I have searched through the internet and cant find a good shutter count program for windows. Does anyone know of a windows version of a shutter count program for the Canon EOS R?

The "official" lens hood for this lens is the EW-52. It's a puny little extension and it appears from the photos I have seen that any filters are mounted at the end of the "hood." Interestingly, Canon also lists the EW-103 as compatible and it is a real hood (RF 28-70L). Anyone with this lens tried any hood solutions?

Hello fellow photographers,

I'm a bit out of the loop on what's new with Canon cameras. I heard the R5 was recently released but that's about it. I currently own a EOS 7D Mark II, but I'm looking to replace it with something more lightweight. The 7DM2 is a bit of a beast and pretty heavy, and since I mainly use it when I travel, I would much prefer something more compact and lightweight. Before the 7DM2 I had a Digital Rebel XTi.

I've had my eyes on the R series for a while, since mirrorless cameras tend to be much more compact, so I think one of these would be a good choice, though I'm not entirely sure which one.

I'm looking for these in a camera:
* lightweight and easy to carry
* very fast autofocus
* wi-fi
* ideally a foldable and reversible screen which allow live previews for selfies as well
* ideally GPS, though on the 7DM2 that is an absolute battery hog
* timelapse function
* max. 2000 EURs, ideally only around 1000-1500 EUR

Hi All,

Have been using my R5 for a few days now and have noticed a couple of differences with AF modes. In the automatic Eye AF (Single Shot), I am noticing the consistency of Autofocus is not as good as simply using the 'Spot AF' (single shot) and placing the AF point over the eye myself.

In a batch of 100 photos taken with the RF 85mm 1.2 at f1.2, Eye AF would miss about 10 shots, either front focused or back focused. Doing the same test with the 'Spot AF' placed over the eye manually, results were perfect. All 100 images in focus over the eye.

Has anyone else noticed this?

A 90% hit rate with EYE AF is still quite good at f1.2 don't get me wrong. But knowing the 'Spot AF' mode is that much better, means I will probably use that mode exclusively from now on.

Cheers!
Chris

Hi Seniors

Do I've a potential problem with R series upgrade as I'm using CS6! I would like to understand demerits of having CS6/Lightroom 5.7 or dead/can'tuse CS6/Lightroom 5.7 in Mirrorless {I keep the photos as CR2 {my current camera default} and dont convert them as DNG} world as that impacts budget a lot in long run for softwares

Thanks as always for guidance

Thanks
Maru

I have an old NON-IS 300mm F2.8 L. Despite the awful minimum focus distance, I do still love this lens and would very much like to keep it for when my R5 arrives in time for whenever it arrives.

Curious if anyone here has had any extensive experiences with first generation EOS lenses such as these and if that headlining AF applies here as well.

I originally used this lens on a 5D Mark III, AF could be very difficult at times, the 5D Mark IV really speed things up (I hear it runs a higher voltage to the lens' AF motor). Similarly, with the 50L, the Mark IV eliminated the low light AF inaccuracies which plagued my old Mark III.

Funny story on the 300mm F2.8L; as it gets some interesting attention out in the world, one drunken old fool threatened to call the US Navy on me for using it in public.

For the reviews I seen recently, I really like this one. Not a spec readout... and just real experiences.

For those waiting to get access... the Canon USA website is back.

This is some awesome testing

Another of my geek articles, which does have some implications for actual use. What I do here is to calculate the contributions of diffraction and sensor Mpx size (R5 vs R6) to the resolving power of the 400mm f/5.6 and 500mm f/7.1 zooms and the 600mm and 800mm f/11 primes and how resolution is affected by 1.4x and 2x teleconverters.

The summary based on just the effects of diffraction and sensor Mpx, and ignoring optical aberrations is:

• On an unrealistically high-resolution sensor, the f5.6, f/7.1 zooms and the 800mm f/11 would all have the same resolution and outresolve the 600mm f/11, and the TCs would not increase resolution.
• As the number of pixels on the sensor decreases, increasing focal length becomes increasingly advantageous.
• The 100-400mm at 400mm f/5.6 is slightly outresolved by the 600mm f/11 on the R5 and more so on the R6.
• The100-400mm f/5.6 + 1.4xTC at 560mm f/8 outresolves the 600mm f/11 on the R5 and the two lenses are similar on the R6
• The 100-500mm f/7.1 outresolves the 100-400mm f/5.6 and 600mm f/11 on the R5 and R6
• The 800mm f/11 outresolves the 100-500mm f/7.1 on the R5 and R6, but adding the 1.4xTC to the zoom brings it closer to the 800mm prime.
• Using the 1.4x and 2xTCs on the f/11 lens hardly increases the resolution on the R5 and only a little more on the R6. Further, any additional aberration added by the TCs could well render them even worse.
• The f/11 lenses are more suited to the lower resolution R6, and this makes it an attractive lower priced alternative.

Those who are interested can read further – I spent hours doing the calculations and graphs to confirm what I knew intuitively for my own satisfaction. But, my calculations are steering me to what lenses to use with the R5 and where the R6 is appropriate.

The Nikkei Asian Review has released its 2019 worldwide market share report for camera manufacturers, as well as other industries.
The big 3 are still the big 3, but we have a new #2.

Canon 45.4% (+ 2.4)
Sony 20.2% (+ 0.9)
Nikon 18.6% (- 1.6)
Fujifilm Holdings 4.7% (- 0.4)
Panasonic 4.7% (0.0 )

Interestingly, Canon increased its market share over 2018 by 2.4%, however the overall market contracted 22.4%. So they have a larger piece of a smaller pie again.

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One of the most special ecosystems in the world lies in the far, far north. Here trees are few and far between and are replaced with countless shallow ponds and endless fields of grasses, low shrubs and rocky outcroppings. In this ecosystem species diversity may be low and for many months of the year the ground is covered in snow. But when the Tundra erupts into life each spring there are few places that I would rather be.



Birds migrate thousands of kilometers from Central and South America to take advantage of the abundant breeding territories and plentiful food supply. It is incredible to see normally docile and largely silent shorebirds performing their courtship rituals. On a windless night out on the tundra the beautiful, and sometimes bizarre, sounds of shorebirds and waterfowl are truly something that every bird lover should experience. Just don’t forget your insect repellent!

This mini-gallery shows off a few of the beautiful birds that migrate to the Tundra each year to breed - http://www.glennbartley.com/naturephotography/Ecosystem-Tundra.html

I'm just curious why no one else is reporting on this, you know,... DPReview, PetaPixel, Fstoppers, etc. Because when Sony has market-specific news , these sites go crazy with their Sony-is-Supreme and Canon-is-doomed tone, yet when the yearly totals are done for the entire world, it is actually Canon that is on top, and has more than 2 times the market share increase than Sony for 2019, that's kinda important, no?

Yet, nothing from DPReview, why is that?

I'm baffled... (ok, I'm really not). I wonder if Engadget will re-write this article where they say Canon will be "fighting for scraps" ... really? sad LOL https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-27...JSUH7txdfOENMbXLfq_OlMt97wXFyZdJ8lfsr8-8yIRc8

Received my R5 last week and I was so excited to unbox it and take it out for some test shots. Sadly, after taking the camera out of the box I noticed the joystick was stuck at a 45 degree angle upwards. I tried to gently move it back to the center, only to be met with gritty resistance. I also noticed the rubber sheath that covers the bottom of the joystick was rolled up on one side an nearly off the button completely. Once I got the joystick re-centered, it now doesn't want to move at all.

Disappointed, I called Canon to begin the process of a warranty fix. To add insult to injury, the CS rep told me he can't even start a claim due to their website fiasco.

All other functions seem to work fine and I can get around not having the joystick available in the meantime. But as a former 5D3/7D2 owner, that joystick is muscle memory to me.

Hopefully I can get the camera in and back before mid-September when I have some shoots booked that I would like to use the camera for.

Samyang is bringing a new line of CINE prime lenses to the Canon EF, EF-M and RF mounts.
Samyang CINE Prime lenses

Samyang Cine 24 T1.5
Samyang Cine 35 T1.5
Samyang Cine 50 T1.5
Samyang Cine 85 T1.5

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Canon News uncovered a patent showing some very strange optical formulas, they’re strange because of the back focus distance. The optical formulas in this patent have back focus distances of 0mm to 2mm.
The EF mount has a back focus distance of around 44mm, while the RF mount is much closer at 18mm.
I have a hard time believing Canon is going to get into the fixed-lens full-frame camera segment, but hey… I’d love that.
Canon 50mm f/1.2 (Full Frame)

Focal length: 51.50mm
F-number: 1.24
Half angle of view: 22.79°
Image height: 21.64mm
Total lens length: 78.83mm
BF: 0.50mm

Canon 50mm f/1.6 (Full Frame)

Focal lengt:h 49.17mm
F-number: 1.65
Half angle of view: 23.75°
Image height: 21.64mm
Total lens length: 72.35mm
BF...

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Adorama has the Sirui 77mm Nano MC Circular Polarizer Filter as their Deal of the Day for only $21 (Reg $79).



Key Features



Polarizer Type: Circular Polarizer FilterCircular Filter Size: 77mmMaterial: Made of Glass



Sirui 77mm Nano MC Circular Polarizer Filter $21 (Reg $79)

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Canon first teased an 8K Cinema EOS camera back in 2015 at the Canon EXPO, we’ve also seen some other sightings at various tradeshows over the years. Now that we have 8K capability in the Canon EOS R5, the next step for Canon will be to introduce a Cinema EOS camera with 8K capture.



I have been told that Canon will introduce not one, but two 8K Cinema EOS cameras in 2021. One of the cameras will be a flagship camera with “A camera” aspirations, likely in the form factor of the Canon Cinema EOS C700.



The second one I have been told will be a more modular camera in the same vein as the Cinema EOS C300 Mark III and Cinema EOS C500 Mark II. Where it exactly fits into the Cinema EOS ecosystem is unknown at this time.



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Hey y'all. Have been messing with this and noticed it since the beginning.


At first I thought it was a flap to help make the eyepiece more flexible against your eye, but it's actually a rigid edge to the eyepiece. So then, my immediate thought was to test it with my weathercovers.

Turns out, the Think Tank Photo Hydrophobia weathercovers work great with this ridge, the rubber seal fits right into it and holds really well. So far it hasn't given me any problems in bad weather, and it works great overall. The ridge holds the rubber material far enough away on the bottom to prevent the rubber from going over the eyepiece sensor, so that hasn't been an issue. There's a little bit of flex on the bottom with this old beat-up 70-200 cover, but it was less bad on a newer one that had tighter rubber. With that flex, if you're in a downpour a slight bit of water may leak through, but then you can always use the plastic flap from the hydrophobia over the viewfinder and still see the EVF perfectly fine.

This was a big concern of mine when I found out the R5 eyepiece wasn't removable, so honestly now I feel a lot better about all that.

I know there is at least on RF lens from Samyang (with AF), and I have heard there is at least one from Mieke, but the R/RF gear has been out for almost two years now and we haven't seen anything from Sigma or Tamron.

The R5 and R6 releases give a pretty clear impression that mirrorless is the future, even for those of us who have not been keen on EVFs. However, I am not keen to buy into any system which doesn't have a healthy range of third party lenses. As good as most of Canon's RF lenses may be technically, right now I'm looking enviously at lenses available in the Sony system. To give a few examples, Sigma's new 85mm f/1.4 DG DN Art is far smaller, lighter and cheaper than Canon's RF 85L lenses, Sigma's 24-70 f/2.8 DG DN Art lens is far cheaper than the RF 24-70L and cheaper even than the old EF 24-70L II, Tamron's 70-180 f/2.8 is far cheaper than Canon's RF 70-200 f/2.8L (and smaller and ligher, although I would prefer the Canon and being able to zoom to 200mm if they were closer to the same price). Those Sigma and Tamron lenses are lenses I might actually buy, but (as a hobbyist) I just cannot justify to myself the price of most of Canon's RF lenses (which are generally selling for A$3,000 to A$4,000 each, and often closer to the top of that range) so they are not on my shopping list.

So, does anyone have any information about if/when Sigma and Tamron will start releasing RF lenses?

R5 users, if you haven't updated your RF lenses to the latest firmware - like me - you need to do it. I am finally in the office and took the time to download the firmware for the RF 24-105. No joke, I thought the screen was frozen when I was doing an IS test - it's that good.

The Digital Picture has posted the image quality of the 600mm f/11 on the R5. It's only one copy of the lens and the usual caveats but the 100-400mm II + 1.4xTCIII at 560mm on the 5DSR seems distinctly sharper with better contrast, especially at the edges where you would expect a prime to win.


It's due to the lenses not just the difference between the sensors as he has compared the same lens (200mm f/2L IS) on both cameras, and they are very similar.

Canon first teased an 8K Cinema EOS camera back in 2015 at the Canon EXPO, we’ve also seen some other sightings at various tradeshows over the years. Now that we have 8K capability in the Canon EOS R5, the next step for Canon will be to introduce a Cinema EOS camera with 8K capture.



I have been told that Canon will introduce not one, but two 8K Cinema EOS cameras in 2021. One of the cameras will be a flagship camera with “A camera” aspirations, likely in the form factor of the Canon Cinema EOS C700.



The second one I have been told will be a more modular camera in the same vein as the Cinema EOS C300 Mark III and Cinema EOS C500 Mark II. Where it exactly fits into the Cinema EOS ecosystem is unknown at...

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Canon first teased an 8K Cinema EOS camera back in 2015 at the Canon EXPO, we’ve also seen some other sightings at various tradeshows over the years. Now that we have 8K capability in the Canon EOS R5, the next step for Canon will be to introduce a Cinema EOS camera with 8K capture.



I have been told that Canon will introduce not one, but two 8K Cinema EOS cameras in 2021. One of the cameras will be a flagship camera with “A camera” aspirations, likely in the form factor of the Canon Cinema EOS C700.



The second one I have been told will be a more modular camera in the same vein as the Cinema EOS C300 Mark III and Cinema EOS C500 Mark II. Where it exactly fits into the Cinema EOS ecosystem is unknown at this...

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