Advise: using Canon R with kit lens OR adaptor +EF 24-70 f4 IS L

FloydsPhoto wrote:

Hello,

I am about to purchase Canon R, which I know it is a great camera. I used to shoot until with Canon 5d Mark II with several lenses like EF 70-200 F4 L IS or EF 24-70 F4 IS L.

I sold most of my EF lenses, but still having EF 24-70 F4 IS L (I am intending to sell it as well) which is great as quality and pictures taken with it.

So I am thinking in purchasing either Canon R alone and attach it a RF - EF adaptor and 24-70 F4 IS L and using this system as my main travel/architecture/landscape purposes OR for same general purposes buying Canon R with RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS STM (non L) lens kit. And after 1-2 years I will start to buy and use high quality fixed focal length for portraits, product photography, etc not necessary from L range, but fixed length (50mm, 85mm).

I am not sure in the if the picture quality (and video) up to 70mm can be compared between the two lenses, the new RF and the older EF. Is it worth the new RF kit lens for general purposes?

Do you have pictures/samples taken with Canon R and RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS STM lens, but also with Canon R + adaptor + EF 24-70 L IS f4 ? What are your thoughts about these two different setups for travel/architecture/closeups/landscape photography?

I know that the kit lens is not high quality, but it's cheaper and especially smaller and lighter, so very easy to travel with.

Thank you all,

Val

I'd say the choice depends on how much you shoot in the 24-35mm region and how much you value light weight. I have an R and both the 24-105 4-7.1 and the F4L IS version. I've owned the 24-70 4L IS but not while owning the R so never used it on that camera. It should function perfectly though. With the adapter it will be significantly heavier than the kit lens.

The 24-105 4-7.1 is actually a very good lens from 35-105. I'd rate it as decent at 28mm with some edge/corner softness and the edges/corners are worse at 24mm due to distortion correction but most of the frame is very good.

If it is possible to buy the R with the 24-105 4-7.1 and still keep the 24-70 for when you're working on the wide end that would be one possible solution.

The 24-105 4L IS is the lens to get for the R if IQ at the wide end is important as it is significantly better in the 24-35 range. On a recent trip I settled on using a rather strange combo with my RP w 24-105 4-7.1 and my adapted 16-35 4L IS. Overall, it still was a relatively light setup with excellent IQ and covering 16-105 which was very useful for landscape type shots.

The kit 24-105 is a nice lens that has some limitations at its wide end but provides a useful FL range and is light and easy to carry. If you can splurge for the f4L IS version that is an excellent all around zoom but a good bit heavier than the slower one. If you can supplement the wide end of the kit lens with another lenses to cover 24-35 then that's a good combo. Unfortunately only 2 rather expensive native RF UWA zooms exist at the moment. The EF 16-35 4L IS is excellent adapted but rather large/heavy.

Hope some of this helps.