Meike, a Hong Kong based manufacturer of cinema lenses, stills lenses and adapters at very affordable prices appears to be suggesting that they’re going to be releasing APS-C autofocus lenses for the RF mount.
Meike’s first autofocus lens was announced in 2018 with their 85mm f/1.8. You could get this lens for both EF and F mounts. Since that time, Meike has released another 2 lenses for the EF mount as well as 6 lenses for various mirrorless mounts such as X, E and Z.
In August of 2023, Meike showed off the AF 85mm f/1.4 and mentioned the RF mount in their press package, but it has only been released for E, Z and L mounts. It is a full-frame lens, so the fact that the RF mount version hasn’t been released shouldn’t come as a surprise.
This past week, Meike released a video for their AF 55mm f/1.8 PRO Series lens, and appears to have teased that they’ll be one of the next third-party lens manufactuers to get the go-ahead from Canon to start manufacturing autofocus lenses for the mount.
We have queued up the video up to the 1:00 mark when the tease happens.
Meike lenses are very affordable and don’t directly complete with SIGMA or Tamron, but could become a good entry level option for APS-C shooters looking for fast prime lenses with autofocus.
From a price/value standpoint, Meike autofocus lenses seem to be well received.
55mm F1.4 APS-C STM Features
- Diaphragm Blades: 9
- Weight: about 286g
- Focus Mode: Auto Focus
- Adoption of 8 groups and 11 pieces of optical structure, built-in low-wave and high-lens lenses
- Multi-layer coating technology is used on both sides, 1 ED lens, 2 higt refraction lens, effective control of ghosting, dispersion and flare.
- Resistance to flare is good.
Thanks to: Henning
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oh wait i dont\' have a RF-S camera. the R50 was nice, but #$(*&#$()@ i kept on hitting the buttons accidentally.
So looks like they are teasing this:
Meike 55mm f1.8 Pro Full Frame Auto Focus STM Lens for Z/E/L Mount Cameras -Low Dispersion&High Resolution
and not this?:
55mm F1.4 APS-C STM Auto Focus Golden Portrait Lens for X/E/Z Mount Cameras
Or did I miss something?
It was me, not you. They have a 55mm for APS-C (along with a 33mm), but they don't list it as "PRO" on their web site. It's all a bit confusing. The tease is legitimate though.
That said, 3 pricing tiers of third-party AF lenses would be a cool thing. I haven't used a Meike lens as of yet.
Best they'd bring both ;)
Competition and freedom of choice is always good for us :cool:
Better let's redo the whole APS-C lineup. But you mentioned that in a different thread ;)
:p I did!
I didn't think the R50 would bother me that much having been a season EOS-M user, but the "quasi wheel thing" would turn it into continuous shooting mode - like every 10 minutes lol.
I am wondering if it was because the R50 had a decent grips and the M's really did not so I was holding the R50 more like a camera versus how I held the M's.
Craig handing me the 28-70 F2L to hang off the R50 certainly didn't help that too much lol
Got one for RF mount today. Seems like it's an illegal Asian version(Vistilen=Meike).
As you can see it looks somewhat similar to RF50f1.2. Sharpness looks acceptable, color feels yellowish but correctable. But I did just some quick tests so I need to shoot it more. AF motor is okayish. No focus hold button, no control-ring. Aperture ring works fine. Weight with caps is 783 grams.
If no critical issue arises I will keep it until some better 85f1.4 arrives to RF-ecosystem.