neuroanatomist said:

At my house, there is a robin's nest on a flood lamp fixture. It's just above an upper floor bedroom window, these are 'blind' iPhone snaps with my hand held outside the top of the double-hung window.

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The image below is not that nest, but another one nearby in a more natural setting.

"Feeding Time"
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EOS R1, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + RF 1.4x Extender, 1/2000 s, f/5.6, ISO 2500

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Excellent series, Neuro.

Beautiful shots. Well done, Alan.

Maximilian said:

You mean large red-eyed damselfly?
A pretty young immarture individual.

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Oops - Obsidentify had indeed identified it as that. Corrected

Will it have a fixed screen only or a flippy one?

brent1395 said:

Or, hear me out, Canon could revive what was one of the best compact systems of all time--the M series. Of course that ship has sailed, but the way that company handled that system was such a lost opportunity.

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Totally agree. They made a perfect 22mm pancake. It would have been really nice to see a few more pancakes with small apertures. E.g. a 20mm equivalent and a 50 or 85mm equivalent. Even at f5.6 so long as they had autofocus and good quality, I'd have been all over it. With leaf shutter lenses, something like that would be the perfect small system imo.

Nobody has yet got the formula right imo. I e. Big viewfinder within a pocketable body profile, tiny camera and lenses. Tiny settings screen (i.e. tiny lcd to allow space for a proper viewfinder and photography experience). Hotshoe intact for easy flash expansion and strong hss at the same time as viewfinder use.

Nikon 1 and Pentax Q came close but they messed up or straight up removed viewfinders and pushed zooms that were bigger than the cameras themselves.

I’m more interested in the other cameras being teased… is one going to be the long-overdue G3X replacement - please!! (Or are the other two bodies pre-existing?)

mangobutter said:

whatever happened to the X100-style retro Canon camera? this needed to be at market like two years ago...

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If by two years ago, you mean 10 years ago or whenever the first x100 started gathering cult status, then i agree.

Realistically, while Canon could have put an f2.8 35mm prime in the g1x3, dropped the flip screen, and made the shape either more retro (or just less of a protuding evf), the x100 trick was the ovf with data overlay, which can't easily be copied.

These days however, evf tech has arguably caught up, and Canon's ovf sim evfs are good enough to compete, and dont suffer from parallax recompose issues that the Fuji x100 ovf user has to still contend with....

Even so, the old powershots had functional optical viewfinders, and I'd love to see them reintroduced as well, only bigger and with some parallax correction. Today's autofocus is mostly good enough for a pleasant point and shoot experience without seeing the af points imo...

Immature Red-eyed Damselfly (R5ii + RF 100-500mm). Flew onto the shelf of the bird hide!

Great shots, @Maximilian - tremendous start to the season!

mb66energy said:

But 1400 bucks seems - to me - a little bit to high - except optical image quality is stellar!

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As a benchmark, the EF 24-70mm f/4L launched in 2012 at $1499. Given that, $1400 —in today's dollars and factoring in Canon's tariff-based price increases— seems consistent. A slightly shorter zoom ratio (2.5x vs. 2.9x), but providing an ultrawide focal length and the power zoom feature. So while $1400 is not cheap, it actually seems pretty reasonable to me.

I have seen that lens as an interesting dual use option for both, APS-C (standard zoom, fixed f-stop) and roughly ultrawide for FF.
→ R7 with 20-50 (32-80) + R6 with 100-400 , after lens swap
→ R7 with 100-400 (160-640) + R6 with 20-50
effectively 20 ... 640 mm with a small gap between 80 and 100mm effective focal length ...

But 1400 bucks seems - to me - a little bit to high - except optical image quality is stellar!

Whiskered tern feeding its cub.
EOS R6ii, RF 100-500 f4.5-7.1L IS USM @ 186mm, M w. AutoISO, f/11, ISO 1600, 1/6400s, EvM, -0,33, only adjustment crop.
August 2025, near Bucharest, Romania.

A strange looking Dunnock cheeping away this morning. When his beak was open, you can see from the gape it must be a fledgling (R5ii + 200-800).

Nemorino said:

I had been looking for insects with the R5m2 and the RF 100L macro when a Robin appeared close to me:
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Was he looking for insects?

At my house, there is a robin's nest on a flood lamp fixture. It's just above an upper floor bedroom window, these are 'blind' iPhone snaps with my hand held outside the top of the double-hung window.



The image below is not that nest, but another one nearby in a more natural setting.

"Feeding Time"

EOS R1, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + RF 1.4x Extender, 1/2000 s, f/5.6, ISO 2500

roby17269 said:

If you meant only here on CR, maybe (although I have no idea which cameras everyone owns), but in general, I would disagree.
I spent years on DPR before they self-imploded and there was a rich selection of trolls of all provenances, even in rarefied places such as the medium format forum. And based on short lurkings on other forums, the situation seem to be the same across the board

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Right, I meant on CR.
As to forums in general, I can certainly fully agree with you.

I had been looking for insects with the R5m2 and the RF 100L macro when a Robin appeared close to me:
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and @ f/2.8

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Nemorino said:

You don't need the Latin name as You can change the language of an article. Just click on "talen" in the right top:

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Thanks, one learns something new everyday. I use the wikipedia app on my iPad, the app does not have this feature. I’ll use the browser when posting on the forum.

AlanF said:

Much appreciated. I used to post on nedpix.nl, where the forthright Dutch mods taught me a huge amount for which I am most grateful. But, I annoyed them by only knowing English!

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You should have tried Latin on them. Birdpix moderators were known for their amount of vinegar in their feedback.

Dmcavoy said:

I'm still using the R so haven't come across these new hotshoes yet.

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I have the Canon DM-E1D mic that I use in the hotshoe of my PowerShot V1.

Dmcavoy said:

Was about to go for the R6iii but I think this might sway me if it's lighter/smaller.

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The R6 V is shorter, thicker and about the same weight.

Arturo+Lauren said:

As an owner of all their tilt shift lenses, I gotta say that Canon NEEDS a 35mm tilt shift lens so badly.

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You can put an EF 1.4x TC behind the TS-E 24mm, and you'll have a 34mm f/5 tilt-shift lens. The IQ remains excellent. Note that the presence of the TC will not be recorded in the EXIF data.

neuroanatomist said:

My guess is that you will be able to use a 3rd party trigger on the R6 V, just like you can on the R6III.

The R50 / R50 V (and PowerShot V1) have only the new multifunction shoe and lack the old-style pins. The R100 has only the old-style pins and cannot use the new multifunction shoe flashes/accessories. All the other R-series cameras that launched with a multifunction shoe have the old-style pins as well.

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Fingers crossed then!

I'm still using the R so haven't come across these new hotshoes yet. Was about to go for the R6iii but I think this might sway me if it's lighter/smaller.

As for the 300-600; I just don't understand why people prefer a fixed f 5.6. If they don't want their Aperture to not change set it to 5.6. Obviously DOF considerations depend on the the size of your subject, focal length, distance to subject, and aperture. At 600mm, 5.6 is good. I don't expect them to release a zoom with same aperture as their f4 600mm prime. But at the 300 to 400mm range, I would prefer to be able to use f4.0 for low light or bokeh. For the price; f4 at the 300 to 400mm range is what I would expect.

This lens is going to be expensive. I would guess the range to be between $6500 and $10,000 ( between the Sigma 300-600 and Canon 100-300). I will be very surprised if it's less then the Sigma.

Aperture wise, a fixed f5.6 only gives you 2/3 of a stop advantage over the 100-500 on the long end ( although it is at 600mm) and NO advantage on the short end. Both Nikon & Sony's "consumer grade" 180/200-600 lenses are f5.6-6.3. Their approximately $2000. Here's my internet review prediction if it's released as a fixed f5.6: Canon 5.6 300-600mm, Is it worth double the price of the 100-500; probably NOT!

I was seriously considering the 300-600mm lens when it was f4.0-5.6, but I'm not going to pay $$$ for a fixed 5.6 lens. If they release the 400 2.8 with a built-in 1.4; I'll spend the big money and pre-order it.

As an owner of all their tilt shift lenses, I gotta say that Canon NEEDS a 35mm tilt shift lens so badly. That's one of the most used focal lengths in interior photography and in architecture photography also.
A 35-90 TS lens would also be awesome

Dmcavoy said:

So I wouldn't be able to use my godox trigger on it for example? Wasn't aware of the R50/V not having a normal hotshot?

You'd hope that aiming this at hybrid professionals they'd keep a standard hotshoe? Or will this be a classic Canon "Let's make it ALMOST perfect and then just ruin it with this one thing we changed for no reason" scenario?

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My guess is that you will be able to use a 3rd party trigger on the R6 V, just like you can on the R6III.

The R50 / R50 V (and PowerShot V1) have only the new multifunction shoe and lack the old-style pins. The R100 has only the old-style pins and cannot use the new multifunction shoe flashes/accessories. All the other R-series cameras that launched with a multifunction shoe have the old-style pins as well.