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Canon is dead to me after they forced 3rd parties to stop all RF lenses. I bought the last AF lens by Viltrox and it's fantastic. I regret getting an RF body after they threatened them, and now only allow 3rd parties on their crop sensor bodies. Fuji, Sony, Leica, Nikon, all allow 3rd party lenses. I switched to Fuji and won't go back.

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I'm feeling a little bit of buyer's remorse for that same reason. I love my Canon, but having a closed loop lens system is not ideal and is insanely pricey. All of the "adapters" that allow you to use 3rd party lenses suck.

It is a little sad honestly how Canon has now been surpassed by Sony in both sensor technology and lens optical quality and yet they double down on forcing people to use their expensive lenses. I miss the old days when EF mount was the lingua franca of autofocus mounts with a thriving ecosystem of lenses from Sigma, Tamron, and the like. Even now some of the Sigma Art lenses for SLR mounts, like the 40mm and 105mm f/1.4, are peerless in terms of image quality.

Yes, Sigma ART lenses are insane for that price. Also, they look very elegant compare to plastic Canon lenses.

I was hoping for the new Sigma BF camera, simple and elegant. Unfortunately no Bluetooth, which is a deal breaker for me.

I recently purchased my first non-Canon lens for my Canon 5D, a Sigma 105mm f1.4 Art with EF mount. I bought it specifically for bokehrama (Brenizer method) work—mostly car stuff. It’s comically big and heavy and I have read of people having lens failures but, oh wow, it makes beautiful images at a focal length I love.

Well, they had some very bad financial years behind them. They will let third parties, but it will take time to recuperate losses.

Also not pleased that third party lens vendors were excluded. However the way I look at this is perhaps we would have no Canon cameras at all if the revenue they derive from lenses had not been captured.

They just slightly prolonged their death spiral. Lots of very negative press and potential buyers going to their competition now

Wait, did they reverse their stance on this again? I thought they had finally started to open the mount up to 3rd parties. Really disappointing to hear that this is not actually the case.

Only for their crop bodies, not full frame. Which basically means it's still locked.

I'm in the same boat. I wouldn't be as upset if the Canon range was uniformly excellent. But every one of their RF ultra-wide zooms suffers from softness or extreme vignetting. I sent back a $2200 RF 15-35mm, and for landscapes I now just use my iPhone Pro.

They weren't dead to me immediately just because there are still third party RF lenses that rock, but when Sirui did the AF anamorphic lenses and I couldn't get one for my Canon then it really bummed me out. :/

Exactly why I just bought a Nikon.

Nikon aren't doing much better on letting third-party lenses into the ecosystem, sadly - speaking as someone with three Nikon DSLRs and Sigma glass I'm very happy with.

Wait, what? That’s horrific! I love my range of lenses for my long-suffering 5d3. I wouldn’t have bought it if the only options were the canon lenses. How disappointing to hear.

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