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cayenne · Sep 17, 2024

Michael Clark said:
How many anamorphic lenses does Canon offer in the RF mount?

Assuming Canon designs stills/hybrid bodies to sell new Canon lenses to the people who buy the bodies, what motivation does Canon have for including this capability in the R5 Mark II? What motivation does Canon have to make it possible to use this capability with older used lenses, most/all of them not even Canon?

There's your answer, I think, even though it's probably not what you want to hear.

It's a little different in the Cinema series, because the higher end Cinema industry is much more "rent" than "own", and it's much more common for folks to choose to rent a lens they want for a certain look and then rent whatever camera can accommodate it. That's likely one reason why Canon's Cinema line is so much more expensive, relative to their stills/hybrid line [Compare the 2012 $6,800 1D X to the 2013 $15,000 1D C, both sharing much of the same hardware including identical sensors]. The business model for Cinema is not based on an expectation that buyers will stick with only Canon lenses, so Canon has to make more profit on the bodies themselves.

However, Canon also makes their R5's and the like as hybrid cameras....because they know people DO film with them....
And a lot of those folks ARE using 3rd party lenses, many are anamorphic.

Canon may not be selling anamorphic lenses, but they have to know a growing number of people using their hybrid cameras are using them, and a simple software addition could certainly help sell bodies....you know?

It's easy to get an affordable anamorphic lens with an EF mount that will work very well with the R5......

Anyway, hoping they do. Again, this won't require any type of hardware to do....just software to de-squeeze the image in the view finder or at least on the flippy screen.

If an external monitor can do it easily, so can Canon....and again, other cameras do this....so, why not Canon?

cayenne

Salamander · Sep 17, 2024

I just recently bought the R6ii with the 24-105mm f/4-7.1 lens. I’m new to this camera, and still learning. I’ll be at Disney World late next month and want to film the Halloween nighttime parade. I’m looking for advice on camera settings to use.

Omn · Sep 17, 2024

EOS 4 Life said:
That said, the 17 stops lean toward the highlights instead of the shadows.

There is nothing relevant 10 stops below mid grey and people want skies with colour outside the window. : )

EOS 4 Life said:
That was a strange decision to me since it has built-in ND.

ND pushes everything down and you get a thinner image.

This highlight DR advantage means you can expose normally and get shadows optimally exposed without having to push them in post and you get to keep the highlights in the same time. Practically no need for "protect the highlights" exposure approach.

koenkooi · Sep 17, 2024

AccipiterQ said:
The 24 1.8 is the macro, yes?

Only half macro like the 85, but yes, Canon lists it as macro.

splatrabbit · Sep 17, 2024

Love the dig at the R100 for the retro experience (missing a working touchscreen).

Canon Rumors · Sep 17, 2024

The Canon EOS R5 Mark II has been a frustrating launch when it comes to stock levels for both customers and retailers. There are still some long preorder lists in various countries around the globe, and the communication from Canon has been less than stellar for a lot of people. We also all saw the

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YuengLinger · Sep 16, 2024

Ten years in as a parent, and I 100% agree with unfocused. Keep the gear simple, just enough to get satisfying images of precious moments, not enough to document the trip for a travel magazine. I'm not being facetious! In the past I have traveled as if I were a photojournalist! What a hassle, what stress worrying about the gear itself. Have hands, neck, and head free of all but the moments with family; that's what I've learned about going on such trips.

Bon voyage!

OldDudePhotog · Sep 14, 2024

I do not have my original R3 photos from that night but the one from the R5M2 was untouched and is the jpg that was produced from the camera, not exported from raw. The R3 image was a raw image that was run through a de-noise and exported as jpg. Link below.

Access via Synology

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meywd · Sep 14, 2024

Kit. said:
You probably already know it, but it's still worth mentioning in this thread: eye control AF on R5 II does not select a point to focus on. It selects one of the subjects in the frame recognized by the camera AI.

neuroanatomist said:
I had thought that was the case for the R3, turns out it will drop a focus point under the eye control marker anywhere in the frame if AF is on the shutter half-press.

I am really surprised they changed the implementation, yes selecting a subject reduces the chance of error when a subject exists, but when not, it’s nice to have that focus point.

Berowne · Sep 14, 2024

Canon EOS 550D and Leitz Wetzlar Macro-Elmarit R 1:2.8/60

twoheadedboy · Sep 13, 2024

Which is it? I can't find this information.

Obviously doesn't matter with the current line of Atomos Ninja's, but if if was 2.1 and a new model could handle the spec, that would be amazing!

Michael Clark · Sep 13, 2024

koenkooi said:
The R5 can connect to an existing wifi network, for example to connect to EOS Utility running on a computer. It can also connect to an existing network to talk to Camera Connect on your phone, but Canon makes that very difficult, bordering on impossible.
The R5II gained a lot more freedom, making that use an existing network to talk to your phone is straight forward now!
I suspect the R3 is somewhere in between.

Below is a screenshot of the R5II connected to my home wifi:

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Good to know.

OldrockyGN · Sep 12, 2024

OK, I did some comparison testing of the RF 18-150 lens on the R7 and R5m2. Remember that the 18-150 is a
designed for APS-C lens and that means that when you put it on the R5 the R5 goes into "crop mode". So I
shot pics using both bodies at 18mm, 100mm, and 150mm ... and also shot pics with the RF 100-400 and the
RF 100-500 at 100mm and 150mm. All pics were taken as JPEGs (don't groan, it's what I use all the time).
And they were all taken hand held and pointed at a "big scene" (i.e. "landscape").
Finally, with a minimum amount of post I compared all the images (18s to 18s, 100s to 100s, ... etc.) and looked
at them in terms of amount of detail, sharpness, etc.
My bottom line is that "even though using the RF 18-150 on the R5 resulted in only about 17mp per image -
there wasn't enough difference to matter ... to me. For my purposes.
And -especially- after resizing the images to just 2048 pixels wide. Again, "for me" and "for my purposes".
My purposes for landscapes are sharing with family and friends. I'm never going to print huge wall filling
images of a landscape.
But I do appreciate the ability of the RF 18-150 to go to focal lengths less than 100mm - for landscapes.
And I like it in terms of size and weight - especially when comparing to the size and weight of the RF 100-500.

Richard-CN · Sep 9, 2024

Tmjc.wolf said:
Something weird is going on with the size comparison picture:

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The Sigma sits way too far to the left of the camera, and looks to have been scaled to match the width of the canon 10-18.

Edit: Looks like they've already updated the comparison image: sigma looks even smaller now:
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oh now that's surprising that it's that much smaller than the one from the fuji. thanks I'll update the article.

thegios · Sep 6, 2024

With R5 Mk2 Canon introduced a new setting:

AE for Priority Subjects During AF

also known as

Detect Priority AE while AF

If this is ON only fir EVALUATIVE the metering is based on the AF point or AF area where the subject was detected.

How does this differ from what we all actually know: in EVALUATIVE metering is based on whole screen but weighted on the AF point?

If this is OFF, metering is based on the entire screen.

I don't get it...

Sep 6, 2024

I had my EOS M6 converted to full spectrum by Kolari a few months ago. I have wondered what they do with the hot mirrors (IR/UV cut filters) that they remove from cameras during the process. Apparently, they are now mounting Canon R-series camera hot mirrors in a magnetic clip-in holder for the RF mount and selling them. Pretty cool solution – if you're willing to part with an extra $200 when you have your R-series camera converted (or now, if you've already had it done), you can get an OEM filter back to use your camera as if it were never converted in the first place. Kolari has offered (and still does) a Hot Mirror filter that is a close spectral match to the OEM version, but this is the real thing.

Here's the LINK (select OEM filter from the drop down menu).

GTCRMedia · Sep 6, 2024

psychilles said:
As a R5C shooter, I'm really not using the photo capabilities that much. I just wanted a very small cinema camera. So my hope is still for something along the lines of a Komono style body. Small box camera.

Yessss
Video focused cinema full frame 8k. if i needed photos i can use screen grabs. But barely using the photo mode honestly. If they made a video only version of the R5ii with a stacked sensor, dual or even triple based ISO, improved autofocus using the cinema menu, built in wifi to be able to control the camera via app, dual CF Express Type B, built in ND's would all be greatly appreciated. Almost forgot, make sure to include Clog2 now.

scyrene · Sep 6, 2024

This was my first DSLR, bought secondhand in 2011, and I would still have it if it hadn't been stolen in a burglary a few years later. I loved the images I got, even with the kit lens. It was a gateway drug, and the reason I still use a Canon camera today. Partly because of its drawbacks - for instance it was barely usable indoors at night without the flash - it pushed me to upgrade lenses and bodies. But mainly it was solid and cheap and produced pleasing results once I figured out what I was doing.

meywd · Sep 5, 2024

ISv said:
On the #2 photo - is it Snow Leopard?

Yes it is

Jimbo · Sep 4, 2024

yeah same, I had this with the 16mm2.8 and 28mm2.8. Googled and found the Peripheral illumination Correction setting within minutes and turned it OFF.

AlanF · Sep 4, 2024

tomscott said:
This is awesome! Now I have an R5 on the way the 200-800 really seems attractive. What is it you did here was is Gigapixel AI?

It was upscale in Topaz Photo AI. Gigapixel AI will be at least as good and maybe better - I haven’t done a comparison myself.

Del Paso · Sep 4, 2024

vladk said:
Don't know was it a9 III, or other SONY camera, but Evan uses what AP gives him to use, and AP is exclusively SONY.
The image may become iconic if he wins election, and if he loses - this one taken with Canon (because Getty is Canon shop) may become iconic instead (but the camera make does not really matter, because corporations choose supplier based on many factors, and camera specs are not the most important, because all 3 big makers build the decent stuff):
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I'd rather see a picture of a landscape, a puppy, a car, a park bench, a tree, a bagel, a bottle of WhistlePig than...

EricN · Sep 4, 2024

1ExBoyScout said:
I was part of one of the layoffs (they have now had several since 2020). Each time they lay off just under the WARN threshold so it isn't required to hit the papers - Canon goes waaaay out it's way to negate negative publicity. Even the uniform policy forbids wearing company issued clothes off of their premises.

Regardless, after close to 35 years there and working my way up from an hourly "member" (management likes the term member, as in family member but now we know it's more like incest) to senior management by doing things that made the company successful I simply got a phone all at home telling me to never step foot on the premises again & that I was being "laid off due to Covid".

Mule muffins.

For decades several Americans told the very top level Japanese that we needed to diversify our business as anything related to cheap, mainstay PowerShot cameras was going to go bye-bye (everyone has a smart phone now) soon and copier and anything Toner related was going to fall off dramatically as well. Obviously not completely but in reality who "Xerox's" like we used too?
So they did TWICE try to diversify. The first venture they got caught trying to sell that military (proprietary) information to other companies! This failure is public knowledge. The second is their own medical systems and that has fallen flat. Vast resources wasted on both projects.

At a high they employed over 6000+ people & it's now much less than 1000, probably now closer to 400.

Bottom line, they have fired all contract labor people and been systematically laying off full time "normal" employees for the last several years. They almost always release tenured (older) people that helped the company grow and succeed. Many people like material handlers that I knew were there just as long as I was and were happy in their position. Whether upper management such as myself or an entry level position, if you are "older" then we all have been axed because they were an insurance liability (cost to much to cover their insurance from the Canon point of view) and were usually topped out in their respective pay scale (around$18/hr for the material handler). These are simply 2 of the reasons.

Reality IS that I was laid off due to the mostly senior Japanese management poor decisions. EVERY year I received exemplary performance reviews, hence the numerous promotions as noted earlier.

Regardless of what the laws are if you have gray hair nobody wants to hire you even at an entry level position. I KNOW as I've been turned down for hundreds of jobs, dozens of which I knew I could have made a substantial positive difference to the bottom line.

In summary...
Yeah, it's a dick move.

Sorry to learn this. I hope something good will happen for you.

DCM Photography · Sep 3, 2024

koenkooi said:
Do you have ‘drive lens when AF is impossible’ on or off? https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/html/UG-04_AF-Drive_0100.html#AF-Drive_0100_1-4

interesting - that might be a thing