24-240mm should i keep or sell for 50mm and 35mm prime

smartslr wrote:

Hi Team,

I got eos rp with 24-240mm in blackfriday deal eos rp and lens for 1037including tax (moved from nikon fullframe d750 to mirrorless canon )

getting the camera via friend in usa am from india. lot of negative reviews for the lens with vignette and crop. keh takes the lens for 540

should i sell the lens and get a 50mm or 35mm prime

planning to setup canon mirrorless setup will get r5 after a year is it a good lens to the setup or should i take up the trade

im mostly in to portrait photography and landscape at times or should i keep the lens its worth for 500$ kindly help me

any help will be greatly appreciated kindly excuse the bad English and grammar.

I have the RF 24-240 and 50 1.8 (used w/ the R5). I don't use either regularly, the former is my general travel lens and I bought the 50 when I bought my R5 to "get to know the camera" before I installed my much heavier 100-500, which is now my main lens.

Short answer: no, I don't think selling the 24-240 for these two lenses makes sense. They are faster, yes, but I wouldn't say optically superior even though they are primes, and they have (the clunky) STM AF mechanism. I've never used the RF 35mm but the 50 1.8, while a good value, has a tendency to produce visible-to-the-naked-eye purple fringe I don't see in the 24-250 or 100-500 used in the same situations.

I've have a lot of keepers with my 24-240. Vinetting is not bad at all -- just stay away from the extremes as you would any budget zoom. Using in manual focus is awkward because there is no dedicated manual switch on the lens, but that's true of the 50mm 1.8 too. That's the biggest negative to me. Otherwise the lens works great with the R5's AF. Quick and accurate. It's a great "catch-all" lens for the R5, though, honestly, if you are spending that much on a camera, I would budget for a good L lens for your main photography. I only have the 15-35 and 100-500 so can't really recommoned which standard or mid-zoom to buy.

One last note - if you decide to keep the 24-240 I highly recommend buying a lens hood. You can get an inexpensive no-name branded one on Amazon for around $15.