Canon Will Continue to Expand the RF Lens Lineup at 6 to 8 Lenses a Year
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And I very happily welcome a non-budget 28mm f/1,4 or f/1,2 L !!!I’d very happily welcome a budget RF 28mm f/1.4 STM, it would be a perfect sister to the 45mm f/1.2.
And, of course, a 35mm f/1.2 or f/1,0 L !!!
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To be honest AI noise reduction or upscaling is "generating pixels". The effects can be pretty noticeable. I wish they focused more on dynamic range instead. Images are already clean enough and with enough resolution.
Also very funny comments on the RF restrictions to third party "it's not like that, but we are not going to say how it is". Sure...
Also very funny comments on the RF restrictions to third party "it's not like that, but we are not going to say how it is". Sure...
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I'd take any 28mm with a focus speed up to today standards, but I know that it is not a market priority since zero manufacturers have released one. Plus the Canon pancake being a good deal has made it the lowest possible priority.
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Let me know when they release the rumored 300-600 mm f5.6 L lens and / or a 500 mm f4 L lens for the RF mount. Might also consider a second generation 400 mm f2.8 lens, but the 1st gen RF 400 mm f2.8L is still a very good lens.
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6 years after the launch of the 2018 RF mount, from the top of my head these are the lenses Canon will likely launch
- Tilt-Shift "TS-R" Lenses (15mm / 17mm / 18mm / 20mm / 24mm / 35mm / 50mm / 55mm / 85mm / 90mm / 100mm)
- RF 200-500mm (ideally f/4L IS with 1.4x as the 500mm f/4L IS prime is missing)
- RF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS
- RF 300mm f/2.0L IS as the 100-300mm f/2.8L IS zoom is available
- RF 200mm f/1.8L IS as there are numerous 200mm f/2.0 with & without IS on dSLR & mirrorless mounts at present & in the past
- RF 180mm f/3.5L Macro
- RF-S pancake
- Super-Telephoto Zoom (200-600mm / 180-600mm / 400-800mm)
- RF 35mm f/1.2L
- RF 50–140m f/2.8 equiv
- Tilt-Shift "TS-R" Lenses (15mm / 17mm / 18mm / 20mm / 24mm / 35mm / 50mm / 55mm / 85mm / 90mm / 100mm)
- RF 200-500mm (ideally f/4L IS with 1.4x as the 500mm f/4L IS prime is missing)
- RF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS
- RF 300mm f/2.0L IS as the 100-300mm f/2.8L IS zoom is available
- RF 200mm f/1.8L IS as there are numerous 200mm f/2.0 with & without IS on dSLR & mirrorless mounts at present & in the past
- RF 180mm f/3.5L Macro
- RF-S pancake
- Super-Telephoto Zoom (200-600mm / 180-600mm / 400-800mm)
- RF 35mm f/1.2L
- RF 50–140m f/2.8 equiv
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Affordability and relevance to their personal lives.
Smartphones have very high utilization that many young people do not bother with laptops/desktops/TVs/radio/etc muchless a dedicated still camera.
Their cameras are more than adequate given its price-to-utlization ratio of the smartphone as a whole. Not to mention you can amortize the phone over 1-3 years depending on telco & country you're in.
Does not hurt it weighs 100-250g vs 1-2.5kg.
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Me too, the lens is okay. I don’t shoot wide open that often, so not having to carry around the corresponding weight is great. I only resort to f/2 or wider when I intend to.
There’s room for everyone to make their wishes
However, if they made such lens, I guess it’d be faster, as the 45 has set the precedent of having an extremely wide aperture.I would welcome that too, but I’m not holding my hopes up for such lens, at this point.
A cheap and fast 28 would be an easy decision to me, if it came.
Canon could make a series of “less common focal lengths” (less common for Canon, that is) with fast and affordable lenses. Let’s say, for instance, a 21mm, a 28, the 45, a 75 or a 90, a 105 — lenses that could be sold in parallel with the existing L options, without repeating focal lengths and/or apertures.
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I am more than happy with the optically outstanding RF 28mm f/2,8. OK, it's not an f/1,4, but certainly better than a low-cost f/1,4 would be.Me too, the lens is okay. I don’t shoot wide open that often, so not having to carry around the corresponding weight is great. I only resort to f/2 or wider when I intend to.
There’s room for everyone to make their wishes
I would welcome that too, but I’m not holding my hopes up for such lens, at this point.
A cheap and fast 28 would be an easy decision to me, if it came.
Canon could make a series of “less common focal lengths” (less common for Canon, that is) with fast and affordable lenses. Let’s say, for instance, a 21mm, a 28, the 45, a 75 or a 90, a 105 — lenses that could be sold in parallel with the existing L options, without repeating focal lengths and/or apertures.
AND!!!!! I'm still hoping for an L version!
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Point made. The assumption is that, since Canon reduced investment in the line years before they announced its death, they had made the decision earlier. Since they didn't want people to stop buying a very popular cash cow, they didn't warn those people that they were buying into a dead system.
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The RF 28mm f/2.8 is good, but I'm not bringing it out for low light situations, and I'm not very fond of pancake lenses. The lens vignettes heavily at f/2.8, an aperture that would be stopping down with most prime lenses, but it is not with this one.
I'm mostly okay with software corrections, that's not my point, but I'd prefer having that level of vignette at f/1.8 or wider, and being able to stop down to f/2.8 for a cleaner image, like many lenses allow us to.
A regular 28mm, with a proper lens hood, would do. I wouldn't necessarily want f/1.4, I'd be glad with a RF 28mm f/1.8 STM, but the 45mm is setting a precedent for extremely wide apertures, so I guess one can dream. Also, it could make an amazing standard lens for APS-C users, since a RF-S 32mm f/1.4 is nowhere to be found, so I think there may be a market for a budget, but fast, 28mm, specially with a price and form factor similar to that of the 45.
As for a L-series 28mm...yeah, at this point, I doubt it.
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