Lepewhi wrote:
I was trolling the camera store this afternoon. I found the Canon R10. Has anyone had any experience with this camera? I'd never heard of it. Thanks for any info.
This summer, Canon launched the R10 alongside the R7 as the first RF mount cameras with crop sensors. At this time, the only crop specific RF mount lenses are the 18-45mm f/4.5-6.3 and the 18-150mm f/3.5-6.3. However, there are several full frame RF mount lenses that are relatively small, light, and inexpensive that would work well on the R10 such as the 16mm f/2.8, 24m f/1.8, 35mm f/1.8, 50mm f/1.8, and 100-400mm f/5.6-8. The gaping hole in the crop RF lineup is any sort of wide angle zoom. Canon will surely launch a crop wide angle zoom for RF, but is anyone's guess as to when.
Canon EF-M and RF are not cross compatible in any way and it is impossible to adapt lenses from one to the other. By all indications, Canon is phasing out the EF-M mount and consolidating crop and full frame under the RF mount. Any future crop RF lenses beyond the two standard zooms are a complete unknown at this point. There will likely be more crop RF lenses but it is unknown what those lenses might be or when they would launch.
In general, it is a bit of a confusing time to buy into a Canon crop system. The EF-S crop DSLR lineup is clearly dead and many lenses are already discontinued. The EF-M system is a known entity, but all appearances suggest that it is also dead, just not quite as dead as the DSLRs. Crop RF definitely has a future, but the future lens lineup is a complete unknown and may never include a specific lens you might want.