Canon 8-15/4 Fish

[jdepould]

Circular+Full frame fisheye, quite an impressive piece of kit.

Canon releases EF 8-15mm f/4 L USM fisheye zoom lens: Digital Photography Review

[Shokinen]

One of my collegue at work is already getting all exited hehehe.

Have they posted any price range yet ?

[jdepould]

I couldn't find anything. If I had to make a wild guess, I'd put it at $1600.

[Shokinen]

Couldn't find anything either but it still very early.

Something around 1.5k would be a good price.

[inkista]

The press release has the MSRPs.

Canon EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM lens: $1400
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM lens: $1500
Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens: $7000
Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens: $11,000
Canon Extender EF 1.4x III & Canon Extender EF 2x III: $500 each

The thing I find worrisome is how Canon removed the non-L $500 EF 70-300 IS USM from the lens lineup, and the old 15mm fisheye. Just like they've removed the non-L 100/2.8 Macro from the lineup. The lens pricing is starting to look a lot more like Nikon's. (sigh). Good solid midrange $400-$600 choices are getting wiped out and replaced with $1k+ L lenses.... And all the Mk II great whites are significantly more expensive than the lenses they'll be replacing.

And still no EF-S 35mm f/1.8 USM....

[jdepould]

Yeah $7000 for a 300/2.8 is nuts.

[inkista]

Well, it's not like the MSRP is going to be the street price, but that's still higher than one would expect, given that the MkI version goes for $4500. The Nikon one is, what, $5500?

[jdepould]

Originally Posted by inkista

Well, it's not like the MSRP is going to be the street price, but that's still higher than one would expect, given that the MkI version goes for $4500. The Nikon one is, what, $5500?

VR2 is ~5800

The 400 is about 7500.

They'll probably get MSRP for it. People who need the stuff just buy it, whatever the price is.