Third party RF lenses

Just learned that Sigma has announced some lenses for the RF mount. Have other third-party lens makes (Tamron, Tokina…) done so too?

They announced RF APS-C lenses. At least that was the limitation in the beginning. Or has that changed?

Here is Tamron’s press release.

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Well, in my case that would be for a R7 so APC-S lenses would be fine. From what I gathered, they have no IS, so better have a camera with IBIS.

canon were being aggressive about not allowing auto lenses to be released, I think sigma have paid a licence fee for these, there are some other manual lenses available

Sigma lenses

Cosina / voigtlander lenses

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samyang:

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You could also buy EF lens and for about $40 buy a third party adapter for EF to R mount. I did and it works brilliant. The advantage of EF lens it can be used on a D-SLR and Mirrorless while an R mount is mirrorless only. You can then tap into the range of existing EF lenses. Going forward I will probably buy EF lenses over R lenses for this reason unless an R lens comes out with some superior feature or performance.

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I currently have a 70D and a collection of EF lenses so the adapter is already part of the plan for the more specialized lenses. But one advantage of mirrorless (and APS-C) is compactness and lightgness, and using EF lenses with an adapter sort of defeats this, so I intend my general purpose lens to be “native”.

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@Ofnuts my general purpose lens on the Canon R7 is the 18-150mm kit lens that comes with it. The image stabilisation of that lens on my R7 was better than my 18-135mm stabilised EF lens so I sold that. I did a comparison and the R mount lens and it performed best for stabilisation. Crazy good in fact.

But the adaptor opens up a whole new world with taking advantage of the EF lenses that you already own or are available out there. The Canon adaptor is about $AU180 while the third party one I bought was less than a third of that price. It is only an extension tube with electronic contacts and no optical glass so if you can live without the name Canon on your converter buy one and a few bottles of red wine with the money saved.

Buying a Canon R7 was more about pixel density and wildlife safari shots than weight for me. It is only a little lighter. If I was a landscape photographer I would have gone for a full frame mirrorless with a prime wide angle lens to get the most out of wide angle. But the crop sensor and pixel density appealed to me the most.

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But given that, what would you suggest for a landscape lens on the R7, or do you think the 18-150 kit lens does the job?

You can get 8-16mm or 10-20 or 10-24mm zooms. which do an excellent job, The full frame cameras strength is what it can do with wide angle lens and the crop sensor’s advantage is what it can do with telephoto lens. Panorama stitching is also very handy with either camera to cover a wide angle of view. The 18-150mm kit lens is very versatile. An R mount lens needs to offer something extra in performance or features to get me to buy one over an EF lens. My 18-135MM IS EF lens did not match my 18-150mm lens for IS for I sold it and kept the 18-150. Yes it is adequate for landscape work. The full frame may be better, but for the average user do you need the cost and weight of a full frame? For me I don’t.

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My bank account and spouse thanks you for that. :wink:

I already have the EF-S 10-18, so along with my RF 100-500L I’m set for focal length coverage. But I was toying with the idea of picking up a used EF 24-105 f/4 in the hopes of better IQ, but from what I see the 18-150 is pretty competitive with that lens and I’m not sure the wider aperture is worth the cost.

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