We have been told Canon plans to release two versions of the next Canon EOS R7. One will be video-focused, perhaps called the Canon EOS R7 V, and the other photography-focused. The EOS R7 Mark II will potentiall be something like a baby EOS R1 with an APS-C sensor.

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R5 Mk 1, Firmware 2.1.0.. The checkered flag button doesn't work for me in video mode. I mean the right-most one with the grid, official name "AF point selection" button.

That is it works before recording, including button customizations, but once I start recording it does nothing.

E.g. I set it to "Movie Servo AF enable/disable" and it only works before recording. The same function works during recording when I put it on the "Depth-of-field preview" button or the "Auto Exposure lock" button.

Same with other functions, they just won't work during recording when I put them on that button, yet work fine on others.

Does it work for you? Any ideas besides a full reset?

We have been told that Canon will announced an EOS R50 V, and it has been described as “boxy”.

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There are two notables from CIPA 2024 statistics, and I think both are curious, but for far different reasons.

canonrumors.com/cipa-2024-the-rise-of-china-and-compacts/

You heard it here first: we had discussed since last spring that the compact market was changing in Japan and that manufacturers would come out of their slumber and release new compact cameras (if they were smart). Nikon is the first to announce, and we know that Canon will also announce compact cameras this year.

So, for those who say, how important is the Japanese market? Well, here we are.

REDEFINE THE ART OF STORYTELLING: NIKON RELEASES THE NIKKOR Z 35MM F/1.2 S, A FAST WIDE-ANGLE PRIME LENS FOR NIKON Z MOUNT MIRRORLESS CAMERAS

SIGMA looks like they're about to announce an 800mm f/6.3 DG DN OS lens. It's highly unlikely we're going to see an RF variant, but we do like suprises.

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We have been told that there will be another PowerShot camera in the second half of 2025 and it will be some kind of replacement for the PowerShot SX70 HS.

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I went through the photos of my last years Cuba trip and I thought I'm going to post some of them here.
I tried to capture the mood, not so much sightseeing stuff, and hope you like them.
It was like a time travel, a very unique country with amazing people.
All the photos here were taken in Havanna and Trinidad.

I recently bought a used R5 Mk 1 and on one occasion I noticed a small round target (about the size of the spot focus square) that moved with my eye movement in the frame of the camera’s viewfinder. No I’m not talking about eye focussing where the camera tracks the animal or person eye to achieve focus.
I know that this model is not supposed to have this feature but I know what I saw and haven’t seen it again. Sometimes a manufacturer will have a feature installed but not enabled. Has anyone else ever seen this on their R5 Mk1?

Canon USA is claiming the #1 spot in mirrorleess cameras, full-frame mirrorless cameras and interchangeable lens cameras. There seems to be some overlap in the categories that probably aren’t needed, but 3 looks better than two…..

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Hi there.
Some days ago I had to shoot in moderate rain, tried to cover the camera as good as I could, but didn't have a dedicated rain cover. So now, a few days later, my Mf-n button on top of the body is stuck. Any ideas how to fix this?

Will other LP-? batteries work in the EL-5 Speedlight?

LP-E6P

LP-E6NH

Brief search didn't turn up any information.

Thanks.

Canon released their financials for the fiscal year of 2024, and from an imaging and overall company outlook, Canon looks to be doing strong. All indicators are good. Canon is not doomed.

Canon has officially announced the imagePROGRAF PRO-310.

The PRO-310 will be able to print A3+, comes with 10-color Lucia PRO II inks, which is the same type of ink as the recently launched imagePROGRAF PRO-1100. There is a maximum print length of 1.8m as well as additional page sizes when compared to the PRO-300.

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This should make the camera world happy. Canon will re-enter the compact camera segment in 2025 with the PowerShot V1. It will be a real compact camera and nothing like the PowerShot V10 that we initially assumed it would be.

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Canon released the RF 50mm f1.4L VCM, 24mm f/1.4L VCM, and 35mm f/1.4L VCM, and there have been hints that more is coming.

This patent application (2025-015010) shows the RF 24mm f/1.4L VCM. However, other embodiments may come out in the future. Interestingly, the same overall optical element design was used for the RF 35mm f/1.4L VCM, but it does not appear as an actual embodiment.

Trying to calibrate the Eye Controlled Auto Focus on my R1 for the first time. When I ran the calibration for the fist time it ran alright, 5 dots appeared and disappeared but then thinking that wasn't a good run and I also missed/skipped vertical calibration, I wanted to do it again. But no matter what I do it won't progress from displaying the first point in the middle at the bottom of the calibration screen, I keep staring at it and it keeps blinking, no matter how long I stare at it and change the position of my eye on the view finder, it just keeps blinking, won't proceed to the next point. I tried different calibration Numbers, deleted all the calibration data, turn it off/on. It still will not progress from the very first calibration point in the middle of the screen at the bottom. Any help/idea is appreciated.

We have been told that Canon is going to introduce another PowerShot V series camera. Back in May of 2023, Canon introduced the PowerShot V10, a new form factor vlogging & streaming camera.

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This is an interesting patent application (2025-012993) showing a strange lens configuration.


The embodiments show a potential RF fish eye zoom, even though that is not the focus of the patent application.

In this patent application (2025-011796) we have several embodiments of ultra wide angle lenses that would be power zoom capable. They are all inner focus lenses as well.

It could be that Canon is thinking about making, yet again, another ultra-wide angle, and this time with more of a video focus, or this is in preparation for the eventual replacement of the Canon RF 15-35mm f/2.8L IS USM which is approaching 6 years old at this time.

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Sony will join pretty much every camera manufacturer in announcing new wares for the CP+ show in late February. Both rumored lenses look like they'll be the kind of lenses that will be popular.

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It looks like Nikon is gearing up to announce a lens a lot of Canon photographers want to see added to the RF lineup. While the RF 35mm f/1.4L VCM is a terrific lens, there seems to be something about an f/1.2L variant without the same level of software correction.

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I have a Deity V3 shotgun mic, but when I'm shooting video of my daughter playing you can hear the lens adjusting in the video, and it drives me nuts. I need to get a remote mic of some kind that I can just place a couple feet away from the camera so I don't get that noise. Obviously I'm not going to attach a mic to my daughter, so just something that I can place nearby that connects wirelessly is what I'm looking for....

Hi everyone,
I would like to know if you know a way to prevent all this condensation from forming on the body of the photographic lens:
Login to view embedded media I was using an anti-condensation band as you can see in the photo, I put it on the lens hood, but unlike last time, yesterday a very high amount of condensation formed on the body of the lens which I then dried before putting it in the bag and before closing the lens barrel so that it did not remain trapped inside it.

but is there a way to prevent it from forming on the barrel body too? Do you put something on it?