m4ndr4ke said:

He doesn’t have to, he doesn’t even have to own the camera.
I am the target user for the R6 series and I use v30 SD cards because I can and because they’re enough for my needs.
Free will, you know?

It’s a wrong assumption to think that everyone is buying the fastest memory cards a camera can take. Not everyone is doing video, not everyone is shooting in bursts. The R6 has buffer for over a hundred photographs, and I’d be working the same way if it had half of that, as I’m not burst shooting.

I’d get pissed if they converted the R6 series to using two different memory cards, one being at 10 times the price.

I own several pairs of memory cards, that would increase the price of the camera to me by 10 to 20% right away, in order to keep working the same way. That’s just crazy for this price point.

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Has anyone actually investigated cheap cfe cards? Under usd40 for 128gb from
Amazon.com for slower cards
I just don’t get the fud about sd vs cfe cards and cost anymore

It was definitely different ~6 years ago when my R5 was released but things have changed now

Click said:

Nice shots, Sir!

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Thank you Sir

Nice shots, Sir!

Got this Double Crested Cormorant and American Robin, they were both out of my truck window and further away then I like! Taken with my Canon R8 and RF 600mm f11

Turkey Vulture taken with my Canon R10 and RF 600mm f11

Nicely done, Del Paso.

Very nice Great Blue Heron. (or Grey heron) Well done, Del Paso.

In Spain (my country) the original R6 released at 2799€ and the R6 mk II at 2980€ (21% VAT included).

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The Sony 300mm f2.8 GM is a relatively popular lens. It's light enough for hand holding (at least much moreso than the 400mm). From what I've read it works great with the 1.4x teleconvertor and still holds up well with the 2x TC, giving you a much lighter 600mm than the 200-600mm and of course way lighter than the 600mm f4. It's a long way past "inexpensive", but it's still thousands less than the 400mm f2.8 and 600mm f4. IMO the real competition for the 300mm f2.8 is the Sigma 500mm f5.6, which is an incredible lens for the price, but has the typical Sony limitations of 15fps and no TC.

I think Canon would do well to offer something like this as well. The 100-300mm is an incredible feat of engineering, but it's a chonk. Or take a page out of Nikon and Sigma's book and make hand holdable "affordable" primes like the 500mm f5.6 or the Nikkor 400mm f4.5 and 600mm f6.3.