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

PhotoKhan wrote:

boldcolors wrote:

PhotoKhan wrote:

Every now and then, I take a pause from using my almost magically-competent, performing and engaging Canon RF gear - an experience that almost touches perfection - and drop by threads like this one to have a good laugh.

I am always left wondering: Is it more tragic that people will never know what they could be benefiting from or that they seem so unsatisfied and frustrated with what they use that they have to start this kind on nonsensical, sad, sad "discussions"?

PK

I am glad that you enjoy your lenses and I believe many do but that was not the topic. I am looking ahead and try to figure out where we are in 5-10 years as Canon owners. Canons L-glass has always been pricy but "reachable" for many - but now the prices are just insane and I think it will just continue on that road.

Clearly it must be OK to question this if Canon is "forcing" us to only buy their glass when it is time to upgrade? This thread literally exploded so I think it's worth a discussion.

Well, people jumping on these threads every time the word "lenses" appears on their screen - that purely relates to Pavlovian considerations.

What matters is that people have:

1. The most complete (...by a large margin...) offer of a family of lenses (Canon EF), featuring AF, 100% compatible with any RF camera, with a wide, wide scope of specifications and prices...even extremely cheap, if the 2nd hand market is considered.

2. An already quite extensive range of proprietary RF AF lenses, some quite cheap and, as mentioned multiple times in this thread, a few that are unique in their price-to-perfomance ratio.

3. A huge range of 3rd party AF lenses in EF mount and, as such, also compatible with the RF series of cameras.

4. An interesting offer of 3rd party lens, with manual focus, with an RF mount.

In spite of all this, people decide to be unsatisfied, upset or even miserable because particular, very specific lenses they feel they can't live without.

They seem to deliberately enter this state of mind in spite of the vast offers other good brands have for them, in the guise and shape of full alternate systems.

...Let me tell you guys a joke I heard a long, long time ago from a Brazilian comedian named Juca Chaves, a piece of humour that, I feel, might encapsulate a lesson about this topic:

A father had 2 sons. One was an optimist, the other a pessimist.

Christmas came along and the father decided to offer the pessimist a brand new bicycle.

For the optimist, he decided on a bucket full of horse manure.

Christmas day morning, the kids jumped out of bed, ran excitedly to the living room and hastily ripped apart their presents colorful wrapping papers in eager anticipation.

Upon seeing the shinny, brand new and very cool bycicle, the pessimist son went on a rant about how that was not what he wanted, how he had to take care of it, how he would now have all his friends pestering him about getting a ride and how it would probably be stolen, anyway.

The dismayed father's attention was then caught by his optimist offspring, who was rhythmically jumping from the left foot to the right one, in a excited little dance, hands clasped together under his chin, face fully illuminated in a wide smile, eyes gleaming like a pair of lighthouses, looking at the bucket.

Then, enthusiastically turning his face to his father, he anxiously asked: "Where's my horse? Where's my horse?"

PK

Canon has a lot of different lenses.

You can get third party lenses, but old designs, adapted.
You can get manual focus lenses.
You can get great modern but expensive lenses.
You can get cheap old soft lenses.

You can't get modern, compact, light, sharp, affordable lenses with good AF, specially if you want faster apertures.

Unfortunately what they don't offer is what users actually want and what third party are offering in other mounts.
So, yes, you can look at the bucket and hope for a horse, but the reality is that you're just getting.... manure...