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Are you fed up with the ever increasing cost of Canon gear?

Started Sep 10, 2021 | Polls thread
Steve W Veteran Member • Posts: 6,998
Re: Are you fed up with the ever increasing cost of Canon gear?
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The issue with EF and RF is the same in trying to support both a $800 to $7000 (EOS R1) with the same family of lenses. Without real third party partners Canon has gotten themselves stuck trying to support three tears of lens quality and only has resources for two and for money that just doesn’t cut it. And its a shrinking market on top of that.

This is not a problem Sony has. Nikon chose another approach with trying to deliver a really nice f/1.8 and f/4 family from the start. It’s actually the same approach Sony took at the start of their full frame development and with five more years of lead time it payed off and they enlisted third parties. They have at least 7-9 partners.

So Canon is mostly producing Premium+ and budget IMHO. Not what a large diverse base needs with an RP, R, R6, R5, R3 and next year an R1 maybe. Som even say they want to introduce a body below the RP.


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