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Canon bans Viltrox lens

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
bodeswell Senior Member • Posts: 1,378
Re: Canon bans Viltrox lens

Igor Sotelo wrote

Sigma with their Art series made Canon lose a lot of revenue in their EF system. They aren’t probably worried about Viltrox, but about Zeiss, Sigma, Tamron and Voigtlander, that can significantly hurt the sales of Canon RF lenses.

I think this will reduce Canon body sales, for people that could afford the body, but not also the exorbitant price of high quality Canon RF lenses

Canon has always made a range of bodies as well as a range of lenses, and with RF the are making affordable high quality lenses at price points they previously didn’t occupy. In short, they are competing. Seems to be working so far, even if some folks get all teary eyed about Sigma primes.

Sony opted to open their FE system to third party manufacturers, so those manufacturers AF works at the same level as native lenses. It doesn’t seem to have significantly hurt Sony’s sales, the company is confident they can make better lenses to justify the premium. And it helped Sony gain momentum when their lens catalog was reduced.

Looks to some like Sony has lost momentum.

Nikon already has Voigtlander making lenses for the Z-system. Not sure if reverse engineering will be required for AF lenses, potentially reducing their performance.

I’ll bet Sigma and Tamron are pretty protective of their own intellectual property.

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