And again
Two emails today telling me to expect a new EF 50mm f/1.4 II USM to be announced alongside the new Rebel. One of them went as far as to say it'd be image stabilized.
I don't for a second believe the lens will get IS'd.
I know the 50 f/1.4 has been backordered for a couple of months at a few places in Canada. However, Canon doesn't appear to be stocking much in Canada at the moment and everything is backordered. Two months is a long time though.
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I don’t think many people even bother with the 35 f/2. It’s too slow and extremely soft. It needs to be around f2.8 to be useful, and many already have the 17-55IS. Even though it’s a full stop faster, in reality, you’re probably only getting 1/3 or 2/3 stop faster, which IS on the 17-55 will easily compensate if the subject is static.
I am interested in a prime of roughly that focal length for the small physical size and relatively large aperture. Though I agree that f/2 isn’t a huge improvement over f/2.8, it will allow shots that you couldn’t get with the f/2.8 (especially for those of us who aren’t shooting full-frame). I would just like something built to more modern standards… but Canon doesn’t seem too interested in consumer-level primes lately.
canon would have released this lens at pma. we’re getting a point and shoot digicam on the 25th, or at the most, a 500D.
Just a thought
In my world, in-body IS would be a total Canon-suicide for a very big part of their market.. Imagine how many folks out there, that have spended thousands of dollars making their lens-collection as IS-rich as possible.. And then Canon starts to upgrade all of their bodies with in-body IS.. And the serious amateur-photographers out there will start to loose money, as IS-lenses will be no more (Or very little) more valuable than non-IS-lenses.. I would change platform sooner than they thought possible. Man, would I feel scr***d
I use the 17-55mm IS on my 40D, and is is wonderful. Handheld shots are always sharp as a tack. My 50mm F:/1.8 is not nearly as sharp, pixel peeping shows that movement is the culpret.
I have very good Tripods, however, I don’t always have time or a place to set them up. For those who don’t want IS, use the off switch.