Canon to Announce Another “World’s First” at Some Point This Year
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It'll be interesting to see what happens. I thought camcorders just had kind of a revival. Maybe Canon wants to profit from it instead of killing them of.I think the 20-50 is an extremely important lens or, more exactly, an extremely important architecture. It's the first interchangeable lens in a neat package whose focal length is designed to be controlled by the camera body. Previously Canon used a kludgy add-on to do that task. For photographers, this doesn't mean much. For video, this could kill camcorders. Furthermore, it's an L and comparatively cheap.
For the original F2.8 L trinity you're kind of right. There is an overlap between the UWA zoom and the standard zoom, but not for the telezoom. The 24-105mm wasn't really part of trinity, it was more of a "one-lens" set-up kind of thing instead of two lenses. For the EF mount there was and still is the EF 24-70mm F4 L. A lens which was never "brought over" (is that a correct term/ phrase?) to the RF mount. The f4 trinity also only had an overlap with the UWA and standard zoom.Regarding overlapping focal lengths, consider the 14/15-35 & 24-70/105, 24-105 & 70-200 and 70-200 & 100-400/500. Canon does this all the time, unlike Sigma that tends to have little or no overlap.
Interestingly, the new f2.8 STM trinity doesn't have an overlap between the UWA zoom (16-28mm) and standard zoom (28-70mm) and believe it won´t have an overlap with the telezoom. Concerning the f2 zooms, they are harder to design and every focal length saved will save significantly more weight. Therefore, I hope (and actually believe) a F2 trinity won't have any overlap.
Of course, Sony went a different way and according to an article it was a design choice because research showed that there are more people willing to buy a 50-150mm F2 rather than two f2 zooms. This could happen to Canon too, but they usually do things differently anyway. Also, I believe they want to differentiate from Sonys offering. Beating that lens is pretty hard, but coming up with a different lens that can be market as "worlds first" is a pretty good answer. Therefore, I am hoping for a world´s first 70-180mm F2.
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