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NorskHest · Aug 6, 2024

john1970 said:
For me the R1 is a huge improvement over the R3 in many ways including the following:

1) Cross-type AF sensors on the entire area of the sensor.
2) Faster (1/400) second flash sync speed , which also translates into less rolling shutter artifacts.
3) At 40 fps one should have a buffer capable of shooting 1000 frames or more so a much larger buffer than the R3
4) A vast improved Eye Control AF System (should work with eyeglasses) and EVF (9.44 M dots x0.9 magnification).
5) Matching CFE Type B card slots. Not version 4, but that is okay.
6) Strap lug on the bottom of the camera; I really missed this feature on the R3.
7) Info button available on the vertical grip.

On the minus side the body is a bit heavier by 98 grams relative to the R3, but that is fine with me. For those of us with workflows that do not require more than 24 MP I could honestly see the R1 being a camera one uses until it stops functioning.

Not that it matters what I order or get but I will probably order both cameras as I have been offloading others. The comment you made about the R1 being a camera that one uses until it stops functioning is the key piece most seem to miss. I have owned 1dx’s and I love them because they just go and this camera which may lack on the spec side to some will be like a Toyota and just go till it dies which will take a long time. People forget that we are also paying for R&D and that cost gives us a tool that will last and endure.

CJaurelius · Aug 6, 2024

Below is a video of a Pro Sony shooter comparing the R50 and the ZV-E10. He notes that the 10 bit HDR footage in the R50 is better than the Zv-E10 8 bit footage. But overall its the Sony ecosystem that has a ton of glass and accessories that makes it the top choice.

I think this is the issue with the R50. Its has great image quality at the right price but ins't marketed as a "Creator" camera with a ton of decent glass with wide apertures and other accessories.

Canon has opened up the apsc mount so maybe their will be afforable glass in the future but that will take some time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi4vKvyIhD0

fox40phil · Aug 6, 2024

"Canon RF 190mm F4 2.x Macro"
or/and
"Canon RF 300mm F4 1x Macro"

Thanks Canon! Lets do it ;P ;P!

koenkooi · Aug 6, 2024

JonasGillmann said:
Mainly because of storage and partly because I want to shoot in H.265 and NOT in RAW. 8K oversampled 4K60p in C-Log2 would be almost as detailed as 8K footage but it wouldn't take up ridiculous amounts of storage.

35.1TB if you're recording 8K60p daily for about an hour for one month vs 5.4TB when you're shooting 8K oversampled 4K60p
421.2TB vs 64.8TB for a year

If you downsample and transcode the 8k to 4k in post, you could heat your home during winter with your computer

john1970 · Aug 5, 2024

neuroanatomist said:
That depends on how many macarons you eat.

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Classic catch. Sometimes I really question the intelligence of auto-correct.

definedphotography · Aug 5, 2024

The Godox equivalent

axtstern · Aug 4, 2024

A view pictures made with the18-50

P-visie · Aug 4, 2024

koenkooi said:
It's interesting to see the divide between people who a priori hate any and every need for distortion correction and people that want to see the effect first. The former is certainly a valid position, especially for L series lenses, that were previously much better optically corrected than their non-L counterparts.

Since m4/3 has been doing this since forever, and usually in a way that, in most RAW converters, you cannot disable the corrections I predict that we'll be seeing a lot more of these lenses for full frame, from every manufacturer. I wasn't fond of such lenses, but after using the 15-30mm, 16mm and 28mm I have to say that I enjoy the reduced size and weight. DxO PR4 and Adobe Enhance can be used to get detail 'back'. I suspect that's mostly placebo effect since no one has disproved the assertion from @SwissFrank that (paraphrasing here) its impact can't be visually detected.

Yes, one only has to compare the EF 11-24 mm f4 size and weight with that of the RF 10-20 mm f4. I suspect most of the reduction comes from the RF mount’s shorter flange distance, enabling a less complex optical design, but the software distortion correction will have contributed to the reduction.

Aug 4, 2024

TwoWheeler said:
The https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/shoe-cover-er-sc3

Ahhh. Since that’s for the R5II, I’d not expect it to be available before the camera. I’m not sure it will even fit the R5, it’s for the multifunction shoe.

sanj · Aug 3, 2024

Hi guys. This thread is many years old. Any new products in the market? I currently have 2 Drobos. Both are working fine but for obvious reasons I need to replace them. I need a simple storage system with Double Reduncy (Raid 1?). That's all. No need for NAS. Thank you! I hope that someone replies, or I may have to start a new thread....

OldDudePhotog · Aug 3, 2024

koenkooi said:
It seems the firmware team didn’t look at cine firmware and never asked their coworkers for input. Or ran out of time and implemented the bare minimum.

I teach courses in the IT field and have worked in it for decades, you would be surprised at how often these teams of programmers do not elicit ideas from outside sources before writing their code and making features available to the end user. Those decisions generally come from management, unfortunately not all managers are good either.

Navism · Aug 1, 2024

Finally see photo with photographers.
Let count how many Canon in this photo

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/best-photos-paris-olympics-day-5-2024-07-31/VVF5Y4CJZ5O63IB2YCDSXMQUFU

One more

EOS 4 Life · Aug 1, 2024

[email protected] said:
Funny dumb American moment: I was looking at some more recent Jeff Cable blog entries, and I was noticing the ball in his shots was completely oblong, as though there was terrible rolling shutter. He mentioned he'd been using the R1. I was horrified at how terrible the rolling shutter seemed. Took me two minutes of closely looking at shots to remember that Rugby balls aren't round.

Jeff used the RF 100-300 f/2.8.
That pretty much tells us there was RF 200-500 f/4.
The RF 100-300 f/2.8 + 1.4 Extender seems to have replaced his EF 200-400 f/4 x 1.4.

Bundu · Jul 31, 2024

An Universal rear lens cap for Canon RF and Canon EF lenses. If there is interest in this product I will make it commercially available

Unicap - Universal Canon RF and Canon EF lens cap

Universal rear lens cap that fit Canon RF and Canon EF lensesWill work three positions spaces 120deg

youtu.be

koenkooi · Jul 31, 2024

EOS 4 Life said:
No, not really.
Just an unobstantiated rumor.

If Canon goes the high MP route, I hope they keep the really high MP in a non-gripped body. For example, 60MP in the R1OMG and 82MP in the R5OMG.

I would very much like more megapixels for focus stacking, I can do that at f/2.8-f/5.6 to limit the influence of diffraction.

David - Sydney · Jul 31, 2024

neuroanatomist said:
Well, you have your 5 year warranty. In the US, an online retailer can’t charge the buyer until the item ships. For a preorder or backorder, they can run an authorization but not actually post the charge. There’s an exception for ‘single use’ cards (prepaid credit cards and ApplePay can be fully charged at time of purchase).

‘Shipping’ is initiated when the seller has evidence of doing so, e.g., paying for shipping/postage. That’s why if you buy something here on eBay, the seller will immediately print a shipping label and charge you, but it may be a few days before they actually ship the item (in some cases because they’re making it to order, common with 3D printed items, custom-labeled items, etc.).

I'll keep my extended warranty and be careful with my online orders

My company has a strict no pre-payment policy and they are big enough to push that through although it depends on the Incoterm when invoices can be issued ie generally when title is transferred from seller to buyer or when the service has been provided. Insurance etc can be done with monthly payments.

EvilTed · Jul 30, 2024

koenkooi said:
I have low expectations for the buffer clearing behaviour in the R5II. I would be happy to be proven wrong, though!

Yeah, Jan Werner is already saying the buffer is better than the R5 but with 30 FPS it clears at the same rate and freezes just the same

That's crap Canon, sorry.
I'm personally trading one of my R3s for an R1 and will shoot R1 (main) and R3 (secondary) for sports.

Old Sarge · Jul 30, 2024

espressino said:
Do you mean the Robot Star II by any chance (or any of the other Robot models)? It wasn't a half-frame camera though, but took square photos (some on this site here would grumble about the brain damage done to the Instagram generation of the 1930s). Since you could use the viewfinder sideways and due to its spring mechanism, it seemms to have been popular in spy circles and been used as traffic cameras.

Yes. That's it. Thank you so much. The minute I read "Robot" I slapped my head and spoke sternly to my memory. The store I worked at my last year or two of high school only had one...that they probably never sold. It wasn't half-frame....it was worse.

EOS 4 Life · Jul 30, 2024

MikeGalos said:
Apple's Get a Mac (Mac vs PC) ads were a rare exception and were done when they were in a very distant second place with only 4.3% of the personal computer market so they were fighting "Oh, are they still around?" as their marketing question.

It is not actually that rare.
A PC is not a brand.
It is another product category.
They never mention Windows.

sanj · Jul 30, 2024

shadowsports said:
Greetings,
A Mod (acquaintance) of mine on the Canon community has told me all documented features are not official until the camera is released and links to the camera's documentation (manual) is linked from their support portal. The R52 manual is "unofficially" available but may not be 100% finalized. Do I think it's accurate now, probably.

Based on what's available now: (unofficially)

You have to have 2 cards in the camera to capture still while shooting video
Single and continuous shooting will be possible
Images will be higher res than frame grabs from video
Movies are recorded in Full HD image quality (1920×1080). Still photos are captured as JPEGs with an aspect ratio of 16:9 (7680×4320).
Movies are recorded to card 1 and still photos to card 2.

Option off/on
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Drive Mode is selectable too
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Caveats

High speed
With [Set-up: System frequency] set to [59.94Hz:NTSC]: Continuous shooting at up to approx. 7.5 shots/sec. while pressed
With [Set-up: System frequency] set to [50.00Hz PAL]: Continuous shooting at up to approx. 6.2 shots/sec. while pressed

Low speed
With [Set-up: System frequency] set to [59.94Hz:NTSC]: Continuous shooting at up to approx. 5 shots/sec. while pressed
With [Set-up: System frequency] set to [50.00Hz PAL]: Continuous shooting at up to approx. 4.1 shots/sec. while pressed

Single shots
JPEG compression 1-10 is supported

More
Still photos cannot be captured during movie recording when RF-S or EF-S lenses are attached.

Some features are not available with [Shooting: Dual shooting (still&movie)] set to [On]. Some limitations also apply to movie recording sizes and anti-flicker shooting. Magnification from the point in focus is not available for still photos captured with this feature. Similarly, in-camera resizing, cropping, and upscaling are not available.

This is not 100% confirmed, but likely.

Thank you so very much for this.

Kharan · Jul 29, 2024

Richard CR said:
I got out of bed and dragged my arse to the computer to read that. It sounds like that's just Canon Japan's numbers?

I have to read it a little more.

yeah, it has to be the overall net sales are only 161 billion yen, versus Canon Global being 1167 billion yen.

photorumors is usually much better than that.

Peter has become a hack in the past year, probably the delusions of seeing “Sony trolls” everywhere finally took their toll

For real though, he seems to be on a pro-Nikon, anti-everyone-else crusade now. He’s not even bothering to try to hide his bias anymore. His relentless Canon and Panasonic bashing over the past few months have really turned me off from all of his sites.

MikeGalos · Jul 29, 2024

GoldWing said:
Multiple remote cameras on robotic gimbals to the truck as well as primary and secondary shooters in key postions. We have about 9.0 dBm on the 5 GHz band and approx 100mbs to give you a sense of speed with a belt pack. That being said we still use runners who take whole card(s) to the truck and replenish with formated empties and batteries. The beginning of a meet is uploaded while we're still shooting.

It surprises me how many people think it's still the days of a photographer with a press pass in his hat brim, chewing on a stogie while shooting a Speed Graphic.

SwissFrank · Jul 29, 2024

neuroanatomist said:
There are a lot of Mk I’s still to come, before we start seeing Mk II’s.

My first choice though would be the 24-105/4. The EF had two versions, the first being smaller and the second being sharper. I won't repeat my usual screed about f/4 being the new f/2.8 but I think it's a crossover spec that's good for both amateur and pro usage but I'm not sure the current one is quite pro sharpness. I'd welcome a sharper one even if it was 20% bigger and heavier. I'm waiting for the 35/1.2 (or even 1.0) but if I were still shooting professionally a new 24-105/4 would make more difference than anything else.

David_B · Jul 29, 2024

people become wedded to their camera brand like their do their football/basketball/baseball team. Great for the manufacturers, not so much for the plebs.

Uneternal · Jul 28, 2024

LSXPhotog said:
I struggle to understand why this market was seemingly abandoned by all the camera brands.

Because for a long time the sales went down. Most people said "Why would I need a camera? My smartphone can do the same."
But now you got a new generation of kids who are like "These cameras that our parents used in 2010-2015 were pretty cool."

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