Canon Officially Announces 4 new RF Lenses
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Canon can only make so many lenses at a time.
The RF 24 L has been a long time coming.
The RF-S 7.8mm f/4 STM Dual Lens might be a niche lens but it is partnership with Apple.
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Canon RF 35mm F1.4L VCM Review | A Polarizing Successor to the 35L II
Photographer Dustin Abbott shares a deep dive review of Canon's somewhat controversial RF 35mm F1.4L VCM lens. What's the controversy about? | This episode...
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I'm so disappointed with Canon's continued trend of overpricing their lenses while giving us image quality issues that have to be corrected through technology. In the above video Dustin Abbott says that the 35mm VCM is heavily corrected in Lightroom and suffers from significant barrel distortion without the corrections. This is really unacceptable for a $1399 lens. We'll see if these new lenses are the same, but I bet that the 24mm F1.4 is even worse. I have loved Canon products since my first AE1 in 1988, but I will probably need to switch in the next year or so.
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Does he have any examples of showing how the digital correction is detrimental? Do you?
For example, here are the corners of the 'optically corrected' EF 35/1.4L II vs. the 'digitally corrected' RF 35/1.4L VCM.
The EF version is the one on top. See how much better it is? Oh, wait...it's worse. And the lens was more expensive.
People like to complain about the horror that comes from lenses requiring digital correction to 'fill the corners'. But when asked to substantiate that 'problem', no one can. Not once.
So please, show us your examples of how digital correction of the wide-angle distortion that is 'forced' on RF lenses is so deleterious. I won't hold my breath.
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I wasn't. My own experiences with a few Canon lenses often stood in contradiction with DA's statements, whether in a positive or in a negative sense.
And I don't rely on reviewers who judge UWA lenses taking pictures of charts on a wall or by taking close-ups wide open...
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Ok. But…
You can’t provide any actual evidence that the ’problem’ is real, but you’re probably going to switch systems over it. Mmmmkay, you do you.
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I think I’m going to buy a black one, with a white lens hood, just to see how many OCD people I can make twitch.
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I think there is a school of thought that lenses MUST be optically corrected and never digitally.
Canon tried the optical route initially and we got primes like the 85mm F1.2, the 28-70 F2 etc.
A recent review of the 24-105 F2.8Z vs. the 28-70 F2 at all focal lengths, by a wedding photographer in the UK showed that, the 24-105 is the better lens, if you favor sharpness over character. Neither is "better", they just go about it differently.
From my perspective, having a set of light primes that give fantastic quality is a win for my travel photography trips where local flights in some countries are limited to 7kg or even 5kg. I couldn't care less how they correct things. People complain that the Canon mirrorless bodies bake too much noise reduction into their raws but they seem to be selling pretty well.
I have the 35mm F1.4 and love it. I pre-ordered a 24mm F1.4 to replace an aging EF 24mm F1.4 II.
I own a 24-105 F2.8 Z and love it, preferring it to the 24-70 F2.8.
I just sold my 70-200 F2.8 and pre-ordered the new 70-200 F2.8 Z.
I have a 24-105 F4 and 70-200 F4 for travel. I would prefer a 35mm F1.4 + 85mm F1.4 light prime combo instead.
If it gets me on the plane and gets me the shot, I really don't give a fawk how it corrects the image.
It's probably only going to be viewed on a cell phone anyway
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I think the expectation comes with the asking price. It sounds like some people want premium hardware for a premium price and not a "mixed bag" lens that is fixed up via software correction. Others seem perfectly fine with that approach. Time will tell. I think at least here in Germany the 35mm VCM is a "poor seller". A lot of dealers have b-stock for a reduced price and some even put them up on eBay for auction. That's how I got mine - 35% off of list price.
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There’s also a school of thought that the Earth is flat.
It’s just not a very good school.I have no problem with people preferring the ‘rendering’ of a lens like the EF 85/1.2L over the ‘sharpness’ of a lens RF 85/1.2L. For that matter, I have no problem with people preferring optical corrections over digital corrections for distortion just because that’s the way they want it.
But I do have a problem when people claim that digital correction is inherently worse than optical, without presenting any evidence to support their claim and in the face of empirical evidence to refute it.
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The distortion on the RF 24mm 1.4 is terrible. Look at this review at the 6:00 minute mark. Such a shame by Canon for charging $1500 for this lens with terrible distortion and vignette.
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Canon Hybrid Primes!! 24, 35 & 50mm f/1.4 L VCM // Lens Review
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The distortion on the RF 24mm 1.4 is terrible. Look at this review at the 6:00 minute mark. Such a shame by Canon for charging $1500 for this lens with terrible distortion and vignette.Canon RF 35mm F1.4L VCM Review | A Polarizing Successor to the 35L II
Photographer Dustin Abbott shares a deep dive review of Canon's somewhat controversial RF 35mm F1.4L VCM lens. What's the controversy about? | This episode...
I'm so disappointed with Canon's continued trend of overpricing their lenses while giving us image quality issues that have to be corrected through technology. In the above video Dustin Abbott says that the 35mm VCM is heavily corrected in Lightroom and suffers from significant barrel distortion without the corrections. This is really unacceptable for a $1399 lens. We'll see if these new lenses are the same, but I bet that the 24mm F1.4 is even worse. I have loved Canon products since my first AE1 in 1988, but I will probably need to switch in the next year or so.
Canon Hybrid Primes!! 24, 35 & 50mm f/1.4 L VCM // Lens Review
ð Comment - Let us know what you think of these new primes down below! ð¦ Order here - https://buff.ly/3NHNdAH ð Subscribe - https://buff.ly/2ymYMJQ-------...
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I knew that there was a reason for all the R5 complaints about the strength of the hotshoe!
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Great that DA made the comparison but... how many people will use LR with the corrections turned off and why would they do that?
It is like saying the correctable CA flag should be turned off because the lens isn't good enough.
Virtually all lenses have a corrections profile in LR.
The only times I turn it off is prior to exporting the .tif to PTgui for it to stitch as it seems to do a better job of correcting during the stitching.
The other time is when I use my EF8-15mm fisheye as LR "correct" the fisheye to rectilinear which (in almost every time) I don't want it to do so.
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