I do not want to start a new thread, being a new member for just a few minutes, so I hope there is still some 'life' in this topic.
First let me introduce the reason for my addition to this topic.
I own the Canon 70D with (among others) a 55-250 STM for about 2 years now. For travel this lens is nice, due to its light weight. But optically it is not fantastic at the long end, despite the great reviews in the MTF-department. It seems to be quite fast with AF though.
Because I want to do more with bird photography (also in flight- that is), I have been looking around for a better (optically) lens, that has a fast AF.
I have considered several lensen and concluded:
- Canon 70-300 L: optically fine, but (very) slow AF.
- Canon 70-300 non-L: optically mediocre (and worse than 55-250 STM), AF slower than the 55-250 STM.
- Canon 100-400 II: optically great and very fast AF ........... but that price tag.
- Apparently a Canon 200-600 is on the way, but perhaps too long for me and the AF will probably be less good I write this because I regularly keep reading that Canon routinely markets lenses with lower specs than is wanted by customers and sometimes even than the price suggests - so they do not spoil the sales of their L-lenses.
Of these lenses, a 10-years old lens like the 70-2300 non-L to me stands out as a bad thing. And I have heared other also say they do not understand why Canon has not replaced that years ago. It is an EF lens, so supposed to be used on full-frame cameras. Such an average lens does not attract new buyers. That is the result being able to find info on lenses on so many test sites. Even existing users (clients) start to wonder if they should continue with Canon, as I have notices recently (but that is a different topic, also related to the better sensores in competing cameras when it comes to image quality).
Considering the impressions I have as described above, I would expect the "update" mentioned at the start of this thread to be here by now. The "new USM motor" can, in my hunble opinion, only be the new nano-USM technology that has been introduced in the new EF-S kit lens that came out with the new 80D.
But the main question I have, and I think many others that would like to stay with their Canon gear: when will this NEW 70-300 non-L arrive?
Any new info on this?
PS
I just saw that this thread has so far attracted "14784 Views". That may be an indication for the wish of many others also to get an optically better 70-300 non-L than Canon has with the present non-L 70-300.
It is after all around 10-years old, so not really up-to-date to present technology....... like several other people before me already wrote in this thread.
All people have not money to buy L lens... (yes i know, there is the mytic 70-200 F4 L for 550$/€ ...)
