New Canon Tilt-Shift lenses in the wild [CR2]

[Michael Clark]

Not expecting it for this generation of TS lenses, but dropping hints for a certain manufacturer to implement in future iterations... *ahem wink wink*

Dropping hints here and hoping anyone at Canon's lens design team sees them has only slightly better odds than writing a letter to the President of the United States, tossing it in your trash, and hoping it somehow makes its way from the landfill to the President's eyes.

 

[Michael Clark]

At last I can have a T/S lens to play with! - when the used market is flooded with unwanted TS-E 24s and the price drops like a stone ;-)

Personally I have no need for AF, nor would I gain much from improved reporting if indeed that happens. But I'm sure many others will want these things, and if the RF lenses are physically smaller that will be attractive too.

My EF-EOS R drop-in adapter and I are waiting for your cast-offs!

There aren't enough of the old TS-E 24mm lenses in circulation to ever "flood" the market. I'd hazard a guess that most of the buyers of any new TS-R lenses will be younger shooters who never owned a TS-E lens. It's just like a large portion of EF Super Telephoto owners are not replacing them with RF Great Whites, nor are the prices of used EF Super Telephotos reflective of a "flooded" market.

 

[Michael Clark]

SLR wide-angles are far larger, more complicated, heavier and more expensive than non-mirror lenses where they can put the rear elements as close as they want to to the sensor. All those factors can be reduced by making the SLR lens less sharp and so on. I imagine an RF 17mm will be so much better than the EF version you'll find the upgrade compelling. Even without the specific advantages for wide angles, the modern Canon primes often are far far better image quality than the EF generation: the 50/1.2 and 135/1.8 show huge improvement, for instance.

Especially if your primary interest is reproducing flat, two-dimensional subjects parallel to the camera's sensor...

 

[SwissFrank]

Dropping hints here and hoping anyone at Canon's lens design team sees them has only slightly better odds than writing a letter to the President of the United States, tossing it in your trash, and hoping it somehow makes its way from the landfill to the President's eyes.

 

[Loswr]

Especially if your primary interest is reproducing flat, two-dimensional subjects parallel to the camera's sensor...

Especially and particularly if your primary and main interest and need is reproducing and making copies of flat, two-dimensional subjects and objects that are parallel and in the same orientation to the camera's sensor and image plane.

(Just in case "flat, two-dimensional" wasn't sufficiently redundant and repetitive enough .)

 

[EOS 4 Life]

nor are the prices of used EF Super Telephotos reflective of a "flooded" market

Prices seem to be going up.
It does not shock me as now we have more affordable capable cameras.
Used F mount super teles are so much cheaper.

 

[Michael Clark]

Prices seem to be going up.
It does not shock me as now we have more affordable capable cameras.
Used F mount super teles are so much cheaper.

Older F-mount Super Teles were not as good optically as older EF mount Super Teles, either. Also, EF super Teles all the way back to 1987 work seamlessly with both EF bodies and adapted RF bodies. Some older F-mount Super Teles with mechanical aperture linkages (pretty much all F-mount lenses prior to lens models introduced in 2016 or later) do not work as well, if at all, with adapted Z-mount bodies.

 

[EricN]

Older F-mount Super Teles were not as good optically as older EF mount Super Teles, either. Also, EF super Teles all the way back to 1987 work seamlessly with both EF bodies and adapted RF bodies. Some older F-mount Super Teles with mechanical aperture linkages (pretty much all F-mount lenses prior to lens models introduced in 2016 or later) do not work as well, if at all, with adapted Z-mount bodies.

I had recently noticed much lower prices for F mount super Tele than the EF counterparts. Is this the reason?

 

[Steve Balcombe]

There aren't enough of the old TS-E 24mm lenses in circulation to ever "flood" the market. I'd hazard a guess that most of the buyers of any new TS-R lenses will be younger shooters who never owned a TS-E lens. It's just like a large portion of EF Super Telephoto owners are not replacing them with RF Great Whites, nor are the prices of used EF Super Telephotos reflective of a "flooded" market.

I can dream, can't I?
BTW I am one of those EF super tele owners who can see no reason to upgrade, so I do know what you mean!