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Is the RF 24-50mm a serious threat for crop RF camera's?

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KevinRA Senior Member • Posts: 1,457
Re: Is the RF 24-50mm a serious threat for crop RF camera's?
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thunder storm wrote:

I was wondering: Is the RF 24-50mm a serious threat for crop RF camera's? The R7 will be fine as a teleconverter the luxe, but the R10 and R50 might get some competition from used RPs and Rs flooding the second hand market to be paired with this very compact RF 24-50mm. The RF-s zooms are starting at 18mm (29ish equivalent), and the ef-m 15-45mm will never see future M bodies. A used R is only 1000 euro, and that price will even go down further in the future. That 24-50mm is 300 euro or so? 1300 euro. Who's buying an R10 or R50 with this kind of competition around?

So the R10 smokes the RP and R with controls and autofocus capability - and has the "reach" (OK some purist will correct me) also for telephoto work.   Shooting CRAW and a fast card coupled with amazing eye tracking AF makes it a great action camera - kicking the R and RP, the latter is incredibly slow frames per second in servo mode.   No joystick on either of those cameras either.   R50 I'd not buy personally though but YMMV.

Agree re wide angle on zooms - why canon went for 18-45 not 15-45 is a mystery.  Long live the old M6II's in their retirement.

I might just buy the 24-50 for my R5 though if I can get a cheap mint used copy or grey import separated from a kit if the IQ is good.

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