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

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sportyaccordy Forum Pro • Posts: 20,562
Re: It will be a slow decay of EF accuracy not a switch off!

Steve Balcombe wrote:

Sittatunga wrote:

And Canon don't need to degrade the performance of the RF mount to make that happen.

I agree, but this is not so much about what will happen, as about what people fear could happen due to a lack of trust in Canon.

This hits on a pet peeve of mine, which is people panicking over everything possible without accounting for what's actually possible. Canon could decide it no longer wants to be in business and decide to shut down operations tomorrow. Canon could decide 3rd party glass will help RF more than hurt it and open the mount up.

What is Canon most likely to do? This is where the ability to think critically and analyze history, incentives and general logic come into play, and where people seem to get out of their depth.

Parsing out the probability of Canon locking out EF lenses just comes down to a cost benefit analysis. What could they gain? Potentially more RF lens sales- IF suitable replacements for the bricked EF glass exists. What could they lose? Far, far more.... I sincerely doubt customers with thousands of dollars in EF glass will be happy to spend thousands more with a company that turned their lenses into fancy paperweights. There are still people angry about the transition from FD to EF nearly 40 years ago.....

That this is even a conversation speaks to the bigger issue of the RF lineup not filling in quickly or comprehensively enough........ but that's a whole other conversation. Ultimately I do agree that Canon has not done enough to engender confidence in their developmental direction for the RF system. But there are enough actual issues to not need to create and be concerned over unlikely ones like bricking EF glass.......

We've just seen the announcement of three nice-looking APS-C primes for Z mount from Sigma - lenses which R7/R10/R50 owners are unable to access. All we have from Canon is a tough attitude from their legal people.

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