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Canon getting read to announce a 14-28mm f/2L for EOS R mirrorless?

Mar 20, 2020 by John Aldred Leave a Comment

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The one thing that many working photographers need with any camera system is access to the “holy trinity” of lenses. A set of three lenses covering the focal range from about 14mm up to 200mm. Typically, these sets are at apertures of f/2.8, like Sigma’s “Big Three“, but it appears as though Canon might be working on a stop-brighter f/2 set for the RF mount for EOS R mirrorless cameras.

Canon has already started the potential for such a lineup with the Canon RF 28-70mm f/2L USM, but Canon Rumors reports that we may see an RF 14-28mm f/2L lens announced at some point in 2020.

It looks like the trio might not go all the way to 200mm, though. According to a recent post on Canon Watch, there is a 70-135mm f/2L lens on the way at some point during 2020, too.

It makes sense to keep the telephoto zoom at a slightly smaller focal length range. After all, when you look at the size of 200mm f/2 primes, they’re pretty huge. Creating a zoom lens at a wide f/2 aperture would be monstrously big and ridiculously expensive, outpricing many potential customers. Also, it would likely cut into the sales of Canon’s own 200mm f/2L prime lens for the EF mount – which will work on the EOS R bodies with the EF to RF mount adapter.

Canon Rumors currently rates the RF 14-28mm f/2L as a CR1, which puts it in the “plausible” range, but comes from an unknown source and cannot be confirmed.

With the popularity of the RF 28-70mm f/2L lens, though, it might make sense for Canon to pursue 14-28mm f/2 and 70-135mm f/2 to build a very useful and very fast zoom trio. It certainly won’t be cheap, though!

[via Canon Rumors]

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John Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.

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