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Del Paso · May 2, 2026

Bob Howland said:
I have the 17, 24 Gen 2 and 45 and 90 gen 1. I bought the 24, 45 and 90 after 20 years of looking for an excuse to buy them. The 45 and 90 are extremely useful for tabletop product photography using tilt more than shift. The 24 has taken lots of waterfall photographs using shift more than tilt. I haven't used the 17 at all, mostly because I haven't done any photography of tall buildings on narrow, crowded streets. I'm kind of embarrassed that I bought it. I agree that autofocusing is not necessary for any of them.

I often found 24mm to be a bit too long for many cascades, cathedrals, even in some forests.
The 24mm TS is very much at ease in cities (not in New York), so the ideal would indeed be a TS zoom from 24 to 17 mm.
24 to 14mm could be optically far too challenging to design in high quality.

P-visie · May 2, 2026

Noreaster said:
Super happy with the American Bittern. It is so hard to get close to these things.

Beautiful, I can imagine that you are super happy. You had good light to capture the bittern in it’s habitat.

saq · May 1, 2026

tattwah said:
Speaking about Ordinary Filmaker, unfortunately i cannnot bring myself to like that channel due to the constant clickbait title and putting his face front and center on all the thumbnails of his videos and aso making multiple videos on a single rumors.

Not hating about him as a person tho, just not a fan of his channel.

Bob Howland · May 1, 2026

Hector1970 said:
I love tilt shift lens. I’ve the Canon 17,24,50 and 90mm. I’ve not had much use for tilt. The miniature effect went out of fashion. It’s not graduated enough to finely control. I just use shift. I’d love a RF 15mm TS-E for skyscrapers. Autofocus not required. The 24mm TS-E II is still an excellent lens. 17mm is fine but not as good. At least nowadays I can put a filter behind it.

I have the 17, 24 Gen 2 and 45 and 90 gen 1. I bought the 24, 45 and 90 after 20 years of looking for an excuse to buy them. The 45 and 90 are extremely useful for tabletop product photography using tilt more than shift. The 24 has taken lots of waterfall photographs using shift more than tilt. I haven't used the 17 at all, mostly because I haven't done any photography of tall buildings on narrow, crowded streets. I'm kind of embarrassed that I bought it. I agree that autofocusing is not necessary for any of them.

Hector1970 · May 1, 2026

I love tilt shift lens. I’ve the Canon 17,24,50 and 90mm. I’ve not had much use for tilt. The miniature effect went out of fashion. It’s not graduated enough to finely control. I just use shift. I’d love a RF 15mm TS-E for skyscrapers. Autofocus not required. The 24mm TS-E II is still an excellent lens. 17mm is fine but not as good. At least nowadays I can put a filter behind it.

TinTin · May 1, 2026

Surely, an autofocus Tilt-Shift lens will get a "TS-RF" designation? The earlier lenses were "TS-E" (with no F) because they used manual focus.

mangobutter · May 1, 2026

It always bugged me that Canon (and other makes) have 100 variants of the 70-200, but no 70mm prime. would love an internally focusing compact 70mm f/2.8 prime.

Fuji offer a 50mm f/2 prime, which is very compact for what it is. very premium, internally focusing, beautiful and polished aesthetics -- all metal. I wish Canon made something like that.

would also be nice to see a macro lens with lights, such as the ef-s 35 2.8 which i've owned a while now. i adapt it to my Canons and Fujis with beautiful results. i'd like to see a bit of a longer one, maybe a 100 f/2.8 IS macro (non-L) to keep the costs down. wouldn't even mind a 100mm f/4 macro as i tend to stop down anyway.

P-visie · May 1, 2026

safak said:
just double charger for lp-e6 series batteries .

Note: I’ve been waiting for this since I bought my 5D Mark II in 2010. Thanks Canon

Smallrig has a compact USB-C powered charger for 2 LP-E6.
See: Post in thread 'Multi battery charger'
https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/threads/multi-battery-charger.44383/post-1035734

neuroanatomist · May 1, 2026

Del Paso said:
Canon did implement it so well that I no longer care whether it is mechanical or motorised. And, as you wrote, if focal changes are done the same way, please Canon, accept my order!

I guess there's a nuance there. Older USM lenses (EF except some of the last ones) had a manually-coupled focus ring that moved elements that could also be moved with the motor. RF lenses lack the mechanical coupling for focusing, turning the ring does nothing unless the lens is connected to the camera and the camera is powered on.

So I think there are three possibilities for the 20-50/4L PZ

Manually-coupled zoom ring where the zoom mechanism can also be driven by a motor (like old EF USM focus motors)
Zoom-by-wire with a freely-rotating zoom ring (like RF focus motors)
Zoom-by-wire with a ring-shaped rocker switch (like the current RF-S 14-30 PZ lens)

For me, option 1 is the preference, and option 3 is a non-starter. For option 2, I supposed I'd have to buy the lens and try it. As I mentioned previously (in one thread or another), my Vixia HF G60 camcorder has that option, and I'm not a fan – there's a noticeable lag between turning the ring and the zoom action. OTOH, it does open up some other possibilities. For example, on my PowerShot V1, the control ring around the lens can be set to 'step zoom', where turning the ring doesn't result in a continuous zoom (which is not an option at all, as far as I can tell) but rather sets the focal length (FF equivalent) incrementally to 16-20-24-28-35-50mm.

Del Paso · May 1, 2026

TSE zoom 17-24? Make it real, quick!
Too good to be true?
This would soon become my standard UWA. (No more need for an additional TS )

Noreaster · May 1, 2026

Super happy with the American Bittern. It is so hard to get close to these things.

Noreaster · May 1, 2026

Cormorant

Gode Nehler · May 1, 2026

@Canonrumors: Is there a wrong image at the Canon TS-R 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L? It seams to be identical to the Canon TS-R 17-24mm f/4L drawing and general like a wilde angel lens.

foda · May 1, 2026

Female Germain's Peacock-Pheasant seen while birding in Vietnam, March, 2026. It's not closely related to either pheasants or peafowl, but what else would you call it?

R5MkII RF200-800mm

Del Paso · May 1, 2026

neuroanatomist said:
That run is apparently continuing with the RF 20-50mm f/4L IS PZ. If the zoom ring is manual and motorized (like USM focus motors were for decades), then I'll quite likely order the 20-50/4L. However, if it's only zoom-by-wire then, to borrow your phrasing, IDGAF about it.

Frankly, I first was skeptical about motorised focusing, till I bought my first lens with such a motorised system in manual focusing mode.
Canon did implement it so well that I no longer care whether it is mechanical or motorised. And, as you wrote, if focal changes are done the same way, please Canon, accept my order!

Click · May 1, 2026

Very nice sequence. I really like the bird's pose in the last one.

Click · May 1, 2026

Nicely done. I especially like the second one..

neuroanatomist · May 1, 2026

homebodyMacro2 said:
We've had quite a run of mostly wide/ultrawide stuff which I just dgaf about given I have the 24mm VCM and 50 f/1.2 L (and have no need for a 75-300 non-L).

That run is apparently continuing with the RF 20-50mm f/4L IS PZ. If the zoom ring is manual and motorized (like USM focus motors were for decades), then I'll quite likely order the 20-50/4L. However, if it's only zoom-by-wire then, to borrow your phrasing, IDGAF about it.

homebodyMacro2 · May 1, 2026

"It's a pricepoint that both Nikon and Sony are playing in, while Canon has a big gap between $2500 and $10000. We think that unicorn lens that we've written about ad nauseam would fit in nicely"

I'm probably more in the camp of @neuroanatomist that the 300-600 f/5.6L unicorn aether lens is somewhat unlikely to be under $10k. If it is under $10k, that would be amazing.

In any case, I'm definitely selfish here, and perhaps a little impatient, but Canon really needs to get some supertelephoto entries in that middle zone (let's say $4-8k). The Nikon 400mm f/4.5, 600mm f/6.3, and 800mm f/6.3 lenses you mentioned in a recent article (https://www.canonrumors.com/canon-shows-off-rf-500mm-f5-6-l-is-in-latest-patent/) definitely piqued my impatience lol. IMO Canon needs multiple entries here.

We've had quite a run of mostly wide/ultrawide stuff which I just dgaf about given I have the 24mm VCM and 50 f/1.2 L (and have no need for a 75-300 non-L). The 85 VCM is the only one I've considered, though with the 50mm f/1.2 L I just don't have enough need for something fairly close by.

neuroanatomist · May 1, 2026

AlanF said:
That's a general problem with YouTube, apart from its reliability. A few points are spread out and padded to make many minutes of entertainment that could be summed up in a couple of sentences or less.

Seems like a solid use case for AI – generate a transcript then summarize that transcript, providing both to the user.

danfaz · May 1, 2026

Simple sequence of an American Kestrel in hover mode.

danfaz · May 1, 2026

Hare's lookin at ya!

EOS 4 Life · May 1, 2026

David - Sydney said:
The A9iii had DR as its primary downside but it hasn't stopped sales of it.

I do not see much evidence of it selling very well.
I know that it is popular with photojournalists, but DR is not so important for them.
I also see it at sporting events, but not nearly as much as the a1.

JustGunner · May 1, 2026

T&S in zooms is wild. The longer focal lengths are just there to cover the patent in case if someone becomes 'more innovative' than Canon. A T&S Marco zoom would be nice?

AlanF · May 1, 2026

HMC11 said:
I watched a few of Ordinary Filmmaker's videos and get a strong feeling that most of them were just dressed up/recycled stuff from Canon Rumors (i.e. this site). There is no real new info, and it takes longer to watch the video than reading the succinct summaries here.

That's a general problem with YouTube, apart from its reliability. A few points are spread out and padded to make many minutes of entertainment that could be summed up in a couple of sentences or less.

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