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What are your plans about the M mount situation. Poll

Started 4 months ago | Polls thread
Photato
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Re: What are your plans about the M mount situation. Poll
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Sittatunga wrote:

Photato wrote:

Assuming the discontinuation of the Canon M mount is imminent, what are your gear plans ?

I use EOS M mainly for its size and fun factor. There isn't a smaller decent camera than my M100 now that Panasonic have discontinued the GX880, and moving to micro four-thirds would be horrendously expensive given my preference for wideangle lenses. The OM Systems 9-18mm lens is 70g lighter than my 11-22mm, but effectively ⅔ of a stop slower and nearly double the price. The 7-14mm costs more than the 15-30mm RF lens for my EOS R and is effectively ⅔ to 1⅔ stops slower. Just replacing my EOS M lenses with their nearest equivalents in micro four-thirds would be the best part of the price of an EOS R6, so I shall just keep calm and carry on. I don't think Canon will be quite as keen on RF-S lenses as they were on EF-M, so it's the end of an era. It's not as if I wasn't warned eight years ago.

For a moment, I contemplated to sell all my M gear to move to RF-S assuming that Canon will eventually release the M equivalent lenses.

So I decided to wait until late October hoping for a RF-S 11-22mm lens or the 22mm. But so far nothing, no Canon official roadmap nor even rumors.

You’d think Canon would want to keep their M customers by encouraging them to migrate to RF, showing commitment by releasing at least 2 lenses but nada.

How many years I’d have to wait to have a similar M lenses collection in the RF-S mount ?!

WTH are they thinking ?

I don’t get it.

So for now, the best option for me is to keep using the M.
The only problem is wether or not to keep buying M gear knowing is a dead-end system, long term.

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Panasonic LX100 Canon EOS M Canon EOS M6 Canon EOS M6 II Canon EOS R10 +22 more
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