Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

[Canon Rumors Guy]

<p>Images and specifications for the Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM that we first told you about back in January have finally leaked out over at DCI.</p>
<ul>
<li>Lens construction: 6 10 sheets group (one glass molded aspherical lens)</li>
<li>Aperture number of blades: seven (circular aperture)</li>
<li>Minimum Focusing Distance: 0.13 m (working distance 3 cm)</li>
<li>Maximum shooting magnification: 1 time</li>
<li>Image stabilization effect: Approximately 4 stops</li>
<li>Filter diameter: 49 mm (with lens hood ES – 27)</li>
<li>installed ) – Size: 55.8 x 69.2 mm</li>
<li>Weight: Approx. 190 g</li>
<li>Macro light mounted</li>
<li>Hybrid IS</li>
<li>Lead screw type STM</li>
</ul>
<p>This lens will be announced on Thursday, April 6, 2017 in most parts of the world.</p>
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[Sharlin]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

I think this is the first prime lens with the lead-screw (silent) type STM?

 

[sanj]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

3 cm? IS? Well done!

 

[dpc]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

Intriguing! I'm interested, depending on the quality of the optics. I had a 35mm Tokina macro several years ago and loved it. Gave it to my son.

 

[bereninga]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

This seems like a pretty good lens for those foodies out there interested in better photography.

 

[fon-foto]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

Cool, looks like a versatile travel lens option

 

[ahsanford]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

Maximum shooting magnification: 1 time

Whoa. Time out.

1 time = 1x = 1:1? It's a 1:1 macro?! No one was expecting that. I thought we were expecting a 'compact' 1:2 macro.

If it's a true 1:1, that's impressive.

- A

 

[neuroanatomist]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

Maximum shooting magnification: 1 time

Whoa. Time out.

1 time = 1x = 1:1? It's a 1:1 macro?! No one was expecting that. I thought we were expecting a 'compact' 1:2 macro.

If it's a true 1:1, that's impressive.

- A

Actually, I was expecting more. After all, the similar EF-M 28mm macro lens goes to 1.2x magnification...

 

[Don Haines]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

"Lens construction: 6 10 sheets group"

DO elements?

very interesting! Very interesting indeed!

 

[neuroanatomist]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

"Lens construction: 6 10 sheets group"

DO elements?

What would make you think that?

 

[Chaitanya]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

Looks quite useful for flowers, product and times when 100mm is just too long. Definitely ordering it as soon as its available for preorder.

Edit: for filter users depending on where the leds lights are located it can be a deal breaker.

 

[ahsanford]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

Actually, I was expecting more. After all, the similar EF-M 28mm macro lens goes to 1.2x magnification...

My goodness. I missed that -- I must have assumed it was 1:2 as the 1.2 was a punctuation typo.

Thx for the correction!

- A

 

[Berowne]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

Price?

 

[sanj]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

Interesting. Very interesting. A lens that was written off on this forum is now being given so much praise.

 

[slclick]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

paradigm shift anyone?

 

[SkynetTX]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

In my opinion, if the specifications are correct, this can be one of the most useless lenses Canon ever created.
Okay, it's a 1:1 macro. But if the MFD is 13 cm it's only good for flowers. There's no way you can get this close to any beetle, not to mention butterflies (!), unless they're dead. But who wants to take photos of dead beetles? Me not!
It's even worse that it has STM :'( motor so it does not support real FTM. :'( When I take macro photos, I try to focus before I turn the camera on and only turn it on if both the focus and the composition seems to be ok for me. Witn an STM (focus-by-wire) lens this is impossible.
And I really don't get it. :-[ What makes people think that macro means that you have to or want to put the lens into the subject's mouth? :-\ A telephoto macro (between 250 and 300 mm) with 1:1 magnification and about 0.75 to 1 meter MFD would be more useful for beetles, butterflies, lizards and many spiders.
So this is another lens I won't buy ever.

 

[ritholtz]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

In my opinion, if the specifications are correct, this can be one of the most useless lenses Canon ever created.
Okay, it's a 1:1 macro. But if the MFD is 13 cm it's only good for flowers. There's no way you can get this close to any beetle, not to mention butterflies (!), unless they're dead. But who wants to take photos of dead beetles? Me not!
It's even worse that it has STM :'( motor so it does not support real FTM. :'( When I take macro photos, I try to focus before I turn the camera on and only turn it on if both the focus and the composition seems to be ok for me. Witn an STM (focus-by-wire) lens this is impossible.
And I really don't get it. :-[ What makes people think that macro means that you have to or want to put the lens into the subject's mouth? :-\ A telephoto macro (between 250 and 300 mm) with 1:1 magnification and about 0.75 to 1 meter MFD would be more useful for beetles, butterflies, lizards and many spiders.
So this is another lens I won't buy ever.

OP mentioned MFD as 3cm not 13cm. It has better implementation of STM (Lead screw implementation which is used in lens like 18-135 IS STM i.e., fast and silent unlike 40mm pancake lens).

 

[Chaitanya]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

In my opinion, if the specifications are correct, this can be one of the most useless lenses Canon ever created.
Okay, it's a 1:1 macro. But if the MFD is 13 cm it's only good for flowers. There's no way you can get this close to any beetle, not to mention butterflies (!), unless they're dead. But who wants to take photos of dead beetles? Me not!
It's even worse that it has STM :'( motor so it does not support real FTM. :'( When I take macro photos, I try to focus before I turn the camera on and only turn it on if both the focus and the composition seems to be ok for me. Witn an STM (focus-by-wire) lens this is impossible.
And I really don't get it. :-[ What makes people think that macro means that you have to or want to put the lens into the subject's mouth? :-\ A telephoto macro (between 250 and 300 mm) with 1:1 magnification and about 0.75 to 1 meter MFD would be more useful for beetles, butterflies, lizards and many spiders.
So this is another lens I won't buy ever.

OP mentioned MFD as 3cm not 13cm. It has better implementation of STM (Lead screw implementation which is used in lens like 18-135 IS STM i.e., fast and silent unlike 40mm pancake lens).

<li>Minimum Focusing Distance: 0.13 m (working distance 3 cm)</li>

.13m=13cms
3cms is working distance of the lens.

 

[ahsanford]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

And I really don't get it. :-[ What makes people think that macro means that you have to or want to put the lens into the subject's mouth? :-\ A telephoto macro (between 250 and 300 mm) with 1:1 magnification and about 0.75 to 1 meter MFD would be more useful for beetles, butterflies, lizards and many spiders.
So this is another lens I won't buy ever.

You're presuming the subject is alive with this lens, and that would be a mistake. :

This lens isn't for stealthily pegging dragonflies a meter away. This would appear to be a lens tailor-made for a casual food photographer, the travel photog who may shoot food in their travels, etc. If you want shoot food in a restaurant at the table and not make a scene, you need a much wider FL macro to do that, hence this new offering.

- A

 

[Don Haines]

Re: Canon EF-S 35mm f/2.8 Macro IS STM Images & Specs Leak Out

"Lens construction: 6 10 sheets group"

DO elements?

What would make you think that?

What do they mean by 6 10 sheets group? Could a sheet be a DO element?