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Interesting thing about IS EF and EF-S lenses on the R7

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
PhilOlenick
OP PhilOlenick Junior Member • Posts: 42
Re: thanks, and a question...

RRomeo wrote:

I'm thinking to buy an R7 to replace my old 550D with the EF-S 18-135 kit lens, but it's quite expensive, so can you help me what do I exactly lose by not buying the new RF kit lenses with it, keeping my old kit lens and using the adapter? Image stabilization will be worse?

I came to the R7 from an 80D which I used with the EF-S 18-135 kit lens, and which I intended to use with the adapter and buy the R7 body only.

I ordered the R7 body as soon as it was announced, but by early August had discovered that no one - not even Canon's own online store - had the body only version in stock.

So I called the dealer that had me on a waiting list for the body and changed my order to include the kit lens. They shipped it to me the same day and I got it a few days later.

I discovered that the tiny and light RF-S kit lens was a wonder - I idly snapped a shot at 150mm of my piano 20 feet away and found that the sheet music on the piano was perfectly sharp even though it only took up a tiny section of the corner of the image.

This walk-around kit takes very nice pictures, and is smaller even than my 40 year-old Canon FT-QL with 85mm f/1.8 - while my Canon DSLRs got progressively larger over time.

At this point I'm holding my old 18-135 in reserve for video use, since I have the motor drive for its zoom.

 PhilOlenick's gear list:PhilOlenick's gear list
Canon EOS R7 Canon EF-S 10-18mm F4.5–5.6 IS STM Canon EF-S 18-135mm F3.5-5.6 IS USM Canon RF 50mm F1.8 STM Canon RF 70-200 F4 L +9 more
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