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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.

dan the man p wrote:

That's what I thought I remembered from when I had the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 on my M50. It still doesn't change the economics of the situation, though. Canon views EF-M as a mount on life support, and Sigma likely does too. I'll eat my hat if we ever see another EF-M lens from Canon or the major third-party players like Sigma and Tamron. I'm sure they'd love to start releasing RF and RF-S lenses if Canon would let them, though.

The thing about the M series being older and heading towards obsolescance is that there's one heck of a lot of them out there. The question for Sigma, is how many are in the hands of people who would be happy to splash the cash for a bright, sharp and light 18-50 2.8 zoom.

There've certainy been plenty of complaints on this forum about the lack of one. But what about the M owning silent majority? Given that Sigma continue to offer newly made 16, 30 and 56mm primes for EF-M, and already have the tech and tooling, perhaps it's only a concern about how much sales of the primes would be affected that's stopping them releasing the 18-50.

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