I'm trying to understand you here but I don't!the bit about getting Leica users (of which I am one) into Canon that isn’t going to happen at all because the rangefinder offers a different shooting experience to the SLR that mirrorless offers
I shot an M6 with the 35/1.4 ASPH and the 75/1.4. (Actually two M6TTL's, .58 and .85, though I never actually used batteries or the meter.)
How is the shooting experience different with a Leica than a mirrorless for you?
I can tell you for me the big difference in the 90s was that people were very natural about a Leica, never really thinking it was a real camera or that it had film in it, totally silent, you just are goofing around with the focus and some lever on the top periodically, and can be themselves in a way they aren't when you power up an EOS-1N with a non-ultrasonic AF lens on it and a big flash. But now smart phones have been around for decades and people use cameras without viewfinders constantly, and nearly everyone is taking photos all the time and people don't seem nervous or on guard about it now in the way they were 25 years ago.
And the R5 is silent, doesn't need flash, and can be driven fully manual-mode and even with MF. In fact I shot my Leica lenses on my R for 2-3 years before finally selling them to buy more RF glass.
So again, if there was a Canon version of the APO ASPH at Japanese prices and reliability, you're absolutely certain they wouldn't sell because using them on a silent body that looks different than an M body just somehow wouldn't be the same?
Also, I stressed this putative "street" product line be portable. And you're saying it wouldn't work because the portable lenses are not portable. How do you know the lenses that I suggest be portable won't be portable? Suddenly you seem to know more about my idea than I do :-Dplus the lenses are much much smaller.
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