Amazing body, shame about the lens selection

jamespolo wrote:

The 22mm f/2 is really nice, but the kit zoom is very... kit zoom. Speaking of lenses, where are they? The 32mm 1.4 is definitely something I'm going to be buying in the near future, but where is a 24-28mm equiv. fast wide prime? Where is an 80+mm equiv portrait lens? Where are the fixed aperture zooms? The lack of lens selection is a bummer and my biggest problem with the system.

I think that you will be disappointed if you expect Canon to produce those lenses in the foreseeable future.  Canon has made it very clear that the (expensive) R line is where they will be putting their (increasingly limited) R&D resources.  The M line will most likely continue the way it has since it's 2012 introduction.   I'd expect MK II versions of the M5 and M6 incorporating the advances that are in the M50 (CR3 file format, etc.) because these shouldn't require too much R&D.

But lenses require a lot of R&D.  Lenses for the M line generally punch above their weight with IQ, but are also tiny, relatively inexpensive, and slow.  As is the EF-S line.  The last APS-C fixed aperture zoom lens Canon introduced was the EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS lens and that was introduced in 2006, predating the M series by six years.

I'd expect to see something like Mk II versions of the 15-45mm and 55-200mm kit lenses, because this is the way Canon does things.  There have been more versions of the EF-S 18-55mm and 55-250mm kit lenses than I can keep track of.   But no updates at all for the 2006 17-55mm f/2.8 IS lens.

I love my M bodies and lenses for what they are.  As a long time Canon owner, I know what to expect for each of their different lines.

As Larry David advised in another context, "Curb your enthusiasm."

Wayne