Congratulations with your new lens. I owned this lens and can tell you from my own experience that the EF 24-70mm f2.8 II is a very good lens. You are lucky to get one at such a bargain price.View attachment 212774
In a market (eBay, where you can buy across European Union without any extra tax, vat or customs fee between countries) where I could buy an used EF 24-70 f2.8 II L, just serviced by Canon Italy (aperture ensemble was just swapped due to flat cable failure), for just 610€ shipped (lucky shot; its price is usually around 800€), you can very well imagine that the 3.760€ required for the new RF 24-105 are out of reach (and out of sense) for most. See pre-order prices:
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Consider that many small professionals (like me), at least in my country, Italy, have particular tax regulations were you will pay a very low taxation, and invoice without vat (so for B2C my prices are 20% cheaper then a bigger professional/agency), but in return you can't deduct any cost for your business activity.
That means that any purchase is straight out of my pocket, I can't make it a business cost; so that's why 90% of professionals with my tax regulation (not only in photo/video; this is the same for any other business where you need to buy any type of gear/aid, starting from a chair, a desk and a laptop) would almost never buy anything new if they can go on the used market.
And I can tell you that 40/50% of wedding photographer are in the same tax regulation as mine; so yes, price of lenses is a definitive factor for a wedding photographer in my country.
I do not think it is reasonable to compare the bargain price for a repaired second hand lens (a lens that was introduced in 2012) with the 2023 price of a new lens, which has more features (35mm more reach, IS, aperture ring).
The price of the EF 24-70 mm f2.8 II at the introduction in 2012 was around 2400€. If you adjust that price for inflation (I did not include the high inflation figures for 2022 and 2023 in the calculation), the 2023 price for the EF 24-70mm is around 2700-2750€. The RF 24-70mm f2.8 retails for 2700-2800€ in the Netherlands.
Yes, the RF 24-105mm f2.8 is expensive, but the +/- 700€ difference with both the RF and EF 24-70mm f2.8 can be ‘explained’ by the additional features.
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