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Sigma and Canon’s newest partnership has shocked folks, with Canon customers sharing their enjoyment of lastly getting a third-party lens with autofocus. And now, Canon has lastly dropped some delicate hints on the CP+ Present, which may give us an concept concerning the launch date and future plans for the third-party lenses. On the similar time, Sigma has additionally revealed that they’re engaged on a brand new lens. What may or not it’s? We’ll inform you in a minute.
Canon Shares Plans for Third-Occasion Lenses
Throughout a press convention throughout the CP+ Present, Canon’s Government Vice President and Imaging Group Supervisor, Tsuyoshi Tokura, spoke to the press to deal with third-party lens manufacturing issues. He mentioned that the corporate is “speaking with third-party producers” and that they’re “greater than midway” via the communications. Nonetheless, it now seems that the corporate is extra targeted on promoting its personal full-frame lenses, because it goals to get extra revenue from that. Here’s what Tokura mentioned concerning the third-party lenses:
Different firms have begun to launch a number of RF lenses, however now we have no data of what kinds of lenses they’ll launch; we solely know that these have been launched. We can’t disclose the contents of contracts, equivalent to licenses, to the general public. Proper now, all I can say is that we’re deciding the contents of contracts inside our enterprise technique.
After Sigma and Tamron, Samyang additionally revealed a lens for the APS-C RF mount. Nonetheless, if Canon isn’t sharing its plans for full-frame lenses, then it both needs to cancel the small print or has no plans to introduce third-party variants. In any case, the corporate’s full-frame lenses do price loads, particularly the L collection lineup. It stays to see what occurs when Sigma and different creators do introduce a third-party model.
Sigma To Launch a New 35mm Lens
On the CP+ Present, Sigma’s President Kazuto Yamak acknowledged they’ll introduce a brand new model of the present 35mm f1.4 Artwork. The unique lens was launched in 2019, and per our evaluate, it was heavy, had sluggish autofocus, and even was priced increased. Sony had its personal 35mm f1.8, which not solely suits higher but additionally has a cheaper price tag. Studying from its previous mistake, Sigma notes the brand new lens shall be smaller and lighter and shall be accessible for Sony E and Leica L mounts. As well as, it should rectify optical high quality, which has all the time been crystal clear in Sigma’s case. As we had acknowledged earlier, Sigma has been making lenses for different format cameras, and it’s time they deal with that slightly than introducing various variations of present lenses.
In one other interview with Picture Pattern, Yamak acknowledged that they really feel full-frame lenses are the place they should focus. “Full-frame is a supply of alternative for us. However our plan was to launch these three optics for APS-C to watch the market response. However right now, I wish to see how different aims could be obtained,” he mentioned. So, there’s hope that each Canon and Nikon customers will see full-frame variants sooner or later.
From the seems to be of it, each Canon and Sigma have their very own targets to realize this 12 months. What number of they get to meet stays to be seen.
