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Another cheap(ish) RF prime review/demonstration

Started Mar 24, 2022 | Discussions thread
zzip Regular Member • Posts: 136
Re: I agree
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MAC wrote:

thunder storm wrote:

SteveinLouisville wrote:

Alastair Norcross wrote:

zzip wrote:

David Franklin wrote:

The rumors of its faulty focusing are greatly exaggerated.

yet one shall wish Canon stop peddling external focusing designs with STM motors ...

Maybe one shall wish this. Many others are quite happy with the focusing design.

From my personal use of the RF 85mm 2.0 at an ice skating rink, this is not the lens for sports. AF was inconsistent for quickly moving objects, even at a distance.

That's my experience as well. It's not only about speed. It's also about loosing the subject on occasions other lenses wouldn't loose the subject for other reasons than AF speed, and also about failing to determine which direction it should move to find focus again.

Dustin Abbot said something about AF, and even Christopher Frost nor being the most critical reviewer when it comes to AF. It's not at RF level. It's below EF level.

it's an stm lens not a sports lens

EF 100/2 or EF 85/1.8 are not sports lens either... there is no need to use such stm motors at all... this is first gen mirrorless lens design... something that Panasonic did with m43 20/1.7 which was one of the first two dSLM AF prime lenses in world btw (other one was a normal focusing 45/2.8 macro)... Panasonic can be excused - their dSLMs were slowpoking CDAF machines back then... Canon excused can be not.

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