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Canon announces three new 100mm macro and 400mm & 600mm telephoto RF lenses

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Well, it’s just a big ol’ gear day for Canon today, huh? Along with the Canon EOS R3 development announcement, Canon has also announced three new lenses. Well, I say “new”, two of them, the RF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM and RF 600mm f/4L IS USM as mentioned in the previous image leak post, just appear to be EF lenses with a built-in RF adapter.

But there does appear to be one completely new lens, which is the Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM. This lens actually seems to be a completely new design, with different optics and a new Spherical Aberration Control Ring, to adjust the shape and character of foreground and background bokeh.

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Leaked Photos of Canon’s RF 400mm f/2.8L and 600mm f/4L look like EF ones with built-in adapters

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It’s not really all that much of a surprise Canon has some big long RF glass coming, really. Especially not after they’ve spent the last little while killing off their EF mount versions. But two of those upcoming RF lenses are an RF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM and an RF 600mm f/4L IS USM. And now, thanks to Nokishita, we know what they’ll look like because they’ve leaked photos of them both.

Interestingly, they actually look exactly like the EF mount lenses, the Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS III USM and EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM, but with silvery EF to RF adapters built-in. If this is all they are, it actually makes them slightly less useful than the lenses they’re replacing.

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This is what it looks like to shoot portraits at absurd 900mm

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One would say that shooting portraits with a 400mm or 500mm lens is overkill. Absurd, even. But what shooting portraits at 900mm? Manny Ortiz teamed up with Irene Rudnyk and Gerald Undone to find out. They used a Sony FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS lens for shooting portraits, and to make things even more absurd, they paired with an APS-C Sony a6400. In other words, they shot portraits at around 900mm equivalent and it looks like they had a lot of fun doing this crazy experiment.

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Sony announces the 600mm f/4 GM OSS and 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS lenses

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Well, the lens that was apparently up for sale on Yahoo Auctions 10 days ago has now officially been announced by Sony. Yes, the Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS lens is finally here. As is the Sony FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS. They’re massive monsters of lenses, and they’re shipping in only 2 months.

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