1) The ability to remove all the white icons superposed to the image from the viewfinder (IS, eye focus etc). I don't get why this is not an option.

2) Viewfinder activation only when half pressing the shutter, enabling proximity only after that or in the menu and gallery. This would allow me to use the normal neck strap setup instead of looking to other carrying options that don't feel as good.

3) Fix the first input being gobbled up by the camera when the viewfinder goes to "sleep". This drives me crazy.

4) Fix the stutter in the viewfinder in video mode. Mysterious stuff.

5) Any improvement on eye controlled focus, always appreciated.

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6) Open gate. Could be wishful thinking I don't know if the hardware can do it.

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Continuous IS on these lenses is immensely helpful with video in general: smooths out pans and softens ground vibrations or camera adjustments. I replaced my EF 100-400ii with the RF 100-500 (for the R7) and the on the newer lens the IS auto-shuts off when it detects a stable surface, so now the slightest touch of the camera at 500 causes an "earthquake". Can't count how much footage this "feature" has wrecked. See below for an example (albeit with different scenes).

https://youtu.be/B6HW8nKz5P8?si=njnTx6_eFlnY8uEW

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I have seen another yt video where someone observed a similar difference between both lenses. EF 100-400 came out with better IS smoothness - a great lens in all dimensions.

I have a question for those usinc macOS and latest Sequoia, are you able to see thumbnails for the CR3 files? Quicklook preview works (even though it's a bit buggy) but there is only the PS logo for the thumbnails.

I took in hand the 5D3 again today and wanted to add or reitarate a few things. The optical viewfinder is a touch more sharper on the 5D3 (could also be me not having figured out the best diopter setting on the R52) but it is also so so dark now that I am used to the R52... Autofocus is similar across different lenses, just a Tamron I have feels faster on the R52, my Sigma 35mm Art will need an upgrade since the meetering is wrong on the R52, the Sigma 18-35 has incredibly fast AF, I didn't realize until now. IBIS for vintage lenses is a god send. Image quality is similar until you zoom in, have to push the exposure, use high iso, high dynamic range scene etc If you never encounter all of that they could look like similar sensors but they are really not.

Keithf2.8is said:

Yes, maybe he could have. I would think the main logic board is a bit more detailed than the quick control button. But I did like the video.

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Look at the other vids, including the second latest one about a Fuji LCD cable, quite a bit more complex, so he only did it for a friend ;-)
From what I gathered, he had been working on cameras since the DSLR era, and praises mirrorless for their reduced complexity (and praises Canon build vs others, older Sony shuutters are broken by design, so he makes plenty of money replacing those)

As we know, Canon spends a lot of money on R&D across their multiple divisions, from imaging, manufacturing, security and lithrography and more. Canon is also active in protecting their intellectual properties as we've seen in the camera space. Canon is putting significant resources into AI and IoT, as well as environmental technologies. For the […]

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"Sony over the last 3 years has consistently held the #1 spot in the Japanese domestic marketplace."

Speaking of Sony, they recently agreed to sell a majority stake of their tv business to TCL. If they ever decide to do the same with their camera business, it seems that DJI might be a good fit.

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Not sure if it’s in-budget, but personally I find an ultrawide angle zoom to be very useful in most European cities. There are many landmarks that are in close proximity to other buildings with little space around them, so you cannot just back up to get a wider view. For your APS-C DSLR, a lens like the EF-S 10-18mm would be worth a look.

Here’s an example from Venice, Santa Maria Formosa – the church whose bell tower was 'destroyed' in Spider Man: Far From Home. Shot on FF at 14mm (equivalent to 9mm on APS-C).

Very nice Series. Which Lense did you use?

neuroanatomist said:

I have had the 100-300/2.8 for quite a while now, and it’s definitely an extraordinary lens. The convenience of the zoom is more than worth the extra length.

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Zoom is definitely a great convenience and I have no doubt that it is optically extraordinary. As you say, the extra length is roughly half offset by the back focus distance.
The price is - unfortunately - also extraordinary. (Edit: price in Denmark is 98.000DKK incl sales tax - almost USD15.400 - vs the USD10.600/11.540 at B&H [ex/incl NY sales tax]).

My primary gripe with the lens is the cost - it's 3x what I paid for the 300/2.8 in HK back in 2014, that it doesn't take drop-in filters, and that I'm not using super teles enough to (mentally) justify the cost of a new lens. As an amateur, the economical payback ratio is pretty close to zero.

I really like seeing this kind of content on Canon Rumors. The camera world could use more real world, practical takes instead of spec sheet comparions.

The EOS R5 C is a great camera—I’ve owned two since launch and use it equally for photo, video, flash photography, and timelapse work. It’s a true hybrid.

I don’t care about IBIS. For everything except photos, I’m always on external power, so that’s a non-issue for me. I do need an EVF, and I love that it shares a body with the EOS R5. I combine tielapse and real time video for some shots. Shooting an 8K time lapse in photo mode, then switching to 8K Raw video for real time plates is great. It would be slightly easier in open gate, sure, but it's fine.

It’s a much better camera today than it was at launch, and surprisingly there seems to be more interest in it over the past year than there ever was when it was new. People thought it was a flop but it's still relevant, That makes me hopeful we’ll eventually see a proper successor—something aimed at people who want a full-featured photo camera first that can also do professional video. The EOS C50 is a video camera that can take pictures and that distinction matters.

I have no doubt the Canon C50 will be used for documentaries... probably even some TV & movies. Canon has finally caught up with Sony, even surpassed them, due to the C50 being better than the Sony FX3. The Canon C50 is about to become Netflix approved, and then we'll hear about it even more.

PinholeR5 said:

At first look, my feeling was the same. This lens would complement Sigma's 10-18mm and 18-50mm very nicely. But it seems to be too large. I would actually expect (or, perhaps hope) that Sigma would come out with something more like a 50-115mm F2.8 that is more compact.

When I look at the table in the article it lests the lens length as:

176.15 (W) and 236.15(T)

I'm assuming these are in mm. When I look at the spects for the RF 70-200 F2.8 (non-Z) & F4 it lists the lens length as:

F4 : 119 (W) and 181(T) (https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Lens-Specifications.aspx?Lens=1529)
F2.8 : 146 (W) and 212(T) (https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Lens-Specifications.aspx?Lens=1417)

Which suggests that the 50-150mm would be longer than both of the current RF L non-z 70-200mm. Am I missing something? Is it just the diameter and weight improvements? Lower price? More versatile focal length range? It really doesn't seem to complete the "non-L f/2.8 trinity".

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OOPs I did not read the dimensions.. The Sigma EX (non stabilized) of yesterday I used was a non extending internal zoom which had always 140 mm length and 67mm front element
The newer OS Version had almost 200mm and had a frnt lens of 77mm which made it useless when you looked for something compact.

padam said:

…and the EXIFTool software was updated to read out this information).

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Thanks, I haven’t checked for an update in years.

David_B said:

Because the response from the crowd here was basically she's a nobody because they already knew about her or some other random reason. Maybe the cut-n-paste missed a detail here and there, but that was a far far less or a sin than the other comments that were diminishing of her achievements, notably by people that will probably never achieve anything close to what she achieved, which all comes across as misogny to me.

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Your post concluded:

David_B said:

She invented technology that changed how humanity sees the world.
And for decades, history couldn't see her.
But now we do.
Now we remember that every barrier broken makes the next one easier to break.
That every woman told "you don't belong" who succeeds anyway creates possibility for the next generation.
Katharine Burr Blodgett made glass invisible.
History tried to make her invisible too.
We're bringing her back into focus.

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@P-visie gave the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett to her Wikipedia Entry that had the impressive recognition, full deserved, she had received in her lifetime. That's what people told you - she was recognised for her marvellous achievements, and no-one here denigrated her. The responses from here were just about your false statements she wasn't recognised in her lifetime. Here is the text of @P-visie's link, with her birth and death dates so you can see when she was honoured with respect to them.

Katharine Burr Blodgett 1898-1979

Awards

Blodgett received numerous awards during her lifetime. She received a star in the seventh edition of American Men of Science (1943), recognizing her as one of the 1,000 most distinguished scientists in the United States.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett#cite_note-siegel-19">[19]</a> In 1945, the American Association of University Women honored her with its Annual Achievement Award.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett#cite_note-siegel-19">[19]</a>

In 1951 she received the prestigious Francis Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society for her work on thin films. That same year, she was chosen by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of 15 "women of achievement." Also in 1951, she was honored in Boston's First Assembly of American Women in Achievement (the only scientist in the group),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett#cite_note-proffitt-6">[6]</a> and the mayor of Schenectady honored her with Katharine Blodgett Day on June 13, 1951, because of all the honor she had brought to her community.

In 1972, the Photographic Society of America presented her with its Annual Achievement Award<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett#cite_note-ogilvie-7">[7]</a> and in 2007 she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett#cite_note-20">[20]</a> In 2008, an elementary school in Schenectady bearing her name was opened.

She received honorary doctorates from Elmira College (1939), Western College (1942), Brown University (1942), and Russell Sage College (1944).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Burr_Blodgett#cite_note-ogilvie-7">[7]</a>

Blodgett's accomplishments were widely recognized, earning her several prestigious awards. In 1945, she received the Achievement Award from the American Association of University Women, and in 1951, she was honored with the Garvan-Olin Medal by the American Chemical Society. These accolades were a testament to her groundbreaking work as a scientist and her role as a trailblazer for women in the field.

slclickr8 said:

As someone with an extensive list of glass and who has spent considerable cost (gear signature), I would think you know what I meant. With your logic you could compare it to a 3rd party manual focus Chinese lens. No, I think any Nifty or perhaps the EF 40 2.8 would be a much more fair comparison. Why would you argue a McLaren against a Pinto? I guess they both have 4 wheels.

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Of course you can compare them, you just need to establish the boundaries.
My point was simply that I did not like the EF 50 1.2 and therefore, if the RF 45 1.2 has similar characteristics, then it is not for me, regardless of size, weight and price

yeahright said:

we can always use GNSS as the abbreviation for global navigation satellite system which does not specify a particular one of the many systems currently available

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hey, this was just a joke...

scyrene said:

Has the R7 price gone up recently? When I was looking at it 2-3 years ago it seemed by far the best value R body, in the UK at least.

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It’s been ~$1k USD used for a while.

New/refurb? I’m not sure. I think Canon did a Black Friday fire sale, but I doubt they’ll drop their price for an R7 body.

Not sure about UK/EU prices either.

It’s also an aging body now. For instance, the R50 apparently takes better HDR HEIFs, and my R50V will do real time video LUTs with encoding options the R7 does not support.

Mine is 7months old, never dropped!! Canon is saying that it’s separating and broken And would only happen from impact or drop, which never happen, I am fighting it, because there is not even one scratch on the lens!! They want to charge me $1k to fix it..

kaihp said:

The R3 provides the number of shutter releases somewhere in the menu system. But that's the mechanical shutter, so mine keeps saying "<1000" as I only use the electronic shutter.

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The R1 does so as well, and like you mine reports (and will likely always report) ≤1000.

In my case, my images are sequentially numbered so I can determine the total shutter count just by the filename (with the subtraction of about 30 shots from my one and only use of in-camera RAW conversion, which I was unaware would create 'new' filenames rather than the same file name with a .jog extension).

When I read the article's title, I was hoping to see a 15-whatevermm zoom. Not that the Sigma 18-50mm is a bad lens, but on Canon that's a not-very-wide 29mm effective, and the difference between 24mm and 29mm is pretty significant.

David - Sydney said:

Help me out here…. If there is no bayer/AA filter layer then isn’t it full spectrum by definition?
Clearly the red filter makes it specifically IR

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The sensor has an internal IR cut filter. That needs to be removed to make a full spectrum camera.

See: https://kolarivision.com/full_spectrum_conversion/

I geo-tag all my photos. The GPS has performed well until yesterday.
I took about 1000 photos across a 100 mile birding trip. Roughly 900 photos were locked to one single geo location, even though the photos were many miles apart.
I am always Mode 2 for GPS.
The camera was powered on all day.
I was outdoors all day, but some shots were from my car window.
I took about 600 photos in one area over a range of 1/4 mile. I then want to another location about 60 miles away, and took another 400 shots over a range of 1 mile. All 1000 photos were assigned the same geo-tag at a spot in the first location.
I contacted Canon CPS. All they said was that GPS signals may be interrupted or not available in some locations. No help.
I understand that there will be times that the satellite signal will be lost. But the camera should not record a geo-tag from data that is an hour old, as it did to me.
There should be at least a 5-minute time-out so that unrefreshed data is not used.
That would be called a firmware bug.
Anybody else out there have this experience???

EricN said:

What are you using for your night photography?

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The best you can get for Canon (RF): Sigma A 14/1.8, Samyang XP 14/2.4. Sigma A 28/1.4, Canon EF 35/1.4 II, Sigma A 40/1.4 plus some longer lenses. Laowa has too much chromatic aberration for me (e.g. 15/2.0) and I'm recently looking into the Pergear/7Artisan 14/2.8 which has little 'coma' but a strong vignette. So it might be a useful lens when the weight is critical.
I'm often using stacking and that will result in ugly - moiree - patterns when I apply the distortion correction first. So VCM lenses are simply not suitable for me.

...and focussing only down to -5.5EV.
Same as R7 (APS-C).

Gimme 1/500s flash sync w/ EFCS and I will be super happy. It does 1/320s now so not a massive leap. AFAIK, the only thing that will beat that spec is the A9III w/ global shutter.

APS-C, Living the Dream!