Excuse me for asking. But I can't seem to shake the idea of the EOS R/RP cameras, using the sensors of the 5DmkIV and 6DmkII, with "microlens adjustment" to compensate for the shorter back focal distance, are less than optimal with lenses of a longer back focal distance.

Here I am shooting with 16-35/2.8 ii and iii, 14/2.8ii, 16-35/4IS ... and I can't help but think they're not going to perform as well on the mirrorless bodies as on my 5DmkIV's and 5DmkIII because of the sensor microlens optimization.

Yah... I pulled the trigger on an RP, then an R just to say I did, but the question remains (for a week or so at least).

Any thoughts?

Press Release:
SAN DIEGO — Feb. 26, 2019 — Sony Electronics Inc today introduced a highly anticipated addition to their acclaimed G Master series of full-frame E-mount interchangeable lenses – a 135mm F1.8 full-frame, large-aperture telephoto prime lens (model SEL135F18GM).
Equipped with Sony’s most advanced optical technologies, the new lens is built to meet the extremely high standards of Sony’s G Master series. The new FE 135mm F1.8 GM offers exceptionally high resolution and exquisite bokeh, two qualities that are signature attributes of Sony’s flagship G Master brand. The new lens combines rapid autofocus (AF) acquisition with a lightweight, portable design and a variety of professional functions, making it a versatile, high-performance tool for professional portrait photographers, wedding photographers, sports photographers and a wide variety of imaging enthusiasts.

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Samyang has plans to announce 8 new lenses by the end of Q2 in 2019. The first lens they announced was the 10mm f/3.5 for the EF mount yesterday.
It now that Samyang will launch two new manual focus lenses for Canon’s RF mount very soon.
The two lenses coming will be a 14mm f/2.8 RF and an 85mm f/1.4 RF, as mentioned earlier, these are both manual focus lenses.
We’re not sure if these are simply mount conversions of existing lenses or new optical designs.

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The new products include 11 Art prime lenses for full-frame cameras in L-Mount and a converter for Sigma’s SA mount and Canon EF mount lenses on L-Mount camera bodies.
Ronkonkoma, NY – February 26, 2019 – Sigma Corporation of America, a leading still photo and cinema lens, camera, flash and accessory manufacturer, today announced 11 of its Art prime lenses will soon be available in L-Mount. Sigma also announced the launch of the Sigma Mount Converter MC-21, which will allow Sigma’s SA mount and Canon EF mount lenses to be used on the L-Mount camera bodies. The expansion of the beloved Sigma prime lens line along with the MC-21 converter will increase the extensibility of the L-Mount system and further Sigma’s role in the strategic L-Mount Alliance alongside Leica and Panasonic.

Sigma Art Prime Lenses in L-Mount
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So a few months ago I we had a pretty heated thread (it actually spread across several threads) that involved Art Morris’ very vocal and dismissive move from Canon to Nikon because of his perception that the D5 and D850 AF blew the 1DX MkII and 5D MkIV out of the water. He railed against the Canon AF for quite some time suggesting that the Nikon AF was his utopia and he had never found anything close to it and that his old Canon AF was akin to a blind man using manual focus.

Well here’s the funny thing, I saw him this evening and he has sold all his Nikon gear and is now using exclusively Sony, specifically for BIF he uses an A9 and the 100-400 often with the 2x TC. He says the handholdability of the effective 800mm and 92% AF coverage is the best he has ever used (along with several more very harsh digs about Canon AF).

Tony Northrup has posted a video discussing the exposure term ISO and has deemed it “totally fake”. It’s an interesting take on the use of this legacy term in digital photography.
Tony summarizes:

It’s just a post-processing instruction; generally, it doesn’t physically change anything about the picture taking process, unlike shutter speed and aperture.
While the term “ISO” refers to a real standard, camera manufacturers don’t comply with that standard, like, at all. Many cameras are more than a full stop off the proper ISO. For that reason, light meters simply won’t work as you expect them to. Using the same settings on multiple cameras will yield very different results.
High ISO could be eliminated completely; it’s just an arbitrary limit to a multiplication problem.
Low ISO could be eliminated by simply using image averaging, allowing us to get long exposures in-camera without using an ND filter. This would also reduce noise in good conditions.

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Press Release:
Mid optics SPEEDMASTER 50 mm F 0.95 III (Sony E / Canon RF / Nikon Z)

Scheduled to be released in April 2019
Manufacturer’s preferred price ¥ 98,000 (excluding tax)

SPEEDMASTER 50 mm F 0.95 III is an ultra large diameter standard lens designed for mirrorless cameras with full-frame sensors.
While achieving the phenomenal brightness of an aperture opening F value of 0.95, it is also designed for portability, and balance on full-frame mirrorless cameras.

Utilizing the features of the ultra-large aperture lens, it is possible to take handheld photographs in places where there is little light intensity or to take advantage of beautifully soft background blur.
Improvements from SPEEDMASTER 50 mm F 0.95 M 67 (version 2)

Improved image quality by updating the optical design.
It is compatible with the Nikon Z mount and Canon RF mount.

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Canon had a good showing at the Oscars last night, as every documentary nominated was predominately shot on Canon cameras according to Cinema5D.
Film: “Free Solo,” dir. Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Canon Cinema EOS C300 Mark II
Canon EOS-1D X Mark II
Canon Cinema Primes
Canon CINE-SERVO 50-1000mm T5.0-8.9


Film: “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” dir. RaMell Ross...

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Samyang has announced the first of the 8 new lenses they have promised would arrive by Q2 of 2019, the XP 10mm f/3.5. The world’s widest rectilinear prime lens for full frame cameras with a claim of being “distortion free”.
The Samyang XP 10mm f/3.5 has been designed to meet the demands of high megapixel sensors and 8K video. This new lens has a 130° angle of view on full-frame DSLRs.

Lens construction consists of 18 elements in 11 groups, with 7 special optical elements to keep image quality consistent from the center to the edges. There are 3 aspherical elements, 1 high-refractive element and 3 extra-low dispersion elements specifically designed to minimize distortion.
You can check out official sample images here.
The XP 10mm f/3.5 is scheduled to begin shipping sometime in Q2 of 2019 with a price tag of  €1,099 /...

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The Canon EOS RP was announced 10 days ago and preorders for the new full frame camera have been the best we’ve seen for a Canon camera since the EOS 5D Mark IV.
We’re told by our exclusive affiliate partner Adorama that all preorders will be fulfilled and that there will be more stock available right away.
If you order the Canon EOS RP before March 31, 2019, you get the EG-E1 extension grip and the Canon Mount Adapter for free, that is a nearly $200 value.
Preorder the Canon EOS RP:

Canon EOS RP Body w/EG-E1 Extension Grip & Canon Mount Adapter $1299
Canon EOS RP w/EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM, EG-E1 Extension Grip & Canon Mount Adapter $1699...

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The spirit level guide on my EOS-R is not correct.. Does anyone know a way of recalibration?

This lens was released without making fanfare.
Yongnuo 35mm F1.4 costing US$400.

Lensauthority.com, the sister site for Lensrentals.com has an exclusive coupon code for Canon Rumors readers, you can save 10% site wide.
Lensauthority is one of the very best places to buy used gear. Not only is it thoroughly tested, but you also get a 90-day warranty. For a small fee, you can extend that warranty to two years.
Here are some pricing examples after the 10% discount:

Canon Cinema EOS C100 Mark II starting at $2286
Canon Cinema EOS C300 Mark II PL starting at $6534
Canon ME20F-SH starting at...

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Shoten will be announcing two new products ahead of CP+ this month for Canon’s RF and EF-M mounts.
New from Shoten:

New SPEEDMASTER 50mm f/0.95 III lens for Sony E / Canon RF / Nikon Z mounts
New 7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens for Sony E / Canon EF – M / Fuji Film X / MFT mounts

You can see the rest of the SPEEDMASTER lineup at Adorama.

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I've been seeing a lot of rumors lately addressing a CX00 version camera being announced with an RF mount. From my understanding, all RF mount lenses are focus by wire. That, at least to me, kills any hope it would have of working on a larger budget set. Suer dpaf, or whatever the next iteration of it is may be incredible, but unless my 1st AC can hit the marks over and over again, I don't see how it will be implemented.

What are the thoughts around that? How could this be worked around for RF lenses? Am I totally wrong with them all being focus by wire?

Go to the 'Products' section then 'Lenses' and it offers to walk through a set of menus to advise you...

What model camera do you have? 77D.
What do you want to take pictures of? Action.
Indoor or outdoor? Indoor.
Are you willing to spend more or less than $500? More.
We recommend just for you: $350, EF-M 55-200 in silver or grey.

Oops?

I’ll be honest, the first 20 or so patents relating to diffractive optics lenses had me excited about what was coming down the pipeline. However, the last bunch of patents for DO optical formulas hasn’t really given me a lot of hope that we’re going to see new and exciting super telephoto lenses from Canon.
Below are three embodiments that show 400mm, 600mm, and 800mm DO optical formulas.
Japan Patent Application 2019-028317
Canon 600mm f/4 DO IS

Focal distance: 582.00mm
F number: 4.12
Half field angle:  2.13°
Image height: 21.64mm
Whole length of the lens: 394.25mm
BF: 62.79mm

Canon 400mm f/4 DO IS

Focal distance: 405.00mm
F number: 4.12
Half field angle: 3.06°
Image height: 21.64mm
Whole length of the lens: 330.16mm
BF: 50.46mm

Canon 800mm f/5.6 DO IS

Focal distance: 795.00mm
F number: 5.60
Half field angle: 1.56°
Image height: 21.64mm
Whole length of the lens: 490.24mm
BF: 105.13mm

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Hello Folks,

Need your advice.
I am looking forward to buy a video camera for shooting mostly Birds and wildlife.
I need a camera which has good auto focus tracking, decent slow motion(for flying/Diving birds), Sharp videos (no moire etc), well controlled rolling shutter, good in low light(Pref less noise in the dark areas especially in the wooded region), Get more reach by spending less
I am confused between Canon XF400 and Canon C100 mark II. 4K is really not a requirement for me its only a good to have feature.
Why compare these two well it almost costs the same. at least the difference is not huge

Can anyone who has experience of both please advice which will be a better option? or Should I wait Until April for further announcements? If you have any other recommendation Please feel free. My Budget is around $4K.

I understand that XF400 does 4K 60fps and also has high zoom in 1080. C100 mark II I Can use my existing glasses.

I Currently use Canon 5D mark III + Canon 100-400mm IS I , 100mm macro, 40mm stm, 50mm 1.8. I find Videos on 5D to be soft and I never try to autofocus. I mostly manually focus most of the times for videos.

Thanks,
Karthik

Samyang has announced that they plan to announce 8 new lenses this spring. Samyang will make announcements at multiple trade shows between now and the Q2 of 2019.
Expect to see some lenses announces at CP+ at the end of this month and The Photography Show in Birmingham, England in mid-March.
The first lens to be announced will likely be the Samyang XP 10mm f/3.5 prime lens. Samyang claims this new lens is a zero distortion rectilinear lens for high-resolution full-frame DSLRs.

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Tokina has officially announced the Opera 16-28mm F/2.8 FX zoom lens for Canon and Nikon full-frame DSLRs.
Key Features:

EF-Mount Lens/Full-Frame Format
Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/22
Three Aspherical Elements
Three Low Dispersion Elements
Multi-Coating
Silent Drive DC Motor Autofocus System
9-Blade Diaphragm
Built-In Lens Hood

Preorder the Tokina Opera 16-28mm F/2.8 FX Zoom

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Inspired by the focal length and aperture of the widely acknowledged Tokina AT-X 16-28mm F2.8 PRO FX lens, Tokina opera 16-28mm F2.8 FF has been developed with the same concept as the already released opera 50mm F1.4 FF, to offer the photographers another contemporary tool for professional photography.
Super wide angle, superior resolving ability coupled with high contrast and...

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Press Release:
Newest model in the popular RICOH GR series delivers exceptional image quality in a smaller, lightweight body, making it ideal for street photography
WEST CALDWELL, NJ, February 21, 2019 – Ricoh Imaging Americas Corporation today announced the launch of the highly anticipated RICOH GR III camera. The new camera is the latest model in the RICOH GR series, a lineup of high-end digital cameras providing exceptional image quality in a compact, lightweight body ideal for street photography, travel and capturing candid images.
The RICOH GR III features a newly designed lens, image sensor and imaging engine that further upgrade image quality, enhance functionality and improve usability. The 18.3mm F2.8 lens delivers exceptional imaging performance with a slim design, consisting of six optical elements in four groups while retaining the 28mm angle of view. It produces...

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Kuta Beach, Bali by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr

Hello folks,
I've recently disposed of my Windows licenses and switched over to Ubuntu. While I've found suitable alternatives for just about every other part of the photography process, I have not found a suitable printer. Does anyone here successfully use a relatively affordable photographic printer along with a Linux-based photo editing computer? If so, which model?

Thanks!