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Which Canon EF-EOS-R?

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OP Solinthor Forum Member • Posts: 54
Re: Which Canon EF-EOS-R?

Hi

Please no offense, but how should we guess your shooting needs, habits, preferences when you do not describe any of it? You should know best how you use your stuff and therefore which of these would suit you the best.

No offense taken, I just wanted to make the post short. I am an hobbyist, use to shot on EOS 7D now going to full frame with the R8.

I will keep my 7D and most of my EF lenses.

But sure I understand that you want to be inspired by other who might have bigger experience and that is of course very fair.

That's exactly that, benefit from other experience.

I have the basic adapter on every EF lens as a standard for most usual use. Plus I did buy the filter adapter with variable ND and polarizer filters since its use is moch more convenient with my lenses: my EF lenses have 3 different filter threads (77, 82 and 105mm) and one lens does not even have any filter thread (Sigma 14-24/2.8). Also operating especially the polarizer filter is MUCH easier on the adapter than on the lens with lens hood attached. For example with 70-200/2.8 it is near to impossible.

Yes, having one filter for all of them makes a lot of sense.

The basic adapters I bought are Canons, the filter adapter is from Meike. Its build quality is very equal to the Canon but is WAY cheaper and also its VND filter is a bit better quality (less color shift near max ND settings).

Good to know, I will look into this one.

And I never opted for the control ring adapter since I find the ring fully useless with my R6. In other words I can not find any suitable setting which I would need to transfer to the ring since I already have all important settings spread conveniently on the R6's buttons and dials.

Personnaly, I used to shot manually on my Leica R7 and M6, I am quite use to have a "ring" for aperture exactly there.

Here in Canada, the Canon EOS EF adapter are quite difficult to find, si when I preordered my R8, they had the one with the ring available, so I jumped into it.

Thanks

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