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

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thunder storm Forum Pro • Posts: 10,139
Re: Friday rant: The future of Canon RF and 3rd party lenses
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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

This sentence is open to multiple interpretations.

If you want an 85mm f/1.4 with fast AF for your RF camera all you can do is adapt the EF 85mm f/1.4 IS USM. When doing so there's no cooperation for the same axis between IBIS and ILIS. So strictly speaking even for RF cameras you can run into situations where ILIS and IBIS aren't working together.

nor focus breathing compensation.

Which RF cameras do support this?  R50, R8 and R6II only.  And just a couple of lenses because Canon is still creating firmware updates for this.

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

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...

That conclusion is BS.  It's just dependent on your needs. If you don't need focus breathing compensation or more than 15fps there isn't any cr*ppling.

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