Stock Notice: Canon RF 35mm f/1.4L IS VCM

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manwithafrotto said:
Doesn\'t seem like pros are snatching this one up as I thought they would a new 35mm L prime.
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I don't know the sales data, but based on anecdotal experience I wouldn't be surprised if the perceived popularity of 35mm is very exaggerated by a vocal minority. It is by far my favorite focal length, and I already have my copy of the lens — but in my 8 years of photography I can't recall a time I have seen another photographer on set/at an event shooting on a 35mm prime — weddings included. Portrait photographers generally want a more compressed lens, so it's a bit hard to justify a 35mm prime when zooms cover it quite well.

If 35 were as popular as 50 and 85, we'd probably have seen an L series 35mm much, much sooner.

All that said, it's a lovely lens and perhaps my favorite RF lens to date.
 
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I received mine, no image stabilizer, light compared to other L primes, it\'s very expensive for what you get and compared to the f1.8. The similar Nikon Z lens is listed at $600. No competition keeps canon RF lenses expensive.
 
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marselian said:
…compared to other L primes, it\'s very expensive for what you get and compared to the f1.8. The similar Nikon Z lens is listed at $600. No competition keeps canon RF lenses expensive.
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Is the $600 Nikon lens part of Nikon’s professional line equivalent to Canon’s L-series? Or is it part of their consumer line like Canon’s slower, cheaper (than Nikon) RF 35/1.8?

That’s a rhetorical question, I know the answer and probably you did before you made that ‘comparison’.

Welcome to the forum. Mild trolling isn’t the best choice for a first post, but you do you.
 
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