I'm looking at the combo as a casual/less serious photography kit for sure. My typical kit is the RF 50mm f1.2L and 24-105mm f4L but at times where I don't want to carry all of that, the two small RF primes would be nice. Certainly wouldn't replace the 50L and 24-105mm, they would just add a nice alternative.
This has been discussed many times on this forum. People who understand lens design better than I do, say that the determining factor in telephoto size is the front element not the image circle. As I understand it, there is not much of a size advantage in a APS-C only telephoto over a full frame. That's one reason why you hardly ever see APS-C only telephoto lenses.
As @unfocused says, you're completely wrong on the first point. As he didn't say, you're also completely wrong on the second point. A two-fer, well done.
I would suggest that having
I wasn't refuting that. Only to state what is the current price/market segmentation so we are both correct
I appreciate your apology but can you point to where Canon has stated this?
Sure there’s ‘room’. But personally, I doubt we’ll see anything but APS-C cameras launching into that price bracket.
Wow m4n, I'm pretty surprised to hear that.
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Oh it’s not about sharpness, but more the fact that I’m used to higher-grade glass.Wow m4n, I'm pretty surprised to hear that.
Looking at the MTFs I figured it was only a small improvement over the EF, which wasn't great. I bought one anyway for size, and mine seems to be just excellent. I have NO explanation for the following fact, as an engineer, and I'm embarrassed to say that, but the secret of hand-holding the RF50/1.8 is you have to shoot it at 1/2 to 1/30. Taking 10 shots at each shutter speed, I found the worst shot at each of the speeds from 1/2 to 1/30 inclusive was better than the best shot I got above 1/30.
That somehow might be a factor of my copy of the lens or the way I hand-hold. It's so surprising I should perhaps repeat the test...
50mm SHOOTOUT! Detailed Analysis of the Hand-Holdability and General Sharpness of the RF50/1.8 vs. the RF24-105/4LIS
See my other posts for details of the goals and methodology. But in short, these targets are 1:1 selections from laser printer-printed targets under household incandescent, hand-held in a seated position. The selections are sorted, for each shutter speed, from sharpest to least sharp. A...
If you're using fully mechanical shutter, or EFCS in a burst on a body with IBIS, the 1/60s - 1/200s range is prone to showing shutter shock. On top of that, the R5/R6 firmware had a bug where it would rotate the sensor counter clockwise on the first shot to account for the twisting that happens when you mash the shutter button. But it would always rotate the sensor, regardless of the movement. Firmware 1.6 (or 1.4, I forget) fixed that issue.Wow m4n, I'm pretty surprised to hear that.
Looking at the MTFs I figured it was only a small improvement over the EF, which wasn't great. I bought one anyway for size, and mine seems to be just excellent. I have NO explanation for the following fact, as an engineer, and I'm embarrassed to say that, but the secret of hand-holding the RF50/1.8 is you have to shoot it at 1/2 to 1/30. Taking 10 shots at each shutter speed, I found the worst shot at each of the speeds from 1/2 to 1/30 inclusive was better than the best shot I got above 1/30.
That somehow might be a factor of my copy of the lens or the way I hand-hold. It's so surprising I should perhaps repeat the test...
50mm SHOOTOUT! Detailed Analysis of the Hand-Holdability and General Sharpness of the RF50/1.8 vs. the RF24-105/4LIS
See my other posts for details of the goals and methodology. But in short, these targets are 1:1 selections from laser printer-printed targets under household incandescent, hand-held in a seated position. The selections are sorted, for each shutter speed, from sharpest to least sharp. A...
The R seems to be discontinued but Canon seems fine with just continuing with the RP as it is.
I wonder if they just have built waaaaay more RP than R bodies and are emptying out existing stock.
That does seem to be the case as the price seems to be permanently changed to USD1k. I don't have a problem with the price point but I guess at some point it will be discontinued and guess is that there is room for a cheaper ff body than the R8 given the R50 pricing and features.
