Re: RF-S Lenses - What We Know and What is Rumored
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Sittatunga wrote:
MikeJ9116 wrote:
EDWARD ARTISTE wrote:
55-200 has always been a starter lens. AFAIR the EFM version was a bit better than usual.
That said, good god RFS owners have the worst lens lineup imaginable. Hope your patience pays off. It didnt for EFS.
This is why I just can't move to the R system for APS-C while Canon has a ban on third party RF/RF-S mount lenses. We now have two mounts (EF-M and EF-S) that they have done the bare minimum regarding lenses. The only way we will get decent variety of RF-S, and to a lesser extent RF, lenses is through the support third party lens makers.
Since 1959 when they introduced the Canonflex, the nearest Canon have got to supporting third party* lenses was the mount adapters for Exakta, Nikon and Pentax screw lenses - even those had no provision for TTL meter coupling or diaphragm control. They didn't carry those mount adapters over to the EF mount either. Third party RF and RF-S lenses will come as soon as people work out how to make them work without infringing any patents, just as they did for EF and FD mounts, but anybody expecting exciting crop format lenses should stick to EOS M or move to Fuji.
* Apart from (in an effort in 1990 to keep the FD line going after it was eclipsed by the EOS cameras) getting Cosina to build the Canon T60 version of the Cosina CT-1 / Nikon FM10 / Olympus OM2000. But that was using a third party to build a camera to support Canon's own lenses.
Canon may not have supported third party lenses but they never actively prevented them through legal action like they are doing now. Canon's decision regarding 3rd party lenses is going to hurt them more and more the longer it stays in place. Sony is the biggest beneficiary of Canon's greed.