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

Started 6 months ago | Questions thread
AshleyMC Senior Member • Posts: 2,228
Re: Yes, but perhaps no. Your guess is as good as mine.
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nnowak 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.

Not as many as you might think. Canon did sell a lot of M system cameras, but I don't think the installed user base is even 10% of the Canon DSLR user base.

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.

It could be the opposite scenario. It is quite possible that low sales numbers for the primes mean there is little incentive to also release this zoom in the EF-M mount.

While the Sigma 56mm is popular with members of this forum, this forum is not really representative of the broader EF-M user base. The best-selling M50 and M50 II paired with the 15-45mm and 55-200mm represent an overwhelming majority of the M system sales. In other words, beginner/consumer versus advanced amateur/prosumer.

+1

They buy a white body with two lenses as a kit at the local supermarket and go wild with it. They don’t keep “building” a personal system with “fast” prime and zoom lenses.

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