What New Lens are You Most Excited About?

[Marsu42]

If the Samyang is cheap (~$200-350 US) and decently sharp, I'll pick one up for sure.

The GREAT AND CHEAPO from Korea

Thanks Surapon, you know how to get my attention, great and cheapo - that's me . Thanks all for pointing this lens out, I nearly didn't expect to come something interesting my way anymore so I was more concentrating on trash-talk about $10k+ tele primes... but an affordable ff fisheye would be on my shopping list.

 

[Snodge]

Not bothered with the fisheye - I have a perfectly capable Zenitar 16mm m42 fisheye for the odd occasion I feel like using a lens like that!

I'm definitely interested by the wide angle Tamron though; if it is anything like their 24-70mm it'll be a very nice lens...

 

[infared]

Not excited about any of those..just my new Sigma 50mm Art...loving that...it is kind of amazing. Also makes me work more at getting a good photo shooting at that focal length...I am kind of liking the challenge...back to basics kind of thing and I am having fun with it...With a lens this sharp, how can I not!!!!

 

[Skatol]

Dear Surapon, is that lens FF compatible? I realize you have it on a FF body, but from what I've read, it sounds like there are dark borders on FF sensors? If not, that might be the lens I'm looking for - but if so, I'll wait for the 12mm.

I bought the Samyang version years ago to go with my 7D. The lens will work with FF but with the mentioned dark borders. I have seen some modify the lens hood to eliminate this. I haven't modified mine yet as it gets very little use. I think it also negates the use of the lens cap if the mod is done.

 

[Random Orbits]

None, which is not a bad thing because I can use the money for so many other things right now. The 16-35 f/4 IS fixed the 2014 itch... now onto 2015!

 

[steliosk]

excited from more to less

Samyang 12mm f/2.8 Full Frame Fish Eye
Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8 Di VC USD
Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM (S)
Zeiss Otus 85mm f/1.4
Canon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II

The rest i don't give a damn.
I was expected some new L primes, some wide like 12mm-something and 16-35 III

The 24-105 STM however indicates that the next canon FF will have DPAF. Lets hope a swirl and touch screen too. As for a better sensor? dr, shadows banding fix, etc.. i doubt it. That's the curse of being a canon user.

 

[mrsfotografie]

400 DO II. Maybe some day I will/can afford this.....

On the 85mm Zeiss: Meh, boring, and I couldn't care less.

 

[cosmopotter]

24mm EFS

I know it's not a thrilling lens, but I want to buy the EFS24. I was just thinking about buying the EF24 2.8 which of course is 38.4mm on my 70D when I saw this announcement. It is wider than I wanted, I have the EFS 10-22mm but this is a wide prime with decent optics (I hope) and STM which is good with the video mode on my 70D. So I'm going to buy one and play.

 

[Efka76]

Guys, maybe it is a stupid question but I wanted to ask the following: If I put EF lenses on my crop camera (7D), I know that 24 mm lens will be equivalent of 38 mm. lens. However, if I put EF-S lenses of 24 mm, will I have 24 mm on crop camera or that will be 38 mm equivalent.

Once more time, sorry for such question but I really want to know the answer.

 

[tcmatthews]

Guys, maybe it is a stupid question but I wanted to ask the following: If I put EF lenses on my crop camera (7D), I know that 24 mm lens will be equivalent of 38 mm. lens. However, if I put EF-S lenses of 24 mm, will I have 24 mm on crop camera or that will be 38 mm equivalent.

Once more time, sorry for such question but I really want to know the answer.

A 24mm lens is a 24mm lens regardless of crop factor. So it will be 38mm equivalent. The EF-S10-22 is 16-35 equivalent.

 

[ajfotofilmagem]

Guys, maybe it is a stupid question but I wanted to ask the following: If I put EF lenses on my crop camera (7D), I know that 24 mm lens will be equivalent of 38 mm. lens. However, if I put EF-S lenses of 24 mm, will I have 24 mm on crop camera or that will be 38 mm equivalent.
Once more time, sorry for such question but I really want to know the answer.

Both lenses (EF24mm as well as EF-S 24mm) can be used in APS camera-C and have the same angle of view, similar to 38mm in a full frame camera.

Let's assume that you can adapt a EF-S lens on a full frame camera ...
In this case both lenses have the same angle of view (24mm), but the lens EF-S will be the corner of the image darkened.

 

[mb66energy]

The OTUS 85mm lens is the most interesting for me in this line-up:
* I like optimum quality and
* the freedom to choose each f-stop depending on my idea about a photo and
* the missing LOCA which I expect from a well designed apochromatic lens

Might rise my 600D to 15 MPix real resolution instead of the 9 MPix of the EF 2.0 100 ... but on the other hand: It's just 25% more linear resolution perhaps (!) resulting in 25%x25% larger prints with the same resolution.

So perhaps I will invest 4500 €/$ in 150 day trips to photographically interesting sites - a nice dinner included ...

 

[NancyP]

THe 12mm SamBowRokProOpticVivitar (Samyang Co.) Korean lens is the full frame equivalent of their 8 mm f/3.5, and I presume that Samyang will continue to use the stereographic projection and the low-coma design. Every wide-field astro-landscape photographer with a full frame camera (eg, the 6D, with really nice high-ISO behavior) will be lining up for this lens. I hope they bring it out in time for the 2015 Perseids meteor shower (13 August, a new moon for best visibility).

 

[jrista]

How could you omit the Zeiss Otus 85mm f1.4 from the list. Apart from that I think the 400 DO is interesting. I will not buy it myself, because I am well covered at 400mm, but I hope it is a high quality DO lens and that we will see more in the future.

OUCH!!! I don't know how I missed that! The poll has been fixed...

Thanks! That was my vote!

 

[andrewflo]

I'm definitely most excited by our recent UWA zoom choices that have been coming in... the Tamron 15-30mm, Canon 16-35mm f/4, and rumored Sigma 14-24mm.

Neither the 16-35mm f/2.8L II with it's $1700 price tag and mediocre optics nor the Tokina 16-28mm f/2.8 with its clutch focus, lack of weather sealing, and poor resistance to floor had me really sold before.

 

[jrista]

The Sigma 14-24 would definitely intrigue me, if it was for FF cameras. A lot of interesting Sigma lenses end up being for APS-C only, which is frustrating.

 

[jd7]

Personally the Canon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II intrigues me. Why? How good will it be? How much will it cost?

Same. I'm not going to buy it but I'm very curious to see what they've done with the technology.

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I'm vaguely interested in the two Sigma 150-600 lenses too, but I doubt I'll buy either of them. Overall though, I'm not really excited about any of the recently announced lenses. I was really hoping we would see an 85 1.8 IS!

PS - If I was shooting on a crop camera, I'd definitely be interested in that 24 pancake, assuming it's priced the same as the 40 pancake. I've seen some negative comments on CR about the 24 pancake, but my bet is Canon will sell a lot of them.

 

[Omni Images]

The new Primes, 400mm F5.6L IS and the new 300mm F4L IS the lenses for the masses ...

Oh wait, they are not doing them !

Not excited about any ...

 

[beforeEos Camaras]

I like the 24M pancake Idea. having bought the 40m lens for my wife's sl1 it gives a prime wide
to the crop cameras. if the image quality is as good as the 40 even better.

 

[Click]

Personally the Canon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II intrigues me. Why? How good will it be? How much will it cost?

Same. I'm not going to buy it but I'm very curious to see what they've done with the technology.

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