One of the concerns people have when purchasing used cameras is how long will Canon support the product with repairs? This is a very valid concern and Canon has updated their list of cameras and how long they will officially support them.
If you're looking for a great deal on the Canon EOS R for example, Canon will support it until November, 2029. Cameras like the EOS M5 and EOS M6 will also be supported for years to come.
Do keep in mind that this support is from Canon themselves. There will always be repair possibilities through 3rd party repair houses.
Canon Support
- EOS M3: July 2024
- EOS M5: February 2026
- EOS M6: March 2027
- EOS M6 Mark II: March 2029
- EOS M10: September 2024
- EOS M100: November 2026
- EOS M200: TBD
- EOS M200 (Gold): March 2028
- EOS KissM: November 2027
- EOS KissM II: TBD
- EOS R: November 2029
- EOS R3: TBD
- EOS R5: TBD
- EOS R6: TBD
- EOS R7: TBD
- EOS R10: TBD
- EOS Ra: January 2028
- EOS RP: TBD
- EOS RP (Gold): June 2026
You can find the support dates for pretty much every Canon camera from the last 5 years here. Canon does mention that if you don't see a camera on the list, it is no longer officially supported.
Of course, others may feel differently and may want cameras to be supported for 20 years or whatever, which is fine by me too, if Canon are willing to do it.
Has the 135 been discontinued I wonder.
So long as stocks of parts are available I do not see any labor-related reason to not service them
I'd assume that Canon sell off any remaining stocks of spares to independent repairers. It's likely that the independents still have sufficient supplies of major parts such as shutters, mirror assemblies, lens mounts etc, and that if any particular company lacks the required parts, that almost anything could be easily located - e.g. there are hordes of used 5DMkiii bodies available secondhand, and plenty of people dismantling them and selling the parts for more money than the intact camera would have fetched.
The 24-70 2.8 II and the EF-S 24 STM are still TBD, so nothing to worry about for now; but in 3 years I'll start thinking about getting rid of the 70-200, just for safety. And, if in three years Canon would find an agreement with Tamron, and we'll have the 35-150 f2-2.8 available, I would gladly get rid of both 24-70 and 70-200 at the same time, so my DSLR lens line-up will start to slowly migrate towards native RF.
Canon EOS 5D Mark III Internal Battery Replacement
(A bit of water damage in the body pictures in the link above?)
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Sadly, the M6MkII\'s \'internal\' battery is apparently not easy to get to...
Hello Canon.
Every time I turn on my M6 it displays the date / time settings: Canon EOS M Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review
...and hello dpreview?!
That makes it hard to gauge if something was actually wrong with the mainboard, as in bad parts, bad design, manufacturing defects or a software bug that the tech can’t fix.
Having said that, using micro-hdmi is a bad decision when it comes to robustness and to make it worse, it’s on the mainboard, not on an easily serviceable daughterboard. So it’s not just a matter of inferior parts, bad design is also a big factor.
5Ds R was released in 2015 and scheduled to end 2027... another body that will be supported for a dozen years.
A dozen years of guaranteed parts availability is pretty good. If the bodies are that durable whatever parts on hand can last 3-5 more years?
Nearly 2 decades of parts and service is pretty good.
At 2 decades old... wouldnt you want to buy a RF body?