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Sigma confirms: no support for Canon mirrorless

Started Jan 5, 2017 | Discussions thread
Lawrencew Veteran Member • Posts: 4,861
case by case basis

Scooterch wrote:

I wrote to Sigma in Switzerland, where I am based, and they contacted Sigma Japan. Their response: "A Happy New Year. As you may know our lenses are optimized to DSLR cameras. So there may be incompatibility issue when it attached to Canon M series cameras. In other words, our products to not support Canon mirror less cameras." (my emphasis). Canon's Swiss rep. added, "We are sorry we could not give you any better news."

Perhaps I was naive to expect anything different. However it does seem short-sighted from Sigma. They promote the 18-250mm as a travel-friendly compact zoom, and I would not be alone in expecting it to be a useful pairing with the smaller mirrorless bodies. Buyers be warned.

I think it is probably a case by case basis.

My Sigma 150-600m and 105mm macro work flawlessly on my M5

What we might find - and perhaps what Sigma Japan is saying - is that if a Sigma lens has issues on an M, then they are not going to fix it specifically for the M.  As long as it works OK on a Canon DSLR, then Sigma's support with go no further.

Sigma may well take the approach of saying if their lens works fine on say the 80D, then its not Sigma's problem if it doesnt work on a M5 - It's Canon who introduced some incompability....

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