Canon sitting on their laurels?
carp
aren't making much of an effort to put out newer and better lenses.
They have the best collection of lenses at the moment, and have done
for quite a while.
Could it be that they will just not put anything better out until some
competitor does something to worry their sales?
Surely they must have been doing a lot of research and I bet they have
some good alternative to the glass they are using right now.
What do you reckon?
Pete D
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What lenses do you think are missing?
Troy Piggins
They must have heard you. 2 new tilt-shift lenses with "Canon's
latest sub-wavelength structure coating" :
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0902/09021806canon17mm24mmTSElenses.asp
Thanks for pushing them along. :)
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Paul Furman
Whoah!
TS-E 17mm f/4L.
Nice. That's essentially a medium format lens, I don't know how wide MF
was available before but surely not that wide.
> "Canon has now added a new unique functionality to the TS-E 17mm
f/4L and TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II, allowing users to rotate the direction of
the tilt and shift independently of each other."
Nice!
> +/- 6.5° Tilt and +/-12mm Shift
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Paul Furman
> Troy Piggins wrote:
>> * carp wrote :
>>> I am curious what people think about this. It seems to me that canon
>>> aren't making much of an effort to put out newer and better lenses.
>>> They have the best collection of lenses at the moment, and have done
>>> for quite a while.
>>>
>>> Could it be that they will just not put anything better out until some
>>> competitor does something to worry their sales?
>>>
>>> Surely they must have been doing a lot of research and I bet they have
>>> some good alternative to the glass they are using right now.
>>>
>>> What do you reckon?
>>
>> They must have heard you. 2 new tilt-shift lenses with "Canon's
>> latest sub-wavelength structure coating" :
>>
>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0902/09021806canon17mm24mmTSElenses.asp
>>
>> Thanks for pushing them along. :)
>
> Whoah!
> TS-E 17mm f/4L.
> Nice. That's essentially a medium format lens, I don't know how wide MF
> was available before but surely not that wide.
Kind of weird math here, but to put that in context:
If that covers a 70mm image circle, medium format 645, (56x42mm), which
puts FX at a 1.5x 'crop factor' so would be the 35mm equivalent of an
11mm rectilinear (if used on a 645). I'm pretty sure that's a record for
a rectilinear super-wide.
Equivalent to 7.25mm in DX format.
Troy Piggins
OP - "Canon resting on their laurels"
That's the only reason I posted it :)
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Yawn
wrote:
Great, so they expend their efforts on a lens design that is now no longer
needed by anyone since digital-image editing methods came to be.
Way to go Canon! That sure is some amazing contemporary (not even forward)
thinking there!
For future reference you might want to send out your resumés for new jobs
in the fast-food industry. Maybe you can find a better way to power
broilers with coal or wash dishes faster with scouring-rushes that you've
grown.
No doubt some 60-70 year-old lens designers are still trying to prove why
they are needed by someone, by anyone. They failed.
