies, which won't be for a while yet. Then they'll probably do extenders for those, but I think the'll be limited to the primes and zooms such as the 100-400 and the 70-200 won't support them. It's also equally possible that the RF versions of the big whites, when they come, have built-in teleconverters like the 200-400 EF
On second thoughts, because the RF mount is so much closer to the sensor than EF, perhaps it's going to be easier optically to do a teleconverter that would work with all RF lenses. Let's hope so!
(My bet is that the DS is going to beat it on bokeh; and both might do it the optical performance wide-open.)
Would I rather have the 200 f2 on the RP or an old 75-300 on a 1dx2? Easy...