Michael Clark said:

Ultimately, Canon cares about how many yen their products generate. Period. It matters not to them if those yen come from Japanese customers or from U.S. Dollars that came from their U.S. customers that are converted to yen, or from Euros from their EUropean customers that are converted to yen.

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I think Canon has found its market for M products and now its seeking the positioning of the R product.

lecycliste said:

I'm thinking about an EOS R alongside my 5D mk IV, and to replace an aging 5D mk II. Is the EVF usable outdoors in bright sunlight?

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The 5D4 and the R is the combo I currently have. I haven't had that much issue with the EVF outside (don't wear glasses). The 5D4 is better for moving subjects.

JPAZ said:

Love my 5Div but it is sometimes too big and heavy for grab and go travel stuff. ............... So, I am sitting looking at my entire M5 and lens entourage right now, really thinking of selling it all and jumping into an RP to replace my M5 for those reasons. A little bigger? Yes. A little heavier? Yes. Less than wonderful battery life? Yes. But a FF secondary kit seems to make sense to me just now.

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I am going to jump to the RP. Just put my M stuff up for sale.

Thanks for sharing.

But, does speed still drop by a huge factor after a high level formatting of a SD card because a block erase must first be done to clear the contents of a memory block before writing to it?

I seem to recall that it has to do with the difference in how housekeeping of data on the card is done by the controllers on SD versus CF cards. Perhaps, someone has a technical information. SD cards do have a command which low level formats the entire card very quickly, but does not physically write 1's or 0's to each memory cell, it just makes them appear that way and recovery software will not work, but experts may still use a custom controller to read out the values in the cells, making sense of them is much more difficult.

Stuart said:

I assume an MF lens for the RF mount.

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I would imagine, at this early stage (in 3rd party manufacturing/reverse engineering) that it would have to be manual focus. I would imagine that all of the lenses this distributor resells are manual focus. (But I do not know with certainty.)

I'm really glad that Tamron has introduced two new lenses for FullFrame DSLRs. But they could introduce some fixed maximum apeture lenses for APS-C cameras as well. Something like a 10-20mm f/2.8 Di II VC USD (instead of 16-35mm), a 20-50mm f/2.8 Di II VC USD (instead of 24-70mm) and a 50-120mm f/2.8 Di II VC USD (instead of the 70-200mm) lineup for those who don't want or can't allow to use FullFrame lenses and cameras.

Tokina "pro" lenses have always been excellent value for money. Very satisfied with my 11-16 f/2.8 (which BTW mounts just fine on FF & is perfectly acceptable as a "real" 16mm f/2.8).

Thank you for sharing! This is on my short list of next lens to buy.

I tried it as well and was complete mush. Soft and poor AF, even with the included Tap In. Returned it to B&H within the return period. Dustin gave it glowing remarks but as with everything, YMMV. Still looking for the 100-400 that isn't with the Canon price tag that fits my budget and style. (It doesn't exist)

snappy604 said:

oh yeah I do a fair bit of what you describe and it's a pleasure that someone else gets it, but I what I was rebutting the answer about not knowing or caring about controlling your environment. Meh I think point has been hammered to death.

this is the kinds of shots I try to take, FF really might help.. Trying to freeze motion in low light is... challenging. now to see if I can convince wife n kids to allow me to plonk $3-4k on my non-paying hobby.

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Timing is everything. If you can catch them at the apex of the jump, there's that split second between when they are going up and coming back down...

Ditto for convincing the SO/kids: timing is everything!

This lens was released without making fanfare.
Yongnuo 35mm F1.4 costing US$400.

16-35 2.8L III is excellent already. So the only difference is the IS. Not enough reason to switch to mirrorless but if someone starts from scratch that is a totally diffferent matter.

slclick said:

Might not even be for Canon mounts. Still, they could be the 1st 3rd party to decode and release RF glass or more likely, they are hitting focal lengths with apertures not on the current market for EF.

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Can’t say I’m looking forward to inferior reverse engineered third party autofocus lenses. This is one area Sony have the advantage as they share their autofoucus technology with other lens companies. This could very well be a huge advantage for Sony in the long run.

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blackcoffee17 said:

If you don't need the 300-400mm focal lengths, the 70-300 is so much smaller and lighter. Even worth getting both and only take the heavier 100-400 when you really need it

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I agree. The 70-300L is great for taking on a trip etc. then something (not obscenely) expensive that gives you 400 to 600 for wildlife would be kind of cool.

Larsskv said:

Which obviously was my point.

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I don’t think it was obvious, but I’ll agree with the sentiment.

Beta version, it will be updated to RF as soon as it comes out

I've been seeing a lot of rumors lately addressing a CX00 version camera being announced with an RF mount. From my understanding, all RF mount lenses are focus by wire. That, at least to me, kills any hope it would have of working on a larger budget set. Suer dpaf, or whatever the next iteration of it is may be incredible, but unless my 1st AC can hit the marks over and over again, I don't see how it will be implemented.

What are the thoughts around that? How could this be worked around for RF lenses? Am I totally wrong with them all being focus by wire?

As the owner of a perfectly good still working XTi, that video really makes me cringe. What did that thing do to deserve such treatment?

If one travels to southeast Asia the Canon service centers charge next to nothing for cleaning camera interiors and they do a good job. (watch out for imitation service centers)

C4... it'll be a plastic lens instead of glass?

Nice shot. The waves effect showing vulnerable. The clarity of the image is awesome.

I now bought and tried the SpyderX pro.
I used a laptop with a B156HAN04.5 panel. Originlly I could not find any review of this monitor on Notebokcheck, hence would like to have it calibrated.
Did three runs with spyderX:
1. Too yellow (new configuration)
2. Too blue (new configuration)
3. A little better (recalibration from 2)

Then I found the Notebookcheck icm file here (x-rite):
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-GU501GM-i7-8750H-GTX-1060-Laptop-Review.307584.0.html

The notebookcheck icm file is the clear better choice.

So it seems datacolor spyderX software and the new puck is nowhere near x-rite.
displayCAL also is not yet compatible with spyderX.

Cannot recommend this one unless someone can help me understand if I calibrated on top of an existing icm hence the very varying results.

Don Haines said:

Unfortunately for us, most sensors in the 80 to 90 percent efficiency range and there are very little gains to be made there. About the only real improvement that I can imagine is if you could somehow get each photocell to count photons and that way avoid having an A/D circuit.

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The figure of 80-90% is for a narrow band of wavelengths around lambda(max), ie at the wavelength at the peak of the curve, and is not the real overall efficiency, which depends on integrating the area under the curve of QE vs lambda plus other factors. So, what is important is the effective quantum efficiency, which is much lower - explained here: http://www.strollswithmydog.com/the-difference-between-peak-and-effective-quantum-efficiency/ and very nice discussion here: https://www.strollswithmydog.com/effective-quantum-efficiency-of-sensor/

HikeBike said:

Yeah, I guess that will largely depend on the quality of the EVF as well. I haven't gotten the RP in my hands to see how good the EVF really is, but I did read it isn't as good as the R. I will say, the R's EVF is nothing short of amazing. You can barely tell it's not optical.

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Hmm,.. the R's EVF might be the best there is at the moment but I tried it and didn't like it that much. Although I like the specs and especially with the 28-70/2.0 - but it's ~5000,-€uro here ....

This is great news that will propel the SL2 into production. Hopefully there will be several ergonomic changes to the camera as well.
Most interesting will be the EV range of this new chip as compared to the Sony AR7III and others.