Hot on the heels of the Sigma 200mm F2.0 comes quite a few new full-frame lenses for Sigma that look pretty impressive. They are expected to be released for the L-Mount Alliance L mount and the Sony E mount, and notably not for the RF mount. All three lenses are expected to be announced on […]

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There was the Nikkei Financial Yearbook released in Japan, and DCLife summarized camera shipments from the big Japanese manufacturers over the last 4 years. It’s a fascinating look at the industry, and how DLRs have fallen off – but at different degrees of slope than one may have anticipated, given that we were looking back […]

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There were rumors several years back that Canon would replace the vintage 2004 ETTL-II flash system with something more advanced. After 2015, I think there have only been a handful of flash releases: the 470EX-AI, the 600EX II-RT, the EL-100, the EL-10, the EL-1 and EL-1v2, and the Macro Twin Lite MT-26EX-RT are the only ones I can think of. No new system has been forthcoming. An ideal time to deploy a new system might have been in the last few years when the number of R-series bodies was small and they could be easily adjusted with only a few firmware updates, but multiple R lines are now moving to second generation products.

So what do folks think about this, especially those who use multi-flash setups or do studio work? Did Canon miss a golden opportunity to introduce an improved flash system? Do folks find the current system adequate? Have many moved to other brands for a better flash system? Are there particular capabilities elsewhere that you wish Canon had?

Viltrox had a busy evening, launching two lenses and announcing that they have officially joined the L-Mount Alliance.


Viltrox has been a company to watch as they navigated, first introducing a decent series of primes for the APS-C mount that I enjoyed using, to now offering multiple lines of lenses for both full frame and APS-C, not to mention lenses with some serious speed and MTF claims. Again, all with exceptional prices.

A couple of weeks ago we reported that Canon would be announcing a new Cinema EOS camera to compete with Sony’s FX line of cameras. Our report mentioned Canon going after the Sony FX30 camera, which is a capable APS-C camera for video production. We alluded to full-frame Cinema EOS camera would be coming too, […]

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Some internet chatter has been circulating; it's a good idea to address it here. The rumors suggest that Canon will make a soft announcement sometime between now and September 15th. This would lead Canon to place the R6 Mark III in the announcement stream just before the IBC conference (International Broadcasting Convention), which usually covers cinema cameras more than stills.

This is a curious patent application from Canon. From the designs, it’s pretty evident that these aren’t your usual mirrorless zoom lenses.

A little background first on what we use to determine use cases for lenses. It’s all about the image height.

ANyone know what the Latest Firmware is available for the Canon RF 100mm Macro? I just had a repair and mine is show 1.1.1 cant seem to find any info on any updates if available.

The Canon EOS R7 Mark II is coming in the next 4-6 months, whether that’s an announcement date or a shipping date isn’t known at this time. We were recently sent an image of what does look to be the follow-up to the EOS R7, but we were not given permission to post the image […]

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Will there be an internal zoom Z version of the Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM?

Hasselblad released the XCD II 100C today, and Hasselblad seems to be going all in with HDR image workflow. The camera supports what Hasselblad is calling its new Hasselblad Natural Color Solution HDR (HNCS HDR) processing. The camera can capture Ultra HDR JPEG and HDR HEIF image files, and it can also capture and process its RAW images in HDR using the accompanying Phocus Mobile 2 app and compatible software.

We don't get nice things on the RF mount - okay, that was a bit of hyperbole - we have lots of nice things on the RF mount, just not this one.

Viltrox has come a long way from their earlier days of their triple fast primes for APS-C (which were decent, especially when you considered the price). Now they have an entire line of primes with three different quality scales: standard, Pro, and Lab. They have also expanded into full frame, as they continue to flex their optical design and lens manufacturing chops.

It appears as if it's the end of an era in Leica land. The M11-V is expected to be announced soon, but it has a feature that no other Leica M series cameras have had - no optical viewfinder, and it uses an EVF. This makes it the first M-mount camera with an EVF. This camera would supplant the M11 that was announced on January 13, 2022.

The EISA awards came out, and I know everyone was breathlessly waiting to hear about them. So here we are once again. Canon this time did quite well (cheque is in the mail), taking home six awards. Let's get into the items that one - of course I do find it amusing that Canon one the Professional Camera and Full frame camera categories, and yet the Sony A1 II won the best camera category. Draw your own conclusions or conspiracies on that one - I know I have mine.

I didn't find a bug thread, so I thought I start one.

Weevil on an oxeye daisy

Hi all,

I am planning to move to Canon mirrorless sooner or later since very long time in DSLRs, i stopped photography for about a decade now, so i hope i will return back with a purchase of Canon new cameras if i can, and i want to have two different cameras to be used in what i do or what i am planning to do later, which are sports and birding.

For those two subjects i know i want fast cameras, mainly i care about the fps and the battery life, any other factors aren't much big deal for me, but the main factor as always in anything is ..... BUDGET.

Now if i will buy two cameras in Canon R series, which two of following options you prefer to take?

1. Canon R1 + Canon R8 or R10

2. Canon R3 + Canon R7 [or R7II]

3. Canon R5II + Canon R6II [or R6III]

For sports R3 and R7 are more appealing to me, while for birding it sounds R5 and its versions are most favorable among shooters, while R6 is kind of a backup of anything and a capable camera, i consider R6 as mini R5 or upgrade of R7, the number is also in between, but in reality all cameras can be amazing over my old DSLRs anyway, i still have 1DX which is a remarkable camera and still capable of nice results, i can keep using it over R7 or R8/R10 as a backup second camera.

About lenses, for now i will keep using my EF lenses with adapter until i can buy RF lenses.

I still have a plan to move away from Canon and going into Sony or Nikon, i won't buy so many lenses anyway, for sports or birding i will get only 1 lens of any, long prime for sports or long zoom for birding, even some 3rd party are making lenses now so i am not forced to stay with Canon, i do have Sony mirrorless that i use it always for landscape and portraits and still life or macro and anything that isn't action movement subjects [sports, birds, wildlife,...etc].

Godox has announced the Godox AD400Pro II, and it's now available for sale. I'm a firm believer in Godox because I think that Canon has dropped the ball on all things flash-related. I'm personally not sure why Canon doesn't just get a contract with Godox and rebrand their stuff under the Canon brand name.

Insta360 has announced the Go Ultra, the latest in its line of action cameras. This actually looks decent, as do most of Insta360 products. This camera fits in with the Go lineup's modular design and allows use with or without the action pod. The camera itself has a fair amount of decent upgrades, so I guess it deserves the "Ultra" but can we come up with another naming convention soon?

Are there any rumours of further macro lenses that do not have the focus shift issue of the RF 100mm f2.8L

There has been rumors for as long as my old brain can remember about a “big white” super telephoto zoom lens. There has been talk about an RF 200-500mm f/4L IS USM, an optical design that we have seen patents for in the past. The thing with optical designs and Canon L lenses, is that […]

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Nikon has announced the upgrade to the very good Nikkor Z 24-70 f/2.8 S today, touting internal focus and internal zoom, and upgraded focusing, lighter weight, shorter minimum focus distance, and countless other upgrades. It's honestly worthy of the Mark II moniker.

WEX was having a Road Show day today with Canon reps plus gear and I took advantage of it to do some comparisons of telephotos on my R5ii. The store in Cambridge is situated about 70m from the front of Sidney Sussex College that has some good targets for comparison. Here, I have selected crops from the centre of a shield and cockerel, and also dug up some images from a year ago from the RF 200-800mm and RF 800mm f/11 on the R5. With these copies of the lens: the image from the RF 70-200mm f/2.8 + RF 2xTC at 400mm is extremely good, as is the RF 100-500mm at 500mm; the RF 100-300mm f/2.8 + RF 2xTC at 600mm is softer; the EF 600mm f/4 iii is similar to the 100-500mm; adding the RF 1.4xTC to the RF 100-500mm at 700mm doesn't add much detail; and the two 800mm lens add clearly more detail.

There's a new APS-C compact on the streets, as Ricoh has announced the GR IV. It's the fourth camera in the series and has now circled back and included some elements from prior GR cameras that were excluded from the third model, making this perhaps the most complete model to date.

Some images from Italy: Central Italian Alps and north of Sardegna. All taken with my R5 (and a couple with the DJI Mini 4 Pro drone).
The RF 100-500 was my most used lens. The RF 35 1.4 a distant second and I used the RF 85 1.2 for a few family portrait (not shared here).
In total I have taken 3700 images - a lot of them ended up stitched in large panos.

One of the more intriguing rumors was the Hasselblad X2D II, and the press announcement does give us some more details that make the system a little clearer. It does indeed appear as if the Hasselblad X2D II will have some form of LiDAR built into the camera, but only to assist with focus, not as the primary focus method. This is somewhat what I suspected, that LiDAR couldn't do everything normal phase detection could do.

https://www.canonrumors.com/hasselblad-x2d-ii-press-release-spills-out-early-across-the-internet/↗