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Would you want an APS-C camera with an RF mount?

Started May 16, 2019 | Polls thread
a1z26 Regular Member • Posts: 163
Re: Would you want an APS-C camera with an RF mount?
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I don’t know what mount should survive or not but I think mirrorless aps-c is the best product for a “normal” person. Your average hobbyist is going to get tired of carrying around and changing expensive lenses with full frame. After two months of using the RP I find there is still a lot to like about the M5 with the 18-150 zoom or my 70D with the 18-200 or 18-135 or 17-55 aps-c zooms. (I’ve got five EF primes and two EF zooms too, by the way.) The advantages of full frame are fascinating and fun but I think it is more to bite off than most of the market can chew. I think M5 or M50 hit a really nice balance for a hobbyist. An inexpensive RP sized full frame camera with a super-high pixel dense sensor could be the consolidating product, one could make what they wanted out of it, use it as aps-c or full frame, but the RF mount might be a big drawback if the RF aps-c lenses would have to be much bigger than the M or even EF-S lenses. Interesting times in any event, having slowly resumed my photography hobby from about 2000 forward, when digital was just becoming accessible enough for normal folks to be interested. Now 19 years later the skill of the photographer is quite often the biggest limiting factor, whatever format you are using. I get a thrill in getting a nice pic with my lesser cameras because it means I am growing in the hobby. And when my wife gets off a really nice pic with her iPhone it really sends the message home-if I want to take better pics the biggest limiting factor with the biggest room for improvement is most often the guy I see in the mirror every morning, not the gear.

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