ahsanford said:neuroanatomist said:Except that the target markers for entry-level Canon APS-C MILCs and any forthcoming Canon FF MILCs are really not very overlapping – the former is mainly those new to ILCs, the latter is mainly those with APS-C dSLRs, and the largest market segment of APS-C dSLR owners will have at least one EF-S lens.
Fair, sure -- and Hector's point is not incorrect (I agree with him but perhaps not the rationale). EF is a monster to leave. There's no denying that.
But with EOS M, Canon still saw that making things smaller with a new mount was worth the trouble.
...for a very large pool of consumers.
...that are buying their first ILC.
...and "time and trouble" was only to make a handful of regularly bought/sold EF-S lenses (5-7 or so?).
Those ellipses above are fundamentally different for FF. That's why I think it's anyone's guess on the mount. For any good argument you can make about how difficult EF will be to leave and re-engineer in a thinner mount, some of us can us just fold our arms and say 'it really is all about the perception of being smaller' and say that Canon will go thin and do the work if they think they must.
I remain undecided. EF would delight me, but I would not be stunned one bit if Canon went thin.
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If Canon puts out a fullframe "Super M" with a new EF-X mount, it is going to have to compete with the existing smaller, lighter and cheaper M models that are pretty good cameras, and also with the EF DSLR's. Some people have convinced themselves that there is a huge market for a "Super M" camera with an EF-X mount, but I doubt that the market is robust enough for Canon to go that route for its first fullframe mirrorless camera. An EF-X camera would be need to shoulder its way in between the EF strategy and the EF-M strategy. It would need a new line of EF-X lenses that might well be unadaptable to anything either EF or EF-M cameras.
Maybe down the road Canon might come up with a small "Super M" fullframe camera using the EF-M mount or possibly some new "EF-X" mount, but I don't think that is where they will start.
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