Re: What's your best EF lenses that you would never sell?
Mike_5D wrote: kakomu wrote:
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.
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 24-105stnbis 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
May 28, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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