What lenses will Canon release next year?
Before I begin speculating, let me first state very clearly that I have absolutely no inside knowledge of what Canon will release next year. These are just educated guesses. However, it can be fun to guess.
To be honest, recent lens releases by Canon have been extremely dull. I was completely underwhelmed with the recently announced 24mm 1.4 II as I really have absolutely no use for a lens like that. My suspicions are that this trend will continue for next year.
There are two main reasons why I think Canon will not release many new lenses next year.
- Canon doesn’t really need to do this. Canon already has a good lead over Nikon in terms of lens variety and Nikon has been releasing lenses at a slow pace itself. With cameras, I have noticed that Canon seemed to prefer to let Nikon catch up to them before releasing anything new. To a lesser degree, that may be the same case with lenses.
- We are in an economic downturn. Most companies I know of have cut features from their products and reduced the number of products in development. Canon (and Nikon) are no different here. If Canon releases more lenses next year than it did this year, the only reason will be that these lenses were already very mature in development.
That being said, the following are my opinions on upcoming lenses. Rather than state what I think will be released compared to what will not, I will rank them from one to ten with one meaning the chances are very low to ten being an almost certainty.