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What do you plan to do with you M gear?

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Re: What do you plan to do with you M gear?
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thunder storm wrote:

lumenite wrote:

Canon will never port over the 32mm f/1.4 to the RF mount. Canon doesn't want a concurrent being stronger (on crop) than the RF 35mm f/1.8 IS stm in the RF line up, as such a lens will keep crop shooters from upgrading to full frame, whereas the 35mm f/1.8 IS stm makes that upgrade even more attractive.

Look, for the 11-22mm it's another story, that might happen.

But for a sigma RF-s 56mm f/1.4 it's the same story, as that one will compete too strong on crop with the RF 50mm f/1.8 stm. When Sigma brings out a lens like that for RF-s it will receive the same treatment as the Samyang RF 85mm f/1.4, Sigma knows this, so they won't even try. (Luckily my 50mm Art will do, and I've sold the ef-m 56mm f/1.4. )

Well, there's also the RF 16mm f/2.8 stm, and if you're getting the scheme you know how about the likelihood of a Sigma RF-s 16mm f/1.4. Absolute zero. The RF lens will be fine on crop, however, it's two full stops darker, so Canon is protecting a full frame RF 24mm f/2.0 here the didn't even develop yet.....

Canon reproduces those in RFS mount? And what if Canon releases a compact RFS body?

You're left with RF full frame primes, still having slow stm AF, having darker apertures and performing worse on crop than the primes available ef-m, and, it this won't be temporarily, it will stay that bad until you pay the big bucks to go full frame.

It's Canon. We've seen these games before. Canon wants to have gaps between consumer and pro lenses. And Canon hates options like the Samyang RF 85mm f/1.4, Sigma ef-m 56mm f/1.4, Sigma 50&85&105mm f/1.4 Art without AF problems. For the R6II and R5II Canon might even remove the EF AF protocol from these cameras. Canon will do everything they can to let you pay the price of the monopoly RF lenses. Nothing wrong with that, but factor in those prices when going RF mount, even if it's just RF-s for now.

+1 That’s is pretty good read on things (IMHO).  There’s no changing Canon’s stripes even with RF-S.  

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