MyM6II wrote:
thunder storm wrote:
That said it's a shame of course Canon is killing M. Canon isn't killing it because it's not capable. Canon kills M because it's too capable for it's price. Without the killing of M the R10 and that odd 18-45mm couldn't simply survive. Canon wants you to pay more for getting less, and this is how they do it.
If that turns out to be the truth, then I am finished with Canon for good when it comes to buying new products. I agree that maybe for Canon it is too capable and a too good competitor to their stupid priced and stupid sized RF-s cameras. If they want to sell more than a few of these cameras (R10 etc), they can not have this great affordable system (M) existing at the same time. And with no new M bodies, there will be no new bodies that Sigma & Samyang etc. can make lenses for. (Maybe that is another reason for Canon.)
Canon does not want the money I have saved for buying new M bodies and/or lenses, it seems. So they will soon find its way to a different manufacturer. I can't spend more money on companies that act (or maybe I should say; don't act) like this. Sorry. No, I'm not sorry, I am angry. 🤬
Agreed. I've gone all in on M the last few years and feel like I've had the rug pulled out from under me. Fuji or Sony could probably steal a lot of customers if they released an EF-M adapter for their mounts.
If Canon released an M body with the R7 specs, I'd buy it today, and I'm sure many others would too. I'd buy the 32mm 1.4 today at its sale price if I had any confidence in the system continuing.
For photography, there's probably not a big reason to need a new body for most M users. But it would still be nice to know there is future development happening. For video, there are a lot of hugely significant features that a new body would address, and that are available for other crop systems, like IBIS, 4k/60, oversampled 4k, no 30 min recording limits, etc...