Transitioning to the Canon RF system
Dec 30, 2023 21:17:47 #
tcthome wrote:
Thow not guaranteed, depending on what & when she likes to shoot might spark a new enthusiasm in photography for her. See what she might want as far as the lenses go & dump the rest that you don't use so someone might get some use out of them. Happy holidays to you & yours!
Well, time will tell.
Dec 30, 2023 21:22:18 #
Well, I think it is time to get in my lounge chair and watch TV while deciding what to have for dinner. My wife is attending our Bahá'í community "Feast" with our younger son. I am having coughing and sneezing fits every couple of hours, so I am staying home and following it on Zoom at 7PM.
A good evening and great weekend to all.
A good evening and great weekend to all.
Dec 30, 2023 23:21:40 #
robertjerl wrote:
Yes, that would work. Though, Jasmine is too busy to do anything but carry her cell phone as a Pediatric Resident at one of LA County's larger medical centers (Harbor UCLA - one of UCLA Med School's teaching hospitals). And she says she will be able to afford whatever she wants when her career takes off. If she even wants to do photography as a hobby anymore by then. So I should just sell or trade for the RF gear I want as part of thinning the herd.
Totally off topic. But have daughter look at whitecoatinvestor.com. Critical financial information for docs. My son is a doc and it helped him a lot.
Dec 31, 2023 00:11:34 #
Hip Coyote wrote:
Totally off topic. But have daughter look at whitecoatinvestor.com. Critical financial information for docs. My son is a doc and it helped him a lot.
Thank you, I will make a note.
Though she probably will consult the company that handles our Living Trust and other stuff because she and her oldest brother Michael will be dealing with them after we pass to see to the care of our special needs younger son.
He gets a trust that owns the house, while the two of them will be salaried trustees and have the right to move in or hire someone to move in and care for him. They both told us to set it up that way, so Jon doesn't get institutionalized. He and Jasmine have been in this house since birth.
Dec 31, 2023 01:01:00 #
This past year I transitioned from a Canon Mk5 II and a T-6 to a R and a R7 body. I'm using adapters with my EF lenses and having great success. If you forsee a need for the older bodies I would find new homes for them. I had to download a plugin for my PSE 2022 to be able to process the images from the R7 and I follow that with Topaz DeNoise. The improvement in quality is obvious. Have fun!
Dec 31, 2023 08:57:20 #
Dec 31, 2023 09:50:30 #
robertjerl wrote:
When I went to the RF system I got the RP for full... (show quote)
IMHO, sell all the EF lenses and cameras. With the money buy an R8 if you want 1 FF body or a R50 if you want a backup crop sensor body.
Dec 31, 2023 11:12:24 #
I "transitioned" from a 5D4 and 77D to a R5 and RP 28 months ago. I had 12 EF lenes at the time. Over the next two years, I slowly bought 7 RF lenses replacing the ones I use most. I'm now standing pat but will likely buy the new 200-800 at some point. I sold everything I replaced except the 135 2L because it takes an extender which the RF version does not. It's also not worth much.
It sounds like your daughter has no spare time now, so I would sell all the DSLRs. They are just sinking in value while you wait. Ditto the EF lenses you've replaced. Use the money to buy a R5. You'll be glad you did. You can buy her a shiny new mirrorless when she graduates.
It sounds like your daughter has no spare time now, so I would sell all the DSLRs. They are just sinking in value while you wait. Ditto the EF lenses you've replaced. Use the money to buy a R5. You'll be glad you did. You can buy her a shiny new mirrorless when she graduates.
Dec 31, 2023 11:23:11 #
Ed Chu
Loc: Las Vegas NV
robertjerl wrote:
When I went to the RF system I got the RP for full... (show quote)
Interesting; i was going to transition from my Sony aR7III ( and probably my OM-1 ) to a Canon R5 and R7; one system for both formats; was stalling, not really wanting to spend the money; went to a Caddo Lake workshop, fell off the kayak with my Sony into the lake. System change became accelerated 😁
Dec 31, 2023 12:16:18 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
robertjerl wrote:
When I went to the RF system I got the RP for full... (show quote)
Lots of folks are quite happy with their switch to mirrorless. A few, however, have expressed some second thoughts and misgivings. There might be some benefit taking an approach with somewhat less energy than a bison stampede. Plus, from what I can tell, the bloom is off the rose for selling right now. I think there is some wisdom in taking a couple of deep breaths first.
Dec 31, 2023 12:46:47 #
mikegreenwald
Loc: Illinois
robertjerl wrote:
When I went to the RF system I got the RP for full... (show quote)
My wife was a pediatric resident many years ago. Then she opened a practice and had a couple of kids herself. That’s when she found out what BUSY really is. She said she had three children to take care of - I was the third.
Dec 31, 2023 13:23:38 #
Dec 31, 2023 13:25:01 #
bkwaters wrote:
IMHO, sell all the EF lenses and cameras. With the money buy an R8 if you want 1 FF body or a R50 if you want a backup crop sensor body.
another possibility to consider
Dec 31, 2023 13:27:43 #
MountainDave wrote:
I "transitioned" from a 5D4 and 77D to a... (show quote)
Another of the ways to go I am considering.
Actually finishing residency (aka internship) is more like a prof/teacher getting tenure than graduating.
Dec 31, 2023 13:46:21 #
Ed Chu wrote:
Interesting; i was going to transition from my Sony aR7III ( and probably my OM-1 ) to a Canon R5 and R7; one system for both formats; was stalling, not really wanting to spend the money; went to a Caddo Lake workshop, fell off the kayak with my Sony into the lake. System change became accelerated 😁
Accelerate huh? Are you enjoying the new cameras?
Hmmm! I thought the idea was to stay in the boat? But in my mind, a kayak is more of a human carrying rubber duck.
I am from Western Kentucky near the joining of the Ohio and Mississippi and in the "backwater lakes" (aka flood plain) we favor the wide, flat bottom "Jon Boats". You have to really work at it to flip one.
Though my youngest Aunt's two "idiot" brothers-in-law did manage to sink the one they were in by running it under the ice on the lake where we were duck hunting. Instead of letting it run up on the ice and break it with the boat's weight, the two of them got in the bow and were beating the ice with paddles (ruined two handmade cedar paddles also) in spite of everyone, including my Uncle who was running the motor, yelling at them to get back to the middle of the boat. Their weight pushed the bow down just as a big sheet of 1+" thick ice bobbed up, so the boat went right under it. Good thing that lake was only 3-4 feet deep there. They could stand up and hold their shotguns out of the water. My Dad and I took our Jon Boat out to get them and so did some other hunters who also towed the cable off a winch mounted on a truck out and had them hook it to the boat before they got out of the water. They then winched the boat back to shore. Flat bottom boat, almost perfectly flat mud bottomed lake so the boat slide right along and up on shore. The only thing lost was a lunch box of sandwiches, which they found in the Spring when they went fishing there. It was water tight, just floating around when they found it. Those two were so stupid and such cheap skates, I am surprised they didn't try eating the sandwiches.
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