I recently heard a rumor form a Canon Pro that Canon has plans to introduce all their lenses with IS and offer a manual focus version of the same lens with the same or larger apertures.
The concept sounded very similar to the days wide aperture FDs.
He further commented that this would require the exhausting of current inventories and how this concept was put on hold when the digital market exploded into the everyday consumer market it is today.
I do not recall the conversion well enough to say if this was just on the L line-up? This may or may not make any sense for regular consumer lenses as most people will not want to manual focus.
Can anyone confirm hearing a similar rumor or has this come up on the forum prior?
This all started in a conversion about the 5D Mk2 market introduction and eventually seeing the full frame sensor move into lower consumer models. I expressed interest in a 24-70 and he commented that the lens market/lineup would drastically be changing in coming model introductions as the 5D mk2 took market share from the D700 and D300. This may be years away or around the corner????
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