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 Re: New Era for Canon L zooms | |
Pixelpuffin wrote:
Maybe I’m alone in saying this, but the whole R and RF-L transition has had a completely negative effect on me. It’s actually put me off.
DSLRs are fast heading the same place as film users, soon dslr owners will have their own section on forums (somewhere near the bottom of the forum home page) whilst the wannabe lookatme mirrorless brigade dominates… each aspiring to own the latest greatest, forums have become nothing more than a exceedingly powerful marketing tool to un-subconsciously make us question our needs without the pressure of a salesman ….very very clever.
The irony I find so funny is the sheer size of these new RF L lenses…they dwarf and make a mockery of the reason why we were directed towards mirrorless in the first instance, smaller lighter bodies.
It’s too funny.
I think you may have missed some of the reasons DSLRs are trasnstioning out. Sure minor weight gains are nice, but that was hardly the point. Mirrorless brings (almost) full frame autofocus, no more lens calibrations, useable lenses with max apertures of f:11 or less, a new wider mount with additional pins and power (OK, this could have been done while sticking to DSLR), interesting new wide angle designs using a mount closer to the sensor, better still / video versatility, IBIS, real-time computational optical corrections, histograms and other information in the viewfinder while shooting, etc... As for compactness, not every lens design can be shrunk, but compare the EF 11-24 to the RF10-20 IS, the 14-35 L to the EF 16-35 f:4, not to mention the 600 and 800 fixed aperture lenses, or the 16mm.
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