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

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thunder storm Forum Pro • Posts: 10,139
Re: Friday rant: The future of Canon RF and 3rd party lenses

LennyLevino wrote:

If you think about it, the reason Canon won't allow third parties is that they know their lenses aren't up to par and aren't worth their price. If they were truly confident in their products, they wouldn't care if third parties made lenses for their mount.

Very good point.

Imagine Sigma releasing their 50mm Art on the Z Mount. Nobody would buy it, because Nikon's own 50mm f1.8 is better optically while also half the price.

Very good example.

Canon is confident enough though to compete against a pretty soft yet crazy expensive manual focus f/1.0 50mm.    Maybe it's doable to track subjects faster with that one than the RF f/1.8 stm or f/1.2L? Finally, a "fast focusing" RF 50mm prime....  At the end of the day it are the photographers skills being the decisive factor, isn't it....

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