Current rumors level to a Canon RF-S lens within the mildew of the Canon EF-M 11-22mm f/4-5.6 IS STM within the pipeline. There’s no robust leaks relating to key specs, however an ultra-wide angle lens is what Canon’s glorious APS-C mirrorless cameras really want to comprehend their potential. 

Whereas the Canon EOS R7 is likely one of the most succesful APS-C cameras available in the market for wildlife and sports activities images, and the EOS R10 is our best choice among the many greatest mirrorless cameras for novices, these fashions are hamstrung to a level by restricted lens selection. 

Solely three RF-S lenses can be found and all of those lenses are average zoom lenses with modest most apertures – in brief, not the lenses that really excite photographers, nor up their sport. It’s prime lenses and premium zooms that get the juices flowing, and there are none of those, but. 

Nikon’s Z-mount mirrorless digicam system is in the same place to Canon’s, too. We hope that they each start to point out comparable ranges of enthusiasm for APS-C as they do with full-frame, by the use of growing a broader vary of lenses. Let these rumors of a so-called Canon RF-S 11-22mm be true, and the signal of extra to come back. 

Full-frame vs APS-C – imbalanced scales

The three huge names which have established full-frame and APS-C mirrorless digicam techniques are Sony, Canon and Nikon.

Sony was one of many pioneers in mirrorless cameras, launching its first APS-C cameras, the NEX-Three and NEX-5, in Could 2010, after which its first full-frame cameras (the a7 and a7R) in October 2013. These full-frame cameras at the moment are of their fourth and fifth generations, and Sony has created a formidable selection of proprietary glass for each sensor codecs, with 22 APS-C lenses and 46 full-frame choices. 

Canon and Nikon entered the mirrorless digicam market a lot later, launching full-frame cameras – the Canon EOS R, Nikon Z6 and Z7 – solely in 2018. They’ve every gone about growing a broad vary of high-quality full-frame lenses with spectacular haste. The identical can’t be mentioned for APS-C.

On the time of writing there are 28 Canon RF lenses for full-frame cameras, and three RF-S lenses for APS-C cameras. Nikon stands at 30 full body lenses to 4 APS-C lenses. 

It was just one 12 months in the past that Canon launched the EOS R7 and EOS R10 (and, extra just lately, the EOS R50), so it may be excused for under having three APS-C lenses up to now. Nevertheless it does have a historical past of modest funding on this sensor format. The Canon EF-M mirrorless system has successfully been discontinued; regardless of early promise, it by no means actually bought off the bottom.

Nikon’s APS-C system was introduced a lot sooner than Canon’s, in October 2019, with the Z50 and since then the Z fc and Z30 cameras, however nonetheless solely has 4 lenses. The newest of these – the latest Nikkor Z DX 12-28mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ VR – is much like what we hope the brand new Canon lens can be. Nikon has opened its arms to 3rd events and a trio of wonderful Sigma prime lenses for Z-mount just lately hit the cabinets, whereas Canon has remained closed. 

Why is an ultra-wide lens so vital for APS-C?

Full-frame lenses are appropriate with APS-C cameras, and Canon’s full-frame RF lenses can be utilized on its APS-C cameras with out the necessity for an adapter. In doing so, there’s a crop which successfully extends the focal size by 1.6x (for Sony and Nikon it’s 1.5x). 

A picture space crop is useful do you have to want to get nearer. For instance, the Canon RF 16mm F2.eight STM lens is a 25.6mm lens when cropped. Nikon primarily launched the Nikon Z fc digicam with the full-frame Nikkor Z 40mm f/2 lens. The digicam and lens matched in model if not sensor format, and the lens’ efficient 60mm focal size is good for portraits.

Each of these lenses are a dimension match with APS-C cameras, and pretty priced. Nonetheless, the identical can’t be mentioned for many different full-frame lenses, that are disproportionately giant when connected to an APS-C digicam. 

The crop additionally hampers people who need to shoot extensive, and that’s the reason it’s so vital for a local ultra-wide angle lens that matches the sensor format with no crop, to be made out there. So, if you happen to’re pondering of shopping for a Canon EOS R7 or EOS R10, you should definitely preserve a watch out for brand new RF-S lenses, and particularly the rumored RF-S 11-22mm. Let’s hope it is a good one.

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