Why we might never see Canon’s APS-C primes

BirdShooter7 wrote:

Canon_Guy wrote:

BirdShooter7 wrote:

Martin_99 wrote:

jumpthesnark wrote:

Maybe Canon has done marketing research on their customers and they found that most people who buy APS-C bodies and dedicated lenses tend to want less expensive zooms and not fast primes?

So customers want less choices? I really doubt it. I think, that is clear their intention to protect FF products. From some reason a lot of customers are nostalgic and still buy Canon, just because the brand. At least it's what I see in my area often.

So the only reason to buy Canon is for the third party lenses? I must be a fool as I’ve been using Canon bodies and lenses and have been very impressed with their performance.

Isn't this a nice logical fail? Your being impressed with Canon lenses has zero relation to the fact that there are same or even more impressive 3rd party lenses (like Sigmas 40/1.4 or 105/1.4 for instance).

Yep those are nice lenses no doubt but they don’t really suit my personal needs so I’m not so upset that they aren’t available in RF mount right this moment.

That is fine. But why you should be a fool for only using Canon lenses? What is the logical connection in your thought between not being fool and using 3rd oarty lenses?

If I did want to use them on my R cameras there are adapters available. I guess that logical fail was your own.

What specificaly fails logically on a fact that people are same impressed with some of the great 3rd party lenses as with Canon lenses? Please elaborate.

Canon is really involved with market segmentation of their own product range. They know who shops for an R3 vs an R5 vs an R6 Mk II vs an R8. The same goes for their APS-C bodies. Likewise, which lenses they buy - it's why they offer kit lenses with some bodies and not others. The answer to your question may very easily be they know their customers.

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