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R5II Startup from Sleep

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Thanks Alan , Pieter, Neuroanatomist. Yes I'm using big cards. It was happening with just a CF Express B in the camera. It was a 1785MB/S 512GB Angelbird card.
It feels like its checking something before it wakes up. Checking for space would make sense. I'll keep an eye on it. It's more of an irritation than anything. As it was an issue with the R5 I was hoping it would be eliminated on the R5II. Maybe a future firmware update might look at it.
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Canon EOS RP Officially Discontinued: End of an Era for the Budget Full-Frame

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koenkooi said:
It does half-macro, so 1:2. It's quite a good lens, albeit with slow AF.
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1:2. Right. That's what I meant to say. Thanks.

As for focusing, I was reading Bryan's review at TDP and he says that short focus adjustments are relatively quick but longer adjustments are slower due to long focus throw (3 full turns to go from infinity to min. focus distance). Dustin Abbott doesn't seem to like the AF very much and says it's prone to hunting, which is surprising given it's a native R mount lens. Others say it has okay performance.

I may rent one for a day and see for myself.
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Canon EOS RP Officially Discontinued: End of an Era for the Budget Full-Frame

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DocInfoSci said:
I run an R3 and and R6, each with a control ring adapter. Check my sig for the EF lenses and accessories. I can state that I enjoy remarkable success with all of them. RF has an advantage in terms of AF speed for USM -variety and VCM lenses, from my limited testing, and in some cases there's a sharpness edge, but nothing I'd pay $1000+ extra for unless my mortgage depended on the outcome. Turn on DLO for sooc improvements (I use max DLO, but the fastest things I shoot are sprinting deer and galloping horses). Especially for Macro I really appreciate the manual focus with the EF lenses as it stays put and can't be damaged when the camera sleeps, gets turned off, undergoes a battery swap, etc. If you're on the fence it's worth hauling your camera to the local store and testing both EF and RF equivalents. Stuff like the 100mm macro should still be in good supply around the place, and right now Canon / vendors tend to run early summer specials.
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RF really breathed new life into a lot of EF glass, particularly fast primes that struggled to nail focus. Most extreme examples of this were the old Sigma EX 1.4 primes; no more issues with alignment. The 50 still wasn't great wide open but from F/2 onward it was solid. EF glass generally works way better on RF bodies than the EF bodies they were made for.
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The Canon EOS R6 V & RF 20-50 f/4L IS PZ are in Stock and Ready to Ship

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P-visie said:
Christopher Frost has a review of the lens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ8dkyX7LDo
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Thanks, Pieter. I did indeed watch the review. It moves along quite quickly. I also noticed that Chris jumped from 24mm to 35mm, skipping 28mm entirely. The lens has a nice range of focal lengths: 20-24-28-35-50. But the results in the corners do look pretty decent, actually—albeit with slightly less contrast and sharpness. Nevertheless, I’m going for it. It seems like a great combination with the R8.
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The Canon EOS R6 V & RF 20-50 f/4L IS PZ are in Stock and Ready to Ship

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candyman said:
Thatt's great Koen.
Have you had a chance to use the lens yet? What kind of photos did you take? It would be great to post some photos in the lens gallery. I’m curious to see the results for cityscapes or architecture, especially the corners of the images.
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Christopher Frost has a review of the lens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ8dkyX7LDo
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The Canon EOS R6 V & RF 20-50 f/4L IS PZ are in Stock and Ready to Ship

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koenkooi said:
I had a preorder with Cameranu, didn't make the first batch. Cameraland did have a single one in stock, which is now attached to my R8.
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Thatt's great Koen.
Have you had a chance to use the lens yet? What kind of photos did you take? It would be great to post some photos in the lens gallery. I’m curious to see the results for cityscapes or architecture, especially the corners of the images.
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Canon EOS RP Officially Discontinued: End of an Era for the Budget Full-Frame

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[..] RF 85/2 plus something like a NiSi dual-element close-up filter. The 85/2 alone does 2:1 which is sufficient most of the time, and if I want to get closer then I could add the front filter. Like the EF 100 is is not an all-in-one solution and involves messing around with accessories.
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It does half-macro, so 1:2. It's quite a good lens, albeit with slow AF.
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Canon to Merge Two Lenses Into an RF 24-70mm f/2L IS?

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masterpix said:
I wish I had the money for it all, but at the moment I use my old EF glass which works quite well.
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I held onto my EF glass for quite some time. Over the past three years, I’ve started replacing it—a process that doesn't happen overnight. It involves deliberate saving combined with the sale of lenses, accessories, and the like. Recently, I sold my two M-series cameras and all my EF-M lenses. Since 2025, I’ve been buying via grey market imports, which has saved me over 4,000 euros so far. I also don't expect to replace the gear I’ve just bought anytime soon.
So, it’s not a simple process; it requires a strategic approach.
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