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DocInfoSci · Jun 15, 2026

I just joined the R3 club. It's more camera than most people will ever need, and remains in production today. Looking forward to years of great use, just as my other amazing DSLRs and MILCs before it!

Nemorino · Jun 15, 2026

Chig said:
won't let me adjust the shutter speed

Is pre shooting enabled?

neuroanatomist · Jun 15, 2026

Cariboucoach said:
I like the detail in the feathers and the lack of noise for a picture taken at ISO 25000. Do you have to do a lot of post processing to get it this good or is the R1 just that good???

Thanks! DxO PhotoLab, using the default options for DeepPrime XD3 so the 'work' is just one click for NR.

Cariboucoach · Jun 15, 2026

neuroanatomist said:
"Downys Sharing"
View attachment 230132
EOS R1, RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM + RF 1.4x @ 700mm, 1/1000 s, f/14, ISO 25600

I like the detail in the feathers and the lack of noise for a picture taken at ISO 25000. Do you have to do a lot of post processing to get it this good or is the R1 just that good???

blackcoffee17 · Jun 15, 2026

ctk said:
It can keep doing this job with much better image quality. Take it to a $300 price point and bring the optical design into the 21st century. It hasnt changed much since the EF 50 1.8 from the 80s and its output shows that.

$300 would be too expensive in many parts of the world. The whole point of this lens is to bring users into Canon ecosystem by offering a cheap but "professional" quality lens. Look at the RF 75-300. Canon could have improved it and make it $100-200 more but they choose to offer it for dirt cheap instead.

AJ · Jun 15, 2026

Interesting. At first I thought: no way they're going to take a 24-70/2.8 and make it a stop faster without a significant increase in weight. Physics doesn't work that way.

But Sony has shown that a 28-70/2 can be made much lighter, so if Canon take that as a starting point and then create a design where distortion corrections are sacrificed for a wider focal length rage, then voila. Canon turned EF 16-35/4 into RF 14-35/4, so it seems reasonable that they could stretch 28-70 into 24-70 using similar techniques.

I think such a lens would be an instant hit for wedding photography and photojournalism. Wedding photography is tiring, and a lighter lens will be appreciated. Plus the extra 4 mm will make a big difference too.

snapshot · Jun 15, 2026

neuroanatomist said:
Thinking more about this desirable, yet hypothetical lens, there’s probably room for one TC in the optical path as it is (assuming they keep the drop-in filter), but not for two of them. The lens is already quite long as it is. Makes me wonder if they will release it as a DO lens…

do they really need to stack two 1.4x? perhaps there are other designs.

PinholeR5 · Jun 15, 2026

sobrien said:
Interesting. Find it hard to imagine selling my 28-70 f/2. It has captured so many beautiful moments in my growing family’s life. Rarely if ever feel it’s not wide enough for events and the likes. Don’t mind the weight too much for the times that I use it. Would have been more interested in getting the best/lightest 24-70 f/2.8 Canon can make to complement it. Hmmm.

My thoughts were similar to yours. I love my 28-70 F2. It is by far my most used lens (outside of sports and wildlife). It has traveled all over the globe with me and is always there for family events. When I first bought it and sold my EF 24-70 F2.8 II, I would feel it a bit tight on the wide side. I got the 16 F2.8 just to manage wide angle anxiety

. But over time I realized that I swapped in the 16 very, very rarely.

I don't mind the weight and size of the 28-70 F2 too much. Or better, I think it is worth the effort to carry it around.

All that said, a lighter version at the same IQ and an extra 4mm at the wide end would get my money instantly.

Click · Jun 15, 2026

I love this shot. Well done 'Neuro.

neuroanatomist · Jun 15, 2026

"Downys Sharing"

EOS R1, RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM + RF 1.4x @ 700mm, 1/1000 s, f/14, ISO 25600

Speedfinder · Jun 15, 2026

I found this part which I suspect is a part of an FD 500mm f4.5L lens.
Anyone recognise it

?

@zajicekpavel · Jun 15, 2026

Detail of the blue.

Del Paso · Jun 15, 2026

@zajicekpavel said:
Yes, that explains why I had much better results in combination, R10+100-400 with TC, some of my best photos were created. On R7 the pixels are already too dense and diffraction is visible ... with R7 I have to throw away TC

Please throw it away in my direction...

AlanF · Jun 15, 2026

@zajicekpavel said:
Yes, that explains why I had much better results in combination, R10+100-400 with TC, some of my best photos were created. On R7 the pixels are already too dense and diffraction is visible ... with R7 I have to throw away TC

Your R7 has the resolution/reach of a 1.9xTC on an R6ii or a 1.4x on an R5/R5ii. I have pointed out many times before you joined CR that my wife using the R7 + RF 100-400mm gets images very close in IQ and resolution to mine from the R5ii with the RF 100-500mm. I used to use the EF 400mm f/4 DO ii on the 90D that has the same sensor as the R7, and the f/4 really gets the best from the dense sensor, and the 1.4xTC works well with it.

HMC11 · Jun 15, 2026

Exploreshootshare said:
That would make a great spiritual successor for the RF 24-105mm F4 L. While I do believe going longer will eventually happen with successor for this lens, I doubt it will be wider. 24-120mm is a five-times zoom, 20-120mm would be a six-times zoom. I think there hasn't been a six-times L zoom with the exception of the EF 28-300mm F3.5-5.6 L zoom. And the reports its quality weren't really favorable. In addition, the difference between 20-24mm is really difficult to achieve, it is much more work than "just 4mm wider" would suggest. Lastly, I do believe Canon could deliver a 20-70mm F2.8 in order to differentiate from the rumored 24-70mm F2, but I don't believe "20mm is the new 24mm". If Canon would upgrade all zooms starting at 24mm with a 20mm replacement, they'd surely cannibalise their UWA zooms. We know Canon doesn't like to do that.

Perhaps a 20-105 F4L (approximately a five times zoom)? This, or the rumoured 20-70 f2.8L, would the the one lens to rule over my collection of lens for 1-lens travel kit.

danfaz · Jun 15, 2026

Here are some American White Pelicans having fun in the water.

@zajicekpavel · Jun 15, 2026

Maximilian said:
Before you do that, send it to my friend.
I'm sure he likes to use it with his R7 and 800STM for birding

Your friend might consider the slight fog in the shot to be an artistic expression

Chig · Jun 15, 2026

I've noticed since I installed firmware 1.3 that my R5ii won't let me adjust the shutter speed whilst I'm holding down the AF on button and I have to release it before it lets me change it

Canon's software is appalling

@zajicekpavel · Jun 15, 2026

AlanF said:
You are using an R7 with a diffraction limited aperture of f/5.2, @Maximilian is using an R6ii with a dla of f/9.6. The RF 100-400 has an aperture of f/8. The two cameras respond differently when a 1.4x TC is put on the lens. The R7 is pushed further into dla-limitations but the R6ii less so. It's a waste of time if not disadvantageous putting TCs on to narrow lenses on the R7 but you can squeeze out more resolution with FF cameras. I know this from direct experience with my R7 and R5ii bodies as well as from theory.

Yes, that explains why I had much better results in combination, R10+100-400 with TC, some of my best photos were created. On R7 the pixels are already too dense and diffraction is visible ... with R7 I have to throw away TC

homebodyMacro2 · Jun 14, 2026

AlanF said:
The 70-200mm f/2.8 Z is on my buy list. However, for macro of about 0.6x I am now getting too old to bend down to get the mfd of 70cm away, but the 2x TC on the RF 100-500mm or RF 100-400mm means I can stand relatively straight at 1.2-1.4m! Here's a Green Bottle Fly I took at 1000mm on the R5ii a few minutes ago!

Very nice!

Peter Ebel said:
Nice shots, have plenty of fun with this lens!

Yep! It's an unreasonably good lens, simply a joy to use.

track inspector · Jun 14, 2026

How about a state of the art RF 70-300L?

Click · Jun 14, 2026

Very nice shots, Alan. I especially like the first one.

photophil · Jun 14, 2026

Nemorino said:
Athene noctua aka owl of Minerva aka Steinkauz
R5m2 + RF200-800

Oh wow! Can you give any tips on finding those?

sanj · Jun 14, 2026

The 2.8 version of this new lens will go into my bag. I currently have fantastic prime lenses that cover this range.

neuroanatomist · Jun 14, 2026

Exploreshootshare said:
You mean, where´s your 600/4+1.4&2.0 TC

Thinking more about this desirable, yet hypothetical lens, there’s probably room for one TC in the optical path as it is (assuming they keep the drop-in filter), but not for two of them. The lens is already quite long as it is. Makes me wonder if they will release it as a DO lens…

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