Two Never Before Seen Lenses Coming from Canon This Year

To me, Canon is more photography's Toyota - not always fashionable but very reliable ;) As I posted multiple times here, my wife as a Nikonian has an extended gear that she caresses much more than I my Canon gear. But we had to send Nikon cameras and lenses so frequently to repair service (broken mirror box, dead buttons from a few drops of rain, several dead AF drives) that I learned: if you can compare in real life, you know why it is wise to stick with Canon. At least this applies if you need a really rugged gear for wildlife that simply works in harder environments. In the past 15-20 years I only had one repair with my original 7D (dead thumb wheel), that's it.
Well...no arguing just sharing my experinece.
I've always been using Canon. Since 2000, before that, my father's AE-1. 30V-D60-10D-20D-30D-40D-5D2-5D3-5D4-R7-R52. The only issue I had was with exposure button of....I don't remember, maybe 40D. I do remember it was a typical issue, others had it too. Does it mean Canon being very reliable? Maybe. At the same time what I see, is that camera users can take less than their camera. In hard conditions, ppl just have enough and go to shelter, sit in the airconditioned car or whatever. Most ppl are not Clint Eastwood enough to shoot in rain, cold wind, etc. They give up way sooner than their camera.

As for Nikon or any brand being less reliable, I don't know. I have a friend who live of photography and shoots Nikon every day, never complained. I know a nature photographer, who shoots in jungle and desert and whatever all year long, he used to use Nikon, now uses Sony.
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The Next Canon PowerShot is Coming This Year

Still hoping for a good zoom range around 400mm and it needs to have raw and a bigger sensor
400mm equivalent and a bigger sensor, don’t hold your breath. P&S cameras can have supertelephoto equivalent focal lengths because of the smaller sensors.

I am not smart enough to grasp why anyone would want a telephoto on this. The form factor is not conducive for telephoto shots. I would prefer it to be wider than current camera. It is my walk around camera and a wider lens would be nice.
Everyone has different needs and preferences. Like you, I prefer wider for a walkaround lens/camera. I really like the 16-50mm (equivalent) range of my PowerShot V1 (enough so that I pre-ordered the RF 20-50/4 to use with my R8). Still, I understand that some people want/need a P&S with more range. Before my DSLR days began, I used an Olympus C-765 UZ, 4 MP with a 38-380mm (FF equivalent, 6x crop factor). One of the places it went with me was on a trip to Africa that included a safari in Tanzania and a visit with mountain gorillas in Rwanda.

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The Next Canon PowerShot is Coming This Year

Still hoping for a good zoom range around 400mm and it needs to have raw and a bigger sensor, or a new G5X with new features...

But come on canon hurry up 😂 make compact camera's for photographers instead of vlogging
I am not smart enough to grasp why anyone would want a telephoto on this. The form factor is not conducive for telephoto shots. I would prefer it to be wider than current camera. It is my walk around camera and a wider lens would be nice.
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The Next Canon PowerShot is Coming This Year

Canon just needs to make more super zoom or just good zoom around 400mm compact camera's with raw, travel buddies to take with you to everywhere there are already so much compact camera's with 2x or 3x zoom😒
While I'd rather have a high quality 2X or 3X zoom than one of these mediocre superzooms. You simply cannot combine low cost, extreme focal variation, wide open aperture and high IQ.
Sure, it is tempting to have one single "does it all" lens, but there's often a drawback to accept, optical quality and aperture.
No free lunch! :)
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Butterflies, Moths and Assorted Insects...

I'll give you another interesting butterfly that I met last year, but unfortunately only once... but I think its name in English is quite fitting... lesser purple emperor (Apatura ilia)

That's my personal goal for this year... : )
I'll try to take a picture of his beautiful, purple wings from the other side. I didn't get a chance last time.

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Butterflies, Moths and Assorted Insects...

So, Moravia. It explains why you don't have Apollo and especially the vineyard (next to your house?) 🍷:)!
There you have even better chance to see N. xanthomelas (Yellow-legged tortoiseshell), it rarely makes temporary populations in your region, usually migrant from East (South-east).
yes, otherwise with that Nymphalis xanthomelas you gave me a good task ... it is something like a mythical unicorn in our country and in Germany : D Where are you from?
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Show your Bird Portraits

Spent the afternoon playing with an old rig. This was the first setup I had that would deliver decent shots of hummingbirds in the bush. The camera is a Panasonic FZ80 with a 1.7x front mounted TC. The camera was designed for such a TC and has a setting that compensates the image stabilizer that works quite well. The key is the TC. It is a Nikon TC-E17ED. Some engineer at Nikon went completely nuts and made a truly pro piece of glass to strap on a Coolpix 8800 (8 MP camera). Production ended in 2006 and the TC cost more than the cameras it was meant to attach to. I added an adapter ring to get it to fit the Panny and it adds essentially no degradation to the image but extends the range of the zoom to a bit over 2000mm (equivalent), so you could think of this as an early take on a Nikon P950 (The Panny does have Raw files, so the P900 doesn't count). I was curious as to what the combination of this old rig with modern software could produce and the result is pretty good with the caveat that the keeper rate is very low, thanks to the abysmally slow CDAF on the camera. This kind of experiment truly makes me appreciate the R7 + 200-800.

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Show your Bird Portraits

Something only heavily cropped and not added to, a European Goldfinch, one of our prettiest birds and thriving.

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You got it in the right angle: I don't like how the beak in this bird is looking when the head is in exact profile. Nice photo! If I was in your shoos I would not be ashamed to lift little bit the shades on the white-red-bill area...
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The Next Canon PowerShot is Coming This Year

I don't want APS-C. That just means another $1500+ camera with a slow zoom lens. What i want is a G16 or Ixus sized camera with modern tech and sensor and a good quality 24-100 or 24-200mm lens.
Yep. Canon would be better off making a soap bar RF-S body than handicapping an APS-C sensor with a compact camera lens. Concept reminds me of the LX100....
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Butterflies, Moths and Assorted Insects...

Yes, you are right, I live in the Czech Republic, the city of Břeclav...I will try
So, Moravia. It explains why you don't have Apollo and especially the vineyard (next to your house?) 🍷:)!
There you have even better chance to see N. xanthomelas (Yellow-legged tortoiseshell), it rarely makes temporary populations in your region, usually migrant from East (South-east).
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