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Lens upgrades? 70-200 2.8 EF->RF?

Started Jun 8, 2021 | Discussions thread
Leigh A. Wax Senior Member • Posts: 1,621
Re: Lens upgrades? 70-200 2.8 EF->RF?

For me, Adapter "swapping" was the main issue as to retaining my EF lens's.

If you stay with all EF, you can leave the Adapter on an "R" body; whereas if you mix EF & RF, unless you have two Bodies, or a separate Adapter for each EF lens your "toting", you\re not only dealing with lens changing, but fumbling with Adapter swapping as well.

Though my EF 100-400L-v2 functioned extremely well on my R5, with the Adapter plus a 1.4 TC it became "awkwardly " long zoomed out.

In the end, I sold most of my EF gear, retaining only the EF 16-35F4L, with the Adapter "permanently" attached.

Currently, It's an R5, RF 100-500L, RF 1.4 TC, RF 24-105F4L, & EF 16-35F4L; and in the future hope for a "back-up" body (R7 ???), & ??? lens/s.

Unfortunately, there are some down-sides to some of the RF Zoom's, like the RF 100-500's inability to zoom fully back, and others that are not compatible with TC's at all.

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