I don't like the idea! There is no way to achieve the M line form-factor with the RF mount! This will be giving up against Fuji APSC line.
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Dimension of RP: 5.2"X3.3"X2.8", Dimension of M5: 4.6"X3.5"X2.4". The RP actually is not as tall as the M5. The thicker dimension is due to the bigger grip.I don't like the idea! There is no way to achieve the M line form-factor with the RF mount! This will be giving up against Fuji APSC line.
Dimension of RP: 5.2"X3.3"X2.8", Dimension of M5: 4.6"X3.5"X2.4". The RP actually is not as tall as the M5. The thicker dimension is due to the bigger grip.
It was not meant like that. But if you go to a different system, it becomes more expensive. This is exactly the money that the Canon "saves"The M system has never been about users who spend "thousands" on cameras and lenses.
The decisive factor is not the body, but the lenses, their size and weightDimension of RP: 5.2"X3.3"X2.8", Dimension of M5: 4.6"X3.5"X2.4". The RP actually is not as tall as the M5. The thicker dimension is due to the bigger grip.
It is a well know fact that the RF lenses are MUCH bigger and a lot more expensive than the EF-M. No need to keep on mentioning it.The decisive factor is not the body, but the lenses, their size and weight
It is a well know fact that the RF lenses are MUCH bigger and a lot more expensive than the EF-M. No need to keep on mentioning it.
The RF50 f/1.8 is a step in the right direction, it's half the price of the EF-M 32mm f/1.4 and roughly the same size. Not so much with the RF35 and EF-M 22mm.
In the end, on a new low-volume market, makers are looking for high-marging segments. EF-M can't be high margin. Like EF-S before it. And that's surely why it see no much love from Canon.The whole point for the good EF-M lenses is bang for bucks, with compactness on top. To my knowledge, there is no equivalent in the market
This is a big reason that I think the L-mount alliance was bad for Panasonic.It doesn't work that way. Sigma has the ability to leverage a line across multiple mounts, so they have an inherent volume advantage over camera brands. Sigma can make one lens for Sony, Canon and M43 but each of those brands are restricted to their systems.
If anything this 1st party body + 3rd party lens relationship is the only way EF-M will continue to get lens development, which is fine by me. Sigma makes great glass.
I would really like Canon to combine M6II and M50 to make the perfect pocket camera.Now compare it to the M1, M2, M10, M100 and M200. That's the formfactor which started me on the M system. I feel that while my M6II is small, it isn't small enough. During summer I put the M1+22mm in a coat pocket when going out, the M6II is too bulky for that. Right now in winter that isn't an issue, I think the chest pocket in my parka could fit an R5+50mm STM
If they could somehow come up with a way to make existing M lenses compatible with a future RF crop body all of the M users would have an option to upgrade without losing there portable lenses and possibly changing brands. I know the M mount is 2mm less depth then RF but would it actually be impossible to make an adapter? I understand that this adapter would have to go 2mm inside the RF mount but maybe there is another way? Even if this adapter only maintained compatibility with RF crop sensor bodys that would be ok.
Panasonic kind of had no choice. Outside of the GH series they don't have much to look forward to with M43. And if their FF system were on a solo mount it would be stillborn. I don't think it's all bad. The S5 looks pretty interesting.This is a big reason that I think the L-mount alliance was bad for Panasonic.
I never really saw the point of partnering up with a lens manufacturer who is going to end up making the same lenses for every other mount.
If this is a "win" for Canon, that's only in a pyrrhic sense.It might be a win for Canon to reduce the complexity of its manufacturing but it is not a win for consumers.
You are only looking at the body. That's only the tail. How about the lenses?Dimension of RP: 5.2"X3.3"X2.8", Dimension of M5: 4.6"X3.5"X2.4". The RP actually is not as tall as the M5. The thicker dimension is due to the bigger grip.