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Will Sigma ever release the 18-50mm F2.8 zoom for EF-M?

Started 6 months ago | Questions thread
OP User1303423862 Senior Member • Posts: 1,070
Re: Yes, but perhaps no. Your guess is as good as mine.
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thunder storm wrote:

YehudaKatz wrote:

User1303423862 wrote:

Will Sigma ever release the 18-50mm F2.8 zoom for EF-M?
Does the Canon ban on 3rd party AF lenses for the RF mount apply to EF-M as well?
I would love to have this bright sharp standard zoom for my carry-around camera, and I really (really) don't want a SONY alpha.

The only other option would be a Leica APS-C camera in L mount, and they're not as well specced as M cameras in many ways (but nice in others).

Should I just be content with my 18-55 zoom with its competent IS and shoot higher ISO as the light falls?

The answer is no and that's not a guess. That Sigma lens needs some heavy distortion correction, for the M system this needs to be in camera distortion correction and Canon is not going to support this. So even if M wasn't a sunsetting mount it wouldn't happen.

I can only pray Sigma will give us the 18-50 F2.8, distortion and all. We can fix that in post.

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