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Will we ever see a 22mm f/2.0 for RF?

Uneternal
Enthusiast

The EF-M 22mm f/2 was one of my favorite lenses on EF-M. It was equivalently almost exactly a 35mm focal length which is classically the ideal focal length for street photography. Together with its bright maximum aperture, Canon gave Fujifilm cameras some serious competition for their street-photography models like the X100 series.

Fast forward to today, a lot of EF-M lenses got ported to RF, but they never ported the 22mm. Was it too good for an inexpensive middle-class lens? We only got the 16mm and the 24mm. And you're probably gonna say 2mm doesn't make much of a difference but the 22mm was also a pancake lens. Paired with an M6II camera it was the perfect, unobtrusive, easy-to-carry combination for street photography.

Please Canon, bring back this excellent lens for RF-S. Pair it with a retro-style camera and you gonna have street photographers and vloggers buy it like hotcakes.  

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Waddizzle
Legend
Legend

I put it on my M3 and almost never took it off.

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ebiggs1
Legend
Legend

I really doubt any M series lens was "porter" over to become a RF lens. SImular FL doesn't necessarily mean it is the same lens only retrofitted to RF mount. The demands of R series is greater than EF-M ever was.

EB
EOS 1D, EOS 1D MK IIn, EOS 1D MK III, EOS 1Ds MK III, EOS 1D MK IV and EOS 1DX and many lenses.

krahe
Rising Star
Rising Star

It remains to be seen whether Canon will ever make an RF-S prime. So far their RF-S lineup doesn't even approach what they offered in EF-M, which itself was widely criticized for being a small group, though it included some serious winners like the 22mm f/2, which is my favorite lens for indoor and group shots.

Kevin Rahe
EOS M50 Mark II

I think you are comparing apples to oranges by comparing the EF-M lineup to the RF-S lineup.  A better comparison would be to the EF-S lineup.

The EF-M lineup needed to be a full lineup of focal lengths.  You could not use EF/EF-S lenses without an adapter.  

The RF-S mount bodies are more similar to the EF-S mount DSLRs than EF-M mount bodies. 

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"Enjoying photography since 1972."

If you're looking at it from the standpoint that there is a wide selection of lenses that can be used on this crop-sensor body and a few specifically for it, then yes, EF-S is more like RF-S than it is like EF-M. But there are considerations for RF-S lenses beyond those for EF-S lenses, and those considerations are akin to those for EF-M. The primary motivation for EF-S lenses was to reduce cost compared to equivalent EF lenses. There was little to no consideration for making the lenses more compact or the overall package more ergonomic - e.g. my EF-S 55-250mm isn't significantly smaller or lighter than my EF 75-300mm. But with RF-S lenses there is clearly a size/ergonomic motivation in addition to a desire to reduce the cost, as evidenced by the barrels that skinny up once away from the mount, and in that respect they're more like the M system.

Kevin Rahe
EOS M50 Mark II
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