No, they made it clear that there would never be an RF-S mount.
They've also stated publicly there will not be any APS-C only RF lenses.
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No, they made it clear that there would never be an RF-S mount.
You have to keep repeating it until pigs fly, or until enough people are saying if for Canon to listen. The former will probably happen first.
Michael, you made that same statement in April in a different thread, and I showed you ample evidence to the contrary there:
Canon officially discontinues a lot more EF lenses
I will never sell my EF 135/2 L. It's my "from my cold, dead hands" lens. I foolishly sold one in 2019. Bought it back in 2020. Now it’s being discontinued. I’ll never sell again... unless the coming RF 135L turns out to be better.www.canonrumors.com
The question for Canon is determine is the number of "many of us" and what you represent to Canon overall.
You can't buy a 7Dii for a long time now. Buy a few second hand 7Dii to keep you going. Or maybe a second hand 1Dxii if your budget allows but that negates the whole reach issue that seems to be paramount for you.
Perhaps your market is disappearing and it is time to look at alternatives - which I know is a hard decision to face.
I don't think that Canon has ever had "affordable" >100mm f/2.8 lenses.
I am willing to bet the people here who keep asking the same questions over and over do not work for Canon
I have never negated that a 7Diii would be useful for you. Clearly it would be as you passionately argue against any alternative.I don't know why stating the reasons the 7D Mark II made sense for me, as an R7 would also make sense, keeps being interpreted as an argument that Canon will release an R7. I've been saying for well over a year that it looks less and less likely. That doesn't negate the legitimate reasons you keep denying for why it would be useful to me.
I have shot sports in poorly lit gyms. Clearly there are challenges. I started with 5Diii then 5Div then R5. I don't have the same reach issues and can crop heavily in the case of the R5 when needed. I use 70-200/2.8 and 24-105mm/4 and shoot f4/5.6 when there are multiple fighters involved and and use ~1/200s or higher. I under expose by a stop and recover shadows in post which is much easier with 5Div/R5 when ISO3200/4000 is used.None of the same alternatives you folks keep suggesting over and over again in post after post are acceptable for shooting night field sports or in mediocrely lit gyms. I've been doing it for years. Yet you folks who apparently have never done it keep telling me that things I know won't work will work.
Australia doesn't have the same "enthusiasm" for high school or university sports compared to the US so there is no or limited freelancers comparable to the market you work in here.Changing systems is not really much of an option at this point in terms of cost vs. revenue, which is why many who do the same thing have already gotten out of it altogether and no one is shooting marching band competitions, youth games and even tournaments that used to have multiple freelancers competing for customers.
I guess that I fall into that category as I shoot many genres as my hobby and couldn't possibly provide the same income that I get from my normal job. I buy good gear and share my action shots with other in my club. Hopefully they don't look crappy. I don't do this to deliberately put people out of work but perhaps more representative of the newer customer of Canon.High school sports are being overrun with parents with deep pockets who give everything (most of which looks pretty crappy) away for free.
I didn't realise that it is still available at all!You can still buy a new 7D Mark II here in the U.S. if you're willing to buy it with a kit with a lens you don't want/need.
Don't forget that Canon changed the stock # of the 7D Mark II several years ago when they started including the WE-1 SD WiFi card with all 7D Mark II bodies. Listings with the old stock number that did not include the WE-1 have been showing "discontinued" for years.
I have shot sports in poorly lit gyms. Clearly there are challenges. I started with 5Diii then 5Div then R5. I don't have the same reach issues and can crop heavily in the case of the R5 when needed. I use 70-200/2.8 and 24-105mm/4 and shoot f4/5.6 when there are multiple fighters involved and and use ~1/200s or higher. I under expose by a stop and recover shadows in post which is much easier with 5Div/R5 when ISO3200/4000 is used.
Australia doesn't have the same "enthusiasm" for high school or university sports compared to the US so there is no or limited freelancers comparable to the market you work in here.
This is a hard decision to make but hopefully you have alternatives to earn money.
I suspect they thought most people looking for an upgrade to the 7DII would purchase a 90D. I realize you don’t think it was an upgrade, but from Canon‘s perspective I suspect it was the replacement.Perhaps, or they think most of us will cave and eventually buy a 1D X Mark III, R3, or a second R5 instead.
What is the basis for your claim of a decline in 1-series sales? Canon certainly doesn’t publish granular details on model sales, and it doesn’t seem like something they’d announce.I still think Canon's perceived loss of 1-Series sales due to the way most 7D Mark II bodies were used is what killed it, not lack of demand. The demise of photojournalism, particularly of print journalism, is what really cut the sales numbers of 1-Series bodies in the mid 2010s.
It depends on what you consider affordable, but the now apparently discontinued 200 f2.8 L was reasonably priced and an excellent lens. For shooting sports, where you need high shutter speeds and often shoot a 70-200 zoom extended to 200 99% of the time, the f2.8 200 was an excellent alternative.I don't think that Canon has ever had "affordable" >100mm f/2.8 lenses.
@ 1/200s I get slight hair blur or front kick blur which adds an element of speed. 1/320s generally freezes the action sufficiently with kumite sparring. It doesn't have fast ball movement though.I've never shot fighters (boxers?). But 1/200 (or even 1/500) is totally inadequate for basketball, much less volleyball. I tried that fairly unsuccessfully back in my Rebel XTi and 55-50/4-5.6 days.
I suspect they thought most people looking for an upgrade to the 7DII would purchase a 90D. I realize you don’t think it was an upgrade, but from Canon‘s perspective I suspect it was the replacement.
What is the basis for your claim of a decline in 1-series sales? Canon certainly doesn’t publish granular details on model sales, and it doesn’t seem like something they’d announce.
They updated the 1-series at a faster pace than the 7-series. There’s a message there.
It depends on what you consider affordable, but the now apparently discontinued 200 f2.8 L was reasonably priced and an excellent lens. For shooting sports, where you need high shutter speeds and often shoot a 70-200 zoom extended to 200 99% of the time, the f2.8 200 was an excellent alternative.
@ 1/200s I get slight hair blur or front kick blur which adds an element of speed. 1/320s generally freezes the action sufficiently with kumite sparring. It doesn't have fast ball movement though.
Don't disagree. I long ago sold my prime for the zoom. I was just pointing out that Canon has indeed offered an affordable telephoto longer than 100mm.I find the extra stop of speed the 135/2 gives, as well as the much smoother backgrounds at f/2.8 compared to the 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II at 135mm and f/2.8 much more valuable to me than the better bokeh of the 200/2.8 compared to the 70-200/2.8.
The 70-200/2.8 has too much flexibility to be ignored, and if one already has a 70-200/2.8 then the 200/2.8 isn't nearly as attractive.
I don’t. Why do you seem to believe your reasons for wanting an R7 are unclear to me?Why do you keep misinterpreting my expression of why I would personally find an R7 useful to be a declaration that Canon agrees that it would be equally useful for them to make it?
Don't disagree. I long ago sold my prime for the zoom. I was just pointing out that Canon has indeed offered an affordable telephoto longer than 100mm.
I don’t. Why do you seem to believe your reasons for wanting an R7 are unclear to me?