From an Email
The new Rebel will be launched June 23 along with a new EF-S prime. The lense will be a 30mm f/2 with an EF-S mount. Canon held off on the originally planned 500D release due to the economy and waiting to see what Nikon comes out with……… They have a couple designs of the camera ready to go.
I'm not sure if companies can afford to “wait” to see what's coming, so I'm not sure what to make of that. I'm going to CR2 this.
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An EF-S 30/2 is a smart move. I speculate it’ll be similar to the 50/1.8 – similar optical design, similar build, similar limitations (basic AF, no distance scale, MF cumbersome).
And I speculate it’ll cost less than $100. Like the 50/1.8 it’ll give newbies a taste for the clarity and speed that comes with primes. Then you run into its limitations and you end up spending more money on better gear.
Smart move.
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The main factor in compatibility is the distance from the rear element of the lens to the sensor. Basically, a short-distance lens can work with a longer distance mount by simply adding a simple spacer, while the opposite is impossible without the addition of complicated optics. Given that removing a mirror-box will allow for an extremely short lens-to-sensor distance (which is the whole point) it should be simple enough to make a cheap adapter to utilize EF and EF-S lenses (whether they keep the electronics compatible is another matter, but there’s no reason why they have to change it.)
Lost what? Have you seen how many people are complaining in Nikon forums?