Cheap prime!
The story goes a US tech rep said Canon was going to be putting out a lens to compete with Nikon's popular 35 f/1.8 lens.
I've heard it from two places, one saying 30mm and the other 35mm.
It could be time for some new affordable primes.
thanks Edina
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Stop using the 17-55IS as an example; it`s a wide to standard zoom and thus is indeed suited to be APS only. A 30ish prime doesn`t have the inherent issues that a wide-standard zoom has to deal with, so won`t be any better or smaller or lighter if made for APS. Look at the Canon/Nikkor 35/2 lenses: they`re both the same size and optical performance as the DX35/1.8. A new USM 35/2 or f/1.8 would be perfect, as it would be popular with both APS and FF users (not to mention those who have both).
“I don’t see Canon making their EF-S lenses TOO good otherwise you wouldn’t drool over the L glass there’s a reason EF-S primes don’t get larger than 1.8…”
um, Canon doesn’t have any EF-S primes right now (other than the 60mm macro), certainly not anything with an f/1.8 aperture. But one thing I’m currently drooling over is an EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 IS.
There are plenty of very high resolution non-L Canon lenses, but none of them are made of metal or weathersealed.
Why not? EFS cameras are the bigger chunk of canon sales, So it wouldn’t suprise me that they start to bet on EFS lenses.
Why would you expect the sharper primes to be a stop wider as well ?
Canon might sell more APS-C bodies than APS-H & FF bodies, but still …
(a) Sell more EF lenses than EF-S lenses.
(b) Make more profit from selling EF lenses than from selling EF-S lenses, either of A or because there’s more profit in a sale of an EF lens.