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My original Rebel is gone, as is my 5D classic, but I still have my 40D and 60D, though not used often. My 6D gets used most, but when I know I need to crop, the 5DsR is amazing. With the pandemic the number of shutter clicks in the last year is appallingly low. I hope we can resume our travels out of the country in 2022. I cannot remember the last time I used the EFS 15-85mm. All my other lenses are EF, and the 24-105 pretty much lives on my 6D when traveling. Least used EF is the 85mm f/1.8 and 300 f/4, but for BIF the 400mm f/5.6 is still my go to lens. My tabular list:
400 5.6
300 4.0
100-400 II
70-200 2.8 II and 4.0 I
85 1.8
50 2.5 (quantity 2)
24-105 4.0
16-35 4.0
15-85 variable f number

Canon Rumors Guy said:

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Any update on these announcements?

Del Paso said:

Sorry, but I'm getting fed up with all this "objective" (MTF) - "subjective" (bokeh") testing.
Real user experience is what I want to hear, not test-chart results, or self-declared expert judgments.
Reading reviews is only one tiny part in my decision -taking, I rather rely on CR member's opinion.
The RF 1,2/85 is a wonderful lens. Period!

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It's all about taste and personal preferences. I think it's quite good actually. Don't think I'll use it that much thou, but time will tell

An interesting apples to oranges (but useful) size comparison for those still using EF system partially or wholly (or looking to get deals on EF stuff)
[thanks to camerasize.com]. Battle of the travel zooms!

EOS R6 + RF 70-200mm f/4L IS
vs
EOS 6D II + EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS

Personally I find a 70-200 f/2.8 + 70-300 f/4-5.6L combo more interesting with its extra reach than a 70-200 f/2.8 + 70-200 f/4. Might be worth seeing what Canon does for RF 70-300L if you already have the RF 70-200 2.8.

ok, ill try somewhere else.

ethermine said:

Meh. I’ll stick with my Mountainsmith bags. They’ve yet to let me down with all the hell I’ve put them through.

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I'd like too, but all the interesting ones are sold out, according to their website...

Handheld on my R6 wide open. Worth it if you find one cheap enough I guess. a bit soft.

I recently installed version 1.07 for the 100-400 II using my R6. Loaded the firmware on an SD card and then had the body do the update.

stevelee said:

Good to point out. I thought about going to my original shots to see how close you came. Then it occurred to me how you obviously determined the view. And yes, I realize that you can use intermediate rotations for the shift to get a little more usable area. This was just the second thing I did with the lens right after it arrived, so I was just trying out the concept. I tried exactly the same thing with the 17mm, but because the foliage had come out, the two pictures really are hard to compare. Maybe I should try superimposing them. Note in the lower right corner you see the corner of the rail of the deck, not too bad out of focus. And I think that may be the shadow of the lens you see on it. Getting back to this makes me waver on my decision not to buy the lens.

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To follow up, I did align the two panoramas in Photoshop as well as I could. The difference in perspective made an exact overlay more trouble than it was worth, and the difference in foliage obscured matching tree for tree. The 17mm version did cover more area than the 24mm, but not as much difference as one would expect from a 17mm vs. 24mm lens. Maybe what I should try is to use privatebydesign's method and separate the center shot from what has been added and compare the latter.

koenkooi said:

No, the HDMI port on the R5 doesn't support 8k output and the R5 also can't pretend to be a regular USB drive. I think the only option is that your TV speaks PTP. Another option would be to use a usb card to read the SD/CFe from your TV.

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I'd start with you TV. What type of 8K input does it accept, what format? I'd plan at a minimum on converting the file type to a supported one. A video virtually always benefits from editing.

I am happy to see that the prices are the same!

ToddK said:

I’m liking this size guys. The r3 seems like a perfect camera and we don’t even know the basic specs haha

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Thanks for sharing. It made me realize just how small the R5 is!

Had the same issue, on 24/70 f4.
Rubber rings were held in place with 2 face-adhesive tape.
Replaced the tape with 3M (Amazon), but take care not to "overextend" the rubber ring.
Should you get new ones, warm them up before mounting, the risk of distorting them will be "bigly" reduced.

@Noah Interesting settings. I thought for focus tracking on Canon EOS R/RP, facedetect is the only mode which works? Is this information correct?

Regards
Suman

klickflip said:

Hi, wonder if anyone can help .

the servo tracking isn’t as direct / quick as I am used to working on 5d 4 .
basically I am used to working in single shot small point mode , then press a programmed button to engage servo tracking on that point.
then I recompose or pan the moving subject/ person for the desired shot/ framing .

what I find in the R5 is single point with servo does not track on the frame. Just the distance on that point .
and in servo tracking (face detection) case 1 , it can be a bit jumpy and take few seconds to lock on , if model is not fully front face on .
which is often the case.
I’m a professional lifestyle. Fashion and portrait photographer , so I need to be seamless between single shot and a cf button to engage servo.

ive set up AF-on button to switch between single shot and servo. That works well .
And m-Fn to switch face tracking on off.
and focus point select button with top dial to switch between focus point area mode and tracking mode.

why can’t I just engage servo on single point mode and that point will track ?
that would be the simplest , as I used my 5d 4 .

the face tracking is good , but not as good as the reviews are saying/ showing . Of eyes are not looking to camera , a lot of the time I don’t have models actually looking to camera.
I’ve often got to wave camera around till it gets a basic area to track , then it will refine itself and find and eye .
and if there are 3 or 4 people in the shot -it will lock to the most front facing face , which isn’t always what I need.
as I said I shoot a lot of natural lifestyle and fashion , and Models are often looking of to the distance or at each other .. not the camera.

often I have to jump between same shot but switch focus to product in their hand , then back to face really quickly to get 2 options of the same pose.

but for more static portraits the eye detect works fairly well .

it seems over complicated to me .

I think it should just have , single point , that can be superseded by servo tracking on that point. (By custom button)
And that can then be switched to eye detect at any time . With custom button.
- but single point won’t override to eye detect with my custom button .

any ideas folks?

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@klickflip I have the same experience too albeit with EOS RP. I have asked this question to a technical person at a Canon service center and he says that servo tracking only works with Facedetect option selected. It seems that for (all?) Canon mirrorless models, servo tracking only works with Face detect mode. I too am interested to hear what other experienced members have to say about this.

Regards
Suman

Fake RF Lenses
I own both the 400mm and 600mm EF lll when I start comparing the fotos against my lenses. The original Canon photos are showing the latest EF plus a silver adapter/converter that my be fixed ?
Every new real RF Lense has a control ring. Where ist it ? The length has to be corrected to +25mm (converter EF RF)
Minimum focus distance in the specs is the same. This is same same but different ;-)

We have to wait.
Maybe the marketing is selling that as the first RF Lens that you can convert to EF.

slclick said:

It's not worth it...just read, chomp the popcorn and chuckle.

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Or just put him on ignore.

The overall winner is Mads Nissen with an image of an embrace given to a resident of a care home in Sao Paulo.
Taken with a fully outdated vintage Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Exposure data:
50mm (lens not namend), 1/1600, f/5.6, ISO 200

Look for his photo and the other winners at:

CONFIRMED:

New Canon R5 Firmware Version 1.3.1 released April 14th fixes the problem, and the Samyang AF 14mm F2.8 RF with Firmware Version 3 now communicates properly with full function restored.

Michael Clark said:

Not when it's a preproduction loaner from the manufacturer.

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You can't fix weather sealing with a firmware tweak. Even if you could one of the reasons to put cameras into the hands of people is to see all the weird things they might do that nobody in lab thought to test.

It's better to find out that a autumn rainstorm bricks the camera before you ship it and not after.

labmansid said:

I happened to click on the support site for the R5 and noticed a new firmware version, v1.3.1, is available as of today. I didn't see any mention of it yet, so thought I would share. Thoughts?

Looks like there is one item that was added to version 1.3.

13. Fixes a phenomenon, in which when shooting with Canon Log 3, if the [View Assist.] setting is set to [On], the image in the viewfinder and on the LCD screen is displayed brighter than it should be.

*Items 1 through 12 apply to Version 1.3.0, whereas Item 13 applies to Version 1.3.1.

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Thanks for that. Not using video but I want to have the latest firmware. So I have downloaded and installed it.

Well that settles it.

People seem uncertain as to whether the 1.4 on the macro is magnification or it falling short of 1:1.

It's magnification.

PS: He could at least have used a dime that wasn't so scratched up!

David - Sydney said:

Quite an essay!
I bought a 7D as my only camera due to cost. To assume that all or most crop sensor buyers would buy a R7 as a second body is based on your experience. Your assumption that the R7 will be
Relatively cheap like the 7D/ii is a big assumption

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Cheap is always a relative term. Compared to the R5, the R6 is cheap. Currently the R5 sells for 152% what the R6 is going for in the U.S. ($3,800 vs. $2,500). If history is any indication (though it may not be with the unique market conditions we currently have regarding production capacity and the current state of the memory market), the R6 will start edging down in price well before the R5 will. Compare the prices of the 6D and 6D Mark II eighteen months after introduction to the prices of the contemporary 5D Mark III and 5D Mark IV eighteen months after introduction. Will the R7 be as cheap as the 7D was? No. But then the R5 is not as cheap as the 5D series was, and the R6 is not as cheap as the 6D series was, either.

As for the typical user of the 7D and 7D Mark II: It seems to me based on my experience at a lot of youth sports and high school sporting events as well as hot air balloon festivals, air shows, etc. over the past decade plus there were a lot more folks who bought a 7D as a single body than there were who later bought the 7D Mark II as their only body. I knew plenty of folks who had a single 7D. I knew almost no one who had a 7D Mark II that didn't also have at least a 6D, if not one or more 5-series bodies. A lot of that had to do with the introduction of the 6D in 2012 that lowered the price of admission to the FF club from $3,500 to $2,200. Most of the original 7Ds that were sold had already been bought by then. After the 70D came along in 2013, sales of the 7D dropped even more. Even those who wanted a 7D rather than a 70D or 6D were waiting for the 7D Mark II, which many expected to see as early as 2011 or 2012, based on the replacement cycles of the 30D/40D/50D/etc.

With how Canon "downgraded" the 60D compared to the 50D in many ways, a lot of folks who wanted a replacement for their 50D chose the 7D. The shot-to-shot inconsistency of the 7D's AF system frustrated many of us and when the 70D was introduced with a slightly better sensor most of those folks shooting a single "prosumer" crop body went back to the x0D line and left the 7D line as a specialized sports/action camera to be used with FF telephoto lenses to give more "reach".

That movement only increased when the 80D was rolled out barely a year after the 7D Mark II. The 80D was a better general purpose body than the 7D Mark II, especially when shooting below ISO400. I saw/knew a lot more folks who had a 7D as their only body than I later saw/knew who had a 7D Mark II as their only body. Almost all of the 7D as their only body folks I know eventually replaced it with either a 70D or an 80D (or a 6D if they weren't into sports/action/birding).

I saw a lot of folks shooting 7D + EF 100-400 around 2010-13 at balloon festivals, airshows, and the like. By 2014-17, those same folks were shooting 70D/80D bodies with the EF 100-400 II.

I'm all for the best quality first (which they did). However, now that those are out of the way, they could do something a bit more universal even though there will be a price to pay in IQ. However even at what I think will be a minor IQ loss, it still should meet many use cases as acceptable to many users.