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 p.2 #16 · Anyone still using EF mount lenses? | |
formula4speed wrote:
Quick backstory, I was a longtime Canon shooter, from around 1998 (I'm not old, you're old) until the Sony A7 came out and I jumped to mirrorless. I picked up a "smart" adapter to adapt my Canon lenses while Sony filled in their lens lineup. Fast forward to whatever year it is now, and I'm shooting with native glass and I've got Canon lenses sitting in a cabinet.
In my opinion, adapting to Sony is no longer worth the hassle, but I've been away from Canon so long I don't know if it adapts better to their mirrorless cameras.
I'm just trying to get a sense of what to do with it. List it here, ship it off to B&H or KEH and get whatever I get, donate to local high school etc.
I donated a bunch of Nikon gear to the local high school, but I actually had cameras to give them, I no longer have any EF mount bodies so they may not be able to use the lenses....Show more →
The EF lenses are still as good as they ever were — the trick is finding someone who can use them. The simplest solution is to just offload at one of the use-gear resellers, and if you aren’t concerned about how much you’ll get that is a fine option. It might be ideal for you.
As to using the old lenses on newer Canon R cameras with adapters, I have no direct experience to offer — though I will say that in general when I’ve used adapted lenses this way the extra pieces and steps are a bit annoying, especially when native options are available.
(I continue to shoot EF lenses on my 5DsR for now, as it performs pretty well for the photography that I do with that system. I’ll replace it eventually, but so far I haven’t found the option that persuades me to move on.)
mborozny wrote:
I worked in schools for years, and a lot of camera equipment gets buried in the media closets. 
From my experience, the donated gear is more likely to find a useful home if you can first make contact with a faculty member who will actually use it with their students and discuss it.
If you just donate to “the school,” it is possible that there actually isn’t a program that can use it or that an existing program might use incompatible gear. (I once thought I was being generous by offering to donate an older, functional large format Epson printer to a community college that I was connected with, so I had a brief discussion with photography faculty… who explained that they really couldn’t use it since they would have to acquire yet another type of ink cartridges.)
rico wrote:
…the Sony color science and ergonomics from Hell
Could someone explain this idea to me? I have friends and associates, including some pretty successful and reasonably well-known photographers, who are using Sony equipment to produce photographs every bit as beautiful as those coming from Canon, Nikon, and others. (By this time — decades into the digital photography thing — I’ve heard every brand described this way by those who use another brand… so count me as a skeptic!)
melcat wrote:
For my purposes the EF 16–35mm f/4 IS is a better lens than its RF successors. Canon still haven’t made an RF successor for the EF 24–70mm f/4 IS. These 2 lenses and the 100–500 form my main lens set for the R3.
Since upgrading to the R system is one of the options I continue to ponder (the other main option being a switch to Sony or, less likely, the Fujifilm GFX system), I’ve decided that one lens I would definitely keep and use wiht an adapter on an R camera is the EF 16-35mm f/4L IS. That is a really great lens and I don’t see anything better than what I’d get from using it with the adapter.
The missing RF 24-70mm f/4 equivalent is a factor (though not the biggest one) that has kept me from moving to the R system.
Caleb Williams wrote:
Yes, the EF lenses still work great unless they can no longer resolve to high MP levels of some cameras...[/quote
I’m skeptical about that, given that EF lenses worked very well (and still do) on the 50MP 5DsR, which has higher resolution than any existing Canon R body.
And now I see the following…
EB-1 wrote:
The problem is that (pathetically) Canon still has no sensor with resolution that is better or as good as the >10 YO 50MP 5DsR. So any lens that was designed with that in mind should be fine on the R5/R5 II.
Yes. Exactly. pathetically.
Particularly so when they used to be the resolution leader in the FF space and when Sony has been producing 60MP FF sensors for years now. Heck, while Canon only does 45MP on FF, Fujifilm does a pretty nice job with 40MP on APS-C… using Sony-built sensors.
Would moving from 50MP to 60MP make a world of difference? No. Would moving down from 50MP to 45MP make a world of difference? No, again. But the Canon MP stagnation makes a switch to R far less compelling… and allows me to continue using the 50MP 5DsR while I watch what happens with other manufacturers.
This fact is what a) keeps me using my 5DsR and b) has kept me from moving to the R system, and c) has me weighing alternatives from other non-Canon brands. There’s a very good chance that Canon will ultimately lose me as a customer due to this inexplicable oversight.
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! Classic Mike.