There may also have recently been a "paradigm shift" in mainstream photography from focusing on the object to showing the surroundings.
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58 mm is not 50 mm, it's already a quite different angle of view. The Zeiss Otus is a completely different league: it is much more expensive than Canon's 1.2/50 mm and a completely manual lens. And Sigma is Sigma. I never had the impression that Canon did care much about 3rd party lenses anyway, don't ask me why they don't care.Nikon has released the AF-S 58mm f/1.4G, Sigma released the 50mm f/1.4 HSM Art, Zeiss released the Otus 55mm f/1.4, etc.
Manual focus, at least Canon can get AF into their f1.0.All we needed was Nikon to show this off...
...and NOW here come the 50 primes from Canon.
To Canon: pics or it's still not happening.
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I'm time traveling to 2014! (The nazi meme is dated, no?)
Clearly a 50mm lens is not for you.
On the other hand, I find my Zeiss 50mm f1.4 to be just about the perfect lens for me.
If it had AF it WOULD be my ideal lens. I look forward to the FF-ML, since that would minimize even the MF limitation.
But then, I learned photography on a 35mm film camera with a 50mm lens, so that is what my brain is most closely calibrated to.
Obviously your experience it different. Did you learn photography on a moderately wide lens?
Unfortunatelly for us the Japanese camera manufactures work all together, they are a cartel. I've been observing the camera markt for a while and ... it is a consequent and sistematic trend to see cameras always leaking some kind of feature. a 5D mark IV with a crop 1,7 4K video with huge files, why? and without an articulating screen, not even a tilting one. Why? In my opinion to not compete with the Nikons. That's right. They only pretend to compete but don't do that actually. All semi-professional and professional Nikon bodies have a dual card slot, you name it (D500, D7200/7500; Nikon Df; D610;D750; D800/800e/810/850... all have a dual card slot and the "revolutionary" Z cameras have only one? why? In order to let Sony A7 series some room for sales (cartel policy) and BTW... the Z cameras have only 1 slot and this only one is dedicated to a "Sony made medium" , the XQD!! (Nikon gets Sony sensors, does but a favor with the single card slot and a poor battery life) That said... I am afraid our next beloved Canon body will leak also some key feature in order to what...? exactly ... to not compete aggressively against a Nikon or Sony. We can expect that the Canon mirrorless will come WITHOUT IBIS, with an EF mount to use all the Canon gems but also to estimulate buying the new generation of IS Canon lenses (stabilization is crucial). That for now. In some 2 to 4 years Nikons Z will also have a dual slot and Canon bodies IBIS on board. That is my prophecy.
And you say that even if some reviewers are maybe comparing them wrongly it is a mistake to call them idiots? Interesting! And otherwise I am a Canon cult follower ? Double interesting! Sorry but I have the right to my opinion to think of them as idiots (or Nikon cult followers? Just joking!). That of course does not change the fact that D850 is better than 5DsR. And by the way you wrongly took it personally I wasn't referring to you but to the ones making the specific comparison.
Clearly a 50mm lens is not for you.
On the other hand, I find my Zeiss 50mm f1.4 to be just about the perfect lens for me.
If it had AF it WOULD be my ideal lens. I look forward to the FF-ML, since that would minimize even the MF limitation.
But then, I learned photography on a 35mm film camera with a 50mm lens, so that is what my brain is most closely calibrated to.
Obviously your experience it different. Did you learn photography on a moderately wide lens?
I'm not necessarily reading this as a mirrorless only must. Canon has shown a penchant for putting out an EF-M product to then roll out an EF-S equivalent:
EF-M 22mm pancake --> EF-S 24mm pancake
EF-M illuminated macro --> similar for EF-S
I could see a mirrorless only 50 f/1.4 coming out and then an EF version to follow.
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"Eye AF" in context with "Canon" immediately brought me back to the AF that tracked the photographer's eye movement. I had forgotten about Sony's latest effort to track the subject's eye, which would defanitely be a plus. This implies hundreds of focus points and CPU power to process them all, which would be huge departure from the 1DX2 AF system. Intriguing...I'm not the ringer on this either, but I believe (again) we're talking about two different things:
Two very different things!
- I thought Canon's old eye-related AF with film cameras was using the photographer's eye to set the focus point in the frame. That's dead and buried.
- The Eye AF everyone is raving about is Sony's ability to deliberately nail AF on the subject's eyes.
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Thank you both for the clarity on IBIS!IBIS physically moves the sensor by sub-pixel distances and works best with wider angle lenses. It’s movements are finer, but it does not have the range of OS.
Then we have pixel shift (usually in shooting video) where the block of pixels used to create the image is shifted to the next pixel(s) to stabilize the image. This is a gross movement, but it has far more range than IBIS or OS....
At the end we have OS, where a lens element is shifted to try and keep the image steady, and works best with long lenses... it has greater range, but lacks the fineness of IBIS.
So far, only Panasonic <EDIT> and Olympus</EDIT>does IBIS combined with OS..... I would not be surprised to see it on a Canon Mirrorless......
If the new 50 arrives with the new Canon mirrorless, and let's say that this mirrorless does use the EF mount, and it has IBIS.........well I don't think ahsanford is going to be very happy