Personally, for the Z series, I'd love to see something starting ~15mm with a 3x zoom range, so a 15-50mm, or at least 15-45mm. One of the reasons I love the 24-105 Z is that the extra reach beyond 70mm saves many a lens change. Full frame wider than 15mm is neat but niche. Imho 15mm is wide enough for most common situations and being able to zoom into a good normal focal length would save a good number of lens swaps (and add useful options for zooms in video). I love my 15-35 2.8, but a Z variant that extended the long end to ~50mm would almost certainly have me upgrading.

I haven't used a hand crank to eject film since my old Kodak Pleaser instant camera!

I have one Fujifilm INSTAX camera for each film size (mini/square/wide), but I didn't dive into the EVO product line. The concept is really neat. My equivalent is the standalone INSTAX printer to print digital images from my phone onto their film. The SQ6 and Mini 90 are both modern looking cameras, but their Wide cameras need a lot of help to look and handle better. I'm not sure why the Mini/Square cameras look one way, and the Wide cameras look another way.

The centerpiece of INSTAX in my opinion is their film. The colors are really amazing, especially compared to Polaroid. The wide format in landscape mode isn't to my taste (I prefer Polaroid in this regard), but when shot sideways in portrait mode, the wide format is quite nice.

I've seen it used underwater in a Blue Water/David Attenborough episode on clown fish which was spectactular. Probably <10m depth so a custom housing/port to support it was needed. I recognised it in the last ep "how did they do it/behind the scenes". Was very cool cinematography but didn't realise the pricing!

Aldherrian said:

I ended up thinking about why it was the only lens on Canon crop systems to achieve that 15mm at the wide end, a field of view that seemed really like a staple to me on full frame cameras.

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EF-S 15-85 was a popular lens. It was a decent performer and covered a very useful range. A lot of people (on the net anyways) were hoping for an update to this lens, a mk2 version, but that never materialized.
On the M side, there was the 15-45 as Neuro points out, but this lens has a much more limited zoom range, limiting its utility for many.
I don't recall there being any Sigma 15-something zooms for APSC?

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alFR said:

What’s the rationale behind that? I’ve never seen it suggested anywhere that the rate of change of temperature of the battery rather than its absolute temperature affects its ability to deliver power.

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Nothing rational besides feeling that constant extreme temperature changes to a battery would/could implede performance or lifespan. I have absolutely zero science to back it up. I have no desire to be in the extreme cold long enough to actually test the theory.

An update from Mongoia though, R52 batteries in the camera were functionally lasting about 4 hours in -20C to -30C. There was one blip in which the battery died after about two hours, but the camera was turned off and back on and lasted about another 30 minutes.

Outsourcing means manufacturing by a third party. This is not outsourcing.

AlanF said:

Some over here have a "Dry January" - that would give $3100 towards a lens!

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Haha, good one In my case though it would be more like 30 $ towards a new lens. Not helping much...

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If the US was serious about antitrust, the FTC and DOJ would prevent market leaders from acquiring other companies. Something like, only non-leaders are allowed to merge.

john1970 said:

I would purchase two additional LP-E6P batteries so you have a total of three. You might never need them, but better to have an extra just in case.

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Better to have and not need than to need and not have.

Jethro said:

Very impressive, and the backgrounds (especially the 1st one) are great! How do you compare the results from the R5 to the Hasselblad?

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Thank you!

They are 2 very different beasts. If all the stars align, I prefer the Hassy's output. I prefer the CCD color and the 80mp non-aliased files are biting sharp. But the CCD's inherent limitation, the abysmal AF and speed make shooting with older MF (mine is a H5X with a IQ1-80 and HC lenses) a much more laborious process and they are unforgiving of any mistake you make, while you can depend on a modern mirrorless to nail the focus and give you latitude to tweak exposure in post (I should say brightness).

I love shooting with the Hassy since it's so dumb and mechanical that I know that I can take the credit if an image is good. But I would not suggest one does the same unless they have a good grasp of photography techniques already. Completely different with modern MF (Hassy and Fuji) which is closer to modern mirrorless.

Lenses-wise, it's a toss. The older MF lenses are not as sharp as some RF lenses and nowhere near as fast. On the other side they have a beautiful rendition and I love love the inverted crop factor (0.66)

bbasiaga said:

Not something I'd be interested in, but I can see it being handy for some. As mentioned, all those Santa's workshops and the like that pop up, and the people that run 1000s of little league photos in a day could benefit from this. Even newer shooters who don't have the eye for framing developed yet. As noted, many (most?) are not using FF bodies anyway. Content creators will love the instagram crop guide as well!

$120 seems a little high, but the price may come down. And at least its not a subscription!

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Actually, I think it's a solid feature. It's less about the price and more about the possibilities it offers. Pro users might already pay for tools like Capture One, which allows overlays for things like magazine covers. So why not pay for something that makes life easier, especially if you're shooting a portrait series, prefer presenting your work on social media, or want to avoid accidentally cropping out important details?

It might not be for me, but I can definitely see its potential.

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Overall, 2024 was a solid year for Canon, but the first half was quite slow. Releasing two professional grade FF cameras and releasing two fast 1.4 primes and the internal zooming 70-200 mm f2.8 Z is good enough.

In 2025 and beyond, a nice internal zooming L-series super telephoto lens in the $5-6K range would be nice. Keep the front element at 100 mm so cost can be contained. A 200-500 f5 or 300-700 mm f5-f7 would be nice IMO

I can also say that at least on my r5ii, the sc1 cover is snug enough that I have a hard time seeing it falling off accidentally. That might have just made the whole shoe a little more snug?

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GMCPhotographics said:

I think Hitachi designed this system under license for Canon and they are both under contract. Hitachi make flashes fr most major brands, all under licence and due to specific patents owned by different brands, some feeatures or work arounds are required for each brand. Frankly it's a quagmire.
Ever since the RT range, Canon's flashes have become so expensive and overburdened, I think they have completely lost their way.
Canon seem to have really pulled back with their accessories on the R mount cameras. From grips, flashes, covers, clips or even extension tubes. There's a lot of gaps and holes in the range.

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I keep hoping for an updated set of macro flashes, for a much lower price than the current ones. I really like my EL-5, I can do most of the settings on the camera and the 'tap shutter twice' to ignite to modelling light is very helpful for focussing in lowlight or doing macro.
But it's missing nice things like a socket for external power and a USB-C socket for charging. It is also expensive for what you'd get compared to Godox.

The new fangled hot-shoe is also under-utilized, we have a mic, an audio box, some flashes and a flash controller. Where is the DJI receiver, like they have for Sony? Where is the powered-by-hot-shoe GPS unit? Or the EOS-M style external viewfinder?

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I'm considering buying a Canon 2000D whose LCD doesn't work, I would like to know if you can give me some advice, the price is €50 but I would like to know if there are cables that could be the problem and need to be replaced and what are their prices? The LCD screen could cost around €30.


Any advice about how fix the issue on that camera ?

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I have the USB4 one, which is really, really fast when used on a USB4/TB port as well as the CFe+SD one, that is 'only' 10gbit/s USB3. Both are the same footprint and have identical magnets. I get around 700MByte/s out of the CFe+SD reader, which is about 3 times faster than the fastest SD card. The USB4 reader is, with the right card, 4 times faster, but that needs a USB4 port and a fast target drive.

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I have the CFe+SD one, works very well. I don't need an SD slot, since my MacBook Pro and the Stone Pro dock for it both have SD slots, but I bought it before the USB4 version came out. Honestly, even though I have TB5 ports on my MBP and am writing to internal storage, 1/4 of 4 faster is still...plenty fast enough.