Canon Announces the Canon RF 14mm f/1.4L VCM
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So is everyone hearing end of Feb for the arrival date? I'm in Australia and I got an email after my pre-order saying March.
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That’s actually a big plus, as I already use them 82mm on the 24-70. Vignetting should not be huge with thin filters from what I’ve seen.
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yes, use a new canon IBIS camera. It's called Peripheral Coordinated Control IS. It's not out for the older camera bodies, and I'm not sure it's even possible to fully get away from it - it's just something people have to be aware of when shooting.
Sony I believe gets rid of it in post because it tags it in the meta data, but it's still there. If it really is a problem use a gimbal.
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I didn't even bother comparing the MTF of that lens to the 14/1.4 - I didn't want the EF lens to experience that kind of beat down.
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I presume you mean overlapping zooms, because having a zoom and then complementing it with a much faster prime is like .. what most people actually do.
as far as overlapping zooms, i'm going to weigh in on this so Craig get out your popcorn.
overlap is good - the rule of zooms is that if you are at the absolute ends you tend not to get the best performance out of that zoom - so if you have overlap, let's say three zooms:
14-35
24-105
70-200
optical characteristics will be different on each zoom, one zoom may be better at the wide versus tele. it may be better to shoot with the 70-200 in the 70-105 range than it is with the 24-105. this gives you options to choose what is better optically by knowing your lenses and how they perform. and that's not even considering the usefulless of using one lens and having the option to go further in the zoom either wider or longer because of the overlap. I loved this for instance, on the M's with the 11-22 and the 15-45. the overlap was great.
having options is a really good thing.
if you go from that example to say;
14-24
24-70
70-200
you are at the mercy of the optical designers that the lenses are equally good throughout the entire zoom range and you inheriently are swapping lenses far more often.
(not picking on you, but just wading into this convo)
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Interesting, but I would argue that buying expensive L-glass (particularly F2.8) should give a solid enough performance through the whole zoom range. The 15-35 is weaker on the long end, more reasons to take that range out and add a couple of millimeter at the wide end with a 12-24 option
Plus, your point of swapping lenses doesn't sum up, as the reason you give for overlap is exactly switching to another lens that performs better, thus not using a range you paid for. Sure, you keep more flexibility, but the original discussion started not by giving up an overlapping range alone, but to have a lens with less overlap but in exchange a wider wide end. Your two examples have same starting and ending focal lengths, but try to compare these (in the realm of F2.8):
- 12-24 (hypothetical, only Sony has one) vs 15-35
- 24-70 vs 24-105 (net win for the longer lens, but it's much bigger and more expensive)
- 70-200 vs
100-300(astronomical price difference, doesn't count)
In my view, trying to optimize the number of bright, high performing zoom lenses to have would be easier with the option of 12-24 2.8. It's not about avoiding overlap, but looking at what less overlap could accomplish with a different zoom range. For sure going to 35 is extremely useful, but knowing I can go there (with better performance, following your reasoning on optical quality) with the 24-70 makes it less valuable.
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