Why I’m Buying The R5C Instead Of The C50 (Or R6 Mark III)
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Please note that the C50's display is significantly worse than the R5C's, with a smaller size and lower resolution.
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Beautiful shots - not only because of the resolutionEnough of mirrors and back to resolution. The EF 100-400 L II with EX 1.4 is still the sharpest lens I have in the 600mm range. All with R7. My Anna's hummers are very friendly this time of year. I think they know they are on the dole.
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"Hard to spot, hard to focus, hard to shoot" and after that not much appreciation... But once you may see something rare in the same circumstances, you should be able to take the photo, I mean practice is good thing! If I could I would put here 5XMy challenge of the summer: Little birds sitting in the reed.
Hard to spot, hard to focus, hard to shoot.
R5m2 + RF200-800 + 1.4 TC
Willow warbler
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Common reed warbler
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I'm European actually and aside a full world war like WW2 I fully assume I will be able to continue to buy Chinese products (of course with a few years disruption in electronics products if there is an invasion of Taiwan). Why do you think I will not be able to afford Chinese products in the future ?I think you missed the rather LARGE point that eventually you wouldn't be able to afford anything made in China, unless you are a rather wealthy American. And that is assuming that trade relations normalize in the meantime, too. Demographic collapse in China is baked in--hence why the CCP feels a need to invade Taiwan as even losing a war is preferable to losing power. All of the collapse can then be blamed on the war and the West.
Indeed I'm also stuck for choosing my RF transtandard: buy the 28-70 f2.0, buy the 24-105 f2.8 or wait for a lighter or wider 28-70 f2.0 MK2 or a 24-70 f2.0. the Sony's f2.0 zoom prove us that it is a real possibility that canon will release them too, so for now I'm stuck in analysis paralysis...Isn't that the truth? I was quickly wiped out during the pandemic as far as gear goes. I haven't a single RF lens. On the positive side, I managed to hang on to my R body, Canon EF 135mm f\2L, Tamron 45mm, and dozens of very old M42 mount lenses.
I can add one new RF 'L' lens a year, starting next year. Yes, my R is old, but I haven't shot with it much and it takes wonderful still life and portrait photos. It's slow as heck, and an R6 Mark III is on the far horizon, but I want glass.
The RF 28-70mm f/2L is the obvious first choice for me. Then Canon releases that damned RF 24-105mm f/2.8L with internal focusing. #$@&!
My obvious second choice is the RF 85mm f/1.2L. Then the RF 50mm f/1.2L. Simple. Then Canon releases the VCM primes. UGH!!!!
It was far easier when there were a few known 'great' lenses for what the project required. It was easy to choose. Now, from where I'm sitting, we are very spoiled. Thank you Canon.
Why do you say that ?I assume it is the RF 24-105mm f/2.8L?
It isn't a 70-135f/2L![]()
I assume it is the RF 24-105mm f/2.8L?Any more information on this never before lens ? Even a vague announcement date ?
Many thanks Click. She is a great little dog and totally ball mad !Very nice portrait. I love your dog.![]()
Omg, what a flashback. you're right. I once shot in -15°C with the EOS R (not Antartica weather, but pretty cold for the mild part of Germany) and it worked perfectly. I wonder if my R5 will work under these circumstances.The EOS R is almost a guarantee for trouble free photography.
Mine hasn't frozen once, nor has it ever overheated or had any other kind or mechanical or electronic issue. A most reliable camera, like its predecessors 5D III & IV.
Interestingly, in 2018 my EOS 1000d failed me (actually I failed it because I let a huge wave in Havanna hit the camera) and was looking for new cameras and tested several models and brands. I read about the EOS R when photokina opened and my initial reaction was "naaaah". Two or three days later I was at that photokina, shot with the R and knew: I want this cameraFortunately, the internet haters failed to convince me to buy another brand.
Yes, as mentioned very often. It's flaws :/ I was always hoping for a EOS Rmkii, but the R5 basically is that. Better in almost every way, expect for heat (and maybe cold weather?).Of course, it was not perfect (EVF, touch-bar, lack of joystick), yet, totally reliable.
When I got the R5 I sold the R because I thought I´d never use it again. Funnily, I never keep unused stuff. I sell it, invest the money otherwise and keep away from collecting. But this camera still lets me dream. Maybe I'll get a used copy to reminisce.I use it less often now, having replaced it with R5 IIs, but if I quickly need a camera or a backup, I know it won't let me down!
R6 + the lens that CR members love to hate - the EF 50/1.4 ! View attachment 226924The look on your pup's face seems to be saying, "You're not shooting with that thing wide open, are you?"
I'm not sure of the exchange rate, but I hope you accept blurry bird photos as currency.Invoice: Fee for consultation $6000 ($10/mm rate). I recommend the 1200mm next at same rate.
I stand corrected. Just got email saying it will be delivered on 11-26!!I wish. December 3rd for me.
I don't think we know either way at the moment. Surely they will produce more wildlife lenses. Given that Sigma has a $6600 300-600 f/4.0 with probably twice as much glass as a Canon 300-600 f/5.6L would have, I do think that a ~$8000 300-600 f/5.6 would be possible for Canon. I do expect Canon to be twice as expensive as Sigma generally, but in this case there's also half as much glass. But that could be wrong! Who knows.I guess it will stay again just a rumor. It became so silent about it so don’t think any wildlife lense again.
Slowly becoming really disappointed with canon.
You’d better tighten your seatbelt when you read this post by Ivor Rackham, a “professional photographer and writer”. He is an Olympus ambassador.I actually spit my coffee up when I read "simply because it is too ugly". Unreal to me that someone would consider Canon cameras ugly and not buy a Canon because of the way it looks. Then again, there are people out there who still buy Pentax.
I know it's faster, and I understand 12 bit being the standard, and the performances are pretty good but, if we had both options, at least we could choose to get a full output of the sensor using electronic shutter. This way, we simply can't.speed. it's 4x faster in e-shutter doing 12 bit - canon uses a ramp comparator, so the more bits the slower the ramp.