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Poll, R mount and 3ed party lenses

Started 4 months ago | Polls thread
birdbrain
birdbrain Veteran Member • Posts: 4,258
Re: Poll, R mount and 3ed party lenses

PHAER wrote:

birdbrain wrote:

I am completely happy with Canon, and have been from the G2, 300D, 450D, 7D,7D2, 6D and 5D3 up to and including my current R5 and R6.

I have only ever bought one third party lens which totally underwhelmed me in its AF. I was able to get a complete refund on it and bought myself a Canon lens.

So I really don’t care about 3rd party lenses in all honesty, one bad experience is enough for me.

My EF lenses work brilliantly with the adapter and I am more than happy with my RF lens choices.

I've been a happy Canon user for years too, but just out of curiosity: When and which was your 3rd party lens?

Tamron 150-600. I had been waiting for the EF 100-400 MKII which wasn’t looking likely for a while. Having heard ‘good things’ about the Tamron I thought I’d give it a go. Optically it was good, but oh dear me its AF was disastrous!

A couple of months after buying it I contacted my supplier, as I heard there was a firmware update for the lens. They asked me to return the lens to them which I did and they gave me a full refund! Shortly after that Canon released the 100-400 MKII.

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