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Sell the R5 and get an R7 and R? Crazy?

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User1303423862 Senior Member • Posts: 1,070
Re: Sell the R5 and get an R7 and R? Crazy?

mraifman wrote:

So the R7 + 300mm f/2.8 combo seems appealing to me because (unless i'm mistaken) it maintains the lovely depth of field of the 300mm f/2.8 while cropping to create a field of view of more reach. That 300mm f/2.8 becomes an effective 480 f/2.8. Now the R7 is lower resolution than the R5, so some of that gain is lost, but there is a noticable extended reach with the R7 in the comparison shots I've seen. The 300mm f/2.8 is very sharp and probably works well on the R7 despite the crop. I would expect to use the 1.4x TC mk iii occasionally on the R7 + 300mm f/2.8 combo to extend reach towards 700mm equiv.

One thing you might want to check is that the 300 f/2.8 behaves nicely on the crop body. I found that my EF 70-300 IS II USM zoom lens is superb on my EOS R but has slight colour fringing issues adapted to my M6. I think this is due to some extraneous light from the larger image circle bouncing around. I reduced, but didn't completely cure the issue, by placing a home made aperture card into the front of the EF to EF-M adapter.

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