What will Canon's next EF lens be?

Great Bustard wrote:

Ed Rizk wrote:

ed rader wrote:

MatsP wrote:

I'm thinking about what happened when Olympus launched the E-M1. They said that the FT lenses should continue in production. What happened? Soon they started to make excellent lenses for the mft system like the 12-40/2.8 pro which was the first in their pro line. Ft lenses just disappeared. And they didn't make any DSLRs any more, although they had a high end model in the pipeline.

Same will probably happen with Canon. They will go entirely for the R system. They just don't say that loud yet.

yep. DSLR and EF done sailed. to produce more EF lenses or FF DSLRs would be an admission of failure. aint gonna happen.

Or require an admission that Canon is a big enough company to support multiple formats.

Well, Canon is now sporting EF, EF-S, M, and RF mounts. Canon did little more than lip-service for the M mount, and were barely adequate with the EF-S mount. So, it seems more than a little clear that maintaining even two mounts is a challenge for Canon.

At best, they'll put out a few more EF lenses, then call it quits on EF unless their RF mount fails. But if RF fails, then I think the whole camera division of Canon will fail.

The future will likely be RF and M mounts.

The RF mount doesn't replace the EF mount until 90% or more prefer mirror less to DSLR.  There are entire camera companies with less market share than that, so it makes sense to serve that niche, regardless of the argument over which is better.

For the M to replace EFS, I think you need the above condition and for the good mirror less technology to become cheap enough to use on entry level cameras.

Sure, Canon is making four lens mounts.   Each of them is bigger than some camera companies, so the economies of scale are enough to maintain it all until they become unprofitable.