{"id":163116,"date":"2023-06-11T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=163116"},"modified":"2024-03-17T18:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T18:01:58","slug":"is-canon-preparing-zoom-fisheye-with-rf-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/photo\/is-canon-preparing-zoom-fisheye-with-rf-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Canon preparing zoom fisheye with RF mount?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CanonRumors\u00a0reports that a fisheye zoom similar to the similar EF lens will soon be available on the RF-mount\u00a0.\u00a0It will be a\u00a0<i>&#8220;completely new&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0optical design that will work great on both crop and full frame cameras.\u00a0The EF 8-15mm f\/4L USM has been a fairly popular niche lens and the RF version is expected to keep the same focal lengths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-title\"><a class=\"zoom \" title=\"Canon EF 8-15mm f\/4L USM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/143_techweek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Canon EF 8-15mm f\/4L USM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/143_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"552\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCanon EF 8-15mm f\/4L USM<\/p>\n<p>Canon currently only has\u00a0the RF 5.2mm f\/2.8L USM Dual Fisheye\u00a0for VR\/AR, at least that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s positioned.\u00a0And it is not yet noticeable that it is popular for photography.<\/p>\n<p>One of the strengths of the EF line has been &#8220;niche&#8221; lenses such as the zoom fisheye, the MP-E 65mm, and arguably the best line of tilt-shift optics.<\/p>\n<p>The company is rumored to be preparing\u00a0new tilt-shift lenses\u00a0that will somehow have autofocus, and it is reported that these lenses will appear as early as this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-title\"><a class=\"zoom \" title=\"Canon MP-E 65mm f\/2.8 1x-5x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/144_techweek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Canon MP-E 65mm f\/2.8 1x-5x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/144_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"837\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCanon MP-E 65mm f\/2.8 1x-5x<\/p>\n<p>The MP-E 65mm f\/2.8 1x-5x has had a lot of fans and we expect Canon to look at this lens in the future, but there&#8217;s no word yet on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CanonRumors\u00a0reports that a fisheye zoom similar to the similar EF lens will soon be available on the RF-mount\u00a0.\u00a0It will be a\u00a0&#8220;completely new&#8221;\u00a0optical design that will work great on both crop and full frame cameras.\u00a0The EF 8-15mm f\/4L USM has been a fairly popular niche lens and the RF version is expected to keep the same [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/photo\/is-canon-preparing-zoom-fisheye-with-rf-mount\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":163117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-163116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-photo","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}