28MP would be in line with the R5's sensor.
An APS-C sized crop of the R5's 45MP sensor yields 17.6MP.
Megapixels are areal, not linear.
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28MP would be in line with the R5's sensor.
I kind of wonder what this means for EF APS-C. I figured Canon would continue that because it draws a lot of customers, but if APS-C on RF mount or in R body style becomes a thing, maybe Canon is considering a larger pivot to mirrorless. The EF-M transition pathway to RF is obviously much more clunky than EF-S to EF was, so there is reason to consider that path.
There's no need for a new mount, but an RF to M adapter would be cool.
Is there any reason that a RF lens couldn't work on an M body if there was an appropriate adapter?
...and it's a means to downsize/obsolete EF-S and EF-M someday if Canon should ever want to. Then everyone would be under one roof in RF -- without the painful 'migrating to FF means you can't use your crop lenses anymore' problem.
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If it's going to replace the 7DII (which means it needs to have a more weather-sealed body than the R6), it's not going to cost less than $2199.Probably $1200 or less.
I think Canon may take a page from Nikon's book on crop and just make an RF mount crop platform -- lenses and APS-C R mount bodies -- to (eventually) get out of EF-S.
The low end of that line would need to be really cheap to replace what the entry Rebel line does for the business financially.
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The $64,000 question: will they follow suit with Nikon and Sony and make smaller/lighter/cheaper APS-C sized RF lenses to go with it?
If they don't, it's Canon's way of saying 'FINE. Here's your damn 7D3, you guys never stop asking for it!' but birders/wildlifers lose their mirrors.
If they do, yowza -- it would mark the beginning of the end for both EF-M *and EF-S* mount bodies.
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lmao anything with r5 body and weather sealing would be r5 priced.
If it's going to replace the 7DII (which means it needs to have a more weather-sealed body than the R6), it's not going to cost less than $2199.
I guess there could be an APS-C R7 in the pipeline and may be even R 10D 20D etc plus some new RF-S lenses.
I am looking forward to some new EOS M bodies too, that would give us lots to chat about on here but if all this is to come I think that might be the final nail in the coffin for the EOS DSLR line-up though, which some people might miss.
Entry level Rebel did a lot for Canon when people were buying ILCs like crazy. But as total ILC numbers continue to drop, the lion's share of the erosion is in the entry level APS-C product space. Canon can no longer rely on those buyers to keep them profitable, because those buyers are becoming fewer and fewer each year.
Those buyers who bought Rebels by the truckloads between 2003-2012 are the people who have been, gradually over the last few years, no longer seeing a need for any camera beyond the one inside their smartphones. They're the same folks who decided they no longer needed cable television if they have decent Broadband, because streaming is good enough for them. They're the same folks who, before that, decided they no longer needed a landline telephone once they all had cell phones.
Crop SLRs still make Canon a ton of money, don't they?
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Not possible, both because of the flange distance and the different protocols for RF and M lenses.
Theoretically possible to build something where the whole mount assembly can be replaced with either an RF or M version, but I'd be concerned what tolerances would be needed to make it work (perhaps not so much if the sensor has IBIS) and how it would be strong enough to support the lens weight and the weather sealing.
I would welcome an option of lighter, cheaper APSC cameras/lenses. Just like we used to have earlier with EF lenses and cameras.I don't think Canon is worried about providing anyone a path for "migrating" from APS-C to FF any more.
Instead, they seem to be headed towards making FF cheap enough to begin with that those seriously interested in using their cameras for anything more than casual snapshots or as a very compact travel option can start with FF in the RF mount.
Could you please educate me on this with relevant figures? Thank you.Less and less every year. That's the segment that has been hemorrhaging sales the most as ILC camera sales number plummet.
I don't see how Canon can replace all those Rebels they sell at Costco without RF-S bodies. I suppose they could greatly expand the M line, but that doesn't offer much of an upgrade path to RF, which seems like it'd be a critical goal. The nice thing here is that RF-S bodies in this case would pair well with the higher res R bodies going forward since they'd actually be able to mount -S lenses, unlike with EF-S
Personally, I think this will be an RF mount camera. Since it will be “high end” there will be no need or demand for cheap RF-s lenses. This is for the birders. I assume they will use their EF super-tele lenses and future RF super-tele lenses.
So. Another thing about an APS-C EOS R model. How much do you think it's going to cost?
If it's going to replace the 7DII (which means it needs to have a more weather-sealed body than the R6), it's not going to cost less than $2199.