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Will Canon allow EF lenses to work on future RF bodies?

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Canon_Guy
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Re: Will Canon allow EF lenses to work on future RF bodies?
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Steve Balcombe wrote:

Arthur Stanley Jefferson wrote:

Just a thought, could Canon slowly phase out the compatibility of EF lenses on future RF bodies….to increase new sales revenue from RF lenses?

They could, because the EF-RF adapter is just a dumb adapter - all the protocol conversion is done by the camera, which knows how to communicate with an EF lens. It would clearly be possible to remove this feature. It wouldn't even have to be a future body - it could be done with a firmware update.

But whether they would is a different question. I think it would be the final straw for many people, who are already frustrated that Sigma, Tamron and others are locked out by Canon's closed system.

Sigma, Tamron and others are not locked out from Canon. They work flawlessly or R cameras via adapter.

And to the topic: shutting down EF lenses from R cameras is very unlikely due to really huge penetration of EF lenses to R systems. That is baused also by a lack of RF equivalents to many important EF lenses (Canon and 3rd party).

If I was locked out of my EF 100L Macro, for example, that would be the last time I ever used a Canon body.

I would do the same if I could not use my EF lenses to which RF has no equivalent.

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