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

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Bender79ita
Bender79ita Senior Member • Posts: 1,942
Re: Why we might never see Canon’s APS-C primes
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Foskito wrote:

There are 3 APSc cameras already and ZERO RF-s prime lenses or interesting zooms like the M 11-22mm. No even a roadmap to speculate.

My take is Canon does not want to create competition or risk its full-frame share.

If they produce f1.4 compact and affordable APS-c lenses, why upgrade? They had great M-mount lenses because there was no full-frame M market to risk.

They know R7 users are happy with full-frame lenses so R10 and R50 bodies are just a way to get people into the Canon ecosystem, maybe some will upgrade to full-frame, or simply keep those “Best Buy” kits for their Disney family holidays.

I believe is the exact same thinking as Nikon with their Z50, I wonder what do you think?

I feel like FF camera manufacturers have a big "badlands" between low end user town and high end user town.

Their phisolophy is giving you good cameras that work well but if you want larger aperture lenses (specially zooms) you need to spend alot of money (I have no doubt that a wide angle RFs will come btw).

This is less perceived on Sony FF because of great and cheap third party lenses, but higher end Sony lenses are not cheap. Sony's higher end is not cheap for APS-C aswell.

But at least on Sony APS-C you have a billion options, also thanks to third party; three standards f2.8 zooms, 10 or so primes f1.8 or faster, I mean... 11,13,15 and 16 all super sharp and faster than f2, for wide angles only. But for some reason they update the bodies once every 4 years or so, and not massive updates either (so far), almost... firmware updates.

This picture shows why APS-C specific designs are important, that's a micro four thirds on the right:

I think that if the price barrier in upgrading lenses wasn't so massive, people might get more engaged with the concept of changing lenses and "hooked" on camera gear developing GAS 

I don't think that Canon wants to protect the full frame segment specifically, it's simply that most camera manufacturers don't offer much in terms of "middle of the road" solutions when it comes to lenses, it's either cheap-ish, or it's pro.

And it's in that middle of the road that third party makers thrive, offering products that are 80% as good as brand's higher end and often around half of the price. Then they have their own special top designs like the Tamron 35-150 f2-2.8 but they are rare.

Somebody said Canon did not have f2.8 zooms for EF-S...? I remember Tamron's 17-50, Sigma 17-50 and their own 17-55, for EF-S.

I totally could have been a customer for the Canon R7, because I hated the Sony APS-C bodies, and I like how Canikon APS-C handles, but without lenses... it wasn't possible. FF Canikon, neither.

I'm not the person to spend 2k or so on each zoom, I find Tamron/Samyang options to be good enough, so I went Sony FF, but only because Canikon didn't give me any option.

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Sony RX100 III Sony a7 IV Tamron 17-28mm F2.8 Di III RXD Tamron 28-200mm F2.8-5.6 Samyang AF 45mm F1.8 FE +1 more
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