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Canon mounts investment

Started Sep 5, 2018 | Polls thread
KL_Syd New Member • Posts: 2
Re: Canon mounts investment

"It made me remember about 12 years ago when I was choosing my DSLR system (I had a Canon compact at the time), one of the appeals Canon had was a clear upgrade path from APS-C to FF. Get an APS-C camera, some neat FF lenses, of course a few APS-C lenses for portability and the upgrade path was clear."

This reminds me during the 70s contemplating a Canon SLR - think it might be an FT and I was lucky I did not purchase as it was out of stock. The battery consumption turned out to be a problem for this model and then Canon went on to change the lens mount later.  So they do not have a very illustrious record of real legacy mount support. Gen X and newer users would have started on the EOS series and will not know this.

Yes, it's time to review what is viable if you want to hang onto good optics and I'd think in the end, a compact with a higher zoom range of 4x to 6x may serve most users better.

I would applaud Nikon for being responsible for a greener world where even my Nikon AI-S lenses from over 30 years ago are still viable on both Nikon and M4/3 cameras.  I was surprised how well they performed even on my Lumix GX85, a stop gap buy pending this new Nikon Z-series release. I'd wait to see how it will accomodate non-Canon lenses before I even look at another Canon mount.

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