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

koenkooi wrote:

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.

With the original M and M2, an aperture ring on the lens that I'm holding anyway in order to focus on it and support the camera is much preferable to that PITA ring around the Q SET button.  Puerile like what they've grown up with.