HeavyPiper said:

My copy of DPP is 14.19.10.0 and it seems to work. I'm running Sequoia 15.1

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Personally, I run Lightroom anyway, only keep my DPP updated if I ever wanted to use it.

• It also appears that customers looking for SLR cameras are mainly elderly people.

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This comment is telling. SLR's were approximately 15% of the market in 2023 and currently around 12% of the market in 2024. If the main segment buying them are elderly then they probably won't be upgrading to mirrorless in the future.

Austintatious said:

Where is it?

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...the source claimed that the follow-up was shown as a 2025 product.

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My calendar is still on 2024, personally. I can see how, if you time traveled forward a year and assumed every rumor posted here was factual information, your question might make sense.

Noreaster said:

Any good suggestions on a cover for RF 200-800. White works for winter wildlife I guess but kind of sticks out like a sore thumb in summer.
I currently use a hunting sleeve just because I had it already. It does cover up the white but little to no protection. I have used the neoprene covers on other lenses but do not like the part over the barrel. It makes it impossible to zoom. why canon chose white is beyond me.

I found this on YT but not sure I would ever dare put this on the barrel.

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YouTube Vinyl Wrap​

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Lenscoat has a cover for the RF200-800mm. Like the cover for the RF100-500 this has a ‘sleeve’ to cover the extending part of the lens. I have the cover for the RF 100-500mm and cannot recommend it:

• It is hard to put the sleeve over the extending part of the lens.
• The sleeve moves over the extending part of the lens, preventing zooming back to 200mm.

I use a lenscoat raincoat for camouflage when in photographing from a hide.

I do fear for smallrig. I love their kit, it is really well made and well priced. I have quite a few of their small items as well as clams and video lights. What worries me is just how big their portfolio has grown. I have seen quite a few companies fall into the trap of trying to make everything for everyone the latest being a PC water cooling company. I am just not sure how sustainable it is to have so many SKU’s and all the tooling to make them etc. I really hope I am wrong as I do like all the products I have from them.

The port protector comes with the camera. (if you purchase new).

Diko said:

That's so hipster

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Not sure what you're getting at with that comment...?

I'm excited about it...and I think I'm WAY too old to be a "hipster"....but then again, I dunno exactly WTF that is...I remember hearing that term years ago, but not in recent history.

I love my digital, but I also love my film cameras.....Hasselblad V series...Yashica Mat 124G, just picked up a Mamiya C220....and my beloved Shen Hao 6x17 view camera.

These are fun and some do things a modern digital camera cannot do....the widelux with its swining lens panos, is definitely one of those things you can't really replicate in digital....not without multiple shots and stitching, which is not the same result.

Anyway....a bit off topic for my thread....

Sporgon said:

They are only doing what the majority of casual consumers did in the film days.

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I find it hard to believe folks in the past in general threw out their negatives?

My parents, friends parents and all....all have TONS of old negatives...that I am currently harvesting to digitize....

Most folks I know kept the negatives....

DhlcadR6 said:

Non L orange ring, just to troll Sony

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Recently got Canon's new RF 28-70mm f/2.8 IS STM lens. Nice and sharp. According to Canon it has L-quality optics and is fully weather-sealed.

So why no L designation? I guess because it only costs $1,099 list.

So I did some trolling of my own. I found a green rubber band, twisted some red twist ties along its length, and put it on the front of the lens where an L lens would have a red ring, to signify its "No-eL" status - Merry Christmas.

Only knock on this lens is that they cheaped out on manual focus: no separate focus ring, instead it's done with the Control Ring, with an AF-Control-MF slide switch, like on the tiny RF lenses like the RF 16mm. Fortunately, you can activate Full-time Manual Focus in the cameras' AF section of the setup menu, which lets you use the focusing ring while AF is on, as long as you keep the shutter button half pressed while doing that.

I just went looking for a thread regarding R1 reviews, found this one, after initially posting here, I decided to create a new thread for R1 reviews.

Interesting: 2 MP for the EOS D2000 "The new standard in professional digital cameras", and they came at a horrific cost!
I'll never again complain about the price of a digital camera, even if it's a Leica M11 at euro 8700...

I suspect the proliferation of mesh WiFi systems is at least partly the cause.

For those experiencing the dropped connections but not wanting to switch to another brand, if you’re ok with setting the power levels for your flashes manually, there’s a simple and cheap fix. Connect this $20 optical trigger to the PC terminal on your Canon flash(es) and trigger them with an on-camera flash.

Yes the R1 has built in *** like the 1DX II and 1DX III do.

kmrahe said:

Compact in depth, yes, but not width, which for me would be the main issue with an R50 using those lenses.

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I’m the other way around, I value depth more than width for compact systems, since that’s what will decide the bag it will travel in.

For larger setups, I do actually value width, which is why the new 50VCM is more attractive to me than the 50 f/1.2L, that centimeter difference in diameter is a big deal.

Mine arrives Monday 11/4. I waited 59 days. Not bad

koenkooi said:

The label with the specs and partnumber is the same, including the ‘4A’ label, see my report on it in the accessoires section.

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Yeah, I understood you meant that, but I noticed with my batteries that they don’t really change the SKUs on the items. For instance, both my batteries have the number 13435, despite having different capacities, and the 2600mAh version states the same number as well.

So I’d give it the benefit of the doubt…

neuroanatomist said:

I do really think it reflects the Max silicon being thermally problematic, there's just not enough headroom to improve performance. Also, for the M4 it look like Apple has started providing separate battery life estimates for Pro vs. Max, and the Max has 12% less (21 hrs vs 24 hrs for the Pro). That extra power is going somewhere, and part of that somewhere is heat.

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It looks like getting a Mac laptop for the new job is a no go, so I’ll have to get my own before the next family trip, which will be around May. Enough time to do more research and watch for deals.

DxO and LR sees limited by the speed
of the Neural engine for denoising, so no big difference between any of the M4 variants.
Apple did specifically call out denoising in Davinci Resolve being realtime on M4 Max, that is something my low end M1 Ultra completely fails at.

Whichever model I get, it needs to have a fan, I’ve been using my wife’s M1 air during this weeks vacation and it thermally throttles hard when importing a lot of pictures (precapture, yay!) and once it’s hot, it stays hot. It takes about 10 seconds to load a 100% view, with both smart previews and 1:1 previews already present!

When I say ‘a lot of pictures’, I’m talking about this:
When using crop mode and cRAW, the R5II can easily sustain a 500 shot burst and the 100-500L is sharp enough to resolve details in the resulting 1 megapixel image:

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Will I notice that difference if I'm viewing those pictures on my iPhone?

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If you pinch to zoom probably. Which seems to be the first thing anyone does whenever I'm showing them a photo on my phone.

Shop window, Fan Tan Alley...

Back in June I traveled to Bald Knob, West Virginia to spend the night up at West Virginia's most remote and isolated Fire Tower & Watchman's Cabin with my friend Ian. We documented the entire trip with my Canon R6 Mark I, R7, and Ian's R8, and for the past few months I have been working on this video to retell the story of the adventure!
Spending 24 Hours as a Fire Lookout

JMatt said:

You like f/8 lenses, I don't. Why the hostility? Chill out and snap some photos. To each their own. I guess my sarcasm didn't drip hard enough. My bad.

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We really need sarcasm tags in here. I’d say I understand the reason for a zoom that’s f/8 at the long end. The one lens like that I have, the RF 100-400, is very convenient for travel and delivers good IQ, so yes…I like it. But I don’t like f/8 lenses so much that I use the 2x TC behind my 600/4 all that often…

Just.... Amazing. Bravo!

BE on a lamp post... (Canon R7 + RF 200-800)

I did a reset of the Basic Settings, to avoid clearing the whole camera and the issue was resolved. I tried to recreate it, but now the Pan-Assist stayed white so I could go in and out without issue, so definitely a very weird bug..

Beautiful shots! Keep posting.