Canon R3

[DavidEccleston]

It's a good thing it has good high-ISO handling, because it seems Canon is really pushing slow glass in the RF mount. They've got 600 f/11, an 800 f/11, a 100-500L f/4.5-7.1, and now their 100-400 f/4.5-8, the first non-L to work the extenders, so you can have 560 f/11 or 800 f/16!

I mean, I guess they want to have a certain level of buy-in to RF before investing in making high-end glass, but it seems really odd to sell a $6K body with no decent native lenses. I'm barely shooting these days, so I'm not the target market, but surely I'm not the only one confused by the limited RF lens choices. Am I?

[HDNitehawk]

I'm barely shooting these days, so I'm not the target market, but surely I'm not the only one confused by the limited RF lens choices. Am I?

Or availability of the glass they have released. You have to preorder and hope it comes in stock soon.
I think the slow non L glass is a lead up to a cheap consumer version of the R, most likely a crop body.
Keep in mind that they have also released a 100-500mm L (100mm more than the EF 100-499 version), 24 x70mm F/2.8 L with IS, 15-35mm F/2.8 L with IS and a 28-70mm F/2 L. All of these are improvements over the EF lens. The 70-200mm f/2.8 and 100mm f/2.8 macro are at least equivalents to the EF version.


I have been utilizing my EF 35mm F/1.4 II, performance has been great. I don't think it knows it is not an RF lens.
At this point in the game maybe that is the point. People are buying it and utilizing it on their old lenses.

[Kayaker72]

surely I'm not the only one confused by the limited RF lens choices. Am I?

Despite now having 23 RF lenses to date (25 including TCs), I still consider the RF lenses a work in progress, which is part of the reason I am still on the RF lens sidelines. So, I agree, it seems odd, but you can start to see it's final form. For example, Canon has worked hard, especially in the last year or two, to provide more affordable/gateway RF lenses (zooms: 24-105 f/4-7.1, 24-240 f/4-6.3, and 100-400; primes: 16 f/2.8, 50 1.8, the 35 f/1.8 and 85 f/2 are a slight next level up, and 600/800 f/11). But, not so long ago, Canon was being accused of only having high end lenses (28-70 f/2, 50 and 85 f/1.4 lenses, f/2.8 and f/4 zoom trinities, 100-500, 400 f/2.8, and 600 f/4).

So, I suspect the entry level is getting pretty complete (may 1-2 more), but hopefully there are about 10 more "L" lenses to come such as a 14/24/35/135/200/300/500/800 mm primes and some creative zooms.