{"id":112843,"date":"2020-09-10T16:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/canons-next-amazing-lens-might-be-an-astrophotographers-dream"},"modified":"2020-09-10T20:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T03:27:39","slug":"canons-next-amazing-lens-might-be-an-astrophotographers-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/canons-next-amazing-lens-might-be-an-astrophotographers-dream","title":{"rendered":"Canon\u2019s Next Amazing Lens Might Be an Astrophotographer\u2019s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A good astrophotography lens is one that has a wide focal length and a wide maximum aperture. Normally, this would be a prime lens, but one of Canon\u2019s next major lenses might buck that trend.<\/p>\n

Canon Rumors is reporting<\/a> that an RF 14-21mm f\/1.4L USM lens is currently being tested by photographers, after a patent emerged for such a lens early last year. A super-wide aperture ultra-wide angle lens is a ton of fun to shoot with; in fact, when I reviewed the Sigma 14mm f\/1.8 DG HSM Art<\/a>, I called it one of the most fun lenses I have shot with, an evaluation that holds true to this day. Beyond the fun aspect, no doubt, such a lens would be tremendously useful for astrophotographers. At this time, the widest full frame f\/1.4 lens is the Sigma 20mm f\/1.4 Art<\/a>, a prime lens. Not only would the rumored RF lens offer a significantly wider field of view at the same maximum aperture, it would also offer a very useful zoom range for astrophotography and nighttime landscape and cityscape work.<\/p>\n

There is no word on price or availability yet, but such a lens would definitely be popular among both astrophotographers and event shooters. Would you be interested in one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A good astrophotography lens is one that has a wide focal length and a wide maximum aperture. Normally, this would be a prime lens, but one of Canon\u2019s next major lenses might buck that trend. Canon Rumors is reporting that an RF 14-21mm f\/1.4L USM lens is currently being tested by photographers, after a patent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112858,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112843\/revisions\/112858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}