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Don Haines · Feb 11, 2020

privatebydesign said:
I don’t care if the author of the OP’s article or anybody else feels they need two card slots and on site backup and a wireless transfer and a digital media manager etc etc, what really pisses me off is somebody telling me I am irresponsible, not professional, etc etc if I choose a different methodology.

it is irresponsible to suggest people with different work practices, even when they have an equally unblemished record of delivering professional results, are irresponsible for not doing things the way you think they should be done.

Agreed!

i have always claimed that a pro uses the best tool for the job, but I have never claimed that the most expensive tool is the best tool. In the real world we have budget constraints, so that means the best AFFORDABLE tool for the job, and sometimes that means a waterproof P/S camera, and sometimes even a phone!

Dual card slots? Yes, I love them and if I have them on a camera, then I will use them.... but I have a lot more cameras with one slot than 2. My most used camera at work is an Oly because small and light is by far the biggest (smallest?) requirement.

yes, I have had a card die and lost a days shooting, but for me and my workflow it just meant redoing the shots on the next site visit. A bit annoying, but nothing like trying to explain to the bride why there are no wedding pictures! That’s the point here..... just because one person’s workflow works for them does not mean that a different person can’t have a different workflow.

Del Paso · Feb 11, 2020

AlanF said:
I believe in selling my gear when I have stopped using it in order to recycle and let others have the benefit. MPB and others actually pay fair prices because they have to receive, check, store and despatch, pay staff, rents and advertising and then have to deal with returns and defective equipment as well as gamble on being able to resell. I've sold and bought happily to and from them and on eBay. I just sold an expensive white lens on eBay as they were doing a £1 maximum fees promotion. I insisted on collection only as the buyer would need to test it. It has gone to a local birder who is over the moon with his purchase as he has dreamed of owning this lens for years. And I am really happy that it has gone directly to someone who will cherish as it compensates for the price hit. Who knows what is going to happen to prices. Times are changing rapidly and new gear is appearing too fast to keep up with.

Same positive selling experience with MPB.
But, quite often, their used prices are as high as brand-new items outside GB.

koenkooi · Feb 11, 2020

Joules said:
The R and RP use special micro lenses to deal better with the small distance between the sensor and lens, right? It's the reason Canon calls the respective sensors 'new', despite clearly being the 5D IV and 6D II sensor underneath the filters/lenses.

I wonder if Canon could have some room to make further advancements in the micro lenses, to reduce vignetting? Especially with IBIS coming now, vignetting could actually become more noticeable. Do we have any idea if the beam splitting from the low pass filter also has an impact on vignetting, and if so, if a new low pass filter like the one from the 1DX III could help?

I think the micro lenses are already their limit, I strongly suspect that that angle is why DPAF only covers 80% of the width and not 100%.

starepiernikowe · Feb 10, 2020

Quirkz said:
Not long. Seems to just be a few seconds, and not related to the viewfinder eco mode or power settings. Pressing a button or holding the viewfinder to your eye will activate it again quickly.

Thank You again, those are good news, this is how I like to use it; manually with a button, it's a bit shame that evf turns on upon startup but at least it doesn't stay on.

Thank You
Pawel

stevelee · Feb 9, 2020

Thanks for checking on these things. There again I can’t see any need for me to shoot cRaw. But if the occasion comes up, I know it is a possibility.

These guys found just a slight loss in dynamic range: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/0483301097/quick-look-canons-new-compressed-raw-format

tron · Feb 9, 2020

Grimbald said:
Wow, if the sensor comes with a DR of 14 Stops + and good low light capabilities it would be a true killer Camera, finally a worthy opponent for the sony a7 RIII and the D850!

5DMkIV and D850 are NOT so different in DR at ISO 100 and upwards!
5D4 10.83 and D850 11.08 at ISO 100! Similar with EOS R.

Photographic Dynamic Range versus ISO Setting

Sporgon · Feb 9, 2020

Arseni said:
Well, the effect is fairly obvious. If the example is post #1 is not bad enough - here is what it looks like when there are sharp highlights out of focus.
Would you still consider that acceptable for a FF camera? Even at $999
View attachment 188591

OK that's more obvious than your first example

cruso · Feb 9, 2020

cruso said:
I am Very disappointed again after waiting for over a year to find out with the price tag of £6500 on the 1dx3 in the uk taking out of the hands of a lot of people

Me to Been waiting a long time for a new decent crop camera to come out and with the 7d3 being shelved then the news. of the 1dx3 I thought that I would move on to the full frame and waited for the release of the 1dx3 I was disappointed ? I think the pricing is very high and mostly Pro shooters that get Paid for their work will use it ? and cut a lot of the amateur hobbyist out of the game ?

Czardoom · Feb 8, 2020

SteveC said:
It would be interesting to see what you get when one compares those to the newer sensor in the 90D and M6 mk 2

It looks like - based on photons to photos website - that the new cameras you mention have approximately 1/2 stop improvement in DR compared to the M5. Will be interesting to see if the new R models will have a similar improvement.

My guess is that 1/2 stop will not significantly alter my results. Again, others may have different results. Without a tripod, as I mentioned in a different thread, I also had no noticeable increase in resolution shooting at 1/500th of a second. Some pics with the FF crop were better, some with the more pixels of the M5 were. How still I could hold the camera seemed to be the deciding factor. Again, just my conclusion, but my guess is that many folks shooting very high MPs aren't actually getting much better resolution that if they were shooting with a much lower MP camera if shooting hand held.

blackcoffee17 · Feb 8, 2020

.jan said:
It's not just the sensor and processing power: video needs an entirely different soft- and hardware process and your implication was that if a sensor just can deliver a lot of frames quickly and a processor is potent enough all the rest will magically fall into place. Which is simply not true, and that extra effort in both hard- and software is something every user has to pay for when they buy the camera, a camera that will still be very much a stills camera when it comes to ergonomics and handling. So why pour all that energy into video features no photographer cares about?

You are right of course but how realistic would be to develop a camera only for stills? People would complain that it does not have video and sales would be low, just like for the Nikon Df.
IF not adding video features and designing a sensor only for stills would meke the image quality would be much better, then maybe it would have a market, i don't know.

Mt Spokane Photography · Feb 8, 2020

Last fall, many Camera blogs reported that Sigma is working on RF lenses, and that they might be announced this year.

Sigma RF lens Rumor

Kit Lens Jockey · Feb 7, 2020

I guess that begs the question then, what is the camera actually using to focus? The raw data from the sensor itself, or the flat, un-contrasty image that results from the C-log being applied?

unfocused · Feb 7, 2020

I wonder if a combination adapter might allow users to mount some of the existing EF lenses that don’t take an extender onto an R body. For example the 100 mm macro and the 70-300 L.

Dexter75 · Feb 7, 2020

Random Orbits said:
No, Nikon is not Canon, but they did more of what you wanted Canon to do. Nikon led with better mirrorless bodies and f/1.8 zooms, which is what you wanted, and the results so far is that Nikon did not turn its fortunes around (even if you restrict to FF mirrorless), which is what your logic would have predicted. The bulk of your consumers don't buy f/1.8 lenses either; they buy zooms. which is why most of the EF-M and EF-s lenses are zooms and not primes. They are looking to pair the RP with the RF 24-240 or a 24-105, not f/1.8 primes. The market is contracting, and some think that the volume will go back to the pre-digital days. Back that, zooms were not nearly as good as they are now and they were a lot more expensive compared to primes, which is why primes made more sense then. They don't now. What "average consumer" is going to carry a 24, 35, 50 and a 85mm prime when most already prefer their cell phone to a ILC with just a single general purpose zoom?

Some good points but the fact remains that the EF 50 f/1.8 is Canons best selling lens of all time. The fact that they did not have an RF version ready to go on day 1 remains a huge oversight, especially with the sub par bodies released.

brad-man · Feb 6, 2020

ahsanford said:
Spotted this on Twitter

View attachment 188558

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Here's the model:

drmikeinpdx · Feb 6, 2020

Maximilian: Both copies of the 24 pancake back focus at MFD and out to about 5 feet. Testing beyond that distance is not practical with my method. I'm waiting for some sunny weather to do some outdoor testing.

Antono Refa · Feb 5, 2020

Kit Lens Jockey said:
What would happen if one were to put an RF teleconverter on an RF camera, put an RF to EF adapter on that, and then put an EF lens on that? Could I finally turn my EF 85mm f1.2 into the 119mm f1.7 lens I have always dreamed of? Or maybe a 170 f2.4?

The adapter is an extension tube compensating for the flange distance difference. You'll be able to focus closer, but lose the ability to focus to infinity.

Optics Patent · Feb 5, 2020

The RF 70-200 is viable if paired with the 35mm f1.8.

Jack Douglas · Feb 5, 2020

FamilyGuy said:
Thanks! Really wanting to shoot RAW. Working on some storage capacity and editing software options without breaking the bank first. Need to move our library off the Mac and onto something external to speed up our computer, but aren’t fans of using cloud based options.

Is Canon DPP4 a good free option if one doesn’t want to pay monthly for Lightroom, given the limited processing we do?

DPP gives excellent results (adjusting exposure, lifting shadows, sharpening, limited NR, etc.) for wildlife and is often all I feel I need and it's easy to get up to speed with it. It's just not adequate if you love to really modify landscapes etc.

Jack

reef58 · Feb 5, 2020

I am starting to dabble in video with my 5D4. The focus is wildlife. I use a Zacuto finder, therefore I cannot use the touchscreen to focus. I have the shutter button set up to focus and start recording. I have servo enabled. I am trying to decide which mode is best. I am using Flexizone single. Any tips or tricks you can suggest?

Thanks in advance

Michael Clark · Feb 4, 2020

koketso said:
RP at $650 would kill the 6DMkII, 90D, M6MkII, and upcoming 850D. Therefore... its not happening. I don't see the EOS RP ever going below $899 in its lifetime (unless on sale of course).

The RP and the 90D/M6 Mark II are entirely different tools intended for entirely different purposes.

As far as the 6D Mark II goes, I doubt it is selling in very high numbers now. It's already been on the market for three years. There's not much left to kill from Canon's perspective. That ship sailed the moment the RP was introduced.

SteveC · Feb 4, 2020

It does sound like DSLRs are suffering this slump far worse than mirrorless, and that lower-end cameras are suffering worse than the high end.

Or am I missing something?

DSLRs aren't dead...but they're showing the first signs of dying.

And of course they'll never be completely dead (even film isn't completely dead), especially not so long as there's some particular job they can do better than mirrorless of the same price--and I believe that's true today.

AlanF · Feb 4, 2020

I was surprised that Adorama would be reducing the price of a returned $12,000 lens by only $500. But, indeed they have done. UK sellers would have had a much larger reduction for an "open box" return.

brad-man · Feb 3, 2020

A quick look indicates you would need to connect to a computer. It's very old so drivers may be an issue.

https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/...-printer/bjc-series/bjc-85/bjc-85?tab=manuals

I would try it before I buy it...

Graphic.Artifacts · Feb 3, 2020

Smart move selling the 5D Mark IV now. I expect there will be quite a few on the market in a few months when the R5 gets closer to launch. I think I'll probably be giving mine up sometime in the next few months. I'd sell it now if I had a suitable back-up. I still have my original 5D which takes very nice images considering it's age but it's impossible to keep the sensor clean for very long. The Mark II and Mark III are long gone but I kept the classic for some reason.

My plan is to swap the 5D4 for a R5 but hang onto the 1DX Mark II for a while. It has plenty of life left in it and I'm very happy with the way it performs with my 600F4. That will probably be my last DSLR for everyday use.

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