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DeanWilsonCanby · Apr 26, 2022

Upgraded from R to R5.

The other day I took 51 photographs (no videos) and the file name sequence skipped a beat.
xxxx0576
xxxx0577

xxxx0612
xxxx0613

Nothing for 0578 through 0611

I have never had that issue with any Canon cameras before. Reaffirm: NO VIDEO were taken.

FRFilms · Apr 26, 2022

Any updates on this at all?

AlanF · Apr 26, 2022

mandog said:
Alan, thanks for pointing me to optyczne.pl--interesting stuff there. I'd be careful comparing the two graphs you posted though, because they used different lenses.

If you look at Bryan Carnathan's cross-test, he used the same lens: Canon EF 200mm f/2L IS USM Lens Image Quality

Another possibility would be to get a 90D instead of the RF800 (a refurb is cheaper now). Then I could shoot with just the 1.4x, which would give 2x shutter speed at ISO100 with about the same MP. But from their test, it looks like the AA filter would eat up most of the extra resolution, even though it only works in one direction.

The data at f/8 and greater should be independent of lens as most good lenses have negligible aberration there and it's diffraction that is limiting. The R5 is still outresolving the 5DSR at these narrower apertures. I don't put much store by the TDP's charts, they are the weakest point of one of the best websites, if not the very best.

The 90D does not realise the full potential of its 32 Mpx sensor. And, you would have to use low isos. I found at the high isos I shoot at, usually 640 to much more, I wasn't getting better resolution than a 20 Mpx crop without an AA-filter (D500). I just checked on https://www.optyczne.pl/433.4-Test_aparatu-Canon_EOS_90D_Rozdzielczość.html and indeed they find the D7500, another 20 Mpx sensor without the AA-filter, is just as sharp! optyczne.pl is a hidden gem of a website. I read it using chrome browser to translate automatically.

sanj · Apr 24, 2022

Canon India launched an 'edit van' yesterday in India. It is quite a cool van. And let this be a wake-up call to people who think that India is not important to Canon. Canon guy said this is the first of it's kind and they chose to launch it in India for the volume of work India does. Here are some links I made for you all to see. It was fun. I was the first one in..

I have added my photo, just for fun... LOL

Busted Knuckles · Apr 24, 2022

Birdshooter said:
I'm, over 60 and hand hold the 600 f/4... lol

I find my CF varizoom crows foot mono pod to be a net strength/maneuverability advantage. Either shooting from simgle or slow walk locations taking all the load off is darn handy. The friction settings on all the moving parts keep the swings under control when this birds come blasting past.

Took awhile to learn how to dance with it, I am no Fred Astair (sp?)

I dont use it as a still tripod or leave it un handed for more than a few seconds, once balanced the effort to keep it aligned/standing is minimal

mxwphoto · Apr 24, 2022

BakaBokeh said:
Fast, Wide AND small & light? Yes please.

I would contend that 3 of the 4 is good enough for me (remove the fast). If you want fast as well the only possible way would be with heavy software correction or a curved sensor so optics become easier to design.

It would be great if Canon is able to put out some lenses like Laowa, but with AF as those lenses check every box except the AF.

Johnw · Apr 23, 2022

I would absolutely own the 1200, if I could afford it. Shooting at 3840 in crop mode would be spectacular for astro.

neurorx · Apr 22, 2022

Exploreshootshare said:
Here's a repost of post I did about a year ago, but it makes sense once again:

I just don’t get why people still compare the RF 100-500mm to Sonys 200-600mm lense. Those lenses feature completely different designs for different purposes.

RF 100-500mm - 200-600mm
77mm Filter - 96mm filter thread
20 cm - 32 cm
1.45 kg - 2.1 kg
0,5 m - 2,4 m Minimum focus

If you look at the purposes intended, it is even clearer:

RF: possible walk-around lense

Sony: most „sit and wait“ lense… (birders e.g.)

RF: landscapes, sports, wildlife (77mm thread allows regular filters…)

Sony: almost exclusively wild-life

The narrower end and the exceptional minimum focus makes the RF 100-500mm a great sport lense for example for soccer, handball (huge in Germany) while the 200-600mm isn’t suitable here.

In addition, the RF 100-500mm is an L lense, the 200-600mm is not a G Master lense, a fact which a lot of users complained on the sonyalpharumors site when the lense was released. Since the 200-600mm features weather sealing and still is not a GMaster lense, it likely says that the image quality is not the best possible. (while it is still good IQ)

The Sony 200-600mm is a great option for wildlife photography. And yes, it is an offering Canon does not have. But Canon has a different, much more versatile and way more handy option. Comparing those lense just doesn’t make sense.

I don´t wanna trash the Sony 200-600mm lense here, because it great lense for what it is. But I’m sick and tired of people bitching and moaning about the fact, that the 200-600mm is one third of stop faster between 472-500mm and people literally comparing apples and melons. Furthermore, they only compare a single tiny fact…

Wow, what a response. I just don't think the 100-500 was a big improvement of a lens over my 100-400 II. 200-600 at least gives me some additional reach at a reasonable price point, which was my point.....but wow, what a reply.

Johnw · Apr 20, 2022

neuroanatomist said:
That's not what happened. The Ra and the R6 both came out after the RP. It's common for Canon to add functionality to newer cameras that they don't go back and add to older cameras. For example, your EOS RP has focus bracketing. The EOS R does not, even though it is a more expensive camera it came out before the feature was introduced. The Ra (as stated, a newer camera than the RP) has focus bracketing, too, as do the even more recent R5, R6 and R3.

This is not correct. While that point may be valid in general, that's not the case with this feature. As gruhl28 noted, the feature is present on the R which was the first camera released. This is a screengrab of the R's menu for the quick dial showing the ISO option, this is the option that is missing on the RP. The reality is that the RP, as the lowest end camera is simply forced to accept the blows of the Canon cripple hammer even when they fall in arbitrary and strange ways. Still, can't really fault Canon with this strategy if it works for them I guess. Multiple people in this thread have stated their intention to upgrade to an R6 knowing how unnecessarily crippled the RP is. When I got the RP, I wasn't expecting top of the line AF, or IBIS, or any of the other headline features Canon has now, but I didn't expect it to be so limited that I would be unable even to take a manual exposure in the same way that the R/Ra allows.

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Del Paso · Apr 19, 2022

I wish they had chosen a Sony MILC (poor battery life)...

roby17269 · Apr 18, 2022

Last friday I shot around 1700 frames with my gripped R5 (fw 1.5.2) & RF 50mm 1.2L...
I had 1 hiccup in the middle of the birthday party: no blackout (that happened rarely in the past), but the camera froze once: it became unresponsive and the EVF was frozen. Turning it off and on fixed that, no need to remove the battery.

olimac · Apr 16, 2022

Can I use the new Canon EOS R5C without battery and power it with the Ronin RS2 when the R5C is on the Ronin ?

john1970 · Apr 15, 2022

I had some issues this evening trying to focus on a strongly backlit owl that was strongly in the shadows. Might be the limitation of the camera by overall the image was a bit soft. Might also have been a bit of motion blur since I was handholding a large lens.

AlanF · Apr 15, 2022

Michael Clark said:
Why couldn't they patent the RF lens flange and skip the camera side mount instead? (Assuming they can only patent one)

They could have indeed patented a novel lens mount, and it would have allowed anyone to make cameras with a mount that fits the lens.

Michael Clark · Apr 14, 2022

adrian_bacon said:
Which is what pays the bills, and is reality... I prefer to operate in reality. I don't care what it looks like pixel peeping at 100% on my display. The only people who will ever see that is me.

Johnw · Apr 13, 2022

RedPixels said:
Specific sky targets such as galaxies and nebulae sit around 200-450mm.

Well it actually depends entirely on which target. Some close by galaxies like Andromeda will fill the frame at those lengths. Others would be better at 1500, others would be better at 3000, etc.

tron · Apr 13, 2022

Unfortunately as far as I know the original version of cameras is not available anywhere. I wonder if service centers can help though...

tron · Apr 13, 2022

mccasi said:
I have the lens too and I’m quite happy for my use cases.

For selfie I don’t care about corner sharpness, but all other aberrations are perfectly controlled.

For astro I won’t use the lens corrections but light frames to deal with vignetting .. no one cares about straight lines for Milky Way photography so I actually get sharpness and contrast where I need it. Coma is fairly okay, worst case I have to stop it down to f4 .. still better then the EF 16-35mm f4L for Milky Way I reckon, it had more aberrations traded for better corner sharpness.

Big plus for the smooth bokeh and close focusing distance!

most annoying is actually the lack of weather proofing, despite its small size I’d like to leave it out for Astro for a couple of hours and don’t have to take it down during a small drizzle.

Where do you base that? I strongly doubt it! Not only from my 16-35 4L IS experience in landscape and astro but also from lenstip,com full review. Sorry but I do not accept your statement. You can like the RF16 all you want or you can pursuade yourself - I do not care - but what you say about 16-35 does not hold.

dirtyvu · Apr 13, 2022

Red does support rf glass. Mkbhd carries the r5 as his camera because it can use the same lenses as his red v-raptor. Red's new cameras use rf glass

Johnw · Apr 12, 2022

I have this lens too and I like it. Yes the AF isn't that fast, but I've also used the 85 1.2 and I didn't find the AF to be much faster on that lens either. Yeah it has the USM which moves faster but it also has a lot more big heavy glass to move at 1.2, which ends up making it kind of a wash imo. But this lens is much cheaper, great IS, and has the Macro/close focusing which are actually improvements over the 1.2 for a lot of people. I wouldn't choose either of the Canon 85s for an application where AF speed was the main requirement.

Apr 12, 2022

Nice necrothreading, but yes – the active AF point is recorded in the EXIF. If you're using BBF and not actually pressing the button, there is no active AF point.

Bdbtoys · Apr 11, 2022

May want to give Flashpoint/Godox a look (pretty good bang for the buck). Adorama sells the Godox rebranded as Flashpoint. I have a few strobes/speedlights from FP and I like them.

koenkooi · Apr 11, 2022

AlanF said:
Mine is left in airplane mode and doesn't drain.

MIne kept draining when not being used for a few days and after enabling airplane mode it stopped draining. I hadn't expected leaving bluetooth enabled would cause such a drain, it doesn't do that on my M6II.

idave4321 · Apr 9, 2022

For my 5d3 / 5d4 I always used Sandisc cards...
When I got the R5 I switched to Sony Tough, and then when I got a second R5 I picked up an Angelbird card.
The Angelbird card had twice the capacity (512 vs 256,) for close to half the price!!

The Sony is NOT worth the extra money - It gave me a little trouble, but the Angelbird
has been great. Highly recommend!

Angel bird is a great company, with great support.
They may not be as well known as some companies,
but it is easy to see they care about their products -
I have already ordered another 2 Angelbird CFExpress Cards,
and an Angelbird reader (I picked up a Sandisc reader with the first Sony Card)

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