p.2 #1 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
RF 70 / 1.4L VCM, please, but with greater magnification than the RF 85 / 1.4L VCM. Ideally, if they could make it a 1:2 macro like the RF 85 / 2 STM IS, that would be perfect.
p.2 #4 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
I think it's just a matter of time before Canon gives their blessing to 3rd party manufacturers to make ff af lenses. I also believe that we'll see some of the above-mentioned lenses that photographers will buy up, post haste
Jim
p.2 #5 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
I would buy a 75/1.4.
Leica offer 50/75 and 90 Apo Summicrons.
75 is nice if you want a little more compression than 50 but are inside or in tight situations.
Its also pairs well with 28 or 35 and you can skip eventually 50 and 85.
p.2 #6 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
jgoetz4 wrote:
Well, the 45 sits between the 35 & 50, and there is nothing after 50 until the 85. Should Canon close the gap? There is the EF-s 60 2.8, and I believe Sigma made a 70mm lens. Just curious what you think.
Jim
Every focal length is a kind of balance between flexibility to fit stuff in vs compression. I've tried a Samyang 75mm f/1.8, and that focal length is much more flexible than 85mm. You do loose compression of course. What's the best balance depends probably more on the situation than we think. I think photographers develop a kind of habit of liking a certain focal length just because they have been getting used to it. It's not impossible to change these habits, but it's also not necessary.
Maybe it makes sense if you want to minimize the amount of lenses. If you're used to 24+35+50+85mm it makes sense to go with 28 &70/75mm.
p.2 #7 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
Lens range designers - marketing types - have to make their bed and then lie in it for perpetuity, or however long the range is in use. Choose 85mm, like they have done seemingly forever? Then forget about 75mm, and anything in the 60s will be mocked (except for the Leitz 66 Hugo II) because we have 55-58mm for that niche. A couple of points for you to consider:
1. The long term advocacy in the Leica world (both M and SL) is for 75mm and 90mm. The nearness of 75mm and 90mm is a mistake in my view. And this is being borne out currently by recent releases of six-lens light cine ranges from no less than: Cooke (SP3), Zeiss (Nano) and Leica (Hektor - someone's dog was 'Hektor'). They all use minor variations on the theme: 18-24-35-50-75-100. One or more of these illustrious outfits may follow DZO into stills photography versions (Simeras are 50-75). I certainly hope so.
2. So many short 'portrait' lenses suffer such heavy breathing they belong in a fleahouse with a trench coat. Why is it important? Where do you stand your talent, how close? And it messes up your spacing, unless each lens has the same propensity to stretch its real world focal length. At say, two metres, your real world FL equivalent might be 90mm, but your equally afflicted 75/1.4 will be high 70s'.
Do I know what I am talking about? Watch the left/front side flower as the lens tightens on close focus, and estimate your camera-subject distance from the grass. (infinity is where FL is designated). These are reasons to like 75mm, and you get a little better focusability and DOF, all other things being equal.
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p.2 #8 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
I would be happy even with a small, lightweight 100mm 2.5. You know, like the olden days.
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p.2 #9 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
Kind of an odd fl prime for me, i guess 75 close enough to 85 to be good. Doubt I'd be too interested in a 60 ro 70mm myself
I consider 40-58 mm on ff to be normal 35mm is different kind of a wide normal.
3Im used to paying not much for 50/1.8 so it's hard to relate to an expensive 65mm
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p.2 #10 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
For me a 65ish mm lens could work well with a 35mm lens, but since they made a 45mm lens I would find 60-70mm as too close. Sigma makes a quite nice 65mm f/2 lens for their i series and many like it, but I think people pair that lens with their 35 f/2 lens. A 75mm f/1.2 might be an interesting lens to pair with the 45 and should not be that hard to build.
p.2 #11 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
Hadn't seen this thread the first go around: Since the EF-S 60 macro is out of production, I think an RF-S replacement would be good. It should be a 1:1 macro and have nano-USM AF. I use my EF-S 60 and 35 macros frequently with my R7 and they are nice lenses. I suspect that Canon would dumb a 60 down with slow STM and only 1:2 like the RF 85 f2. So I'm happy to keep the EF-S 60 version and feel no need for the Sigma 56.
p.2 #12 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
I think I missed this poll when it first came out, but I think a fast 65 or 70 mm lens could be interesting.
I base this on my experience with APS-H bodies back in the day, which I enjoyed pairing with the EF 28 mm f/1.8 and EF 50mm f/1.4 lenses, which became 36 mm and 65 mm equivalents. This felt like a good and natural combo for working with people.
I'm not sure Canon would ever make anything like this because it would undoubtedly be quite niche. If they ever open up full frame RF mount to third parties, perhaps we would see something.
p.2 #16 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
I am very happy with the combination 40 f/1.2 and 75 f/1.5 Voigtlander on my RP.
The 75 is more pleasant to use than the 85 which is too long for me.
My father told me, more than half a century ago, that 50 mm. was an awkward focal, considered as a ‘short telephoto’.
At that time i did a lot of photos with an olympus pen with a fixed focal of 40 mm.
This focal seems to me more natural than the 50 mm.
I also have the 50 mm. 1.0 which is a more ‘character lens’ i use on my R5 less frequently.
p.2 #19 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
gwaww wrote:
Maybe if it si an RF-s and 1:1 macro.
For what it's worth, the EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro is one of the best APS-C lenses ever made and works even better now with IBIS in the R7. At 100mm effective FOV, it also makes a great portrait lens. I don't have mine any longer, but I surprisingly found f/2.8 not to be that big of a limitation--portraits and candids always seemed to have nice background blur.
p.2 #20 · Should Canon make an RF 60mm or 70mm fast lens?
garyvot wrote:
For what it's worth, the EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro is one of the best APS-C lenses ever made and works even better now with IBIS in the R7. At 100mm effective FOV, it also makes a great portrait lens. I don't have mine any longer, but I surprisingly found f/2.8 not to be that big of a limitation--portraits and candids always seemed to have nice background blur.
I concur that it's an amazing lens. Had it been f/2, I'd have used it a lot more than I did. But when I did use it, I was always impressed by the results. Tamron made a 60 / 2 macro for APS-C, by the way. I know you don't need f/2 for macro, but, as you say, you don't have to use a macro lens for just macro. Don't know how the two lenses compared stop-for-stop, though.
