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EF-S lens in EOS R

Started Sep 9, 2020 | Discussions thread
quiquae Senior Member • Posts: 2,265
Re: EF-S lens in EOS R

thanda wrote:

Oops I did not thought about that. Even with crop-sensor EF-S 15-85mm tend to vignette a bit.

Now, I am thinking either I sell EF-S 15-85mm and go into full-frame or switch to EOS-M cameras for their compactness or EOS xd, xxd or xxxd cameras.

As mentioned earlier, the crop is automatic: the moment you attach an EF-S camera to an EOS R, the body starts shooting at the APS-C crop size of 11.7MP ( 30MP / 1.6^2 ). If you are going ahead with purchasing an EOS R, I would recommend getting full frame lenses for general photography--you'd be wasting much of the potential of the camera if you shoot with crop lenses.

The one exception is if you have plans to shoot video: 4K video on EOS R comes with a mandatory 1.6x+ crop, which means your 15-85 suddenly becomes more convenient for shooting video than any RF standard zoom.

tl;dr: get the EOS R, get the full frame lenses, but hang onto your 15-85.

 quiquae's gear list:quiquae's gear list
Canon EOS R5 Canon EF 100mm F2.8L Macro IS USM Canon EF 70-200mm F4L IS USM Canon EF 16-35mm F4L IS USM Canon EF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6L IS II +6 more
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