Interview with Canon
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Re: Interview with Canon
RDKirk wrote:
Gam3r01 wrote:
A side note that I have yet to see answered, how long did it take from the introduction of the EF mount for third party AF lenses to appear?
The very first appearance of compatible lenses was relatively quickly, within five years.
But reliable compatibility didn't come for more than 10 years. Canon EF lenses had significant capabilities that were not apparent until the bodies that exploited them came out.
For instance, Canon lens motors were always extremely efficient electrically, using far less power than the bodies provided. That wasn't noticed and wasn't copied, until Canon downsized the amount of power provided to the lenses (more efficient bodies drawing less power to last longer on a battery). That caused a number of the 3rd party lenses to choke, Sigma being prevalent among them, but it also caught my Tamron 80-200 zoom.
Reliability of 3rd party lenses was troublesome enough that through the 90s and early 2000s, Canon was constantly accused of "changing the EF protocol" to shut out the 3rd party manufacturers. Clearly, however, they had not; the oldest EF lenses worked perfectly with the newest EF-mount cameras.
Until around 2008 lenses from third party makers were definitely substandard in my opinion. This multi vendor transition was over 20 years after after the introduction of the EF mount. The situation remarkably different today. Third party lenses can sharper, better as well as cheaper than the EF equivalents. My 50, 85 and 135 Sigma Art lenses in EF mount are excellent examples. They are much and heavier but low in price than the Canon equivalent focal length products. There are tradeoffs in pros and cons of each but it a marketplace that is much more competitive. As long as Canon has RF lenses that are better than the competition in meeting my preferences I still prefer the Canon so far. I wish Canon would be quicker in getting more lens options into the market. RF-S choices in particular very limited. I have to use adapted EF lenses due to these shortages. These adapted lenses are bigger and weigh more than RF-S lenses would.
Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM
Canon G5 X II
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