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I'm in for the R50... Rationale?

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jwilliams Veteran Member • Posts: 6,385
Actually ...

cocoanud wrote:

RLight wrote:

I decided on the R50 + twin lens kit;

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Wish everyone the best of luck in their journeys and I'll report back on the R50 when it arrives. Pre-ordered it a bit ago. Cheers.

Happy to hear your conclusions. Quite a bit of your posts on the M forum have been helpful if not to appease GAS then to understand the gear and its IQ in question.

Personally after having smitten by the R6 and then looking for a lightweight 2nd body I have swung between carrying two R6s to, RP + R6, no R6 but R10 + M6 II.

In the R8 I think I am getting to the point where I think I might settle down.

R6 + RF STM 24-105 and R8 + L14-35.

Going through my past images I realised I shoot in the wide to ultra-wide more than anything else and for most uses the R8 won't be as frustrating as the RP along side R6.

Keeping that RF STM 24-105 on the R6 as R6 probably still is the most forgiving camera I have used.

Between the combination mentioned above I think I will still keep the RF 50 f/1.8 in the mix and hopefully I should be ok.

Cheers,

Actually, the 24-105 STM & 14-35 will make a great combo. The 24-105 is a very good lens from 35-105 so if you use the 14-35 up to 35 then you'll have high IQ over the entire 14-105 range. I've got that lens combo. I also have the RF 24-105 4L but the STM lens is much lighter and if you have something like the 14-35 to cover the wide end, the combo works well.

The 14-35 is a new addition for me so I haven't used it much but I previously used my adapted EF 16-35 4L in its place and it worked very well. Got the 14-35 to cut down on weight and size. I expect similar IQ to the 16-35 which was very good but it is kind of large and hard to pack with the adapter.

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