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What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

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p.5 #1 · p.5 #1 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

Right now the 500 /4 II. Small, can pack in a small carry on. Sharp sharp sharp.

May 22, 2024 at 05:12 PM

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p.5 #2 · p.5 #2 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

EF 24-70 F2.8 II
EF 70-200 F2.8 IS USM II
EF 50 F1.2
EF 100mm L F2.8 IS USM Macro
EF 500mm F4L IS USM (Version 1)
EF 300mm F2.8 IS USM II

I still used them with 1Ds3, 1D4, 1Dx2 and R5

May 22, 2024 at 08:39 PM

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p.5 #3 · p.5 #3 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

moondigger wrote:
I too have the 11-24 (as I mentioned above). I'm hanging on to it at the moment because I like being able to use the polarizer or variable-ND filter in the drop-in filter adapter.

But I will eventually replace it with one of the RF ultrawides you refer to. "Software corrections" might be a practical objection if the resulting images were bad. But they aren't. I have the RF 16 f/2.8 and 28 f/2.8 lenses, both of which require software corrections. They work very well.

Understood. My preference is 90% because the 11-24mm works on both my 5DSR and R5, and the other 10% is just personal preference to not have software corrections where possible

May 23, 2024 at 10:23 AM

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p.5 #4 · p.5 #4 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II. Approaches perfection.

May 23, 2024 at 10:28 AM

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p.5 #5 · p.5 #5 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

OntheRez wrote:
EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS II. Approaches perfection.

Had it, great lens.

I assume that you are not a fan of the extending design of the RF lens (I am a fan).

But soon there might be an RF Z version that might be better than the EF lens (apart from price).

May 24, 2024 at 04:52 AM

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p.5 #6 · p.5 #6 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

matejphoto wrote:
Had it, great lens.

I assume that you are not a fan of the extending design of the RF lens (I am a fan).

But soon there might be an RF Z version that might be better than the EF lens (apart from price).

You know, I understand the need (desire) for gear and the urge to have the latest/greatest. I also accept that the new sensor/system will, at least in theory, help make a better photo. Still… I've been a photog for 40 years and a professional off/on for 25. Have taken a pic or two. Yes, there are times newer is better (read more pixel, faster). But I have to admit that I've almost never been limited by the gear itself. The exceptions would be limited aperture and shutter speed.

I find that the real 'limitations' are in my mind, eyes, imagination, vision. Sure the faster shudder speed claimed on the RF gear would be nice, but honestly I'm fairly sure buying/using it won't make me a better photog. There is a fine line between wanting newer gear because it can help my work and wanting it because it's 'kool.' Believe me, I've bought more than a few bits of stuff based upon the second motivation. Given the rather significant investment I've made in EF gear, can't think of a good reason to do it all over again.

Quite obviously YMMV.

May 24, 2024 at 10:53 AM

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p.5 #7 · p.5 #7 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

Lucky for me I lost my gear lust months back. But not before I’d accumulated a silly amount of EF, EF-s, EF-m and RF lenses. probably in the region of 100-120 (got slightly out of hand 🫣 )
I can’t bring myself to part with them. The 100-400Lii & 70-300L are fabulous, but at the same time my humble STM triplets (10-18, 18-55, 55-250) are just so good for what they cost. Likewise the EF-s 60mm macro is superb on full frame with a 12mm tube fitted. I have the old old 135/2.8 SF arc drive yet it’s as sweet as a nut and sharp wide open, got it boxed unused for £70!!. I bought the last line of EF primes namely 24is, 28is & 35is, again they are great.
I must give a shout out for the humble 40mm STM. I have4 copies. It’s probably my most used lens.

My biggest disappointment by far was my purchase of the RF 24-105 7.2. I refuse to use it, Christ knows what I was thinking when I stupidly bought it. it sits unused unloved As I can’t be bothered trying to sell it.

May 26, 2024 at 10:48 AM

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p.5 #8 · p.5 #8 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

Pixelpuffin wrote:
My biggest disappointment by far was my purchase of the RF 24-105 7.2. I refuse to use it, Christ knows what I was thinking when I stupidly bought it. it sits unused unloved As I can’t be bothered trying to sell it.

I was also disappointed with the 24-105 STM. I got it because I like the focal length range and wanted a light lens, but f/7.1 is brutal indoors. Even with high ISO, the shutter speed was too slow and most photos were blurs. I got the F/4L instead and while the photos are nice, the heft is a bit annoying.

May 27, 2024 at 09:12 AM

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p.5 #9 · p.5 #9 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

This was a tough question for me. Even though I use my EF 24-105 f4 L the most, I’d have to say I could never get rid of my EF 100 f2.8 Macro USM. It is a beautifully sharp lens for the money and can serve as a portrait lens in a pinch. I’m sadly dissatisfied with my EF 85 f1.8 even with the nice bokeh.

BTW, Pixelpuffin and kakomu, I decided to give the RF f4-7.1 a try because my use case would be for outdoors while on long walks or hikes or knockaround for travel. I would augment it with a few lightweight primes. We will see.

May 27, 2024 at 09:33 AM

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p.5 #10 · p.5 #10 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

mborozny wrote:
BTW, Pixelpuffin and kakomu, I decided to give the RF f4-7.1 a try because my use case would be for outdoors while on long walks or hikes or knockaround for travel. I would augment it with a few lightweight primes. We will see.

Outdoors is where the 24-105 STM really shined. I used it quite a bit to get close ups of flowers and I was able to get some nice shots in daylight.

The problem I had was when I was indoors and I wanted to photograph my children. Small children are spazzy and move a lot, which is why primes were so hard to use for my own purposes.

I opted for the 24-105 f/4L so that I can photograph the kids indoors and have the zoom flexibility.

May 27, 2024 at 11:47 AM

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p.5 #11 · p.5 #11 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

Canon TSE 17
Canon TSE 90 macro
Canon 8-15 fisheye

May 27, 2024 at 11:50 AM

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p.5 #12 · p.5 #12 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

kakomu wrote:
Outdoors is where the 24-105 STM really shined. I used it quite a bit to get close ups of flowers and I was able to get some nice shots in daylight.

The problem I had was when I was indoors and I wanted to photograph my children. Small children are spazzy and move a lot, which is why primes were so hard to use for my own purposes.

I opted for the 24-105 f/4L so that I can photograph the kids indoors and have the zoom flexibility.

Yeah, it's a terrible kids indoor lens unless you use a flash. I prefer not using a flash these days so I use the 50/1.8 or 24-70 2.8 indoors. I have used the 24-105 STM outdoors in low light for static subjects or when I wanted motion blur. The IS works really well, opening up more opportunities. People see f/7.1 and freak out, but through much of the range, it's not much slower than an f/4 lens.

May 27, 2024 at 12:05 PM

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p.5 #13 · p.5 #13 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

A lot of nostalgia for the TS-E lenses (24 L II, 45 and 90), I sold them a few years before RF as my travel patterns had changed and I was no longer using them. Still in awe at pictures done with the 24 L II as far back as 2011 using a 5D mk1, the pictures just popped compared to zooms or even the 24mm L 1.4. Am I the only one wondering if the RF lineup will ever include a TS lens (with autofocus and IS?), there has been a lot of roadmap talk but nothing to show? Or does Canon look at a contracting market and prioritize other lens types, making the TS-E lenses + adapter the surrogates for RF shooters seeking those features?

May 28, 2024 at 01:28 PM

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p.5 #14 · p.5 #14 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

There's no EF lens that I feel that I could never sell but there is one that I don't want to be without, and it's purely for sentimental reasons. It's the EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM. It is by no means a stellar lens but if you got a good copy it was very good and was (still is) a great general purpose, walk-around lens. This is the lens that stayed glued to my Canon EOS A2 after it came out, and then as the standard zoom on my 10D and 20D. It was so exciting to get my first copy of this lens back in '98 because IS was a fairly new feature and the IS on the 28-135 was much smoother and much less jumpy than on the EF 75-300 IS and, to me, mind-blowing! I still have several EF lenses (50/1.4, 16-35/4L, 24-105/4L II, 100-400L II, and 100/2.8L IS) that I use on my 7D2 when I get it out occasionally, as well as an A2 and EOS 3 for the days I need to scratch my film urge, which is becoming less and less. I don't adapt any of these for my R62 or R7 anymore as I've replaced them with RF equivalents except for the 100/2.8L macro, but that may get replaced soon too. It's fun to play with my A2 and the 28-135 though, and reflect on my EOS beginnings sometimes and marvel at how far it has all come.

May 28, 2024 at 04:04 PM

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p.5 #15 · p.5 #15 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

I used to think that most of the lenses I have I'd never get rid of but that seems to have changed and that list has narrowed down to just keeping all of the tilt-shift lenses, the fast Sigma ART lenses and that crazy 200mm f/1.8. Everything else probably has a price tag on it.

May 28, 2024 at 09:49 PM

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p.5 #16 · p.5 #16 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

My stuff gets so used I'd be hesitant to sell it. 180 Tamron and 55-250 definitely high on the list, my most used. Glad I got 11-16.

55-250 sub-1lb 88-400 ff equivalent having excellent zoom macro

May 28, 2024 at 10:54 PM

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p.5 #17 · p.5 #17 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

racoll wrote:
There's no EF lens that I feel that I could never sell but there is one that I don't want to be without, and it's purely for sentimental reasons. It's the EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM. It is by no means a stellar lens but if you got a good copy it was very good and was (still is) a great general purpose, walk-around lens. This is the lens that stayed glued to my Canon EOS A2 after it came out, and then as the standard zoom on my 10D and 20D. It was so exciting to get my first...Show more →

I share your enthusiasm for the 28-135usm
I recently picked up another copy and I fell lucky…. It’s a beaut 💕
A far cry from the brand new copy I bought back in the 90’s when it was released, that copy was awful. At the time I was using the 28-105 usm 3.5-4.5 and getting great results. Then along comes a new IS gadget that promised to help with slower shutter speeds…… naturally I traded my beloved 28-105 in and walked away with the 28-135.
The love affair was over in under a week, I hated it. The IS was clunky and the IQ was sub par against my old lens. I returned it to the shop and was fortunate enough that my old 28-105 was still there so swapped back with a refund.
Then a year or so ago I chanced upon a YouTube clip about a traveller who armed only with a 6d (I think??) and this 28-135. I couldn’t believe the images I was seeing on our 65” TV, just totally blew me away…I had to have one….
😂👍🏻

May 28, 2024 at 11:36 PM

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p.5 #18 · p.5 #18 · What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?

Mike_5D wrote:
Yeah, it's a terrible kids indoor lens unless you use a flash. I prefer not using a flash these days so I use the 50/1.8 or 24-70 2.8 indoors. I have used the 24-105 STM outdoors in low light for static subjects or when I wanted motion blur. The IS works really well, opening up more opportunities. People see f/7.1 and freak out, but through much of the range, it's not much slower than an f/4 lens.

I agree with your comments
I too bought this lens as a walkabout lens for my RP as a holiday camera. I tried it out here in the UK on a family day out to the coast. As you say outdoors it’s a great lens, but trying to capture family candids indoors using ambient light showed up how utterly pathetic it really is. My iso went through the roof, or shutter speeds so slow that fixtures and fittings were the only sharp bits of a picture.
The 24-105stm is a great lens except for that massive handicap of 7.1…ugh!!

Mine just sits unused and unloved. I don’t know why canon bothered, they should have created a faster 24-85stm instead.

The experience has totally put me off their slow RF consumer tripe. Just dreadful

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May 28, 2024 at 11:51 PM

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May 29, 2024 at 02:05 AM

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Pixelpuffin wrote:
The experience has totally put me off their slow RF consumer tripe. Just dreadful

I agree with your sentiment, to an extent. I just picked up the RF 100-400 from someone on the B&S board and that is really nice, for what it is. The consumer lenses are great for what they are: daylight lenses that can also photograph static subjects. The problem lies with trying to use the lens for subject that it just cannot handle.

I think we’ve all been lulled by the siren’s song of cheap, slow lenses that can be used everywhere and we’re all seeing that it’s no more the case now than the f/4-5.6 lenses of yore on ISO 800 film. There’s a little more latitude now, due to low-noise high ISO performance with IS, but it’s still going to disappoint.

May 29, 2024 at 07:14 AM

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