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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The Canon EF-S sensor diagonal is 26.8mm
That is the focal length of a “theoretical normal” on this format, just as 43.3mm is on 135.
EF-S lenses were invented because they had all that old tech sitting around when they made advantix dslr’s in the late 90s. I had an advantix Canon Eos IX lite, it used the APS format: http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=1105&pq-locale=en_US
http://photo.net/equipment/canon/eos-ix
APS-C, EF-S and cropped sensors exists because of advantix film.
lmao…
so, finally… who’s toy is bigger?
The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys. ~Author Unknown
I think you’re right, but simplifying it a bit.
Looking at non-L 20mm, 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, and 50mm, those are nearly 20 years old lenses, some of them performing worse than L zooms.
I would (naively ?) think it should be cheap enough to design f/1.4 versions of those lenses that would perform well (doesn’t need to exceed the 10+ years old 24mm f/1.4L or 35mm f/1.4L), and that those primes would sell well.
(Come on, the f/2.8 versions of the lenses are no better than L zooms at their focal length, and the f/1.8 primes are not much better. With the high ISO range in today’s sensors, the extra stop and a quarter is no longer such an attraction).
i want to see something in the 20-22 mm range. There ought to be a decent, fast prime for crop sensors that gets close to a 35mm field of view. The 20mm 2.8 could be faster and have better IQ. The 24L is too expensive for mere mortals. So there is room there (for either an EF or EF-S prime).
I’d probably skip a “normal” 50mm field of view and go with something like a 22mm (1.4, 1.8, or 2), 50mm 1.4 (maybe updated soon?) and a 85 1.8 for a nice lineup of fairly inexpensive, decent primes for ef-s cameras.