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Canon RF 28-70 F/2 L

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OP cpharm86 Senior Member • Posts: 2,742
Re: Canon RF 28-70 F/2 L-Update

ffabrici wrote:

cpharm86 wrote:

Thank you to everyone that gave me input to my question on the RF 28-70 lens.

I looked up my metadata in Lightroom over the past several years and in 2022 using the R5 camera.

Out of 4,500 shots in 2022 with all lenses I own I used f/1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 2.2 only 74 times. 1,755 shots were at f/5.6

I spoke to my local camera shop today and he mentioned Canon might have their trade-in program starting tomorrow. I am not familiar with that program.

Based on my aperture uses and owning the Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L and Canon RF 85mm 1.2L I might just go with the Canon RF 24-70mm and either trade-in or sell my current Canon EF 24-70 2.8L ii.

I don’t have an issue paying the extra $700 for the RF 28-70 but think it will be more practical to use the RF 24-70mm. Easier to haul around all day, 24mm vs 28 mm. Not saying that if I had f/2.0 I wouldn’t shoot more below f/2.8 since I don’t need to change lenses but that is hard to say.

Out of the 4,500 shots I used 24mm 192 times and 28mm 76 times. 1,200 shots were between f/5.6 and f/7.1.

Thank for listening for my rationalization.

I made the exact same decision and I’m still confident that I made the right decision for me. That doesn’t mean that I have 100% stopped dreaming of the 28-70 :-).

For the few  times I use less than f/2.8 I will just change lenses.  If I owned both the RF 28-70 and RF 24-70 I would probably use the 24-70 considerably more frequently.

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