EF to RF Lens Purchases

MitchAlsup wrote:

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.

Yes, decades. There are things an OVF does that cannot be done with EVF.

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.

I happen to have about 30 feet of vinyl stacked record to record horizontally.

While the records do not have the measurement numbers of digitally captured music, they still actually sound better than digital music. Many of them are from my college years (1970-1975) and still sound great.

Oh, and BTW, vinyl is making a comeback.

Records don't sound better. Records may be more appealing to certain listeners due to harmonic distortion. Technically speaking they're worse than digital in every measurable way.