Pretty stellar review. The only real issue (for me) is how I would go hand-holding it. I'll try and get hold of one in a camera shop and try.

https://www.ephotozine.com/article/irix-150mm-f-2-8-macro-1-1-dragonfly-review-33078

[email protected] said:

Hi. At the launch event - if I remember correctly - Canon mentioned a firmware update "...available soon...". Any news?
Thanks, Stefano

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The announcement did not say coming soon, people seem to insert what they want, and others repeat it.

Here is want was said " An upcoming free firmware update will enable silent shutter in continuous shooting mode as well. "

Read it here:

https://www.dailycameranews.com/2018/09/canon-eos-r-full-frame-mirrorless-camera-announced/

Don't expect a update before March. Then, if its sooner, be happy!

Frage said:

I voted for the M50. I think is the better camera for the money and at the moment the system with the most lens options. Also the 70-200 F4 II is a lot of lens for the money and will be far more reachable (will produce more imagery) than many of the other options.

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I was and am more than pleased with my M50 purchase and the results it produces, even with the basic 15-45mm kit lens and at such a low price. When using Sigma's 18-35mm F1.8 Art lens, this combo produces amazing photos.

That was pretty info-taining.
Would be nice to have had a bit more info included on the airborne camera-tracking mentioned near the end.

Cool. Hopefully, they will add G7X III to the EOS SDK program as well. Then I may buy more than two of them.

This semi similar problem is what i have using Godox trigger X1Tc ... TTL is so unreliable and always underexposing. When using YN622 TTL is spot on.

Doesnt matter which flashes I use. I suspect its TTL interpretation of Godox.

killswitch said:

One of my SD card (32GB SDHC Lexar Platinum II 300x 45mbs) which I have been using on my 5D3 gives an error on my EOS R. When I turn on the R with that card in (I have not reformatted it yet) after a minute I get the Error 070. Looking it up online reveals that error is associated with problem with reading the image detected and typically says to remove and reinstall battery. I am going to try reformatting this card before I get the error to see if that helps. All my other SD cards did not have any issues on R even when I did not reformat. If anyone experienced this before, let me know what your finding was. Is there an issue with the body, should I return it just to be safe?

I need to get UHS-II cards for this badboy. I remember seeing an article about the fastest cards and was highly recommended. Any advice on which ones you all prefer and find them highly reliable?

I found ProGrade, Sony and Lexar among the top 3 for UHS-II. Never heard of ProGrade before, but supposedly they are pretty good?

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I did not but the fastest cards, but instead bought 2 mid range UHSII cards, first a Delkin Prime 64GB 1900X for $50, and then a Lexar 128Gb 1000x when they went on sale for $45 at B&H. The Delkin is rated 1900X, its 100 MB/sec write and 300 MB/sec read, while the Lexar is 90 MB/sec write and 150 MB/sec read, both are V60.

V60 is the recommended speed for 4k video in the R, faster cards download faster, or clear your buffer faster, but are no better for video.

Both cards are overkill for me.

Hi Jay.
Looks good to me, should serve you well.

Cheers, Graham.

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Here's one of my early efforts at a women's hockey game. The cropping isn't anything to rave about, but the players behind the net and across the frame are all sharp. JPG conversion from RAW in DPP, no fixes in DPP, no crop. ISO 6400, 1/640 sec F5. AI Servo, Five points selected. The main point on the right bent knee of #19. The blue line to the right is a post. Lens Canon 70-200 F4 IS.

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The town of Dumbsville wanted to promote dental health so they put flourite in the drinking water. The resulting paste didn't help anyone's teeth, but made the plumbers happy.

"and even with focus peaking, the results are disappointing": Are you doing macro or close focus work and use Servo AF with AF "on"?
In that case maybe it is the problem I encountered with MF or one shot AF in macro / closeup at high apertures: After focusing I move a little bit and the distance between lens and object doesn't fit. With tripod you have "laboratory" conditions so "one shot MF" works well.

"One shot MF" is a source of unfocused images but after some trial and error I used the classical "move the camera along the optical axis"-technique and shutter was released when focus peaking was visible in the region of interest.

Just yesterday I put my M50 and the EF-M 32 @ f/1.4 in MF mode to find out, WHICH regions of the image will be sharp and it worked well. The object size was about 50 x 70mm so DOF was very thin.

One caveat of (Canons?) focus peaking is that it is only sensitive to vertical lines (in landscape orientation) - in my experience the quality of the focus peaking varies between different subjects.

Hopefully not too many trivial remarks - just my 2ct.

Kit Lens Jockey said:

after the exposure has completed .

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Hmm, that would be true....
It looks like Mode 1 _and_ Mode 2 use Electronic First Curtain Shutter, which would reduce vibration from the initial opening of the shutter.

Holding the shutter shut after the shot (Mode 2) would only be useful to make the camera quieter.

This has a detailed explanation:
https://photographylife.com/what-is-electronic-front-curtain-shutter

Went to the zoo today. Bad light, nice scene.
The tiger seemed to be still tired from new years day
By the way, one of my first "cat pictures" on the internet.

And this was the last of 2018.

Thanks for sharing and

Berowne said:

So here is Roger's summary:
* I’ll call this one a draw, and a draw is a win for Sony. Canon has been doing this for a long, long time; this is, I think they’re 8th generation of 400mm f/2.8 lens. It’s Sony’s first and to have made a product equal to the gold standard of engineering is an amazing feat.

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as this is the summary from uncle Rog this is almost like a knightly accolade for Sony. Kudos!

There is a whole lot of software under the hood of a GoPro that runs on an Arm SOC.
https://gopro.com/help/articles/block/Open-Source-Software

Canon could certainly use some GoPro expertise to ditch their aging and proprietary Digic platform.

What kind of features could this actually enable? How about:
- Voice control
- Computational photography
- Better drivers and UI for 802.11 ac / Bluetooth wireless.
- Auto sync to Dropbox / Android / NAS etc
- Animated menus
- h.265 / AV1 video encoding
- Encryption
- Face detection / tagging
- Auto lens micro adjustment

Software ... IMHO, this is where Canon is falling the most behind. Some of these features would bridge 'Entry Level' cameras for cell phone shooters looking to upgrade, and that's a sizable chunk of the market.

Click said:

Awesome. Well done, kairos.

Happy New Year.

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Thanks Click

I didn't buy any of them. Were I to replace my G7X II with something bigger, I'd go for the M50 for travel, but I prefer to keep something pocketable. If I buy a camera in 2019, it will almost for sure be the G7X III. I have looked through an M50 in the store, and it felt fine. I've heard good things about it from those who use one.

Hi Benny.
I might remember to update the date now! Thanks.

Happy new year to all.

Cheers, Graham.

Bennymiata said:

Happy New Year to all of the forumites!

Don't forget to update your copyright info with 2019 in your cameras!!

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I've only had cards fail on me in a non recoverable way after a sudden power loss in non-canon equipment during larger writes (such as while moving files off the card). Twice with SD cards where certain blocks became unreadable (one in a zoom recorder, one in a raspberry pi) and twice with CF cards in card readers (one card reader was glitchy, one time the whole computer list power while deleting files). The last example was the only card that was a total loss where the camera couldn't format it afterwards and the card reader didn't even detect a card was inserted.

Never have I experienced a card failure in a camera. Neither in any of my 5 DSLRs, kids 2 MILCs, GoPro nor any powershot. Roughly two terabytes have passed through the cards flawlessly.

I've used Kingston, SanDisk, Samsung and a few brands I can't remember.

I can't see why people are so afraid of not having dual cards. I'd rather have several smaller, in case one gets totalled while copying to a computer.

https://www.canonrumors.com/functio...os-r-soon-after-release-with-firmware-update/ And each youtuber who were invited to the Hawai presentation

Looking at the age of Canon models still being manufactured, it seems to me coherent to expect in 2019 substitutes for the following cameras:

80D
7D Mark ii
5Ds/5Dsr (maybe as a mirrorless )
1DX Mark ii (maybe in early 2020)
M5

Mt Spokane Photography said:

The big benefit comes for cable makers. I have a large number of cables in my USB cable drawer (2 drawers full, in fact)

USB A - USB A female (extension)
USB A - USB Mini-A
USB A - USB Micro A
USB A - USB B
USB A - USB Mini B
USB A - USB Micro B (USB-3)
USB A - USB - C
USB A - Apple & Amazon older tablets)
USB A - Apple lightning
USB A - Motorola, LG, Samsung, and a few other special device connectors)

I may have other combinations, but those are typically done with adapters. That does not count specialty cables, or extra long ones.

I still have some cameras (Olympus, Fujii, and even a old Sony Camcorder that uses the rare USB cable types.

I should start a cable museum, when I add in the old SCSI types, the old ribbon cable types from PC's, the old audio cables for CD drives and so on.

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USB-C cabling is worse than the version before, if your country has access to amazon, have a look at

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to see which cables aren't going to destroy your device while charging (that's not a hyperbole!).

Hi Aaron.
Sorry to hear your plight, I do hope your treatment is successful and you can get back to your photography soon.

Happy new year, Graham.

dak723 said:

Ha HA HA . Again, you just make up whatever baloney you want to support your (non)argument. It is often better to actually read what someone writes rather than create your own interpretation. I keep making that point and you keep ignoring it. Why, oh why, does this still surprise me!

Good luck to you and Happy New Year.

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Happy New Year to you to, dak723!

I think the new lenses will be optimized for RF (more contacts) but actually they NEED to be EF, just for market. It's easy to convert EF to RF but no viceversa. Since we have not R sport camera(s), the easy solution for long backfocus lenses is to make EF mount.
Another solution could be two version of the same lens....