Amateur photographer on a budget here! I am looking at buying a Canon EOS R100 (bundle with RF-S 18-45mm lens) and also getting a zoom lens as I shoot anything from landscapes to wildlife. Years ago I had an EOS 400D with lenses from 28mm to 300mm. I have narrowed down my options for a zoom lens to: 1) Canon RF 55-210mm f/5-7.1 (lighter weight, no need for adapter) 2) Canon EF 55-200mm f/4-5.6 + adapter EF-EOS-R (better aperture, I already have filters of correct size, but need adapter and around 200g heavier) Price-wise, 1) and 2) seem pretty similar. Am I better off getting the EF lens with adapter or should I move to a fully R set up? Am I missing something here? Thanks to anyone who will provide advice!
i'm on the M50 and i've been shooting wildlife for 4 years with it, what i have found is the native efm 18-150mm lens and the sigma 100-400mm make for a cracking pair of lenses on the RF system i'd be going for the same 18-150mm in the RF mount saying that i have no need to switch bodies at the moment as the little M50 is still giving me all i want, one of those things is the ability to be small and compact hence why the efm system in the first place, but still with the capability of shooting ef /ef-s lenses at 400mm / 600mm and 1200mm if you are on a budget maybe an M50 is a better option as the camera can use efm, ef, ef-s vintage M42 lenses, it can not use RF and nor will any efm lenses work on R bodies if you up grade in the future the R100 is on digic 8 processor and 24mp same as the M50, when getting an adapter make use of the tripod foot that comes with it rather than using the camera body when adapting heavier lenses mpb.com have a great reputation for used gear to which i have used them for a number of years. if going for the R100 i'd look towards the rf 18-150mm, much more versatile, for wildlife you not going to gain a whole lot with the extra 60mm of the 55-210 but you will get a big benefit from the 18mm start point and if its the same as the efm design should focus alot closer for small stuff (compare minimum focus distances)
Personally i would get the RF mount native to the camera, the aperture is not a enough difference to make it worth adapting. If you were adapting a 70-200 2.8 that you got for a good price i would be all for that. But those 2 lenses above are both similar consumer grade lenses with a variable aperture.... buying a non-native mount doesn't seem worth it here.
I think that I would go for option 1 and stick to the native lens. I have a RF mount camera, but use EF lenses on it. It is not that much of a problem to leave the adaptor on the camera all of the time. But I would rather use a native mount lens. Gary
