Shortly before Elijah was born, we justified buying a nicer lens for our camera so that we could take baby photos. Buying the lens was cheaper than a session or two with a professional photographer. We’ve had that Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 SP XR Di LD for over a decade and it has taken a lot of great photos, but after getting my first taste of a fancy Canon L-series lens, I could see what I was missing. So this year, we sent our Tamron lens to keh.com and applied the trade-in value towards a used Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L II USM EF!
I once again went with the older EF mount instead of the newer/lighter RF mount, but the price delta was too much to ignore. It’s a great time to buy EF lenses with a lot of people upgraded to RF. Maybe some day we’ll trade both of these in for RF lenses, but I think this will keep us happy for a long time.
I wish I had taken a specific comparison photo with both lenses, but I expect it would be very similar to the comparison I did with the last purchase.
I can no longer blame my gear for poor photos. This body and the two L-series lenses are way above my pay grade so I have plenty of room to grow.