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24-70mm f2.8 seemed like a no-brainer

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
CameraCarl Veteran Member • Posts: 9,193
Re: 24-70mm f2.8 seemed like a no-brainer

One thing to keep in mind when buying an EF lens with plans to adapt it is the length of the adapter. When I first made the move from the EF to the RF platform, I figured what difference can the adapter make? It is light enough and the adapted lenses work fine, if not better. But then after living with adapted wide angle lenses for a few months, I began to realize that the adapter made the whole setup so much bigger.  An EF 16-35 f4 is a reasonable lens on a DSLR but when you make it an inch longer it no longer fits easily in any of my camera bags, it looks and feels like a telephoto zoom. It just got to feeling so ungainly that when I went to reach for the lens and the adapter when leaving my office, I often wound up thinking, meh!, I can live without it on this trip. Now I just grab my RF 16mm and the 16-35 is gathering dust. So, extrapolating my experience to your conundrum: adding an adapter to an already big lens is going to make it even bigger. If it were me, I wouldn't buy the EF. I'd save my money for the RF.

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