Now that Canon has announced theirs and there has been plenty of reviews of it, I’m wondering when we can see competing products from the likes of Sony and Nikon or third parties like Tamron or Sigma? I’m new to photography and haven’t yet grasped the cadence of releases like this. Do competing products come around pretty quickly or are all of them just blindsided by this and maybe more than a year off from having a viable product?
The other companies are going to wait and see how well it sells first. It’s impressive but it weighs more than the RF 70-200 f/2.8 and it costs $3k. I mentioned it to a colleague who has to shoot a lot of events and they felt if it was going to weigh that much they’d rather have 2 bodies one with a 24-70 and one with a 70-200 to give them more range. Everything in photography is trade offs. If it sells like gang busters they’ll know there is a market for $3000 lenses like that. If only a handful of people buy it because it’s either too heavy or too expensive, then it’s not worth going down that road.