Trey T said:

Looks like they welded the EF to RF mount on their existing line

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Given how much some people irrationally hate adapters, I think it's a solid business move. (I realize that some adapters have some issues, but these are MF lenses, and the Canon adapter is flawless by all accounts)

Full pricing over on Newsshooter. 55k bade. About 70k for a ready to go package. No licenses. Codex add-ons surprisingly down to earth.

Picked up a refurb 80D! It was out of stock until today. My first new camera since T2i in 2011

I dealt with Ken in the 1980s when he did have a store I was 23 and just out of art school. I had no credit card. Ken would put a camera in my hands like a Hasselblad and say take it home see how you like it. No credit card, no nothing he just trusted. I was not the only one. Plenty of people he helped get there start. He is great man we should all hope for a miracle.

If Canon makes a QPAF sensor, would it be debayered same as DPAF (= sum four sub pixels of same color, and interpolate colors same as non *PAF sensor), or would it gain by adding four adjacent sub pixels as in the orange squares, and not interpolating color at all?

Antono Refa said:

I'm wondering whether the sensor would really be 70MP, it's just 35MP w/ DPAF or 18MP w/ QPAF.

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Canon has shown 120, 200 and 250MP APS-H sensors already, so it could be 70MP w/ QPAF and QP-RAW would have 240MP.

pretty much as expected, but two weeks later than my prediction of the end of March. I wish they had the Focus Bracketing though

Viggo said:

Got a «confirmed» on the new firmware from Canon today.

No release date, but new info soon and release of the firmware “within a few weeks”.

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Woohoo. Can't wait. I hope it has the goodies we are expecting.

I like mine (Rolleiflex) too!

Don Haines said:

Unfortunately (for me) I knew about this with the 1DX2, but I was hoping that there was some way to do it with the lesser cameras

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The 5d4 can do ftp from the onboard wifi as well. Not just jpg, raw too, you choose. One of my criteria for buying the 5d4 was whether or not the wifi was as $h!te as the lesser cameras. Thankfully it's not. Then again it also has two card slots as well

Wifi on my 760D might as well not be there, when you connect to the canon camera connect app all of the controls on the camera get disabled, you have to do everything via the app. However not all settings are available, so for some stuff you have to disconnect, change the setting, reconnect. Even a snail has time to disappear while you're doing all of that

Sorry for Zeiss, their camera is certainly excellent, but I'd prefer by far the more versatile Leica Q2!
The Zeiss is far to heavy for a single-lens camera, and will certainly cost a fortune. Maybe real experts like the Kardashians or Justin Bieber will buy a few...

AlanF said:

Leica is the whore of the camera world.

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Rather a very expensive callgirl!

Actually the lens is 7.9mm f/4 for 1-inch (13.2 mm x 8.8 mm, aspect ratio 3:2) sensor which is equivalent to approximately 24mm field of view (about 84 degrees) of full frame. That is, it's light gathering capability is much less than F4 on full frame (something close to f/12, I guess). But rather impressive for such a small camera.

tmc784 said:

Why mostly are Canon ?

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Adorama just made a link to put all their E+ rated Canon items under one tab so Canon users could find them easier. They have a good selection of other used brands as well, it's just a link they created so Canon users would not have to sort through other brands.

Thanks a lot! That helps!!!

The https://www.adorama.com/caxf405.html?utm_source=rflaid64393 XF405 SPEC sheet mentions 4k@60Hz asupport. Maybe the articke can get updated..

padam said:

Not sure how I feel about RF lenses focused manually for video anyway, I think no matter how they tweak it, fly-by-wire manual focus is just not as good as mechanical linkage. And I don't think we will see cinema lenses in RF-mount any time soon. Apart from pushing 8K (which I honestly don't see much point in) RF lenses don't seem to be that necessary for video usage right now, what they would do is open up possibilities to adapt a much wider range of vintage stills glass to their cameras for video, therefore killing some of their own lens sales. Does not seem that logical to me to be honest.

The E-mount camcorders with an even shorter flange have ND built-in, so it should be even less of an issue to make an RF-mount camera with built-in ND as well.

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As autofocus continues to make it's way into professional cinematography (pulling focus by touch screen, while not exactly the same as having a 1st AC on set, is nonetheless an art that is coming of age, and I have no doubt that as video crews continue to shrink, AF on large sensor video cameras will continue to win converts.) Certainly a lot of discussion over at CML about it. All current cinema EOS cameras offer DPAF, so suggesting that RF is at some disadvantage here is probably not relevant. EF cinema lenses can easily mount on an RF mount camera, so the need for a set of cinema lenses in RF mount is probably low on the roadmap. However, having canon's best new glass sidelined by lack of an RF mount cinema camera, ( or the inability to port those designs over to expensive cinema zooms -- MF or AF) is a big deal for Canon. They make their money in glass, always have, and their strategy going forward will continue that course.

As for ND fitting in the RF mount. My suggestion was that the current cinema EOS mechanism might not fit, and that it might be an obstacle in terms of development time, not that they couldn't do it.

Can AFMA in Nikon Z6/7 for adapted DSLR lenses? I have had mirrorless systems since NEX3/EPL1 and never ever needed AF correction. I think some Sony cameras also have AF correction menus but that's only required if you use LE-XXX adapter.

The sensor readout is too slow, for now, only the 1DXII sensor is capable of it besides the Cinema cameras.

And anyway, Canon firmly determines what you can get and at what prices. So don't expect getting features like this and without paying significantly more money for it, it will slowly show up in lesser cameras in later generations as technology evolves, but it will take several years (the cheapest camera where it may show up is a TOL crop sensor camera, like a 7DIII or something).

Michael Clark said:

2. NO ONE HERE IS ARGUING THAT A FULLY ARTICULATED SCREEN WOULD MAKE A CAMERA LESS RELIABLE.

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Because I can’t help myself, I’ll make that argument. Reliability engineering lives in the domain of statistics. The more failable parts of a system, the less reliable it is.

As it affects predicted MTBF, an articulating screen might be on the order of minutes in thousands of hours, but it is a non-zero affect.

Got the RP yesterday, getting used to the EVF but so far I like it. Impressed at how such a small light camera can shoot FF. Looking forward to doing some traveling with it.

Larsskv said:

I updated the RF 24-105 a couple of days ago. I downloaded from Canon, and the download consisted of pdf-installation guides in different languages, and the actual firmware file. I dropped the firmware file onto the SD card (which first was formatted in the camera). When you go to the “firmware section” in the camera menu, you can view the firmware version for both the camera and the lens that is attached. The camera will notice it if you have the update-file on the SD card, and it will ask if you want to update the firmware of the lens. Make sure you have enough power on the battery, and then go. I estimate it took 2-3 minutes to complete the firmware update.

The camera warns you to not touch any buttons or turn off the power during the installation, so one should be careful.

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Thanks, excellent that means the R can be used for lens firmware and the rest is exactly the same as camera firmware. Typical seamless Canon

DSLRs are totally obsolete, that's why, a minute ago, I just ordered a totally obsolete brand new 5D IV to replace my 5D III.
For macro and vintage lenses, I'll buy someday an EOS R hi -resolution.
But nothing presently beats an optical viewfinder (had an EOS R, but the "exotic" planned RF lenses deserve muchas MP)

SaP34US said:

What is lowest cost that you think that FF will get down to?

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You can get a 6D in that price range, I don't think they are manufactured any longer and do not have DPAF, but until inventory is gone, they can be found for a low price.

The cheapest current production FF is the RP, it has a MSRP $100 less than a 6D MK II. If you want to know when it will be priced at under $1,000, that depends on sales and demand. Unless there is a total decline in ability to sell them, Canon is not going to cut the price that low for 3 -5 years, not until its like the original 6D, ot of production and replaced.

criscokkat said:

Well, that wouldn’t be a kit that the big boxes would sell, but we’d see it at camera stores. People used to buy kits with the full frame lenses all the time with the 7d and 7dii.

Like I mentioned, i would suspect that the main kit would be the 2 lens Efs kit with adapter. But giving people the r mount means some of them would buy r mount lenses (certainly the 35mm would be in range of some) and would cement its spot as “an entry level camera that you can grow with”. Even if 95% of everyone buying them will never buy another lens, 50% of them will think “Maybe I will”. If I could buy a 7d speed aps-c r mount I would buy a kit with that lens, then use one of the wide efs lenses.

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The 7D/7DII are much bigger than the SL1/SL2 though, and they're not sold with the advantage of "well they're small". The 7D series is about AF performance; the SL series is about being small. I can put my 24-105 on my SL1 and it's ridiculous, and I might as well use a bigger body. I really hope they don't do that.