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Friday rant: The future of Canon RF and 3rd party lenses

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sportyaccordy Forum Pro • Posts: 20,562
Re: Friday rant: The future of Canon RF and 3rd party lenses
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JoWinter wrote:

At the risk of sounding dramatic, if it came down to a choice of only having Canon brand lenses available for my camera or not having Canon cameras available to buy, obviously I'd choose the former. To put it another way, if the camera division doesn't make enough money, it will go away. If blocking third party AF lenses is what it takes, that is an acceptable price, to me.

I hope not, but perhaps this is really where we stand at this point.

As literally every other FF MILC system shows, it's not. Canon could bring in more users and revenue by charging licenses for 3rd party glass. Adapting EF glass isn't really a substitute IMO.... the more time goes the bigger the gap will be between current and SLR glass, both in unique offerings as well as performance.

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