p.2 #1 · Rudy Winston Introduces both the RF 14mm/1.4 L VCM and RF 7-14mm F2.8-3.5 L FISHEYE
burningheart wrote:
I'm not saying Atiba Jefferson is an iconic skateboard photographer all by myself, but the fact he was in "Tony Pro Skater" 3 25 years ago probably does. Cool to see he's still going strong.
p.2 #2 · Rudy Winston Introduces both the RF 14mm/1.4 L VCM and RF 7-14mm F2.8-3.5 L FISHEYE
I love my fisheye lens that I purchased from Peter Read Miller but that's a lot for a fisheye lens that has relatively limited use in the bag. The old 15 f2.8 fisheye is a bargain compared to the new RF version. I will have to wait until it starts to show up used or via the refurb store.
p.2 #4 · Rudy Winston Introduces both the RF 14mm/1.4 L VCM and RF 7-14mm F2.8-3.5 L FISHEYE
All the VCMs were like $200-300 off up here in Canada between BF and Boxing Day, IIRC, so with a February release, the 14 certainly could see some discounting in 8-9 months.
p.2 #13 · Rudy Winston Introduces both the RF 14mm/1.4 L VCM and RF 7-14mm F2.8-3.5 L FISHEYE
We just have to wait for someone to get the lens. Presumably you can turn off distortion correction in Lightroom, or another similar editing app.
I'm curious about the distortion amount more because it was mentioned as being 'high' in the TDP review but he curiously omitted any examples of it as part of this review (many of his reviews have a separate page with a graphical representation of the distortion). This appears to also be the case for a number of other recent RF lens reviews.
That said, I'm not overly critical of this approach by Canon. Yes, it will sacrifice some peripheral sharpness due to image interpolation, but the tradeoff is a more compact lens that otherwise appears to be very sharp and very well corrected. He did note that the 20/1.4 is slightly sharper in the periphery.
I won't have time to look until later, but does it show at what mm the lens turns into a full circle to partial circle touching edges, and at what mm can you achieve a full rectangular image? Without looking at my images from the old EF 8-15, I believe 8 is the full circle, 9-11 are transitional, and around maybe 12-13 it starts reaching the corners.
I'm curious if anyone has any samples of the same scene at all focal lengths to compare.
p.2 #17 · Rudy Winston Introduces both the RF 14mm/1.4 L VCM and RF 7-14mm F2.8-3.5 L FISHEYE
Well, I glanced at some of my EF 8-15 images and if this new RF lens is similar, 12-13 is where it starts to reduce the black corner vignetting and at 14mm it's barely there with image correction turned off, so I'm guessing this lens will be the same.
