Sigma: No plans to release RF full-frame lenses yet

SNJ Ops said:

Sigma’s APSC lenses that were announced for RF are the same optical design found on E, X and Z mount.

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Designing different lenses from one type for different mounts would be an economical suicide, I guess.

justaCanonuser said:

I agree, spending most money for good lenses over camera bodies is the smarter approach today. Times in which you bought an expensive camera once for your whole life, be it a Leica ore Nikon, are over since decades.

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This is absolutely correct!
Bodies grow "obsolete" or unrepairable after a few years, lenses last much longer.
I know my Leica digitals will be dead much earlier than the lenses, some of them are from the fifties. Even older FD /FL lenses can still be used on EOS R cameras. Of course, modern lenses are also based on electronics, but if you buy high quality, you can use them for a very long time. I don't see why I should replace my EF 135 L, even though the new one may be better. It still is good enough for 45 MP sensors.

justaCanonuser said:

I agree, spending most money for good lenses over camera bodies is the smarter approach today. Times in which you bought an expensive camera once for your whole life, be it a Leica ore Nikon, are over since decades.

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Hopefully my R5 will last until the R5iii comes out... it still has 1 year of warranty left of the Canon Australia 5 year warranty period.

Even if it fails, I will get another R5 second hand to fit my underwater housing as I imagine the R5ii won't align with the controls. It will be expensive change when a new body and associated housing are bought together. Current R5 housing is USD1700 for my Ikelite system but "Pros" use Nauticam which are USD4800 just for the housing. The other bits can be reused though.

My L glass should last a lot longer although migrating from EF to RF lenses has been a pleasant (if expensive) experience. I am sure that the buyers of my used EF lenses are still happy with them.

David - Sydney said:

Hopefully my R5 will last until the R5iii comes out... it still has 1 year of warranty left of the Canon Australia 5 year warranty period.

Even if it fails, I will get another R5 second hand to fit my underwater housing as I imagine the R5ii won't align with the controls. It will be expensive change when a new body and associated housing are bought together. Current R5 housing is USD1700 for my Ikelite system but "Pros" use Nauticam which are USD4800 just for the housing. The other bits can be reused though.

My L glass should last a lot longer although migrating from EF to RF lenses has been a pleasant (if expensive) experience. I am sure that the buyers of my used EF lenses are still happy with them.

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In the second half of the 2000s, digital ILC developed fast, but after about 2012 (for Canon) were really good cameras available for photography - video still progressed quickly (driven by Sony after Canon's groundbreaking 5D2 defining a whole new field of videography). I kept my 5D3 for nearly 10 years and traded it in for my 5D4 only because it had about 250.000 shutter actuations (still working flawlessly) and Canon offered a huge discount. The 5D4 was of course a better camera in many respects, but that was just an evolutionary step, not a disruptive anymore. I think, today it's the same with the video implementations in such multi purpose ILCs. It is so good even for dedicated videographers in actual ML cameras that you can use such a camera for many years again and get very good results. So, I think it is smart to omit at least one or two next generations of a certain camera and better invest the money in lens upgrades.

That said, I will keep my most used L glass lenses, too, I think, because they work so well on the EF-RF adapter. Plus, I sometimes prefer character over perfection of certain lenses, e.g. I like my EF 85mm f/1.2 with all its optical flaws. Technically, the RF version surely is a much better lens.