It looks like Canon is discontinuing EF lenses at quite a fast pace. This time I have been told that both the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM II and Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L USM II have been discontinued.
Keep in mind, even if a lens is discontinued from production, you're still going to be able to find inventory in certain stores for a while.
I have added a page with a list of recently discontinued Canon EF lenses to the left menu. I'll keep track of every lens that Canon discontinues over the next little while.
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This lens is not even listed on Adorama anymore. Both 40mm and this lens are a surprise compared to 70-200 f/4L and 85mm f/1.2L both of which have RF equivalents.
Wow. If true that is a remarkable statement of intent that EF is fully done and dusted. I mean the writing has very clearly been on the wall but discontinuing such a new and well received lens is shifting things up a few gears. The powers that be must feel very good about how the R series has gone and confident about its future.
As someone who has sold all my EF mount cameras and gone mostly RF, I’m not best placed to complain, but I’m still a little shocked.
I thought that those workhorse zooms would stay until the end.
But it seems that Canon decided to do the big jump out of the old system.
I am not at that point - esp. the price point -, so I will stay with EF for a few years longer.
Will be interesting what cameras and lenses will last till the end.
An EOS 5D Mark V, unfortunately, doesn't make sense from a business standpoint. They want you over to the RF mount, if they produced a 5D5, that would take people away from the EOS R system for years.
(if anyone still seriously doubted that Canon was done with higher end DSLRs then I think is the proverbial writing on the wall... Stick a fork in it.)
I have always thought that there would be a 1D X Mark IV (or else) as a last pro cam. Like they did with the Canon EOS-1V in film times.
Now I am not sure about this anymore.
What gets me totally puzzeled is what they are planning for the Rebel/Kiss/xxxD/xxxxD/EF-S audience. :unsure:o_O
Esp. with the rumors that EOS M system is about to end, too.
Is that consumer market dead and lost to smartphones?
Will it continue? Will there be something else?
I still own the lightgray version I of the 70-200/4 IS L USM which I still love but I have partially converted to RF already, starting with replacing my 6D2 with the R6 and selling some EF lenses.
Now there is hope that availability will improve if Canon can improve their production rates of RF gear, and also hope that prices could drop a little because I can't / won't afford to switch from EF to RF all at once right now.
Maybe 50/1.8 as well?
Not with my own but with my fathers equipment ;)
It was clear to happen, the question was how and how fast.
The camera industry will only grow back into large numbers if the smartphones magically disappear. This could only happen if the some magic device like the "communicator" from Star Trek or if Samsung and Apple actually go through with their patents of replacing the touchscreen by the paw of ones hand and a laser project the screen on when needed... but that sounds an awful lot like sci-fi
I'm thinking that it rolls on as is until the supply chain issues resolve enough to get an R7 or whatever it ends up being out to the market. After that my guess is that the R7 will be the cropper flagship, and there will be a couple of "lesser" mirrorless models below it, and that will be it. I see the rest going away.
With the push to mirrorless and Canon announcing the discontinuation of extremely popular EF lenses, I don't see them continuing to develop and market lenses for a system that they are obviously working to make obsolete.
People all want mirrorless. I don't think most of them know why they want mirrorless aside from that's what's being pushed by the manufacturers and that"mirrorless" is the buzzword nowadays. I think the trend is going to continue and escalate and it will become harder and harder to get people to even look at anything else. The trend is here and it isn't going away.
Personally, I started with the EOS-R and recently got my R5, but I was sold on the benefits of mirrorless shortly after I took the EOS-R out of the box.
I still have my DSLRs but I don't use them as much as I used to.
I see the segment leaders as Sony and Canon. Sony couldn't care less about DSLR and Canon is either going to have to support two product lines (stupid) or go the way of Sony and put all their eggs in the mirrorless basket.