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    Canon Adds EOS R50 and EOS R8 to the Growing EOS R Mirrorless Camera System

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    Plus, Image Story Telling Through R-Mount Lenses Is Ramped Up With Additions of the New RF-S55-210mm F5-7.1 IS STM and RF24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM Lenses 

    MELVILLE, NY, February 7, 2023 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, announced today the launch of the new EOS R50 camera body, ideal for entry level users, and the EOS R8, an extremely compact, full-frame camera aimed at advanced amateur photo and video enthusiasts looking for budget-friendly options that don't sacrifice performance. Additionally, two new RF-Mount lenses are being introduced to the ever-growing R-mount lens lineup.

    EOS R50

    Compact, lightweight and ideal for those looking to step up their video quality, the EOS R50 provides an impressive movie-shooting experience thanks to the APS-C sensor, with 4K video, uncropped 4K capture (at all frame rates), and outstanding Dual Pixel CMOS AF technology. With the addition of whole area tracking, subject detection, and movie-prerecording, difficult photo and movie opportunities can be easier to capture with a 24.2-million-pixel, APS-C sized image sensor. In addition, the EOS R50 is equipped with an eye-level electronic viewfinder to help achieve shot steadiness and ease viewing in bright sunlight conditions. A great camera for those who are looking to lean into interchangeable lenses, the EOS R50 camera can capture travel adventures, family portraits, sports, wildlife and even help a small business with marketing imagery. For those who are budding content creators, the EOS R50 will be available later in 2023 as part of a Content Creator Kit – packaged with a microphone, lens and grip. Overall, the EOS R50 is truly a jack of all content creation trades.

    “The first time I picked up the EOS R50, I noticed how light it was. When I saw the footage, I wondered how the quality can be so good when it’s this lightweight in my hand. My mind was blown!” Bianca Matisse Taylor – Content creator and blogger

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    EOS R8

    The EOS R8 — affordable and functional — is a full-frame mirrorless camera aimed at the up-and-coming video or photo enthusiast. This camera comes with class-leading autofocus while still extremely capable for everyday and general photography use. Equipped with a 24.2-megapixel CMOS image sensor and DIGIC X image processor, the EOS R8 is optimal for full-frame RF lenses — allowing enhanced wide-angle field of views when compared to APS-C sensor cameras. Extremely lightweight and compact, the EOS R8 shoots up to 6-fps with 1st-curtain Electronic shutter, and up to 40-fps with full electronic. For users who've already explored interchangeable lens cameras but haven't yet broken into mirrorless, the EOS R8 should be the camera that takes them over the threshold to capture events, weddings, still life, travel and pets.

    “My work is a lot about movement and not missing a beat with the fast shutter on the EOS R8 is so important to me as an artist.” Jasper Soloff – Photographer and Director

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    Additional product specs include:

    Video performance

    • Uncropped 4K video to 59.94p (29.97p with EOS R50) (with 6k oversampling)
    • Full-HD to 59.94 fps, and High Frame Rate to 119.8 fps (Full HD 180p with the EOS R8)
    • Dual Pixel CMOS AF, with subject detection for people, animals and vehicles
    • Up to 2 hours of continuous recording (one hour with EOS R50); no 30 min limit
    • Focus breathing correction

    Enhanced usability for video correction

    • Vertical Video Metadata
    • Movie Self Timer
    • Audio Noise Reduction (only in EOS R8)
    • UVC/UAC Support, for USB livestreaming
    • Recording Emphasis
    • Aspect Markers

    Connectivity

    • Easy wireless connection from camera to compatible smartphone
    • Camera Connect with USB connection to compatible smartphone
    • USB streaming direct to computer via Zoom™, Teams™, or Skype™
    • MFI Certified (Apple); WPA3-Personal protected access
    • Convenient firmware updates via compatible smartphone
    • Cloud RAW processing

    Alongside the camera bodies, Canon will release two new lenses. The RF-S lens line, optimized for the smaller APS-C sensor size, expands with the Canon RF-S55-210mm F5-7.1 IS STM lens. This is a telephoto zoom, giving coverage equivalent to an 88–336mm lens on a full-frame camera. The lens opens the door to telephoto photography and videography, with 4.5 stops optical image stabilization, and close-focusing that can fill the frame with a subject roughly 2×3 inches in size (at its 210mm zoom setting, and minimum focus distance). And it does all this in an incredibly lightweight and compact package.

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    The Canon RF24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM is a new, compact standard zoom lens for full-frame EOS R-series cameras. Ranging from true wide-angle to traditional “standard lens” coverage at 50mm, the lens is a travel friendly design with an extremely compact exterior. The RF24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens is just over 2 inches long when fully retracted, and under 3.5 inches when extended — weighing less than half a pound. Optical Image Stabilization, with 4.5 stops of shake-correction, further enhances its appeal for video and still-image shooting. It’s also useable on an APS-C sensor Canon camera, where the lens' effective coverage is equivalent to what a 38–80mm would deliver on a full-frame camera.

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    ​​​Price & Availability

    ​​​​​​​The Canon EOS R8 camera body will be available for an estimated retail price of $1,499.00*. The Canon RF24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens with the EOS R8 will have an estimated retail price of $1,699.00*. The Canon EOS R50 camera body will be available for an estimated retail price $679.99*. The EOS R50 with the RF-S18-45mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens will be available for an estimated retail price of $799.99*. The EOS R50 with the RF-S18-45mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM and RF-S55-210mm F5-7.1 IS STM lenses will be available for an estimated retail price of $1,029.00*. The RF24-50mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens will be available for an estimated retail price $299.99* while the RF-S55-210mm F5-7.1 IS STM lens will have an estimated retail price of $349.99*. All products are currently scheduled to be available in Spring 2023.

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    1. Does it all - in plain English - mean that R50 will be a bona fide "Internet camera" that can be charged via USB and that transmits voice via a built-in microphone?
    3. Does it all - in plain English - mean that R50 will be a bona fide "Internet camera" that can be charged via USB and that transmits voice via a built-in microphone?

      The EOS R50 looks like a very impressive package.
    4. The EOS R50 looks like a very impressive package.
      With UHS-I SD slot, thanks but no thanks. R8 on the other hand is seriously good for its asking price(though dont understand quirkiness around USB charging as pointed out in one of the hands-on preview).
    5. The R8 is going to be a very interesting alternative to those of us who were salivating over the R6 II, especially as a step-up from the EOS R or RP, but put-off by the price. I'm looking ahead to the discount season later in the year, when the already very reasonable USD 1500 is going to reduce even further.
    6. The R8 is disappointing to me in design despite having really nice specs, I owned the RP for a while and the body just isn’t very ergonomic, I feel like it’s lazy for canon to just reuse the parts and leave out things like a control wheel or joystick (which even the cheaper R10 has).
    7. The price of the R8 is quite underwhelming. You can buy an RP for 899 Euros. The R8 costs 1799 Euros, which is roughly twice as much. Is that the price you have to pay for an "entry level" full frame camera these days? When did 1799 Euros become "cheap"? Are full frame sensor still very expensive to produce in 2023? Back in the analogue days full frame was a standard, but in the digital world it still seems like a luxury.

      I thought that the R8 might be a good second camera along a DLSR, but for that it is just too expensive. It misses IBIS and a mechanical shutter and has a horrible battery life. The R7 seems like a much more attractive page for me. It costs 1499 Euros and has IBIS and a mechanical shutter.

      For 400 Euros more than the R8, you can buy a Panasonic S5 II, which seems a much better deal. Like the R7 it also has IBIS and a mechanical shutter, but also full frame and some other nice features. And it supports third party lenses including all Canon EF lenses with an adapter.
    8. Looks like all the latest rumours and chat has come true.
      The bodies look like a good round-up of the system. Of course a lot of things will be moaned over (battery, IBIS, etc.)
      The lenses might find their market, but esp. for the 24-50 I'm not in that market.

      Depending on my budget, the R8 might be a really interesting travel body.
      And from my 200D I already have some LP-E17, so I'd go along with enough spare ;)
    9. The R8 is disappointing to me in design despite having really nice specs, I owned the RP for a while and the body just isn’t very ergonomic, I feel like it’s lazy for canon to just reuse the parts and leave out things like a control wheel or joystick (which even the cheaper R10 has).
      Well, the RP sold very well, so the form wasn't an issue for everyone.

      I feel about the R8 a little like I did about the EOS R - which included an excellent sensor (from the 5D IV which I couldn't afford), but left off a bunch of features that I usually didn't (but sometimes did!) want. And I absolutely loved/love the EOS R. That's how price differentiation works - and in the case of the R8, we end up with a (relatively) budget version of the M6 II with most of that camera's state-of-the-art features, in a very small and light body. It's, as always, a Q of whether the feature set and the price suit you. At first glance I think they will for a lot of people with the R8.
    10. For 400 Euros more than the R8, you can buy a Panasonic S5 II, which seems a much better deal. Like the R7 it also has IBIS and a mechanical shutter, but also full frame and some other nice features. And it supports third party lenses including all Canon EF lenses with an adapter.
      And you'll get an excellent camera, and probably be very pleased with the images it captures. Sounds like a good option for you.
    11. The price of the R8 is quite underwhelming. You can buy an RP for 899 Euros. The R8 costs 1799 Euros...
      It is always easy to compare the actual street price of an old camera with the MRSP of a just introduced new camera.
      But it is comparing apples to oranges.
      Of course, you will also see some rise when you compare both MRSPs at release date. But

      - RP has an old, reused sensor
      - RP has the weakest AF system of all FF R cams
      - RP EVF is so slow
      - R8 gets the latest sensor, an up-to-date EVF and the latest AF system
      - R8 is almost an R6 II at a fraction of its price
      - and globally since the two releases there is all that inflation from COVID, war, etc.

      Still, and of course with reason one can argue, that that price is too high.
      But nobody is forced to buy Canon, that camera and at release price.
    12. Well, the RP sold very well, so the form wasn't an issue for everyone.

      I feel about the R8 a little like I did about the EOS R - which included an excellent sensor (from the 5D IV which I couldn't afford), but left off a bunch of features that I usually didn't (but sometimes did!) want. And I absolutely loved/love the EOS R. That's how price differentiation works - and in the case of the R8, we end up with a (relatively) budget version of the M6 II with most of that camera's state-of-the-art features, in a very small and light body. It's, as always, a Q of whether the feature set and the price suit you. At first glance I think they will for a lot of people with the R8.

      Price differentiation is designed to give everyone an option they want though - not the case with what canon is doing here. What I and many others wanted was an r10 or r7 body with full frame sensor and canon didn’t do that - and I don’t want the size of the R6 so I’m left with the only option remaining of switching brands.
    13. Somehow still glad I bought the M6ii. How can Canon have so many cameras in the range and yet somehow make them all fundamentally the same camera with minor tweaks? It's not all about price Canon, and smaller cameras don't have to be cheaper cameras while more expensive cameras don't have to be massive!
    14. Still no camera for stills shooters (pun intended). But good work from product management. Some features worse than the competition, some better. Not bad enough to make you switch systems; but not good enough to make you happy neither.
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      Edit: both prices are what I would pay in Germany today.
      Battery life according to DPR.
    15. Still no camera for stills shooters (pun intended). But good work from product management. Some features worse than the competition, some better. Not bad enough to make you switch systems; but not good enough to make you happy neither.
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      Thanks for that summary. And I agree that getting more for less money (BTW: is the Z5 price MRSP or street?) is always nice.
      Maybe you should add size and weight as well. The higher Z5 could be a dealbreaker to some small travel bags.

      Edit: And maybe you should update the R8 battery life to 370 / 220. That are the values I get from Canon.
    18. The extension grip EG-E1 is listed as an accessory for the R8 on Canon's website. This is the same grip as the RP, and as far as I can tell, the holes on the bottom of the R8 are the same as on the bottom of the RP, and the bottom of the R8 looks to be the same shape as the bottom of the RP. I'd say the R8 is for all intents and purposes the RP successor.

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