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Canon recently teased three new hybrid lenses coming on October 30, 2024 and we all know that Canon will announced the RF 24mm f/1.4L VCM, RF 50mm f/1.4L VCM and the RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Z. In regards to the latter, yes it will be compatible with teleconverters.
We haven’t confirmed if the RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Z will be coming in both black and Canon white. We did show a couple of leaked images of both colours back in July.
I actually think it would be a great idea.
There is a bit of science to the white paint on lenses when it comes to the coatings that Canon uses on their flourite elements to reduce heat build-up. I would think 70-200 lenses used by photographers would likely be used in harsher/warmer enviroments more often. We also all know videographers and cinematographers prefer working with all things black.
Then there’s the.. “white lenses are cool, ok?”. No arguement here.
Two more lenses?
We also know that two more lenses are either coming the same day or soon after. One of the lenses is likely the RF-S 7.8mm F4 STM Dual Lens for spatial video that Canon announced it was developing back in June. I can already feel the excitement over that one. I almost feel like Canon makes VR lenses just so they can have a VR booth at trade shows.
The second lens is as bit more tricky to figure out at the time of writing this. We do believe it is an L super telephoto zoom lens, but we aren’t comfortable confirming that it is the RF 200-500mm f/4L that has been spoken about adnauseum for months.
We have been told a couple of times about an f/5.6L super telephoto on the horizon, but we have also received a bunch of contradictory information about focal length and those sorts of things. None of the sources have a historically spotless record, but they have been correct more than once over the years.
We hope this may trigger further discussion about said lens, as we know there are some people in the loop, but they take their NDAs seriously, which we absolutely respect.
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