Two Never Before Seen Lenses Coming from Canon This Year

[Del Paso]

You are right. The bare Sony 100-400 f4.5 GM lens is priced at around USD 4,300.

A Canon 100-400 f4.5 L lens with a built in 1.4X converter would probably cost $5,000 for a bare lens because of Canon’s self defined superiority plus an additional $1,000 for the internal teleconverter.

My hoped for price point of $4,750 is more likely to be around $6,000.

It will be interesting to see what Canon brings to the market in the next 6 months and how it competes with Sony.

I love my Canon gear but there is a point of no return for wildlife photographers that is approaching rapidly.

The day after I potentially dump my Canon equipment, I am absolutely certain that Canon will offer an amazing 200-600 f4.5 to f5.6-f6.3 L lens.

I'd suggest that you start comparing Canon, Sony and Nikon price lists.
Sorry, but similar products are usually priced similarly.

 

[AlanF]

I'd suggest that you start comparing Canon, Sony and Nikon price lists.
Sorry, but similar products are usually priced similarly.

The OM SYSTEM M. Zuiko 150-400mm f/4.5 TC 1.25 IS PRO Lens costs $8,600 from B&H! That gives Canon some scope.

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[Celts88]

Is it just me or did yesterday's story about the 400m & 600mm and TC's get pulled along with the thread.

 

[neuroanatomist]

There was a server issue on the site, a few days of main page and forum posts got nuked. That thread was just reposted.

anon Rumors: Built-In Teleconverters Coming to RF 400mm and 600mm Replacements

This article has been rewritten due to technical issues with a backup service. I guess we need to back up the backups. We have been told by a couple of good sources that the plan is to announce replacements for the RF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM and RF 600mm f/4L IS USM in late Q4, […]

www.canonrumors.com

 

[EricN]

I'd suggest that you start comparing Canon, Sony and Nikon price lists.
Sorry, but similar products are usually priced similarly.

Even as the third-party companies favored by aquatic mammals are attempting to increase quality, they are also increasing prices closer to Canon, Nikon and that other company.

 

[justaCanonuser]

I've been eyeing with the 600/4 III for some time, but now I'm just waiting for the rumored 300-600/5.6.

Hope you'll will wait sucessfully - this could turn out to be the most rumored tele zoom that never hit the market. That said, if it came, I'd be certainly very interested myself.

 

[justaCanonuser]

The OM SYSTEM M. Zuiko 150-400mm f/4.5 TC 1.25 IS PRO Lens costs $8,600 from B&H! That gives Canon some scope.

Plus, even if this tele zoom is quite fast with f/4.5, it needs substantially smaller lenses for the m34 sensor format. So, the production of such a zoom should be cheaper than of a comparable tele lens/zoom that has to cover a FF image circle. From that perspective, I guess that you get more high quality glass for the money when you buy a Canon tele lens - depends on the particular lens, of course...

 

[justaCanonuser]

A lens that would be a bit more differentiated could be a 150-600 mm f4.5 to f6.3. Could take a 95 mm filter on the front and be internal zoom with L grade quality.

I guess the pressure on Canon may increase to come up with a bit faster medium tele zoom because of Sony's new 100-400mm f/4.5, surely an excellent lens. Sony's learning curve in tele lens design was steep, and their actual 600mm f/4.0 lens even beats Canon's actual 600mm f/4.0 lenses in lab reviews, I have seen. Personally I won't change to Sony, but their attack on Canon in the tele section is definitely bold since they came up with their very competitively priced and therefore popular 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 tele zoom. Also, as Canon users, we can only profit from that stiff competition.