So is it now confirmed that mirrorless will have their own native lenses?

Lensrentals.com has completed a teardown of the brand new Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS III and compares it to the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II. They discovered that there really isn’t any difference between the two in how they’re built.
From Lensrentals.com
Well, as Canon stated, there is no difference between the Mk II and Mk III versions. If you think there’s an optical or performance difference, please contact me about some Tennessee Beach-front property I have for sale. If you’re in the market for one of these in the near future, I’d snap up a Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II at discount price if you can find it.
If you really like the new color do what we do for touchup paint: take the tripod ring...

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Hi all,
I have an opportunity to purchase a Canon 300mm f/2.8 is I in the next couple of days. The seller is a local photographer who has fallen on hard times and is looking to sell some gear to get money for a car. He is asking $2500 for it, it seems to be in fairly good condition from the pictures. From all the reviews and such that I have read I understand that this lens is basically legendary for its IQ. Though I understand that there is an second version of this lens but I never really considered this lens do to the cost to purchase new. I would mainly use this lens for wildlife. My current wildlife setup is a 7dmkii with the tamron 150-600mm g1. I have never really been all that happy with the tamrons focusing and sharpness and have almost never used it at the short end. First question, is that a reasonable price for this lens? I know conditions vary and all that but he has all the accessories and it seems good to go from the pics (though I would of course make sure everything was good before purchasing). And my second question is for people that have used this lens with the 1.4x and 2X extenders. I have both and would be using them both frequently to get the reach I’m used to with the Tamron. Would the tamron be better at 600mm or the 300mm with the 2X? From where I sit it looks to me like this would give me a fantastic 300mm, a really good 420mm f4 with the 1.4 and pretty good 600mm with the 2X? From evaluating the way that I shoot, I see a trend of a lot of my wildlife pictures being either in the 300mm range or the 600mm range. I have through the weekend to decide.
Thanks
Matthew Harwood

The first specifications and images of the Canon EOS R and RF lenses have leaked ahead of next week’s announcement.
Canon EOS R Specifications

30.3mp Full Frame CMOS
Dual pixel CMOS AF

100% vertical x 88% horizontal AF coverage (We think)


EV -6 low brightness autofocus
4K video
Touchscreen LCD
Articulating screen
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
Microphone jack
Headphone jack
Dustproof
Drip-proof
Magnesium body
Battery: LP-E6N
Battery grip: BG-E22
Size: Width of about 136 mm × height of about 98 mm
Weight: Approximately 580 g
Mount: inner diameter 54 mm, flange back 20 mm, 12 pin
Mount adapter: “Mount adapter EF – EOS R” “Control ring mount adapter EF – EOS R” “Drop – in filter mount adapter EF – EOS R”

Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 IS STM Macro

Size: Approximately 74mm (2.9 inches) × 62mm (2.4 inches)
Weight: Approximately 306g (10.8oz)

Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM

Size: Approximately 83mm (3.26 inches) x 107mm (4.2 inches)

Compared to the EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II 83mm (3.26...

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Nokishita has updated their information and included information on the mount. It does indeed appear that the RF mount is a shorter registration than the EF mount, and it requires an adapter to use EF lenses.
That is sure to please some that want to adapt lenses to the RF mount, and will disappoint others that were hoping for native EF compatibility as we surmised before.
From Nokishita;
M adapter R was confirmed with “Mount Adapter EF – EOS R”. Three types of mount adapters are available with control ring and drop-in filter.
The ability to use drop-in filters will certainly make this more than just your regular “dumb” adapter and add useful benefit to using EF lenses on an RF mount.

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In the first half of 2018 according to an article in Ametaur Photographer Sony are No. 1 in full-frame cameras with either the A7R III, A7III and the new A9 with sports & press photographers in North America. 4 out of every 10 cameras being Sony.

If this is true its no wonder Nikon are bringing out the Z6 & Z7 and that Canon will announce the EOS R & RF lenses.

I'm in the market for a replacement wide angle landscape lens for the 16-35mm f/2.8 L II I currently have. I generally like the focal range, although I don't terribly often seem to use beyond 24mm. The Mark II version of this lens has pretty poor corner performance, and doesn't even really have the best center performance either (which always bugged me, being an L series lens.)

Anyway, the primary use case would be landscapes, however there may also be perspective-oriented stuff as well, utilizing the ultra wide angles to get interesting shots of objects (I like photographing very old rusty farm equipment that is often on display around rural America). This will mostly be used on full frame cameras, and not necessarily just Canon bodies. There may be some astrophotography, however I also have Samyang/Rokinon manual lenses that also fill that role (and to date, I've never seen any other brand that delivers the same kind of corner performance as a Samyang lens...mind blowingly good, small, round, coma-free corner stars with those lenses.) Getting into blue hour photography is also something on my list, which is one of the reasons the f/2.8 lens is on the list.

I am curious to know what other people think about these three lenses. How is the corner performance in particular? Does anyone think 11mm is necessary for wide angle landscapes on FF cameras? One thing in particular is whether any kind of polarization filter use is possible with the 11-24mm. I think it's biggest drawback may be that front element... I had been considering one of the very wide Sigma lenses, however it seems their 12-24mm also has a bulbous front element, and I am not sure there is enough of an IQ improvement over Canon L to justify a different brand.

In a surprising rumor from m43rumors, it appears as if Panasonic is entering into the full frame market.
m43rumors suggests:
Word on the street is that Panasonic will show a prototype and the final product will be on market during the first half of 2019.
One of the sources testing the camera said this is “as exciting as the Nikon Z7 announcement“. One went even further and said it’s “more exciting“. But of course, they might got carried away with their emotions so let’s keep our feet on ground. A third source said “video performance is superb“.
No word on whether or not this uses the existing Leica SL mount or if Panasonic as gone their own way and created a brand new mount for it.  There’s a huge potential for this to be a fairly significant release, especially if Panasonic adopts the fundamentals of micro 43’s and makes the mount nonexclusive.
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https://www.43rumors.com/ft5-panaso...-system-camera-on-september-25/#disqus_thread

Interesting they are saying it may have an SL mount and have access to existing Leica lenses. I reckon Sony should be even more worried given the interfaces that Panasonic have developed (along with their willingness to develop the GH5s).

August 31, 2018, Commack, New York— Tamron announces the launch of a new high-speed ultra-wide-angle zoom lens, the SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Model A041), for full-frame DSLR cameras. The new model will be available in Nikon mount on September 21st and in Canon mount October 12th at a suggested retail price of $1299.

With a well-established reputation for ultra-high-quality wideangle zoom lenses with its Model A012, Tamron carries on the tradition of high optical performance with the new SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD G2 (Model A041). By incorporating an XGM (eXpanded Glass Molded Aspherical) lens element, as well as multiple LD (Low Dispersion) lens elements, the distortion and lateral chromatic aberrations so common in wideangle shooting have been greatly minimized. Furthermore, a newly developed AX (Anti-reflection eXpand) Coating has been applied to reduce ghosting and flare more thoroughly than ever before. The optical performance in this high-speed F/2.8...

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Update: Here are the first specifications and images of the upcoming Canon EOS R and RF mount lenses.
We finally have the full list of gear that Canon will announce on September 5, 2018.
Canon announcements for September 5, 2018

Canon EOS R body
Canon EOS R w/24-105mm f/4L IS USM kit
Canon BG-E22
Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 IS Macro STM
Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM
Canon RF 28-70mm f/2L USM
Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Canon EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM
Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS III USM
Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM

The lens may have a different name, no confirmation yet.


M (or Mount) adapter R?

Since only “M.ADAP R” “M.ADAP R ND” “M.ADAP R PL” is written in the simple order form, the official name is unknown


PD – E1 is also included in the accessory list

We’ve been told by various people that preorders won’t be available immediately with the...

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Our exclusive affiliate partner Adorama has stock of the brand new Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS III.
Key Features


Constant f/2.8 Maximum Aperture throughout Entire Zoom Range.
Canon’s Air Sphere Coating (ASC) Minimizes Ghosting and Flare.
Optical Image Stabilization at up to 3.5 Stops of Shake Correction.
Fluorine Coating on Front and Rear Elements to Help Reduce Smears and Fingerprints
Highly Resistant to Dust and Water, and Improved Durability Even in Harsh Conditions.
Inner Focusing System with Ring Ultrasonic Motor
Full-time Manual Focus
Minimum Focusing Distance of Approx. 3.9 ft./1.2m.


Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS III $2099 at Adorama

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We have received some information from one of our sources that has seen the camera, and described it to us.  He mentioned that EF lenses mounted directly onto the camera body.
We have been told in the past, that this will have a mount with a sexy solution for EF lenses, so we’re going to hypothesize a bit about what we think it just may be based upon some patent applications we have seen recently.
In this patent application, Canon describes a mount that supports two different lens protocols. This is further described in these two patent applications where they discuss switching the lens mount to support two different protocols.
From this information, it’s a working theory that the RF and EF mount will differ slightly and EF lenses will mount on the RF mount and cause it to “switch” to...

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After only taking pictures for years, I have started to take a little video. I know I can take stills in camera from 4k video but can I do the same "out of" camera (e.g. Premiere Pro...)?

Have a GREAT day!
tom

*Update* It has been confirmed that the Canon EOS R will launch with an RF 28-70mm f/2L lens, and not a RF 24-70mm f/2.
As we mentioned yesterday, we’re not going to be rating any rumors regarding the EOS R and we’ll be publishing pretty much everything that sounds possible.
We’re told that Canon will announce an RF 24-70mm f/2 lens with the EOS R body. The same source says the lens employs a “new lens design”, but gave no specifics.
A 24-70mm f/2 would obviously be a very large lens using conventional lens design, so we’re not sure what Canon could change to reduce the size of the lens.
The same source also mentioned that the EOS R will only have one SD card slot.
As for the RF 24-70mm f/2, I’d be quite shocked if such a lens was in the pipeline.

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https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2018/08/28/nikon-z7-engineer-interview-deep-dive-q
It is about Nikon but there is a lot of discussion that may be pertinent to Canon about mount size etc, AF mechanisms with mirrorless and problems of AF speed of legacy lenses Worth a read.

Have a look:
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/20...ons-of-the-canon-70-200mm-f2-8-is-ii-and-iii/

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For all those wondering what had changed:

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/20...ons-of-the-canon-70-200mm-f2-8-is-ii-and-iii/

[EDIT: In case you can't be bothered to read the whole article, I'll summarise it for you: the paint colour has changed and according to Canon, there is an anti-fingerprint coating on the front and rear element. Take home: if you can find a good deal on the Mark II, buy it!!!!]

Since yesterday’s post, we’ve been getting a lot of information from unknown sources. I’m going to just post them all here without a rumor rating and you can do what you’d like with this information.
Canon EOS R Information:

Name: Canon EOS R
RF Mount (New mount, possible EF compatibility?)
No reports of new “RF” lenses being announced alongside the body.
Similar ergonomics to the EOS M50
Slightly larger body than the EOS M50
Will compete with the Sony A7 III & Nikon Z6
24mp or 28mp (Two different reports)
Announcement September 5, 2018

As I mentioned, I won’t be rating any of this information going forward. We only have one more week to wait to wait for the reveal.

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Specifications for the upcoming Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2 have leaked out ahead of the August 31, 2018’s announcement for this lens.
Tamron SP 15 – 30 mm F / 2.8 Di VC USD G 2 (Model A 041) (Google Translated)

English Catalog
Lens construction: 13 groups 18 pieces
Shortest shooting distance: 0.28 m
Maximum magnification: 1: 5
Size: φ 98.4 mm × 145 mm (for Canon) · 142.5 mm (for Nikon)
Weight: 1110 g (for Canon) · 1100 g (for Nikon)
Image stabilization effect: 4.5 steps
Mount: For Canon · For Nikon
Adopt newly developed AX (Anti-reflection eXpand) coating
Rear filter holder for Canon only
TAP in Console compatible
Reservation start date: August 31
Expected release date: September 21 (for Nikon) · October 12 (for Canon)
Mass retailer price: 148,500 yen (tax included)

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An interesting article that discusses design decisions with Nikon reps.

https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2018/08/28/nikon-z7-engineer-interview-deep-dive-q


One interesting part that stuck out for me was :

it does seem that the Z7 loses a significant amount of its low-light AF ability when shooting with lenses slower than f/2. Whether this is a limitation of its PDAF system or an overall limitation of the Z7's hybrid AF system is unclear.

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Maybe that was why the new NOCT lens is not AF?

Sony today announced a brand new innovation in storage media with the launch of the “SF-G series TOUGH specification”UHS-II SD card. Addressing the needs of photographers who are reliant upon their photographs remaining safe when their SD cards are removed from the camera, the new SF-G series TOUGH specificationrange combines the world’s fastest read and write speeds with an ultra-rugged design that is bend proof to 180N, and drop proof to 5 metres. For photographers who are fighting against the elements to get the perfect shot, the SF-G series TOUGH specification range of SD cards are also waterproof with an IPX8 rating and dustproof with an IP6X rating.

The new SF-G series TOUGHspecification range of SD cards are 18 times stronger than the SD standard[ix] with world’s first monolithic structure (one-piece molding, no empty space in the card) and materials of high-grade...

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COPENHAGEN, Aug. 28, 2018 – Phase One today announced a giant leap forward in photography: Phase One XF IQ4 Camera Systems are built upon the new and expandable Infinity Platform. Three full frame medium format camera systems, based on the Infinity Platform, include the IQ4 150MP (151-megapixels), the IQ4 100MP Trichromatic (101-megapixels), and the IQ4 150MP Achromatic (151-megapixels). Each delivers a flexible and customizable photographic solution designed to evolve and adapt over time. The IQ4 features a new level of workflow optimization, integration and support for all photographic applications.

With the Infinity Platform, Phase One has moved the core of Capture One’s imaging processor into the IQ4 itself. ‘Capture One Inside’ offers unprecedented RAW file control. Image editing and processing – once possible only in the Capture One software application – can now be controlled within the IQ4. The Infinity Platform also allows Phase One to challenge fundamental imaging...

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We have been talking about the EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM coming to the EOS M lineup for most of 2018, and it looks like the announcement is right around the corner. We expect to see it announced on September 5, 2018 alongside a slew of other new Canon products
Nokishita has further confirmed the lens via Twitter.

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I'm looking to update my 70d, which is usually used for my video work, but now that I've updated my pc, I want to get a good 4K video camera.
I'm looking at an XC10 or one of the XF400 cameras. That's the sort of budget I have.
I don't do lots of professional work, but I do a few weddings, corporate events and also like to video birds and my cats!
My pro videos almost always have dubbed sound, so I don't need the XC15.

I really like the form factor of the XC10, but could be swayed.
What do the users of the XC10s and 15s think of them? I'd love to hear your thoughts as some stuff I've read about them says they're rubbish and other reports from users say they're fantastic.
I'm not doing high-end videos but I'd like to offer good 4k content to some of my corporate clients that would be happy to pay extra for it too.
I would generally be using it in auto or semi-auto modes.