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DhlcadR6 · Jun 25, 2026

They are reskin of Meike. Recently there's 85mm f1.4 for 600USD, and reviews from China seems promising.

I think they avoid the Canon legal team by keeping it not easily accessible.

Del Paso · Jun 25, 2026

I just tested mine (not scientifically!).
And I am extremely satisfied with this little lens, I can only recommend it!

justaCanonuser · Jun 25, 2026

ScreensMatter said:
...I am a true believer of 6x6 negative film .

I'm in your club, I still love to use my New Mamiya 6 system. It is also the most beautiful camera in my collection, of course that's my very personal taste (I'm a Bauhaus and original Braun design fan). Some years ago I realized that I was stalked by an attractive young woman in a museum, and observing her a while I found that she isn't particularly interested in me old man but the Mamiya I carried with me. Well, I am happily married, so this finding relaxed me a bit...

justaCanonuser · Jun 25, 2026

john1970 said:
A lens that would be a bit more differentiated could be a 150-600 mm f4.5 to f6.3. Could take a 95 mm filter on the front and be internal zoom with L grade quality.

I guess the pressure on Canon may increase to come up with a bit faster medium tele zoom because of Sony's new 100-400mm f/4.5, surely an excellent lens. Sony's learning curve in tele lens design was steep, and their actual 600mm f/4.0 lens even beats Canon's actual 600mm f/4.0 lenses in lab reviews, I have seen. Personally I won't change to Sony, but their attack on Canon in the tele section is definitely bold since they came up with their very competitively priced and therefore popular 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 tele zoom. Also, as Canon users, we can only profit from that stiff competition.

Steve_FR · Jun 25, 2026

Bob Howland said:
Are you letting the camera determine the exposure when you zoom or are you maintaining the same ISO, shutter speed and aperture? When shooting wide angle in my living room, the automatic exposure is dominated by the room lights and white walls and ceiling. When I zoom in on a bunch of black lenses, the camera changes the exposure because what it thinks is 18% gray differs between the two scenes. The lenses in the wide angle shot are darker than in the close up shot. It has nothing to do with the fact that the lens has different apertures at different focal length because the camera tells the lens what aperture to use. This is different than in the dark ages of the 1970s when the user told the camera the film ISO (then known as ASA) and manually set the aperture and shutter speed. I do not miss those days!

My guess is that professionals in big budget productions manually set the ISO, shutter speed and aperture after manually measuring the light level and determining the contrast of the scene.

Maintaining the same shutter, iso and aperture while zooming. Some lenses geared more toward still photos have a slight variance in exposure when going through the zoom range, even while set to a fixed f/stop that wouldn’t be very noticeable for still photography, but can show up in video. Just a variance in the amount of light entering at different zoom ranges. It is nice having so many exposure options, I also like to sometimes use manual shutter and aperture, but set ISO to auto.

AlanF · Jun 25, 2026

It's the second card. I posted a thread on it, as implied by @P-visie. Either have a V90 in the second slot or leave it empty.

https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/t...d-for-slot-2-to-avoid-wake-up-problems.45128/

kiwiengr · Jun 25, 2026

Interestingly here in Australia, a number of retailers have the 20~50 lens at AUD400 below RRP, i.e. AUD1799 or so compared to RRP of AUD2199.

P-visie · Jun 25, 2026

Hector1970 said:
My R5 was always a little slow to restart after been unused for a few minutes.
It was a distinct lag maybe 1 second.
I just got an R5II and I'm surprised it has the same general issue.
I saw a thread from 2025 and it was around memory cards being the reason.
Is this really the case or is the camera just slow waking up.
This is generally not a huge issue. With the R5 I had the habit of pressing the focus button as I lifted it up to my eye.
I'm surprised I now need to do the same to the R5II.
I would have expected it to be more responive.
If its card related - why would that be the case. Why would the viewfinder not be ready if it was the card was slow waking up?
Does it happen with all mirrorless cameras.

I had the same issue with the R5 Mk II. I had both CF Express and SD card in the camera. The issue is caused by the slow V60 SD card. Once I removed the SD card the problem was fixed. @AlanF did some tests with faster SD cards and, IIRC, found that a fast SD card resolved this issue.

SnowMiku · Jun 24, 2026

It's nice to see f/2.8 zoom lenses for APS-C.

neuroanatomist · Jun 24, 2026

My understanding is that the issue is with higher capacity memory cards. 256 GB is fast, 1 TB is slower. The camera probably has to ‘review’ the file structure in the card, determine free space, etc. Takes more time for larger cards.

Hector1970 · Jun 24, 2026

My R5 was always a little slow to restart after been unused for a few minutes.
It was a distinct lag maybe 1 second.
I just got an R5II and I'm surprised it has the same general issue.
I saw a thread from 2025 and it was around memory cards being the reason.
Is this really the case or is the camera just slow waking up.
This is generally not a huge issue. With the R5 I had the habit of pressing the focus button as I lifted it up to my eye.
I'm surprised I now need to do the same to the R5II.
I would have expected it to be more responive.
If its card related - why would that be the case. Why would the viewfinder not be ready if it was the card was slow waking up?
Does it happen with all mirrorless cameras.

josephandrews222 · Jun 24, 2026

axtstern said:
17-70 1:2.8 Wow
Stabilized Wow
530 g versus 645 g (Canon EF-S 17-55)

Now I will spend a lot of time whenever going out: which lens to throw into the bag?
Sigma 18-50 1:2,8 (light)
Sigma 17-40 1:1.8 (bright)
Tamron 17-70 1:2.8 (reach)

https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=1753&Camera=1538&FLI=0&API=0&LensComp=398&Sample=0&CameraComp=474&FLIComp=0&APIComp=0

@zajicekpavel · Jun 24, 2026

I already have a Sigma 17-40 for vacation photos with the R7.

justaCanonuser · Jun 24, 2026

RP -> RiP

justaCanonuser · Jun 24, 2026

AlanF said:
The OM SYSTEM M. Zuiko 150-400mm f/4.5 TC 1.25 IS PRO Lens costs $8,600 from B&H! That gives Canon some scope.

Plus, even if this tele zoom is quite fast with f/4.5, it needs substantially smaller lenses for the m34 sensor format. So, the production of such a zoom should be cheaper than of a comparable tele lens/zoom that has to cover a FF image circle. From that perspective, I guess that you get more high quality glass for the money when you buy a Canon tele lens

- depends on the particular lens, of course...

justaCanonuser · Jun 24, 2026

riker said:
I've been eyeing with the 600/4 III for some time, but now I'm just waiting for the rumored 300-600/5.6.

Hope you'll will wait sucessfully - this could turn out to be the most rumored tele zoom that never hit the market. That said, if it came, I'd be certainly very interested myself.

esglord · Jun 24, 2026

koenkooi said:
I did the same, a local camera store had the option to rent the R+RP+RF50L for free and that made me realize the R wasn't €1000 better than the RP. So I bought an RP + EF100L macro lens and sold my EF100-non-L macro.

I'm not sure what features in an R8II would make me replace my R8, it still works great for everything I do. Flash with ES is the bare minimum, but not enough

Funny, I also picked up a used EF100L and a 50mm in 2020 to do newborn photos when my daughter was born during Covid lockdown. Yeah, I don’t think the R8 really needs any new bells and whistles, at least for photography.

Aldherrian · Jun 24, 2026

A lens I really wanted to see in the RF line-up and quite surprised it's coming so late after the Tamron 11-20 but negotiations must have been tedious
I would have bought it two years ago before I pivoted to FF but it's great to see the offering getting more diverse in the APSC realm

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