Canon to add RF Wide Angle Super Macro Lenses?

[Richard CR]

Canon has released the Canon RF 35mm F1.8 IS STM lens and the Canon RF 24mm F1.8 IS STM, so on the one hand, this patent application (2025-124117) seems a bit redundant if you look at it from a high-level point of view. However, in this patent application, Canon publishes a patent detailing several wider-angle […]

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[AccipiterQ]

What do folks use wide-angle macro lenses for? I have the 100 2.8 and often wish I had gone for the longer variant, mainly because I'm chasing interesting insects around and could use the longer reach.

 

[koenkooi]

What do folks use wide-angle macro lenses for? I have the 100 2.8 and often wish I had gone for the longer variant, mainly because I'm chasing interesting insects around and could use the longer reach.

For subjects that benefit from more context and/or in tight spaces. If you can get close enough, a 18mm macro lens is great for amphibians.

 

[EricN]

For subjects that benefit from more context and/or in tight spaces. If you can get close enough, a 18mm macro lens is great for amphibians.

There is also the option of using it just the same as with larger subjects: the 100mm will flatten and something like 15mm will greatly exaggerate

 

[Malm]

Oh wonderful!! Thanks for all the exotic lenses, but what about all the classical lenses which are still missing?? No fast 14mm prime for example?? And not everybody likes the compromises and the price of VCM lenses. No, I'm not interested in video.
Unfortunately Canon seems to do financially well with it's very restrictive 3rd party lens politics, so there is little hope that they will change it anytime soon.

 

[insects.at]

Ultrawide Macros, according to my experience, are only useable for a very special setups.

As a macro photographer, everything below 85mm is getting less and less flexible.

And yes I tried the ef-s 35mm with the build in ring LEDs. Got rid of it asap. The ring light is a joke.

When is the rf 180mm coming, that would be something.