DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Will Canon's FF Mirrorless be EF or EF-M Mount?

Started Dec 27, 2017 | Polls thread
Photato
Photato Veteran Member • Posts: 3,152
Re: Will Canon's FF Mirrorless be EF or EF-M Mount?

J A C S wrote:

Photato wrote:

justmeMN wrote:

lilBuddha wrote:

IMO, what makes the most sense for Canon FF mirrorless is to go EF mount.

Doing that would save Canon a bundle of R&D money, that would be necessary to create a complete set of new mirrorless-specific FF lenses.

Not an issue. Olympus and Fuji made a gamble by creating a large catalog of mirroless lenses despite their much smaller market share. Fuji started from zero.
I don't see a reason why Canon the behemoth can't do the same and they could maintain EF and EF-M systems running simultaneously for a long time and let the market decide.
Business wise Canon can make more money by selling EF-M pro glass than remaining with the EF mount.

Canon can make short flange lenses for the EF mount as they did with the EF-S lenses.

That was probably one lens the Wide zoom and that doesn't protude 26mm back which is the difference between EF and EF-M

And where is the compact FF mirrorless option if Canon were to stick to the EF mount?

It can still be compact with a newly designed lenses for mirrorless EF mount bodies. They just have to be carful to prevent them from mounting on dSLRs.

26mm makes a lot of difference when designing a very compact body. It certainly be at a size / weight disadvantage against Sony and of course m43.
The 26mm integrated "tube" has to be sturdy enough to support heavier EF glass.

 Photato's gear list:Photato's gear list
Panasonic LX100 Canon EOS M Canon EOS M6 Canon EOS M6 II Canon EOS R10 +22 more
Post (hide subjects) Posted by
(unknown member)
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow