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Some thoughts about EOS M, EOS R and Fuji

Started Oct 23, 2018 | Discussions thread
007peter
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You (PROVE) why Upgrade Path to EOS-R is CRITICAL!
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Pepege wrote: Since EOS M and EOS R have incompatible mounts, there are diminishing benefits owning an M instead of another brand, like Fuji. So why not switch to Fuji?

EXACTLY!   Your post prove my point exactly.  Without an EOS-R upgrade path to tied you to Canon, people are likely to upgrade out of Canon → Fuji X-T3 or Sony A7-III

There are some hard truth people don't like to admit:

1. Canon pulled a Dicx moved on us, destroying much appeal of EOS-M as a backup system to FF canon

2. Canon has effectively NEUTERED EOS-M as a system

3. EF-m lens cannot be used on EOS-R, which limits how much people are willing to spend on a lens that is limited to just 1 system

4. Making it worse is that the cheaper EF-S lens can be use on EOS-R.  In fact, Canon EF-S 10-18mm STM is highly sought after by many (R) users to compensate for(R) nasty 1.7x crop in 4K shooting.

In a round about way, FF EOS(R) is actually driving the sale of APS-C EF-S 10-18mm STM.  in a round about way, Canon is telling us Canon Rebel DSLR is the true canon portable system, not EOS-M.

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