There is quite a bit of information still to come, we might be pleasantly surprised on just how customizable it may be. Also, you have the control ring as well
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Canon announces development of the EOS R5 full-frame mirrorless camera
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I'm in the same boat, really suprised they didn't at least put a dedicated iso button on the camera... at least the control ring on the lens can be set to that function I suppose
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Typically Canon has released new versions of the 1.4X and 2X extenders at the same time as at least one or two new versions of Big White lenses. We don't know what all of the "eight" new RF lenses this year will be. I wouldn't be surprised if an RF 300mm f/2.8 and an RF 500mm f/4 would be two of them.
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With the addition of the scroll-wheel that was absent on the R or RP, now you have four separate wheels on the camera and lens together. Front dial, back dial, control ring, scroll-wheel.
Is that not enough, really?
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I'm loving the look of clean real estate. I cannot deal with most of the ML tops, those EC dials drive me crazy. The R5 is looking svelte
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People who buy lenses because they need "one of each focal length" (as opposed to those who buy a lens for a specific photographic need and understand how to match a lens to a use case instead of getting what every reviewer say is "the best" at that focal length/aperture) base their buying decision on flat test chart performance, even if shooting flat test charts or doing other 2D document reproduction is not what they think they want to do with the lens some day. Designing a lens to be best at rendering flat test charts from edge to edge and corner to corner comes at the expense of the smooth out of focus areas that give the EF 135mm f/2 L its "magic."
In an age of the Gods of the Flat Test Chart such a 135mm lens would be dismissed as "hopelessly soft" and "outdated" compared to the current crop of fast 135mm lenses that render OOF backgrounds like garbage - but do very well at reproducing flat test charts.
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Actually, there is only five of them remaining.
And I don't think they need to rush it until they have a sports oriented body to match these, they are better off coming with other lenses that sell better.
So I don't expect super telephoto primes just yet, the EF lenses will probably just do fine for now.
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Maybe if that were the only reference to 8K, but that's not the only place they mention 8K video.
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Actually, there is only five of them remaining.
And I don't think they need to rush it until they have a sports oriented body to match these, they are better off coming with other lenses that sell better.
So I don't expect super telephoto primes just yet, the EF lenses will probably just do fine for now.
Who said there were eight "remaining" unknown lenses? Not I.
The point remains, we know what four of them are and the other four or five out of the eight or nine are unknown at this time.
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I think Canon is hoping to release a full suite of lenses sooner rather than later, but with the expectation that many users will take several years to "catch up" and buy one or a few at a time until they get each of the ones that they want. That's one reason they made to transition from EF as painless as possible - so loyal customers could take time to transition to the new mount.
I'm sure Canon also thinks this strategy allows them to charge more for each lens, as many potential buyers will have a more or less fixed amount they can spend per month/quarter/year on their "lens habit" and higher prices will only mean it will take longer to to fill out what each buyer wants from the new offerings.
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You have to imagine that with an R1X maybe a year or so away from being announced... Canon will definitely want a stable of some great whites ready to roll like the ones you mentioned. I'm more curious to know how much time and effort it's taking Canon to (essentially) tweak already fantastic EF lens designs for RF. How far back towards "square one" are they having to go with already well established EF designs?
Obviously the new 70-200L looks almost completely different with how short it is. But the 24-70 looks mostly similar. The 85L looks mostly similar. The 50L as well. But 50 and 85 primes are relatively easy focal lengths to make. Seems more like the designs are showing the most differences in the zooms.
As for the telephoto L primes, I'm imagining those could be relatively simple re-works of existing EF, like they did with the 85L. Then again...Lot's of existing EF great whites will just get adapted to RF.
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I think the RF 300/2.8 and RF 500/4 will be redesigns along the same lines as the EF 400/2.8 and EF 600/4, but with a longer rear housing.
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"Lull" rather suggests there's nothing for him to miss, don't you think?
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Seven lenses were for 2019, not 2020.
There are nine slots for this year on your attached chart. Last year CR said there would be eight in 2020. So it's "approximately eight or nine." Of those "approximately eight or nine", we know what four of them are. That leaves "approximately four or five" others that we don't yet know.
In my previous comment my mind got ahead of my fingers. I've went back and included the missing words so it says what I meant:
"The point remains, we know what four of them are and the other four or five out of the eight or nine are unknown at this time. "
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Some shooting situations are more conducive to auto ISO than others. Not everyone shoots the same thing you do the same way you do. I rarely use Auto ISO because I don't usually shoot in situations that are best shot using it. With multiple off-camera flashes, for instance, AUTO ISO is worse than useless.
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