Third-party lens companies have to pitch each lens individually.
Obviously, the issue with the lens mount isn’t manual focus lenses — those are quite abundant — but rather those that support autofocus. To date, Canon has not allowed any manufacturer to produce a lens for RF that features autofocus but the company likes to muddy the waters of that conversation with the reference to Cosina.
“Now if we receive a request from a third-party lens company to open the mount, we will study whether to license it according to Canon’s own business planning and strategy. In fact, we are now communicating with several third-party lens companies in this regard,” the executive says, machine translated.
Kohei also dismisses the argument that Canon is holding off on third-party options until it completes its lens lineup, saying that the discussion of third-party lenses and its own plans are evaluated separately. The Canon executive goes on to say that the company has been working very hard since 2018 to aggressively expand the RF lens lineup to now 37 total optics.
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