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

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Re: Is the RF 24-50mm a serious threat for crop RF camera's?
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MikeJ9116 wrote:

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?

The R8 has me reevaluating whether I will buy a crop camera moving forward. It is small, lightweight, extremely capable and comes it at a very good price point. Plus, it negates the whole issue of whether Canon will provide a decent set of RF-S lenses. Right now if I had to choose the R8 or the R7 the R8 wins hands down.

we agree

even for birding the RF 100-400 and RF 800 on a great focus FF R8 sounds great

Crop isn't needed

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