A new wide angle Z lens is coming after the RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Z

[clearwaterphotog]

I get the benefits of internal zoom lenses, but I'll personally take a lens that's several inches shorter when stowed, so I can actually fit more in a small bag and bring them to awesome places. The portability is worth so much more to me than internal dust resistance (even though I know I'll be upset if I start finding non-trivial amounts of dust inside any of my lenses).

 

[EricN]

Interesting! Well, different strokes for different folks. Obviously no-one's mandating that Canon make one or the other. People can obviously choose one or the other or get both.

I know there's a HUGE difference between 10mm and 14mm, technically speaking. It will be literally twice the area of coverage. Maybe I should get a 10-20 and try it. That said, I don't think I've ever looked at a 14mm shot of mine and said you know, this just isn't as good an image as I'd have gotten if I could have gone wider. Generally I categorize subjects for UWA as near or infinity; if near, a half-step back may make all the difference ("zoom with one's feet"). If infinity, I haven't gotten a lot of subjects where specific details of the background matter so much as simply the impression of "a lot of background."

A couple 14mm shots from Zurich. The truck is one of the two dozen floats in the 1999 edition of the rave music party Street Parade, where 1M visitors come to a city of 350k. Each truck has tens of thousands of watts of sound system. A friend living 10km down the lake said the sound made his cats hide. Back to the subject at hand the photo of the truck bed with dancers and DJ would benefit hugely from more context but I could have gotten that if I had just taken a step or so back--I had the camera on a monopod as high as I could reach and was like a meter from the nearest dancers. Two steps back would have shown the whole truck.


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I know many will hate this, but I will say it anyway. There is the possibility of waiting perspective distortion. That is basically the opposite of when you talk about stepping back to get more of the truck - you would want to use the wider angle and step forward to get the same field of view but the stronger prospective distortion.

To preempt silly replies: no, not everyone will use ultra wide like this and no, not everyone wants perspective distortion.

 

[neuroanatomist]

I know many will hate this, but I will say it anyway. There is the possibility of waiting perspective distortion. That is basically the opposite of when you talk about stepping back to get more of the truck - you would want to use the wider angle and step forward to get the same field of view but the stronger prospective distortion.

To preempt silly replies: no, not everyone will use ultra wide like this and no, not everyone wants perspective distortion.

For example, a shot at the wide end of the RF 10-20/4.

 

[SNJ Ops]

i dont see the point. the 15-35 is better for use with people. 24mm is a too distorted for people in normal work

I have seen 1 example of the 12-24mm f2.8 GM’s distortion being used for people, It won’t be for everyone but it can be used for that purpose.

I use mine for woodland photography and for that its absolutely brilliant.