[mst]

That's the price with which it shortly showed up on amazon.com and someone claimed he was able to even pre-order it.

Meanwhile, CR reports the zoom will be 100-400/5.6-8 IS.
f/8, wide open.

I really admire how Canon tests new grounds with some of their lenses, but that does certainly not include their slower and slower consumer zooms.

But hey, you can add TCs to make it even slower

At least it's rumored to be fairly affordable at $649.

[Brightcolours]

Canon's super teles (this 100-400 and the 100-500mm L) seem to live in the past (high prices and low max aperture figures compared to the developments at other manufacturers (like Nikon (Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6))). They continue like when their 100-400mm L was the bees knees. Funny, back in that day their UWA offerings were not the best. Nowadays their UWA lenses are very good, so they did move on in that area.

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$299 ???

$299 USD,, not Australian $...

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Meanwhile, CR reports the zoom will be 100-400/5.6-8 IS.
f/8, wide open.

I really admire how Canon tests new grounds with some of their lenses, but that does certainly not include their slower and slower consumer zooms.

Not terribly exciting.
I'd rather go for an APS-C 70-300 f4-5.6 which is equivalent to a 106-456 f6-8.5.
A more useful range while being roughly the same speed.

For instance the new Fuji 70-300 seems smaller than this new Canon lens.

[mst]

$299 USD,, not Australian $...

That's still surprisingly low. The Fujinon XF 16/2.8 is 399 USD now, and that's an APS-C lens.

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$299 USD,, not Australian $...

That's still surprisingly low. The Fujinon XF 16/2.8 is 399 USD now, and that's an APS-C lens.

Agreed, it would be very cheap. I'm quite doubtful though.
And the Canon lens is equivalent to a 10.5mm f1.8 APS-C.
The Fuji lens is a totally different beast (BTW in Switzerland it sells for ~$350 somehow).

[Rover]

First images leaked, see mirrorlessrumors.com for example.

The RF 16 is not a pancake, as expected, but still very compact. Already curious now how the distortion and vignetting figures will be...

Something's telling me you'll be needing new charts when testing these.
The picture from Nokishita showed this lens as being totally identical to the RF 50/1.8 except the number, which is kind of fishy if you ask me (pun not intended... originally that is). Unless, of course, there's a newer picture debunking that?

[mst]

The picture from Nokishita showed this lens as being totally identical to the RF 50/1.8 except the number, which is kind of fishy if you ask me (pun not intended... originally that is). Unless, of course, there's a newer picture debunking that?

Mirrorlessrumors has higher resolution images of the RF 16, there is a tiny side-by-side comparison on CR. I'd say they look very similar indeed, but the RF 16 has a slightly different front lens.

Could of course still be a fake. But the RF 100-400 images seem valid, so it would be kind of surprising if only those were leaks, but not the ones of the RF 16.

[Brightcolours]

Meanwhile, CR reports the zoom will be 100-400/5.6-8 IS.
f/8, wide open.

I really admire how Canon tests new grounds with some of their lenses, but that does certainly not include their slower and slower consumer zooms.

Not terribly exciting.
I'd rather go for an APS-C 70-300 f4-5.6 which is equivalent to a 106-456 f6-8.5.
A more useful range while being roughly the same speed.

For instance the new Fuji 70-300 seems smaller than this new Canon lens.

But then you do not get the shallow DOF FF offers with different large aperture primes. If that is not your need, no reason to go for FF as format, of course.

[Klaus]

The more I look at the 16mm, the more it seems photoshopped. But let's see.

[Brightcolours]

The more I look at the 16mm, the more it seems photoshopped. But let's see.

You mean: the more it looks exacly like a Canon product shot.