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New images and specifications have been leaked about the upcoming Sigma 200mm F2.0 due to be announced on August 19. The price of this lens is unknown right now, but we know from the Canon EF days that this will not be a cheap lens. This rumor first surfaced back in April, and it's looking like it's now coming out for sure.
Canon, of course, has released two such lenses for the Canon EF mount, the legendary Canon EF 200mm F1.8L USM and the Canon EF 200mm F2.0L IS USM. Both of them were without peers, with the Canon EF 200mm F1.8L USM nearing mystical status.
Don't forget to check out DPReview's review of the Canon EF 200mm F1.8L using Craig's very own lens.
Sadly, this new Sigma lens is coming out for the L mount and the Sony E mount, and not the Canon RF nor the Nikon Z mount.
The new Sigma lens, according to L-Rumors, will have the following specifications.
- Full Frame Autofocus lens weighs just below 2kg
- 105mm filter size
- White finish and similar look to the 300-600mm lens.
- super fast autofocus
- Full Frame For Sony E and Leica L mount
- Image Stabilization
- Switchable declicked aperture
- Announcement August 19.
I’m sure there will be further information and image leaks that perhaps don’t have the entire thing brushed over with a bazillion watermarks.
What does this mean for Canon?
Well, outside of the fact that once again, we are on the outside looking in with envy at the Sony and L-Mount, Canon hasn’t made any concrete plans for a Canon RF 200mm F2.0 that we are aware of.
Canon has published at least one patent application with an RF 200mm F2.0 specified.
But since this patent application is two years old, it seems unlikely that it will be used for an upcoming lens. But it clearly shows that Canon was actively researching and developing a new Canon RF 200mm F2.0 design. I would love a return to the Canon 200mm F1.8 instead, as one of those aspirational halo products, but we’ll see what Canon has in store for us. With other vendors coming out with 200mm F2.0, it’s only a matter of time until Canon decides that the 200mm must be released for the RF mount.
Canon doesn’t seem to typically respond to Sigma, at least not as much as responding to Nikon’s advancements, so we’ll have to wait for a while, I would imagine, for Canon to release an RF 200mm.
But Canon, as of this year, has only released four new lenses, so maybe there’s a late-year surprise forthcoming.
Suspect both Canon and Sony will release new 4002.8 and 6004 designs with built in TCs within the next 6-12 months.
Its unfortunate that even after 7 years of RF mount, Canon still doesn't allow any full frame lenses to be ported. Almost all other camera systems have the advantage of inexpensive third party lenses but at Canon we're forced to either buy their overpriced 2000-3000 dollar ones or adapt old glass.
With the age of DSLRs slowly coming to an end, Canon will continue to lose market share, and these conditions aren't exactly helping them.
Perhaps a RF 70-200mm f1.8 zoom? Maybe with a builtin 1.4x extender?
That would be an iconic halo product
Here's a pic I shot of a hihi with a 1.4x extender attached wide open: 280mm no crop 1/250s at f/2.5, iso 6400
Sony has been aggresively increasing the prices of their camera bodies given that their lens sales are probably going to get destroyed now that Chinese brands are making good cheap glass. Sony's 85mm f1.4 is $2k and the Viltrox is just as good out side of the imposed fps limits and its $600.
And Nikon seems to be going all in on value with cheaper bodies and allowing cheaper third party glass. The Z5II at $1700 with a decent Chinese lens is definitly the cheapest entry level for a professional needing 2 memory card slots.
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I hope Canon changes this. I'm not in a huge rush and have a lot of EF glass that works fine but it would be nice to switch to RF at some point. I'm not a professional or anything, YET. So it's not a huge deal.
I just like having a lot of options. Especially since as people have mentioned, 3rd party lenses are just getting better and better.
I think it's obvious that Canon doesn't want to lose money to 3rd party lenses. ♂️
Come on admin... a little checking before posting, maybe?
(Sic!)
And another:
The lens diagram shows 19 elements in 14 groups.
The images are legit and some of the specifications are too. Some things could differ with E-mount and L-mount specifications.
The correct article begins with this: "The information below comes from an online retailer listing. It looks like some of the listing uses placeholders."
Admin removed the specs that he also posted with the article. Some of the errors (like HSM motor, just search for HSM) are also within the article text but some were only in the now-removed list of "specs". Wrong weight. Wrong lens color (lol). Wrong min focus distance. Wrong motor. Wrong teleconverter versions.
The photos of the lens are legit which we know from an already leaked image. But much (all?) of the article text and all the "specs" were probably AI generate by the site admin got all this from.
The link to the source of the information is above.
"The information below comes from an online retailer listing. It looks like some of the listing uses placeholders."
They published when they shouldn't have, and I was in a race out the door and published the wrong browser tab.
F1 on IMAX was sort of worth it. 😛
- Opis produktu (Product description)
- Cechy produktu (Product features)
- Specyfikacja (Specifications)
All of them include inconsistencies and blatant errors, including the first tab, the translation of which makes the residual substance of your edited post (HSM autofocus motor and TC-1401/TC-2001 teleconverters -you edited the name of the former but forgot the latter).