Canon news website says: Canon EOS R’s new mid-telephoto fixed-focus lens “RF 135mm F1.8 L USM”. It will be available in the fourth quarter of 2022.
A few days ago we posted rumors about two new full-frame RF mount lenses, the RF 24mm F1.8 IS STM Macro and the RF 15-30mm F3.5-5.6 IS STM. As it stands now, the release date won’t be announced until October or November. At the same time, the third lens will also be announced around November. This lens is RF 135mm F1.8 L USM, but it is not yet known whether it has lens anti-shake function (IS).
The RF135mm F1.4L USM lens has been on the rumored roadmap for quite some time, and a patent for such a lens has also been filed. However, it seems that it is not the F1.4 version of the lens that was rumored earlier, but the F1.8 version with a small aperture.
Canon used to have a lens, the EF135mm F2 L USM, which was relatively low-priced. The performance is good, and it has always been tepid among the Canon SLR lens group. The main reason is that the focal length of this lens is covered by the 70-200/2.5 large three-dimensional lens. Simultaneous maximum aperture 2.0. The result is that although the maximum aperture of 70-200/2.8 is 2.8, when the focal length is pushed to 200mm, the blur effect will exceed that of 135mm/2. So the positioning of this lens is relatively awkward. However, this lens is still an affordable and high-quality portrait lens among Canon's prime lenses.
There have been rumors about RF135mm F1.4L several times before, but even if RF135mm F1.4L is commercialized, it is certain that it will be a huge and extremely expensive lens, and its volume and weight are even the same as Canon’s EF200/2 lens. rival. As a result, the market for RF135mm F1.4 L will be greatly restricted. After all, it is just a professional portrait lens, and its scope of use is too narrow. It will only be chosen by professional portrait photographers and people in the portrait photography industry, but more photography enthusiasts do not have such a single use environment, so sales will be greatly affected. Therefore, there is a high probability that RF 135mm F1.4 L USM will not appear. Just like the manual lens of Nikon Z58/1.0, it is extremely expensive. Most buyers use it for collection rather than actual use.
On the contrary, come to RF 135mm F1.8 L USM. Although the maximum aperture is F2.0, the size and weight will be much smaller, and the price will be much lower, so that it can be accepted by more people. The market prospect will be better than that of RF 135mm F1.4 L USM
. In addition, 135mm F1.8 Sony has produced several generations of products with this focal length, from the earliest Zeiss to the later GM. This shows that there is still a certain demand for lenses with this focal length. Canon has not seen the emergence of new 135 focal length products in the past few years. Therefore, it is imperative to launch this lens.
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