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Canon needs a compact walk around RF 35mm

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CamerEyes Regular Member • Posts: 266
Re: Canon needs a compact walk around RF 35mm
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Foskito wrote:

  1. CamerEyes wrote:

Dave King wrote:

From the reviews I've read, the f/1.8 is not it !

A lot of complaints about focus hunting....it needs a switch to lock out the macro range.

The 40mm f2.8 pancake is my favorite walk around EF lens....how bout one for the RF mount?

Or a standard 35mm compact "street" lens, f/2.8 would be fine.

Either would make the RP body a killer street combo.

Why did Canon leave such an essential "use type" out of it's RF lineup?

Dave

While the RF35mm is a lens I won't call outstanding, it's actually very good. Being relatively small, light and equipped with IS - it has the barebones for a street photography lens.

An f/1.4 will surely have one downside - it will be bigger and heavier. That's how the EF35mm f/1.4L feels on my R6Mii and R7.

A pancake 35mm f/2.8 reminds me of the options Samyang provided for my A7C - I can go 1.8 which is bigger and heavier (but not by a lot) or I can go 2.8 for a really small package to go around and do street photography with.

I consider the size of the RF 35mm pretty manageable, and missing the faster aperture, macro capability and IS is too much of a penalty for a lens like the Samyang.
But... I would buy an RF version of my EF 40mm pancake which is less than an inch longer or the Pentax 40mm (though APSc) which is an incredible 9mm long, like a lens cap!

Since most of the RF-mount bodies have IBIS, I think it's time for pancake lenses without IS to be made available and for Canon to allow the same to proliferate via third party makers.

Imagine the current 18-45mm as a 40mm 2.8, that size, that small, on any RF body with IBIS. Whether made by Canon or Samyang or Sigma or Tamron, doesn't matter.

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