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OK (but borderline hateful) kit lens

Started 11 months ago | User reviews thread
m100
m100 Senior Member • Posts: 2,048
Re: Design parameter, not a flaw
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R2D2 wrote:

Klaus dk wrote:

The design of this lens — and of the RF 16/2.8 and the RF 24-240/4-6.3 lenses — was based on a combination of optical and digital correction. The results are affordable lenses that would be much heavier and more expensive if the corrections were attempted in the optical domain only.

I think it's a strange base for a review to disregard half the virtues of the object one is reviewing.

+1 The OP might just as well just hate himself for this purchase, because all of the "properties" of this lens were well known and documented before he even purchased it!

It's obvious that what the OP really wants is all of the virtues of the RF 24-105 f/4L at the STM's price!

R2

You can buy one for about $250 on ebay and test it out then sell it on ebay for about $250.

That is what I did.

I guess they made it for the RP but even the RP deserves a better lens.

Poor RP suffers from such terrible DR then to put a lens like the RF24-105mm STM on it ?

That is why I sold it. I felt I had disrespected my RP by mounting that lens on it !

It really is not that bad of a body ! It really does deserve a better lens than the RF 24-105mm STM.

I was ready to sell my RP until I tried some decent L glass on it.

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