neuroanatomist said:
Damn you and your logic. If only for bringing a reasoned argument to what should be a mine is bigger than / smaller than yours debate, I hope Canon
never gives you your 50/1.4 IS USM.
Just curious what a tiny lineup might look like if Canon went all-in there, see below on what I could cobble together at Compact Camera Meter. It's pretty damn tiny.
Left to right (I'd put in more FF pancakes but the site doesn't have that many, and I didn't want to get called out for E-Mount glass instead of FE-mount):
A7III + 24 f/2.8
A7III + 35 f/2.8
A7III + 50 f/1.8 (surely a slower pancake would be an option as well)
A7III + 28-70 f/3.5-5.6
5D4 + 24-70 f/4L IS (for scale)
And I think a 24-50 f/5.6 (or even f/6.3 if not married to Canon's EF SLR focusing mandate) would be quite tiny, say EF 35 f/2 IS USM big.
So that's Platform A (perhaps throw in a slow UWA zoom, slow 85 prime and a macro) and you call it good.
You're done with new lenses with that mount -- that's all you ever get other than refreshes. Leave the exotica fast glass, FD/FX/Alpha conversion kits and other FLs/speeds that won't save you any size/weight to the third parties that are springing up every day. If you want something else from Canon, pull out the EF adaptor.
Platform B comes later, aimed squarely at the 1D/5D camp, and it packs a full EF mount.
[Wipes hands.] I think we're done here.
- A