Canon renews full-frame lenses.

robert1990

Canon announced their renewed full-frame EF lenses:

1) 24-70mm f/2.8L II EF lens
2) 24mm wide-angle prime with IS (f/2.8)
3) 28mm wide-angle prime with IS (f/2.8)

The new 24-70mm is 10mm shorter than the old 24-70mm + it has a new Zoom Lock lever, and they put IS system on the new wide angle prime lenses.

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What do you think Gurus?

kanej2007 · 02-08-2012, 05:15 | posts: 5,762 | Location: Dubai, UAE / London, UK

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Originally Posted by robert1990

Canon announced their renewed full-frame EF lenses:

1) 24-70mm f/2.8L II EF lens
2) 24mm wide-angle prime with IS (f/2.8)
3) 28mm wide-angle prime with IS (f/2.8)

The new 24-70mm is 10mm shorter than the old 24-70mm + it has a new Zoom Lock lever, and they put IS system on the new wide angle prime lenses.

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What do you think Gurus?

Nice, but they still have no 14-24mm f2.8 lens...

sirrith · 02-08-2012, 10:47 | posts: 1,594

I think they're idiots.

For years people have been speculating about a 24-70 with IS. Tamron caught on and is giving us one, whereas canon just goes ahead and skips IS on the 24-70, instead putting it on a pair of slow primes.

And a 24 + a 28mm 2.8? For $800 and $850?? I think they've lost the plot. Even if its aimed at video, what about photographers? Why don't we get anything in the mid-range price segment?

Teko · **Memory**: 8GB DDR3 7-7-7-21

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Originally Posted by sirrith

I think they're idiots.

For years people have been speculating about a 24-70 with IS. Tamron caught on and is giving us one, whereas canon just goes ahead and skips IS on the 24-70, instead putting it on a pair of slow primes.

And a 24 + a 28mm 2.8? For $800 and $850?? I think they've lost the plot. Even if its aimed at video, what about photographers? Why don't we get anything in the mid-range price segment?

Agreed. No one purchases a prime lens that is 2.8. IMO, these both should have been 1.4 lenses.

NoviceRei · 02-08-2012, 15:40 | posts: 2,134 | Location: Philippines

nikon's 24-70 doesn't have VR (or IS) too afaik. tamron has a new 24-70 with VR, but it's just an f/4 though.

sirrith · 02-08-2012, 16:38 | posts: 1,594

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Originally Posted by NoviceRei

nikon's 24-70 doesn't have VR (or IS) too afaik. tamron has a new 24-70 with VR, but it's just an f/4 though.

The new tamron is 2.8.

NoviceRei · 02-08-2012, 18:31 | posts: 2,134 | Location: Philippines

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Originally Posted by sirrith

The new tamron is 2.8.

oops.. sorry... it is indeed f/2.8

PCthug · 02-09-2012, 09:39 | posts: 2,167 | Location: Durham, UK.

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Originally Posted by Teko

Agreed. No one purchases a prime lens that is 2.8. IMO, these both should have been 1.4 lenses.

The EF 100mm 2.8 macro lens is one of their most popular primes (I own one), followed by the EF-s 60mm 2.8 macro (I used to own one). Both of these are great lenses.
Lots of people buy 2.8 primes

I agree that wide angle ones would have been better at 1.8 or 1.4 though.

chiefmasterjedi · 02-09-2012, 12:52 | posts: 485 | Location: NC

IS on the 28mm and 24mm is "almost" pointless. I shoot Nikon full frame and own a 16-35VR F/4, the VR on this lens is really not needed and I tend to shoot at F/8 or smaller most of the time and still don't need it. Blur through hand shake is not that visible at 28mm or under on full frame. I can shoot at around 1/8 second at 24mm (with VR off) and get acceptable results. I guess it would be more beneficial to have a wider aperture of 1.8 or 1.4 on those lenses.

robert1990 · 02-15-2012, 04:30 | posts: 734 | Location: Sydney/Indonesia

Hands-on with these 3 new lenses from Canon:
http://dancarrphotography.com/blog/2...8mm-is-primes/