Still curious what's happening in the EOS Cinema world.

neuroanatomist said:

I had an email exchange with B&H customer service when I requested that my order for 10 caps be cancelled, and I told them that I ordered from another vendor because I needed more than 10 caps. Soon after that, the preorder dropdown changed from the 1-10 that it was when I placed the order to 1-10+, enabling you to enter a larger quantity.

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I see. So they did change it!

I didn't specify the quantity in the page with the item description before adding it to the cart. I added it to the cart with a quantity of 1, then later I went to the cart and changed the quantity. At that point it isn't a drop-down but rather a box where you can input a number and I simply typed the number 30.

I hadn't even realized there is a 1-10 vs 1-10+, I think this is the first time I buy more than 10 of anything on B&H .

I did just check (using the R6V as an example) and when the drop-down says 1-10, you can't input a number larger than 10 in the quantity box in the cart. It flags an error and sets it to 10.

So indeed, my order went through because it happened after your exchange with them rather than because of a "UI loophole".

Uneternal said:

And why can't we have both in one product?

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R5 C

mb66energy said:

Thanks for the "data" - in Germany it was 980 € so I remembered as a more or less cheap lens and it was sold often below 800 €. (with taxes)
The RF 20-50 is 1500€ in Germany.

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In the EU, the EF 24-70/4L launched at €1459 (and as I mentioned, $1499 in the US). See this DPR post about the announcement. The price dropped here, too, after a couple of years.



But...while you may remember it as a more or less cheap lens because that's where demand drove the price, when comparing to a new lens the launch price of a similar lens is the relevant comparator. In this case, the RF 20-50/4 at €1500 is very comparable to the EF 24-70/4 at €1459.

Chig said:

According to B&H it's compabile: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1970925-REG/canon_br_e2_bluetooth_remote.html/compatibility

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Thank you I couldn’t find any information on German photo websites

Bluebirds come in pairs.

Ladies first:





R5II and 200-800; the female at about 350 (the male at 800).

I didn’t see this thread until now, so I’ll quote these two replies here:

m4ndr4ke said:

Judging by the photograph on dpreview, it looks like the new cap just lacks the protrusions we can cut on the original, to make it fit in more positions.

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neuroanatomist said:

Indeed, only two tabs. But I have no desire to cut down the number of lens caps I have to save $8 each.

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Del Paso said:

Will we need the latest R1/R5 II firmware for this new lens?

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No, I tried it yesterday with my original R6 without issues or warnings.
EOS RV cameras should allow further adjustments to zoom speeds though.

Very nice series! Well done.

P-visie said:

Maybe, the main difference is the rolling shutter speed: 19.6ms versus 3.8ms for the A1 II (versus 6.3ms for the R5 Mk II).

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Thank you, I actually did not check all of the technical data. I still think that it is a very capable camera. For DGO and the better dynamic range you have to use the mechanical shutter anyway.
For me personally the 67MP would be too much (beside the price ).

One button toggle on and off of precapture is great, must admit that I thought that they would never do it, so really great that they actually did it, thanks Canon….

One major flaw with the programming of the camera that still remain, and which I don’t see anyone else talking about, is that in Av (and P) mode(s), You for some odd reason can’t get a faster shutterspeed than 1/8000th, and with f/1.2 in bright sunshine and a white swan or dress, thát is not going to cut it, so one have to change to M mode, but setting for instance 1/12.800th of a second there, if a cloud cover the sun for a moment, and one for some reason doesn’t adjust, or if there suddenly is a shot in the shade to be caught, the AutoISO may end up at 1600 or something, and on a bright sunny day, thát is simply stupid....

- Particularly considering that while noise is no major problem at ISO 1600, the number of tones from black to white will be reduced, and thát doesn’t help with the ability to recover details in the highlights, if allowing faster shutterspeeds in Av (and P), thát would be no problem whatsoever, You just stay in Av and shoot whatever You see….



It could also be at a concert, where the scene all of a sudden explode in bright light, in both Av and M there will be a whole lot of adjusting that need to be done, very quickly, so thát image is basically impossible to catch.

- Any way, if the problem is that in faster shutterspeeds than 1/16.000th, the shutter change in whole stops, then AutoISO can fix thát without ever getting past ISO 200….

Go to Fv mode then, people have said, but
I have been in Av since I bought my first Canon, the Eos 620, back in the ’80s, and really prefer to stay there, together with exposure compensation on the rear wheel, and now AutoISO, You have complete control over the camera, in very simple steps….

AlanF said:

Water voles are an endangered species in the UK. Have seen 3 in the last few days (RF 100-500 on R5ii and R7).

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I really like your photos of this little fellow.

sturm3n said:

I installed it on my R5m2 and so far so good. Precapture toggle works great: it even switches you from mechanical shutter to e-shutter and back automatically.

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What button did you map it to? I'm debating which to use (once I eventually install the new firmware).

The R5 did ~500mbyte/s write and the R5Ii does ~600mbyte/s, both of which are still far below v2 speeds (1800mbyte/s max). And like @neuroanatomist I use v4 cards (but in an R5II) to get the files to the computer faster.

dgbarar said:

Hi All,

The R5II has a feature called pre-roll where the camera records 3 or 5 seconds of video to the buffer once the feature enabled. Once in video mode, pre-roll cannot be turned on and off. Once you set pre-roll on, it is on until you turn it off in the settings. This seems odd to me as it would wastes battery and potentially overheats the camera while waiting for a particular scene to develop. This is different from how pre-capture for stills is implemented where writing to the buffer begins with a half press of the shutter button. Canon must have had a reason for implementing pre-roll as they did. But I do not understand why. Does anyone have insight on this?

Don

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In stills mode, Precapture forces you to hold down the shutter button halfway and then fully to keep shooting, in video land the record button is a toggle and has no half-way mode. So conceptually, pre-roll shouldn't require extra presses for it to work as people expect a record button to work.

Not only does it turn your camera into a space heater, it has a timeout as well, so you can't wait for half an hour.

AlanF said:

How about reposting that photo of you hanging under your tripod!

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That photo wasn’t me, it was the owner of RRS.

Mt Spokane Photography said:

Hi Alan. I've been inactive for quite a while. I saw the same thing when I got my 5D MK II. I had a V60 SD card to go with the Fast Main card. I just used one card most of the time.

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Great to hear from you, Ed!

I am not video oriented...but If you can lend a camera, I would go with the new R6V when it comes out, and when you have good budget C50. But I would first try it, to try the overheating...

neuroanatomist said:

If the R6 V has the same readout speed as the R6III (13-13.5 ms), that would support X-sync of around 1/60 s - 1/80 s. I guess Canon decided that was too slow.

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The R5II showed me how much I desire ES+flash, so any new bodies I want to purchase need to support that. This likely means that my R8 won't get upgraded by the rumoured R8II, but I don't mind that

Great shot, Sir!

neuroanatomist said:

The point remains – a 'stills-only' camera is not going to be cheaper to make, and is going to be more expensive to sell because fewer people will buy it. Therefore, your wishlist will remain just that...on April 1st and on every other day of the year. Sorry for the reality-check.

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Okay, it will cost more because it would be a boutique product and the manufacturing process would have to change thereby increasing the cost. My thought becomes part of the April 1st wishlist. No problem. Reality checks are welcome.

Is there already some news on when canon comes with new compact camera's??

AlanF said:

What do you reckon this one is? An immature Common Blue? Obsidentify gives higher probability of a Variable.

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Top view on the abdomen would make it easier. especially the first abdomen segment.
But I am very much with you and what ObsIdentify says that it is a immature male Enallagma cyathigerum (common blue/bluet)
Go here:
https://www.libellen.tv/libelle_gemeine-becherjungfer_enallagma-cyathigerum.html (German)
scroll down to the point "Reifezeit" and compare it to the photo of Barbara Bargmann.
Look at the abdomen pattern. I would give it more than the 67% that ObsID tells me.

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...

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.