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Your Opinion? What is the best bang for the buck RF lens?

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Re: Easy, The RF 28-70 f/2L

Foskito wrote:

ZX11 wrote:

R2D2 wrote:

This is an easy one for me. The RF 28-70 f/2L. Seriously.

For its list price of $3100, it's saved me from buying $9,450 worth of fast prime lenses (Canon MSRP).

  • RF 85mm f/1.2 (non-DS, although I'd probably buy the DS, +$300)
  • RF 50mm f/1.2
  • EF 35mm f/1.4 II
  • EF 28mm f/1.4 (Sigma)
  • EF 24mm f/1.4 II

Plus it saves me another $2400 if I were to add in the RF 24-70 f/2.8L (which I'd also have to have).

I shoot mainly events and sports. YMMV

R2

With it's aperture, didn't it not save you from buying those top tier lenses but from buying the f1.8 and f2 primes? Just curious.

Your zoom at 50mm replacing the nifty fifty RF 50 f1.8. Not quite being a RF 50 f1.2 L.

I would say the $3100 28-70 f2 replaces more like $1700 of primes, including the 24mm f1.8, 35mm f1.8, 50mm f1.8, and 85mm f2.

Not saying it is not special and unique, but I don't see how it replaces f1.2 L-primes either.

On the contrary, those lightweight small primes are the lenses that  complement the big zoom, not replace it. They are nice for when I don't want to carry a big rig around. The little primes of course don't exhibit the character that the 28-70 and the fast primes share, but they are nice to shoot. 

R2

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