There will be more Canon STM lenses, wide angles and telephotos, and they may have image stabilization. In an interview Masato Okada, Executive Officer – Deputy Chief Executive – ICP Group 1 Canon Inc., confirmed Canon’s commitment to STM (Stepping Motor) lenses and videography. As you most probably know, STM lenses focus near to silent, avoiding disturbing noise when continuously autofocusing while shooting video. Mr. Okada said that “it is possible that [there will be] STM lens [with] wider and longer focal length“, and that Canon “consider producing wider and longer STM lenses after passing through optical design process“. Another Canon executive, Naoya Kaneda, Senior General Manager ICP Development Center 1, added: “it’s also possible that STM lenses will be equipped with IS”.
Currently there are four Canon STM lenses:
Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM – check price at the following shops: [shopcountry 5686]
CanonEF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM – check price at the following shops: [shopcountry 6295]
CanonEF-M 22mm f/2 STM – check price at the following shops: [shopcountry 6093]
CanonEF-M 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM – check price at the following shops: [shopcountry 6095]
Found a video of the interview with Masaya Maeda, Chief Executive — Image Communication Product Operations — Canon Inc on YouTube (user fotografernet). Parts of this interview have been posted previously in written form. The video has English subtitles and Masaya Maeda’s answers are translated. The discussed topics:
Cinema EOS
[shoplink 7139]Canon EOS 6D (price & specs)[/shoplink] (he would buy one for himself)
Challenges of the compact camera segment, the [shoplink 9369]PowerShot N (price & specs)[/shoplink] as an answer to this
How Canon will increase revenues in 2013
The advanced technologies actually implemented in top-end gear will come to entry level gear
All regional markets are equally important to Canon
Top rated eBay seller getitdigital (99.6% positive ratings) has the Canon EF-S 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6 IS USM on sale [shoplink 10410 ebay]for $439.99 (click here)[/shoplink]. Free shipping and USA warranty, and limited stock.
The Canon 18-200mm IS Lens is a compact, lightweight and wide magnification range lens. This zoom lens features a wide focal length range from normal to telephoto (equivalent to 29-320mm in the 35mm format) making it an ideal choice as a general-purpose zoom lens. It features an Optical Image Stabilizer for up to 4-stops of effective correction even at full zoom. And the circular aperture can give beautiful background blur effects.
Key Features Image Stabilizer – 4 stop Image Stabilizer (IS) extends low light options to previously unavailable levels. Photographers normally shooting handheld at 1/250 sec can switch on IS to obtain a similarly steady and blur-free result with a shutter speed of just 1/15 second. Superior Image Quality – Two UD (Ultra-low Dispersion) elements and several aspherical elements are used to suppress the effects of secondary chromatic aberrations, to obtain crisp, sharp, high-contrast images without fringing throughout the zoom range. Super Spectra Coatings – Optimized Super Spectra lens coatings and lens element shaping, suppress flare and ghosting – more prone to occur with digital cameras due to reflection of the image sensor. Coatings also help achieve true color balance and increase contrast for vivid hi-fidelity images.
If you happen to be located in Japan, you can rent the [shoplink 6091]Canon EOS M (price & specs)[/shoplink] for free, 7 days and 6 nights. It is Canon’s “Let’s Try” campaign, the EOS M can be rented for free at the Nagoya Umeda Ginza (sorry if translation is wrong) showroom.
The [shoplink 7139]Canon EOS 6D (price & specs)[/shoplink] is selling very well, and it is on the way to become a highly popular camera. Canon’s entry level full-frame DSLR has a lot of good points: noise performance (even better than the [shoplink 2431]Canon EOS 5D Mark III (price & specs)[/shoplink]), the price (currently available at $1899 – Amazon | B&H | Adorama – for the body only, and $2499 – Amazon | B&H | Adorama – for the 6D with the EF 24-105 f/4L IS lens), outstanding image quality, and then. But everything comes for a price, and Canon made some compromises on the EOS 6D, foremost not featuring the advanced AF system of the EOS 5D Mark III, and holding back the excellent moiré and aliasing filters sported on the 5D Mark III.
Indeed, the EOS 6D, while having a very high image quality (on par with the EOS 5D Mark III), suffers from much more moiré and aliasing artifacts than its bigger sibling. That’s where the Mosaic Engineering anti-aliasing comes into play. They develop such filters for Canon and Nikon DSLRs since long. Now they made one for the Canon 6D, the VAF-6D. They made a video (spotted by DSLR News Shooter) to show the capabilities of the filter.
These are the first video clips demonstrating our new VAF-6D – which corrects the HD video aliasing and moire artifacts of the Canon 6D!
By the way, as with all our VAF-series filters, there’s no significant light loss with this filter: The variation in exposure among the different segments in the video, is due to the highly variable lighting – very wild partly-cloudy skies that day! Beautiful skies, though – so we didn’t want to overexpose them… To give the most valid comparison, we purposely kept the aperture and other imaging and processing parameters exactly the same among all the shots, so the video brightness varies with the cloud cover.
The filter doesn’t appear to lower resolution. There is, however, a small drawback when using the filter. Dan Chung from DSLR News Shooter reports:
There is also a shift to the back-focus setting of the lens, which means that the distance scale will be rendered inaccurate. Early versions of the filter for the 5D mkII also had very soft and dark corners with wide angle lenses. Mosaic claim to have improved both back-focus shifts and wide angle performance with a new second version for the 5D mkII. The 6D version should share these improvements but I haven’t tested it.
Mosaic Engineering’s filter isn’t really cheap. It costs $365 and can be ordered in their online store. We have to wait for more test to see if the EOS 6D with the filter can hold up to more expensive full-frame gear, like the EOS 5D Mark III. In any case, Mosaic Engineering’s filter is welcome accessory that will be of great interest for all those photographers and videographers who own an EOS 6D and want to get rid of moiré and aliasing artifacts. Even if the filter isn’t really cheap, for people on a budget it makes a good alternative to a $3150 5D Mark III, when bundled with the EOS 6D .
Canon EOS 6D price check: [shopcountry 7139]
Canon EOS 5D Mark III price check: [shopcountry 2431]
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If you need a good flash for your photographic work but can’t afford one of Canon’s professional SpeedLites ([shoplink 9656]Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT[/shoplink], [shoplink 9690]Canon Speedlite 580EXII[/shoplink], [shoplink 9691]Canon Speedlite 430EXII[/shoplink]), you may be interested in the featured review about the Chinese manufactured Yongnuo YN568EX Speedlite Flash, which comes at a price of $159/€159/£100. The Yongnuo YN568EX Speedlite is available on Amazon US | Amazon DE | Amazon UK | Amazon FR, and on eBay.
Lighting Rumours reviewed the Yongnuo YN568EX Speedlite Flash and they were very impressed by this flash, particularly by the build quality and the feature set:
[…] the YN568EX is a million miles away from that YN460 in every aspect, build, features, consistent output and recycle times. To me this shows that Yongnuo do kind of listen to the photography community, taking on board what’s been suggested and acting on that. For sure, there are some things that are missing, such as an external power hook up, and I’d rather had seen a 3.5mm jack over the 2.5mm one, but that’s a minor issue.
In the conclusion they write:
[…] very very impressed with the Yongnuo YN568EX. The build quality and feature set are excellent, even more so when you consider its price. Sure, there are some flaws but I have to give due credit to Yongnuo for the work they’ve put it on this; they have moved up in the world from those YN460 days. Yongnuo are starting to give the big guns a run for their money.
Pro:
Great Feature Set
Price
Build Quality
Audio Ready Beep
Canon/Nikon Wireless Control
Cons:
Build Quality (Internal Components)
Not a Master
No External Battery port
Head swivel mechanism not great
2.5mm Sync port.
There are a lot more information about the Yongnuo YN568EX Speedlite in Lighting Rumours’ review.
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