I chose to put this as an opinion because I’m not a lawyer, and while my background is in engineering, we are talking about a rather convoluted subject matter. This topic can really only be answered accurately by lawyers familiar with the legislation. We won’t know for sure until after December 28th, but in my opinion, there’s no need to panic. For those that aren’t aware, starting on December 28th, 2023, all chargeable devices listed by the EU must use USB-C charging. This broadly includes all smartphones, tablets, cameras, and so on. Most people heard of this when Apple proudly…
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Canon enters a new era of inexpensive reach with the 200-800mm. Combine this with an R7 and you can place more pixels on far-away targets than any other camera system that is in the financial reach of mere mortals. The RF 200-800 is bound to be an instant favorite with the birding community. We’ve assembled up a ton of videos talking about this new lens from Canon and don’t forget to check out our MTF analysis while you are at it. Preorder the Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 IS USM and now for the videos..
There’s been a lot of excitement with the new Canon RF 24-105 F2.8L. I find it great when Canon flexes its vast engineering and optical expertise and creates something truly unique. It’s been a great month or so for Canon and, well, for me too being able to write about it. There’s been a lot of previews released in the last few days about the RF 24-105 F2.8L IS USM Z and I’ll attempt to get them all here in one spot for your viewing pleasure. Preorder the Canon RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z
The Canon RF 24-105 F2.8L IS USM Z jumped into the limelight with the latest announcement. This lens may not be for you. It’s big, it’s heavy, and pricey and Canon really wants this lens primarily for the cinema cameras. From all reports it’s not fully parfocal (which means the focus will change as you zoom), but it’s also not the insane price that fully cinema lenses cost either. But with the price and complexity of the addon power zoom accessories, it’s safe to assume that Canon is gearing this lens for its RF C line and hoping to find…
Canon has announced the Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 IS USM, the first super telephoto zoom that reaches 800mm. Canon also kept the price to a surprisingly low $1900. In this article, as much as I’d love to compare the MTFs against other notables from the other camps, the methods used for MTFs for Sony, Nikon et all are all different and you should never really use them for comparison. So for this lens, I’m going to go the practical way and compare this lens to the Canon RF 100-500L + extender. First of all, after looking at the MTFs.. the…
The Canon RF-S 10-18 f/4.5-6.3 IS STM has arrived and issued in the era finally where we can look at the RF-S system as a “system” and not just APS-C Camera bodies with a couple of kit lenses. When the EOS-M first came out, the EF-M 11-22mm was “the” lens that got me interested in the system and I wasn’t alone in that regard. I suspect that Canon is hoping for the same with the RF-S 10-18mm. Of course, I was immediately curious about how this lens looks compared to its competitor, the EF-S 10-18mm which can be also used…
We just went into a long discussion over why reducing heat from IBIS units is a good and absolutely necessary thing for Canon to be looking at, so I think if you need some background, have a go with this patent application here. Briefly, a good overall point when it comes to image sensors is .. heat is bad. There’s a reason why Astro cameras are directly cooled, and that’s because the colder the sensor is, the less noise. Therefore it’s safe to assume that as the sensor operates, it becomes hotter and image quality degrades. So Canon (and others)…
As sensors get more complicated, faster, and also more stacked there is more heat generated from the sensor itself. As fabrication design rules get smaller, for normal chips that reduces the size of the chip which reduces the resistance to electric current, and usually heat – which is why as design rules get smaller, chips tend to get faster because designers have more heat headroom to play around with. But for a sensor, the size of the chip doesn’t change and sensors are very sensitive to heat. As the more heat, the more noise the sensor output has. So as…
This was originally part of the article on the EOS-M discontinued, but then it grew to the point it made sense to unpack it into its own article. You can read about the EOS-M being quietly discontinued here. Be warned, there is not a lot said in this article that is pro-Canon, but I’ll do my best to be objective. Personally, I had almost every single EOS-M camera (don’t get me started on the complete disaster the M3 was). The only ones I never had were the M50 and M50 Mark II, amusingly, the most successful EOS-M cameras. I took…
Canon dipped its toe into the mirrorless world with the EOS-M back in July 2012, over 11 years ago. Today quietly, Canon Japan has all the EOS-M cameras as being discontinued, a sign from the world’s largest camera manufacturer that the system is no longer available. We all knew that Canon would stop developing the EOS-M system once the RF-S was made available and that sooner or later the cameras would be all discontinued. That day is here now. If we look at Canon Japan’s website, we see that all the EOS-M camera bodies are now discontinued, including the popular…