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

User1303423862 wrote:

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.

For the past few years, the M series has been the best selling ILC worldwide. For the countries/vendors that publish breakdowns, the dual lens kit was the most popular. This seems to indicate that when upgrading to a newer body, they buy a a kit again. I don't think that group will buy additional lenses, let alone 3rd party ones.

Having said that, I do wish we'd see more 3rd party EF-M lenses with electronic aperture control. I don't mind manual focus, but I do mind manual only aperture changing.