EF to RF Lens Purchases

mr_nice wrote:

MitchAlsup wrote:

Tazz93 wrote:

If you're like me, you are probably questioning any new lens purchases (EF or RF mount). With the RF mount looking to be the direction Canon is moving, it seems a little odd to buy new EF lenses and then possibly adapt them in a year or two. It also seems odd to buy an RF lens prior to a viable body being available. That's not a knock on the EOS R, but it just isn't for me. Share your views or thoughts.

Lenses are tools, if you need a tool you buy one. When you no longer need it you ell it.

The more lenses one has the less one thinks about new/better/more exotic lenses. There is a level of saturation where you have a lens for everything, and quit thinking about lenses as particles of acquisition and start thinking about using them for the task at hand.

I, for one, don't give a rats sphincter about the R or its lenses, I happen to like looking through an optical viewfinder, and especially the rapid snick of a dSLR taking a picture.

In any event, the EF line has decades of life left in it. decades.

Decades? It will be essentially dead in 5 years tops. I predict that in 10 years Canon has no DSLR's for sale.

But I admit, many of you are very, very stubborn about OVF and mirror slapping sounds. So who knows how long we will have DSLR's.

I guess it's kind of like the people who keep records around. On one hand, you can have superior sound and performance with all your music stored weightlessly in the cloud. On the other, you have to store thousands of pounds of giant vinyl disks with limited resolution that wear out over time. Nostalgia is a powerful thing it seems.

Slightly off-topic, but while I do have a streaming music service subscription, I do also keep all my about 300 or CDs around. While they do not last literally forever, I'm fairly sure they have more guaranteed longevity than the licencing deals between Google and record companies, and do not use lossy compression which all but very few streaming music services do use. Additionally, I've ripped a significant portion of them so often I don't really need to access the original media.

So I have the best of both worlds; a massive cloud-based library of new material to discover, as well as a selection of higher-quality and less likely to become unavailable physical records.