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Future of Canon M Series - Invest or Sell?

Started Feb 27, 2021 | Discussions thread
foot Veteran Member • Posts: 4,802
If it's a hobby you enjoy, then it deserves "hobby money", not investment money

ahodder wrote:

Last year I managed to pick up a bargain M100 along with the standard zoom lenses. I'm enjoying using the camera enough that I'm planning to sell my 70D and start saving towards a FF mirrorless setup. At the minute I'm mostly using adapted EF-S glass with the camera and although it adds bulk I'm happy enough with it.

Seeing the suggested roadmap forward for Canon lenses, I'm concerned about the support of the M series moving forward. Obviously the focus is on the RF system.

Is it worth investing in more M glass? Should I be steering clear and trying to sell my M lenses before they lose value - if they will?

Thanks

If it's a hobby you enjoy, then it deserves "hobby money", not investment money.

How much money you can sell your used gear for depends on how many motivated buyers vs motivated sellers there are.

Coming from Minolta 5D/7D mount, then Pentax mount, then Samsung mount, I've seen the following:

when a mount is first discontinued, the prices fall

after a bit, the prices go back up

Minolta had some very nice high-end glass, and with an adapter you could use it on the Sony cameras

Samsung, while a very nice camera (the NX500 is still completive), didn't have a large inventory of lenses. So the die-hard NX fans didn't have a large pool of used NX lenses to buy from, so the prices went up. Not spectacularly high either.

What will happen to canon M-mount lenses used prices?

Will people want to use them with an adapter for the R-series? probably not. There are tons and tons of used aps-c canon mount lenses which would just as well, or better

And smartphone's are coming for the aps-c market. Heck, it's already here.

Look at how much smartphone you can buy, vs the price of entry-level aps kit

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