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

Started May 16, 2019 | Polls thread
quiquae Senior Member • Posts: 2,265
Re: Would you want an APS-C camera with an RF mount?
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Dave Seeley wrote:

No.... that'd be silly.... why take the crop and speed hit of aps-c, when you can shoot an R or RP, and only slightly larger than the m5. Now I'd LOVE an M camera that is FF.

Why? For the same reason people chose to buy 7D mark II over 5D mark III or 1D X, of course. 1.6x reach, pixel density benefits over cropping from full frame, and cost. On mirrorless, you can also add battery life to the list (smaller sensors need less power).

I confidently predict, without a shred of material evidence, that an RF high end APS-C body (say “RF-S”) is coming in a year or two. Probably not any less than that, because Canon is clearly too busy to be working on an RF-S kit lens right now.

What about EF-M, you say? Even if the next EOS M is so beastly awesome that it makes a Nikon D500 look like a Fisher-Price toy, it won’t cut it as a 7D mark II replacement because future big whites are going to be RF lenses, and EF-M is never going to be compatible with them. Ergo, a beastly awesome EOS M is never gonna happen.

There is a rumor that the M5 successor will move upmarket, which means a solid mid-range, 80D-ish camera; that’s plausible, and I’d be in line for one, but that is as high-end as the line is ever going to go.

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