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R8 is Full Frame; R50 succeeds the M50?

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Foskito
Foskito Senior Member • Posts: 1,406
Re: Slower and slower lenses.
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Sittatunga wrote:

John Crowe wrote:

Of course this should be in the Rumours forum.

What continually mystifies me is the move to slower and slower lenses. The big advantage to mirrorless, originally touted, was the ease of making faster and lighter lenses. Now Canon is favouring slow mediocre lenses instead.

The originally (12 years ago or so) touted advantage to mirrorless was smaller and lighter lenses. Then Canon got shouted at because their 50mm and 85mm f/1.2 and 28-70mm f/2 lenses and all the other L lenses were far too big and expensive. They've obviously been listening to their customers.

I agree with John, I doubt anyone asked for maximum F5 aperture lenses... Even the lowly Sony kit zoom opens to f3.5. If I want infinite depth of field why to bother carrying a full-size camera, I rather use my iPhone.

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