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

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Sittatunga Veteran Member • Posts: 5,406
Re: Equivalence.

thunder storm wrote:

Edit: I was replying to MAC, but something went wrong or I made a mistake.

I think it's a pretty bad idea to mount such a slow yet big wide angle zoom as a standard zoom on a crop camera.

That lens is nearly as big and heavy as the 16mm Sigma APS-C lens. But you're right, we don't need lenses this size that are unable to cover full-frame format on a mount that covers APS-C and FF .

The RF mount is clearly designed for full frame, and to combine this mount with aps-c sensors are clearly an afterthought.

This is what Canon were saying right at the beginning of the RF mount.

I ordered an FE 28-60mm for compactness sake by the way. I will consider it to be an f/8.0 lens for IQ reasons. But even stopped down that far it will do the same thing as a 17-38mm f/5 on a Canon crop sensor in a really small and light weight package. I think that's a better idea than a big slow 15-30mm on an M50, with no space at all for your fingers.

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