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

Bender79ita wrote:

BirdShooter7 wrote:

Martin_99 wrote:

There is no reason to be offended. I'm just describing my experience. I see the question relatively often online. Eg. "Should I buy R7 or R10?" Did you consider other brands like Fuji or Sony? "Not interested, I'm used to Canon" or something like that.

You seem to imply that the R7 and R10 aren’t good products that are worth considering. I’m sure Fuji and Sony are fine products but the Canon stuff definitely is good stuff, don’t be fooled.

What he means is simply that other than kit lenses or primes for FF there isn't much to grow into, if they want a versatile solution that can cover wide indoors and do some decent portraiture, without ever changing lenses. Entry level users do not "generally" like to change lenses.

Non-birders might want an f2.8 zoom because they're practical to use. I had one on my Nikon APS-C (and FF) cameras, I had one on my Sony APS-C cameras, now I have the Tamron 28-200 because it's just that good, but the principle is the same.

A lens that is fast enough for indoors, wide enough for landscape, and long enough for portraits has a very strong appeal. That's your usual 17-55 f2.8 or so.

I hope Canon will provide it, because the current APS-C bodies really do deserve it, and with a mount so large, some very good design is possible.

I hope that everyone gets the lens they really want and Canon might very well produce a f/2.8 zoom.  RF-s has only been around for less than a year, I’d imagine that there will be more RF-s lenses coming soon and that it’s a little early to conclude that a RF-s f/2.8 zoom will never come.  Of course, if you can’t wait, there are other options on the market, many of them are quite capable.