DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Friday rant: The future of Canon RF and 3rd party lenses

Started 4 weeks ago | Discussions thread
sportyaccordy Forum Pro • Posts: 20,562
Re: Friday rant: The future of Canon RF and 3rd party lenses
4

Liteo wrote:

I too would like all 3rd party manufacturers to be able to produce RF lenses with AF builtin.

However, everything isn't all butterflies and rainbows for Sony or Nikon.

For Sony, 3rd party don't have access to "advanced" features like lens built-in IS + IBIS working together nor focus breathing compensation.

I don't think this is true. According to DPR, for example, the Tamron 17-70 2.8's IS works with IBIS. I don't think I've ever heard of this being the case honestly.

For Nikon, they only allows manufacturing of lenses that are not duplicates of what they already propose.

Nikon does have tighter control over what 3rd party lenses they allow, but they do allow for redundancy. For example Viltrox makes FX 35, 50 and 85 1.8s that all undercut the Nikkor offerings in price.

So yea obviously neither system is perfect. But more choice is a good thing. Outside of super tele stuff I do think Nikon's Z lineup is more complete than Canon RF, despite them being launched essentially at the same time...... and a big part of that is Nikon allowing for 3rd party makers to enter the system.

The last video that was touching this specific point with a lot of details was: https://youtu.be/P4c4g-qIubo

In the end, if you look for the best tool for your trade, you still have to buy Sony to shoot on Sony or Nikon if you shoot on Nikon most of the time...

-- hide signature --

Sometimes I take pictures with my gear- https://www.flickr.com/photos/41601371@N00/

 sportyaccordy's gear list:sportyaccordy's gear list
Sony a7 III Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS Tamron 28-200mm F2.8-5.6 Samyang AF 35mm F1.8 FE Samyang AF 45mm F1.8 FE
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
MAC
MAC
MAC
MAC
MAC
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow