Canon USA launches new instant rebates on select Canon RF lenses, save up to $400!

Canon Europe: what about you???

How long will the rebates be available?

Canada?

Any Yanks want to meet at the border and toss it over?

Hubris fading after all about that 100mm L Macro. Overpriced with useless features SA control and Focus shift. Funniest thing is used RF 100mm L Macros are selling for above $1100 on B&H itself.

Chaitanya said:

Hubris fading after all about that 100mm L Macro. Overpriced with useless features SA control and Focus shift. Funniest thing is used RF 100mm L Macros are selling for above $1100 on B&H itself.

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It's nice of you to call the focus shift a feature

koenkooi said:

It's nice of you to call the focus shift a feature

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Isn't Canon themselves who keep telling the world its a feature not a shortcoming of this lens.

Chaitanya said:

Isn't Canon themselves who keep telling the world its a feature not a shortcoming of this lens.

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Not that I've seen. They acknowledge that focus shift is part of the design, resulting from the 1.4x macro capability (and mostly affecting use at >1x).

Those are some solid discounts on lenses. I wished that the 24-105 mm was included because if it were discounted enough I might purchase it as a general purpose walk around lens.

Chaitanya said:

Hubris fading after all about that 100mm L Macro. Overpriced with useless features SA control and Focus shift. Funniest thing is used RF 100mm L Macros are selling for above $1100 on B&H itself.

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I've enjoyed my 100 Macro. Gotten a lot of photographs of interesting insects around my yard. My keeper rate isn't as high as with other lenses though.

Bring those discounts to Germany and translate them exactly to € and I’ll finally get the RF 14-35mm F4

I wish the 100-500 was on that list...

In addition to lenses, there are some other rebates like the $200 off the Speedlite EL-1 and discounts on the EOS R and several EF-S and EF-M lenses.

speg said:

Canada?

Any Yanks want to meet at the border and toss it over?

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if you're somewhere in the Quebec City or Montreal, I guess it won't be too hard to find someone in the NH

Hi, sorry but what is Focus Shift?

Chaitanya said:

Hubris fading after all about that 100mm L Macro. Overpriced with useless features SA control and Focus shift. Funniest thing is used RF 100mm L Macros are selling for above $1100 on B&H itself

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guillettoaparicio said:

Hi, sorry but what is Focus Shift?

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When stopping down a lens shifts the focal plane. Since dual-pixel AF (used in RF bodies) is a phase detection method of autofocus, the camera will focus the lens with the aperture wide open then stop it down (if set to a narrower aperture) to take the picture. If you have the aperture set to an intermediate value (narrower than wide open but wider than ~f/8 depending on subject distance), a lens with focus shift will produce an back-focused image (the magnitude of the error varies with aperture and subject distance). At narrower apertures the DoF is deep enough to mask the back focus.

Chaitanya said:

Hubris fading after all about that 100mm L Macro. Overpriced with useless features SA control and Focus shift. Funniest thing is used RF 100mm L Macros are selling for above $1100 on B&H itself.

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Speak for yourself. I use the features.

I remind everyone that the market always sets the price eventually. Clearly the market was telling Canon that the 100 RF Macro was overpriced, so they had to adjust the price. It has happened before with select EF lenses (Most notably the EF 24, 28 and 35 non-L lenses) and used to happen all the time with bodies. Pandemic-related shortages skewed the market for the last few years, but eventually we will get back to normal. But, don't count on any across the board reductions, especially on popular items like the 100-500. The market has already spoken there.

The focus shift issue on the 100mm macro is probably over-hyped but it is there. If Canon would allow their bodies to focus stopped down—even if it required holding the DOF button—the issue would be resolved as far as I'm concerned. I'd really like to be able to combine back-button focus with assigning DOF preview to the shutter button half press. IIRC, my Fuji bodies did this by default. I was nice. It made a separate DOF preview button unnecessary.

t.linn said:

The focus shift issue on the 100mm macro is probably over-hyped but it is there. If Canon would allow their bodies to focus stopped down—even if it required holding the DOF button—the issue would be resolved as far as I'm concerned. I'd really like to be able to combine back-button focus with assigning DOF preview to the shutter button half press. IIRC, my Fuji bodies did this by default. I was nice. It made a separate DOF preview button unnecessary.

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On the R3, it's possible to make DoF Preview the default mode. However, you can't have that and OVF simulation (tone mapped image simulating OVF-like DR) at the same time. Also, activating AF cancels out the DoF Preview so it doesn't help with focus shift.