This and under $5000 please120-300 2.8L IS with the same AF performance as the 300 2.8L IS
for both EF & RF
There are Fuji patents pending for a 300 f4 and 500 f5.6. A 500 f5.6L IS on the EOS R5 would be very compelling.
To the people asking for an RF 50mm f/1.4:
It's 50mm f/1.2 or 50mm f/1.8.
Take your pick.
The 50mm/1,2 is too heavy and expensive and the 50mm/1,8 is too poor. 50mm/1,4 is the perfect solution!
Canon needs a "great" 50mm 1.2L lens for the the EF mount. A companion to the 35mm 1.4L II, and a competitor to the Otus and sigma lenses of that approximate length and girth. The RF version I'm sure is fantastic, but it won't work on canon's cinema line, or any of it's professional cameras. The current EF 50 1.2 is fine for internet bokeh queens, but we need something with less field curvature, less longitudinal CA, and better detail wide open.
Nor sure if anyone mentioned this, but my first choice would be a EF 50-200mm f/2.8L IS III USM. This would be my new goto lens. I expect there would be some barrel and pincushion distortion with it, but Canon DPP 4 could take care of that issue.
At this stage there are none 500/4 native RF mount lenses available so there is nothing to cannibalise yet with new market realities at full force, 500/5.6 may be a better placed lens. Yes it is a full stop slower glass. However with a host of Canon RF F7.1 zooms in the making, 500/5.6 - in my view - would be just fineAn RF 500 f5.6L would be fantastic for R users. But from Canon's point of view this is no good lens: a) It cannibalises sales of 500 f/4 and b) they cannot demand 10 grand for an f/5.6 of this focal length.
Not unrealistic. There already was one of those in EF mount released in 1988.Why should it be realistic? Nothing beautiful has ever been created without having been dreamed of in the first place... unrealistically(!)
200mm f/1.8
I doubt Canon agrees that the 50mm f/1.8 is too poor.The 50mm/1,2 is too heavy and expensive and the 50mm/1,8 is too poor. 50mm/1,4 is the perfect solution!
I think your Leica buddy was serious -- but that's a full-stop series.I don't think so. There's totally room for a 50 1.2, 1.4, 1.8 in the lineup.
In fact the 1.4 could go one of two ways: compact double-gauss design with pedestrian image quality, or a new-style computer-designed formula like the Otus, RF50/1.2, etc. In fact if they made both types I could picture getting both: the sharp version for specific products or the compact one for daily grab shooting, holidays etc.
One of my old Leica buddies had a gag that he had finally settled on the ideal M outfit: 50/1.0, 1.4, 2.0, and 2.8. And he was only half-kidding.