What are the chances?

Ember88 wrote:

What are the chances that Canon plans to develop a future camera in the next couple years that combines the R50 and R8 into something similar to the M6 Mark II only in R mount?

Not likely; Canon tried the M6 II in lieu of an M5 II and M6 II, and it didn't sell nearly as well as the M50 Mark II. Canon isn't one to repeat a mistake.

It seems like the RS lens they are "developing" are just "reworkings" of the M mount version...and seeing how they seem to push cameras out, is this a possible scenario? If so, when do you think it will happen…2 years from now, 3 years from now…next month?

Rumor has it a wide angle and 22 prime are coming natively to RF-S this year.

Complete Tangent: I'm, personally, not too impressed by the R50 or R8. (I mean how many iterations of a similar body type can you produce...e.g. R5, R6, R6II, expected R5II, R7, R10, R50, R8...). I understand they come at different price points, but the Canon "hammer" is getting a little too ridiculous with so many bodies with only slight differences to spur the buyer into the next most expensive camera "up the ladder."

You seem to be in contradiction here; you want yet another body, but are complaining about too many? I'll level with you and say like yourself, I'm disappointed this isn't an R60, instead, Canon gave us the better selling R50.

Now, all is hardly lost here. There is good reason the M50 II and kit lenses sold... Fun, cost effective and good image quality. With the kit lenses at that.

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Also, the R paired with a small-lens is almost "just right", like DPR I found the RP to be a more desirable form factor, but, the RP a bit underwhelming. Hence I rocked the R for some time, with a RF 35. I did the 24-240 for a time but found it to be too unwieldy. Now Canon's fixed both by giving an RP form factor, with 6FPS, better AF, ADC sensor, full width 4k and then some... And, a compact kit lens (finally).

Now imagine, smaller. More powerful, and a zoom instead of a prime...

Make no mistake, FF has more "punch" but the R8 proves you need not have it big huge, expensive, to have punch. I always wished the M system had a little more oomph, like the R. Now the R system is smaller, and has more oomph. Just wish we had a more compact telephoto option. RF100-400 is not by any means small. I suppose that's what the R50 and RF 55-210 is for, but I think Canon can do better. They should revive the EF 70-300 DO, update it for 2nd gen DO (fixes gripes of poor contrast) and slap RF mount on it and slow the aperture a bit to reduce the width and bulk. Expensive, but I’d pay up. And it’d be full frame.