Re: A Bit More About the New Big White Lenses That Are Coming
It is based on the assumption that when Canon goes mirrorless that they will both discontinue (eventually) mirrored cameras and that the new mount will be a much shorter distance... This assumption may not be correct.
The advantage of a smaller body is that you have a smaller body.
The disadvantages of a smaller body are less space for battery (no LP-6 compatibility), less space for controls, greatly changed balance, poor ergonomics, lesser quality optics, loss of legacy glass coupled with a need to make a whole new line of new glass, and that the general public perceives small bodies as not professional cameras, and that when you include lenses into your kit both kits are essentially the same size.... This seems like throwing away all the advantages Canon has, to compete against an established product on their terms, and risk alienating most of their current user base to do so.
Canon said it was going to be an elegant solution....Throwing out everything to start again is not an elegant solution.... an elegant solution would be to keep the existing mount and upgrading the firmware/hardware on new lenses/cameras to accept a higher speed camera/lens data pipe and more lens computing power to give better AF and IS performance..... and allow you to mount crop lenses on the FF camera. The elegant solution could also include a dock like sigma and Tamron to reprogram lenses (or use a tethered body) to adjust lens parameters......
CanonFanBoy said:YuengLinger said:There will be two FF mounts. They will exist together for a time. And then there will be one.
Time frame? No idea.
So, quite a while before "I told you so!" from either side of the question.
When? 2030? 2040? Not anytime soon unless these updates are to make a mount change on the lens easier. Pretty safe bet you made there... or maybe not.
It is based on the assumption that when Canon goes mirrorless that they will both discontinue (eventually) mirrored cameras and that the new mount will be a much shorter distance... This assumption may not be correct.
The advantage of a smaller body is that you have a smaller body.
The disadvantages of a smaller body are less space for battery (no LP-6 compatibility), less space for controls, greatly changed balance, poor ergonomics, lesser quality optics, loss of legacy glass coupled with a need to make a whole new line of new glass, and that the general public perceives small bodies as not professional cameras, and that when you include lenses into your kit both kits are essentially the same size.... This seems like throwing away all the advantages Canon has, to compete against an established product on their terms, and risk alienating most of their current user base to do so.
Canon said it was going to be an elegant solution....Throwing out everything to start again is not an elegant solution.... an elegant solution would be to keep the existing mount and upgrading the firmware/hardware on new lenses/cameras to accept a higher speed camera/lens data pipe and more lens computing power to give better AF and IS performance..... and allow you to mount crop lenses on the FF camera. The elegant solution could also include a dock like sigma and Tamron to reprogram lenses (or use a tethered body) to adjust lens parameters......
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