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What fills the gap?

Started Sep 28, 2018 | Polls thread
samfan Senior Member • Posts: 1,066
Re: What fills the gap?

Canon really messed up with their distinction between M and R mounts. But since they already did, I'd say the only sensible way to deal with it is to keep M for APS-C and R for FF.

While dividing the market so sharply between APS-C and FF is not very sensible (people may want to combine both within the same system, like with EF/EF-S), at least customers can decide in advance where they want to go.

If they make APS-C R bodies and APS-C R lenses, that would mean one of 3 things:

a) Have M and APS-C R directly competing with each other, possibly duplicating APS-C lenses in both mounts, which just makes no sense;

b) Relegate M to clearly low-end status, i.e. lack of really good lenses (those would be only for R, either APS-C or FF). That would put off everyone who is looking for something more up-scale but doesn't want to go FF;

c) Just kill off M eventually. In the current marketspace, even Canon might not survive that. (Nikon could 'afford' to kill off the 1 series because there was never that much faith in that series in the first place. But M is seriously competitive.)

Of course keeping the lines so separate is a turn-off for people who wish to combine APS-C and FF bodies for whatever reason (more reach, lighter/cheaper body with the same lenses etc.) but Canon has made their bed.

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