Canons latest lens releases

[Samber]

I bought that lense from them about four months ago. Their site indeed lists them as close out. However they are full price. Great lens, love it.

 

[robert614]

I bought that lense from them about four months ago. Their site indeed lists them as close out. However they are full price. Great lens, love it.

Just curious. Did it say “close out” when you bought the lens 4 months ago?

 

[dgumshu]

I bought that lense from them about four months ago. Their site indeed lists them as close out. However they are full price. Great lens, love it.

A few years ago, when it was advantageous to buy Canon gear from Canada due to the exchange rate (and prior to Canon hiking Canada pricing), I picked mine up for $5,500 brand new with warranty.... delivered.

 

[wzhang]

I want to second the idea of a newer 135mm. I love every bit of the first generation but without weather seal I'm scared to bring it for outdoor shooting.

 

[wzhang]

I bought that lense from them about four months ago. Their site indeed lists them as close out. However they are full price. Great lens, love it.

A few years ago, when it was advantageous to buy Canon gear from Canada due to the exchange rate (and prior to Canon hiking Canada pricing), I picked mine up for $5,500 brand new with warranty.... delivered.

 

[hermit383]

damn. that sucksss.... What happened to your 500 if you don't mind me asking? I haven't had a problem with my 600 yet purchased in august 2017. I carry mine in the Lowepro Lens Trekker 600 every single day with me and It's literally in and out of my car every single place I go ( yes.. even the super market.. I know i'm weird). While I'm very careful with it, it is being dragged in and out of a car everyday being kept in the passenger side on the floor standing up ready for me to pull it out and attach a body to it for pictures in under 20 seconds.

 

[BirdShooter7]

I don't know what happened that caused the problem. According to Canon service there was impact damage but I honestly can't remember it getting dropped or banged against anything in any significant way. I use the heck out of mine too, pretty much on a daily basis.

 

[hermit383]

huh. What were the symptoms you were experiencing?

EDIT: nevermind, I just saw your post discussing the aperture reading 00

 

[Samber]

No.

 

[NancyP]

My guess on the long-awaited 50 f/1.4 refresh is that the portrait photographers are still buying the 50 f/1.2L, many of the rest of us are fine with the 50 f/1.8, and that Canon is missing out on the few Sigma buyers and fewer Otus buyers. It is hard to top the latest retrofocus designs without having a lens that weighs about a kilo.

 

[dgumshu]

I bought that lense from them about four months ago. Their site indeed lists them as close out. However they are full price. Great lens, love it.

A few years ago, when it was advantageous to buy Canon gear from Canada due to the exchange rate (and prior to Canon hiking Canada pricing), I picked mine up for $5,500 brand new with warranty.... delivered.

 

[NancyP]

There are three aspects of the support life cycle:

1. availability of spare parts. Once these are gone, the only option is cannibalizing truly non-functional units.

2. firmware compatibility. May or may not be an issue for seriously age-mismatched gear. Certainly not an issue if you use same-vintage camera and lens.

3. willingness to have Canon service technicians maintain skills on less frequently presented lens models

Now, if you are really determined to keep an "obsolete" model lens going, you can find non-CPS technicians to fix it, if parts are available, and maybe have parts custom milled (printed?). But this gets difficult and expensive. It might be worth it if you have a wide-field imaging array of 12 or so 200 mm f/1.8 Ls. I am pretty sure that these astronomers have a few non-functional 200 f/1.8 Ls salted away for parts - the optics are the CHEAPEST portion of the imaging array, the mount is more expensive, and custom software would be more expensive if the astronomers didn't write it themselves.

I would expect that the Big Whites have little leeway to improve optically, but that there may be some improvement in autofocus motors and circuitry resulting in better AF speed in an already speedy lens. This would be important for sports photographers and for birders. Weight loss would be welcomed by everyone, length loss would be welcomed by travelers who face size restrictions with carry-on items.

 

[NancyP]

I wouldn't worry too much about light rain - use a plastic bag. A "camera raincoat" could be good for substantial rain.

 

[Scott Larson]

I hope the focus system in the new 70-200mm f2.8 has better internals. I only use my 70-200mm f2.8 Mark II for field sports during the spring, yet this year the thing destroyed itself five minutes into a game.

Cost to repair: $615.

 

[Arthur Stanley Jefferson]

I heard rumours of a 135 f2 IS, but also a 105 F2 IS and a 58 F1.4 (didn't mention IS on that though).

I expect they'll be new fast primes for Canon's mirrorless models next year.

My 35 f1.4 mk2 is amazing, I'd love a 105 F2 LIS to replace my fantastic 135,....eventually. I've been waiting for a good, sharp wide open, fast 50 for a decade already...not Canon's priority it seems.

 

[Dave]

I heard rumours of a 135 f2 IS, but also a 105 F2 IS and a 58 F1.4 (didn't mention IS on that though).

I expect they'll be new fast primes for Canon's mirrorless models next year.

My 35 f1.4 mk2 is amazing, I'd love a 105 F2 LIS to replace my fantastic 135,....eventually. I've been waiting for a good, sharp wide open, fast 50 for a decade already...not Canon's priority it seems.

You seem to prefer 105mm over 135mm. Why?

 

[Arthur Stanley Jefferson]

I think 135 f2 gives great separation but renders features just a little too flat, 105 seems to be my preferred length. I also have a Nikkor 105 f2.5 p lens which is remarkably sharp and flattering on portraits, but my subjects move a lot so I need af