I'm just curious as to what the general consensus is with purchasing Canon's Service plans for lenses. If you have purchased the service plan, how was the actual service and process? Was it easy or did you have to jump through hoops? If you purchased it did you find value in it? If you didn't purchase the service plan, why not? Trying to establish a pros/cons list for these expensive investments!

Hi all. I have a EOS R5 and I already own a RF 16-35mm f/2,8 and a RF 70-200mm f/2,8 along with the EF 300mm f/4 and the EF 8-15mm f/4 fisheye.

Now I have a question since I own also an EF 24-70mm F/2.8L I USM zoom lens. Is it worth accodording to your opinion to sell/upgrade this current zoom lens and get the either the EF 24-70mm F/2.8L II USM or the RF 24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM?
I ask because not always newest products are necessary better. Price vs image quality is also an important factor to consider.

What is your opinion in this repect?

Thanks in advance.

My R5 is super: not had a single freeze, focusses fast and accurately, and delivers sharp images. But, as usual for me, the battery life is short. I don't spend much time chimping, it's set to eco mode, the rear LCD is always off and I use just the viewfinder, airplane mode is on and I have disabled everything that I can think of that would use power. I tend to take short bursts of 3-4 shots or less. My main lenses are the RF 100-500mm or adapted 100-400mm II or 400mm DO II. Yet, whereas early discussion here had people getting 1000s of shots per charge, I now get a couple of 100 only.

All comments by those who don't use telephotos are welcome even if you don't vote.

hello,
i would to try slow-motion with R5, tried to do so, but i can' t record at 100fps , 4K on my sd card , which is Sony Tough (W: 150MB/s), i m satisfied with this SD for photo,
but i didn't consider Hight Frame Rates video,
so i wonder if there is a good SD or CF card to get, considering price and quality,
thanks for your help

Well, here we have the first specifications for the Canon EOS R1 (the flagship RF mount camera). Things are slow at the moment, so why the heck not?
Please note the [CR0] rating
Canon EOS R1 Specifications: (Rumored)

Approx: 85MP global shutter CMOS imaging sensor
Approx: 85MP at 20fps, 21MP at 40fps unlimited continued shooting
Full Sensor Large Quad Pixel Auto Focus
15.5 EV+ Dynamic Range
ISO 160-1638400
5-axis IBIS up to 9 stops
3.5” 9.33MP 1280nit 10-bit WCG RGB-OLED touch screen with 120Hz AE-AF
9.44MP 120Hz SuperSpeed AE-AF electronic viewfinder
Price $8,500USD

There are a few things on this specifications list that scream nonsense, but I’ll let you decide for yourself.
If this had shown up in my inbox, I would not have published it. However it was posted elsewhere, so here we are.

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I have been told a couple of times now that Canon is working on a new menu system for upcoming cameras. I don’t know how far along in development Canon is, but I would think the EOS R1 would be a good place to introduce something new.
One of the sources claims that you will be able to select the “Canon Classic” menu system or the new menu system on your camera. This makes a lot of sense, lots of people love familiarity, especially on professional bodies, but new users to the system would probably be inclined to learn the new menu system.
Canon has always had a great menu system, but I think it has started feeling cumbersome on the EOS R5, as the breadth and depth of options continue to grow.
Before you ask, I doubt we would see a firmware update to give cameras like the EOS R5 or EOS R6 the new menu system.
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The first half of 2021 is not going to be an exciting time for Canon shooters. The company continues to work on getting over the supply chain and manufacturing issues, something that is apparently going to be resolved by late March.
A source with a stellar track record has told me that Canon will announce more lenses at once than ever before. The lenses will have different shipping dates, but Canon is going to make a “massive splash with a new camera and many many lenses”.
I have posted the known RF lens roadmap a couple of times, and you can check it out here. Keep in mind that the list may not be complete.
One lens not on the roadmap is a dedicated RF mount macro lens, I have been told numerous times that we’ll see one this year, but I don’t yet know the focal length or speed.
There will be a lot more information on this topic in the coming weeks, I can’t say why, but things should start to come into focus.

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My shop called to tell me the 70-200 f4 had finally arrived in their hands, a few hours before the start of the NHL game.

Just enough time to take it for its first walk in the park so to speak.
An 80 dollar parking ticket for an expired meter, by 6 minutes, outside the shop (because Montreal SUCKS that way and loves to whack you at every possible chance), I made it to the rink.
When I see a lens review and they talk about tracking moving objects, and they show a person walking at a leisurely pace etc, I never take the review seriously.
How fast can a lens jump back on the play when a ref or another player skates through the frame is important, can it follow a player sprinting right towards you?

I brought my 70-200 2.8 EF, just in case, and never used it.
The RF performed very, very well. It focused as well or better than the 2.8 EF with an adapter on the R5. Being so much lighter, I found I took the camera away from my eye less often than I use to with a 1dx mk 2 and the EF 70-20 2.8.

Tomorrow I will go through the folder again and pull out extra 'beauty shots' for the archives, but at quick glance, I do not forsee carrying the 2.8 EF to the rink for the next game this Thursday night.

I had a photoshoot a couple of days ago shooting a backlit subject and using high speed sync so that I could use a shallow depth of field. Camera is EOS R and flash is Godox AD200 (lens EF 85/1.8)
At high shutter speeds (1/6000 and 1/8000) I have noticeable banding from the flash in the image. No banding visible elsewhere. First image.
The issue is almost invisible at 1/3000. Second image.
I know that the flash pulses rapidly so that it can sync with a focal plane shutter. Are the highest shutter speeds on the R electronic so that such banding would show?
Anyone else experienced this?
Tips for removing the banding would be appreciated. I might try selective blurring in Photohop.
In the future I'll use a neutral density filter in situations like this.

Question: IBIS and lens IS are great to have but does the R5 automatically make any adjustments because of this? For instance, in Av Mode, if I am not tracking a moving object, the R5 will adjust the shutter speed and Iso (auto Iso). With IBIS and lens IS, can the R5 adjust to a slower shutter speed and/or lower Iso than would have been made if IBIS and lens IS were not present?

DJI, the global leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology, today launched an entirely new type of drone with an intuitive, immersive flight experience never available until now. DJI FPV combines the first-person view and high-speed performance of racing drones, the cinematic camera sweep of traditional drones, the safety and transmission technology of DJI’s leading consumer drones, and an optional innovative single-handed motion controller that allows pilots to control the drone with just hand movements. DJI FPV creates a new drone category and opens up new worlds of possibilities for content creators and drone fans from beginners to experts alike.
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“DJI has been redefining...

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Has anyone discovered if it's possible to activate the modeling lamp on your remote EL-1's? It seems you can activate modeling flash (burst of flashes over 1 second) but not the actual LED lamp which I find quite odd. I've tested every possible setting and I believe that you can only activate the lamp for focus assist with the unit that is attached to your camera. That's a bit of a let down to have to manually press the button any time you need to activate the modeling lamp, especially if it's in a position that's out of reach. Otherwise these guys are pretty fantastic. I'll attach a bare-bulb sample below. Also, keep in mind they won't fit in the older Godox S1 bracket. Found that out a little too late and had to use my 600. They will fit in the S2 bracket but it is tight.

Ron over at Whistling Wings posted a new video with some amazing info on using the R5 and the RF 100-500 for birding


Hope it is ok to link to Ron's Gallery - https://ronaldbielefeld.smugmug.com/Tree-swallows-2021/

Hello all,
I have a chance to score a FD 400 2.8 lens from a friend possibly. I've not seen it yet, but he says in pretty good shape.
We've not talked price yet.

First, as far as Canon bodies go, I'm still on my 5D3.
I've spent some $$ past year on some other bodies and systems....and right now saving up for maybe an R5, and possibly waiting to see what happens with the R1 if it comes out when I'm saved up and looking to drop the hammer.

So, I thought I'd understood that FD lenses either couldn't be adapted to EF cameras....at least in the past, but possibly now there are some adapters that can be used.

Can anyone with experience with FD on EOS bodies give me some input as to what your experience is, and what the better adapter(s) are to get?

Again, the Canon mirrorless system is in my future, and one thing I like about mirrorless, is resurrecting older vintage lenses on mirrorless with adapters.

At this time, my mirrorless cameras I have are my GFX100 and me Leica M10 monochrom.

I'm looking at adapters for those....but that's for other forums.

But when I look at vintage lenses, I'm looking to adapt them for as many of my camera systems as possible.

So, first questions here...adapting FD to EOS.....for my 5D3.

Next...is anyone familiar with this lens in general? What do you like/dislike about it?

What would be a reasonable price on a used FD 400 f/2.8?

Thank you in advance!!

cayenne

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Hello, on my old EOS R used the option of direct printing to the selphy cp1300 printer. Great thing especially at weddings. Unfortunately, this option is not available on the new EOS R5. Do you have any advice on how to set this up? I didn't expect this to be such a more expensive model. Thank you

I've configured my AF-ON and * buttons to toggle between Servo/Face+Tracking and One Shot/Spot AF per the Northrup's latest video here:


The reconfigured * button works fine. However when I press the reconfigured AF-ON button, it shows a blue box without providing the option of toggling between eyes using the joystick, and I need to hold down the AF-ON button with my thumb.

- How do I configure the AF-ON with the full Face+Tracking+Eye-Detect so that it shows the white box around the eyes with the the two arrows?
- How do I configure the AF-ON so that I don't need to hold down my thumb on the AF-ON button?

I must have missed something in their instructions but I can't figure out what it is. Thanks!

The Rf 100 f2.8 Macro lens Is their been any news on it Coming out I was hopping it would make an appearance before the season starts in the uk ?

So an ULTRA strange thing occurred yesterday while shooting a wedding. My typical technique for group photos has been to count down from 3 and then start shooting a sequence of 3-5 images at 1. This way I ensure I don’t get blinkers in my shots. LOL But anyway, now to my point. I performed this task yesterday like I normally would and -for whatever reason- I had the camera on auto ISO. I use auto ISO at weddings fairly often, but during a portrait session in controlled light, I probably shouldn’t have because there was no need. It does make things easier when I want to quickly change aperture on the fly without thinking.

That said, something extremely EXTREMELY odd happened while I was taking my shots. The longer I held the shutter button down, the darker my images became. Like...down by almost 2 stops. It appeared to lower the exposure by 1/3 of a stop per image or more. I had never seen this before at ALL...like, I’ve never experienced anything like this in the past. I wasn’t able to replicate it on ever image, but I could tell when it was happening in the viewfinder because the liveview preview would become darker. At that point I could have taken the camera out of auto ISO, but it wasn’t ruining the shots and I was determined to troubleshoot the situation.

Long story long, I couldn’t identify what was causing this to happen and I wanted to see if anyone else here might have experienced this and what the issue was. The R5 has never done this, but the R6 did. When I get home I’m going to spend a ton of time trying to identify what the cause of this is and I’ll report back. Until then, has anyone had this issue?

Lens used was the RF 24-70 f/2.8L.

I was curious if the R5's 4K 120FPS was noticeably better than the 1080 120FPS on the R6 so I did a quick test using my R70-200 a small car and a cheap display spinner.

I also talk about my VERY simple workflow for creating stock footage in Premiere Pro.

What is everyone settings for their auto focus on the Canon R5?
I took the camera out for a field test yesterday and took what I thought was a selection of cracking images however when I got home and loaded them onto the Mac this was not the case.
I shoot mostly wildlife (roe deer) at dawn and dusk so low light performance is key.
The camera would not use its eye detection function at all and kept wanting to jump on their rear hind or the nearest tree. I put this down to the lowlight however with Roe and the big black noses and massive black eyes I thought it would have locked on easily?
I have attached a couple of unprocessed images as examples to see the issues I’m having.
Taken with a 500mm F4 IS ii with 1.4 ex iii and canon adapter, shot in fully manual mode (no auto iso).
The first image of the roe was taken from around 30m from behind cover. It was 30min before sunrise under exposed to prevent pushing the iso higher.
The deer was very still trying to look for me. I was easily able to put the centre focus point on his eye- easy shot. The camera has decided to focus on the reeds behind him and this was the same in every shot. I have taken the same shot with my 5D4 countless times and never had this issue.
these deer are very camouflaged against usual bushes an brambles and they are hard to spot. I could maybe understand it then, but with the light reeds behind why would the camera get confused? Even with its contrast based AF system?
The noise at ISO 4000 is also incredible! Reminds me of my 7Dmkii.
The second image of a squirrel (30min after sunrise) was the only image where the eye detection was keen to lock onto his eye and hold it. To me it looks like the branch just in front of his nose is the focus point though?
Auto focus micro adjustment isn’t available for the R5 otherwise that would be my first port of call.
I have never had these problems with my 5D4 or the 5D3 where their inferior AF systems performed great.
I am beginning to think I have a faulty R5? It only seems to work in perfect light. Its like my old 7Dmkii, just awful in low light and lots of noise.
Using case 1 or 2 mostly, BBF set up (with star button for eye detect).
This is not the camera I was lead to believe in all the glowing reviews. I held off on mirrorless because I feared the above issues and believed everything had been ironed out. Seriously unimpressed - Any ideas before i ditch it?

I've posted this question over at 'Digital Photography Review', but I thought I might also open the discussion here as well.

My current camera, the 6DII, gives really good image quality at 26.2mp, and is worth its $1,400 price as an entry-level full-frame pro camera. I have no complaints with it. But I'd like to step up to the higher image quality of the R5, whose 45mp resolution shouldn't be too high for my L lenses to handle, even though they're not the absolute newest version. What throws a monkey wrench in all this is the rumored 90mp R5s (as it has popularly come to be known).

I'm convinced that the R5s will indeed be released, this year or next, if only because Canon is being pushed by Sony. Rumor has it that the price will be similar to the R5, which gives me the indication that the R5 will be for sports, wedding and newspaper/magazine photography, while the R5s would be for landscape/cityscape, fashion and architectural photography. As a serious amateur photographer, my main forte is the landscape/cityscape genre, so naturally I would be most interested in the R5s. But that leads me to ask about lenses.

How good would the processed RAW images from the R5s look when captured by my L lenses? Would they resolve the full 90mp quality, or would new lenses, built just for the R5s, be required. If the latter, then I'm not so sure I'd want the R5s, as the investment in new lenses just wouldn't be worth the extra image quality.

If anyone would like to venture a speculative opinion on this, I would certainly appreciate your input.

Bryan at The Digital Picture has completed his exhaustive review of brand new Canon RF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM. A lens that really showcases Canon’s ability to make new and unique designs for older dependable lenses.
It shouldn’t shock us that Bryan came away thoroughly impressed with the new offering from Canon, and I personally can’t wait to get my hands on one.
From TDP
The Canon RF 70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM Lens was a game-changer, and the Canon RF 70-200mm F4 L IS USM Lens is the same, taking the game down to a new size and weight low. Those carrying this frequently-needed telephoto zoom lens for extended periods will love this lens’s new size and weight.
As part of the elite L-series, the RF 70-200 lens is extremely well built, including environmental sealing. As said before, this lens is ready for the rigors of daily professional use. The smooth external design...

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Canon today released the story of their concept camera designs over the years, three of which have become consumer products with the Ivy Rec, PowerShot Zoom and PowerShot Pick.
Canon has now unveiled a new concept, the Posture Fit. The purpose of the Posture Fit concept is to improve your posture at your desk and to get you moving. When the Posture Fit sees that your posture is wrong, it will let you know. It will also let you know when you’ve sat too long.
If you don’t want to watch the whole video above, you can see the Posture Fit announcement here. The presentation is subtitled in English...

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Like the title says...upgrading from Trusty 5DIII to an R5. I will need to buy the adapter for existing 28-105L, 16-35L, 100 Macro.
I also have a 70-200 f/4L mk i that I am I am looking to upgrade that to either 1. EF100-400 mki, 2. EF100-400 mkii), or 3. the RF100-500.

I intend to sell both 5Diii and 70-200 to defray some cost which isn't a huge factor, but there is a large gap ($1000-$3000) in price between a nice used 100-400 mki and the 100-500. I have used a rented 100-400mk1, and it's a great lens...thoughts?