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What do you plan to do with you M gear?

Started 9 months ago | Polls thread
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Re: What do you plan to do with you M gear?
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thunder storm wrote:

pyla wrote:

thunder storm wrote:

I use my M6II with the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 Art, 50mm f/1.4 Art, 70-200mm f/2.8 Sports, 100-400mm Contemporary...... and also with the 32mm f/1.4, and some filming with the 11-22mm.

One can still use the first four lenses on an RF-S camera with adaptor.

I'm aware of that fact. But

The problem with the R7: with kit lens it will be 2000 euro, whereas my M6II was 850 euro kitlens and viewfinder included. The M6II can be paired with the 32mm and 11-22mm. For the R7 these lenses don't exist.

The M6II should be compared to the R10, not the R7.

Why? I'm not willing to go down from 32Mp, and the EF lenses I use with the M6II can handle 32Mp. DR of the M6II is pretty good, not sure if the R10 will match it. I think the R7 will be comparable to the M6II for IQ, the R10 won't.

Having the 18-35mm Art I could go by without the 11-22mm, but there's no fun in shooting crop cameras without that 32mm f/1.4.

Where I live they are roughly the same price (976 Euros vs 1099 Euros (adaptor included) body only. If you find the M6II more attractive than the R10 that is another story.

I believe that Canon will not kill off the M-system, but they will let it die off by making the R-system more attractive. IMO, it is only a matter of time before they release an R50 (an entry level camera) and an RF-S 32 1.4 and an 11-22.

The problem is the RF 35mm f/1.8 IS stm is one of the very few compact, relatively affordable, full frame lenses to lure in customers coming from crop into full frame. A 32mm isn't gonna help with that strategy, as that lens will blow the full frame lens out of the water on a crop sensor. Killing M is basically killing the 32mm, bringing us back to the middle ages where Canon only gave the option for a budget 50mm or a crazy expensive f/1.2 L. The nasty 50mm gap is back again. RIP 32mm. We will remember you as the only Canon compact and affordable yet well performing 50mm field of view lens......

this is exactly right

and the reason I bought an m6II with 32 is because canon would never make an affordable 50 fov sharp wide open lens that was sharp across the frame - you had to stop down to f2.8

With m, canon never had to worry about taking away from their FF objectives.  Releasing an RF 32 f1.4 s would be an issue for them

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