VALHALLA, N.Y., – FUJIFILM North America Corporation is pleased to officially announce the highly anticipated launch of FUJIFILM X100VI digital camera (“X100VI”, pronounced X100 Six), the newest model in the popular X100 Series. X100VI offers outstanding image quality in a compact, lightweight body, and features Fujifilm’s legendary color reproduction technology, which is best experienced through its revered

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I have a business trip to Seattle mid-August and will take the opportunity for a birding holiday for both of us afterwards. Any advice on places to visit for birds and nature would be much appreciated.

The Cinema EOS line feels like it has been ignored for quite some time. While there were new products in the pipeline, we have been told multiple times that global events scuttled at least a few of them. We previously reported that Canon would announce follow-ups to both the Cinema EOS C300 Mark III and

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I've started shooting quite a bit of fast-moving indoor sports in small, poorly lit, venues. I'm finding a 70-200/2.8 to be a bit long on the short end, almost short on the longer and just barely fast enough, constantly forcing me to use iso 6400 or higher for usable sharpness. When lacking reach, the images from my 5DmkIV allow for quite some cropping.

How would you battle the need for quickly (<2s) going from around 50mm to say 150mm?

I'd love to see an RF 50-150/2L lens. I'd sell my 70-200/2.8 in a heartbeat.

Reading through this patent application (2024-022343) was a “huh, I never thought of that” moment. Canon in this patent is concerned that when some of its high-speed sensors go full out, they draw too much current from the battery causing the voltage to dip. If the voltage dips under certain amounts, there’s not enough voltage

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It looks like 2024 will be the year of the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II, but there will be other new cameras this year. One of those cameras may be the EOS R7 Mark II. A solid source has let us know that there have been hints about the follow-up to 2022’s Canon

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In this patent application (2024-019961) Canon shows off a high-speed stacked sensor using three substrate layers. As you can imagine, sensor layers are like a house, the more floors you have the more flexibility you have, and the more room. However the cost of manufacturing a house with more and more floors increases as the

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Things have been eerily quite in the land of Canon leading into the CP+ tradeshow later this month, and after my latest conversation with an accurate source, I think we know why. This source doesn’t comment ahead of time on all new product releases, but when they do, they have been 100% correct. The source

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According to Canonwatch.com the Canon R6 MkII production has been discontinued.

Canon R6 Mk2 Discontinued

For a camera that was released in Nov 2022, this seems like a very short life cycle. I would have expected at least a two year production cycle, but then again what do I know.

Canon’s “look what we can do” zoom, the RF 28-70mm f/2L USM is about as highly regarded as any standard zoom lens in history of consumer optics. We have been told that a sequel for the RF 28-70mm f/2L USM is already in the works, without a mention of when we may see it. The

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CIPA recently released its final statistics for December, which allows us to now view 2023 in its entirety. For the most part, the industry has reached a state of equilibrium post-COVID-19. There are some interesting a notable trends though, so let’s dive a bit into the details and more importantly, the last 5 years. Looking

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The next EOS R5 firmware upgrade is scheduled to be released in next month. The known update content is to support the Power Zoom Adapter PZ-E2/PZ-E2B.

1.9.x – Just a joke!
2.0.x – The loooooooong rumored huge firmware upgrade that Canon never promised.
1.10.x – No EOS camera public firmware with 2-number after the main version.

MELVILLE, NY, February 8, 2024 –Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions is proud to announce they have solidified the #1 mirrorless camera brand position for a third year in a row in 20231 and was the #1 mirrorless camera brand in the U.S. in 20232. Since the introduction of the EOS R system, Canon

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Got my 10-20 yesterday in the mail. Boy, this is a fun lens. Build is great. AF is snappy. Tracking works as well as any other RF lens, but for expected issues when super-wide focal lengths lead to the eye being too small in the frame.

I'm so used to lenses being faster, I need to adjust to the f/4 limitation and chill with the higher ISOs.

The lens is significantly smaller than the 15-35, and quite light. A nice combo to stick on a second camera on a hip holster for event shooting.

I used to have a 10mm full frame manual focus lens when I shot Sony, and I'm now reminded how fun it can be to get creative with with that focal length.

ZEISS Nano Primes are the first high-speed (T1.5 throughout) cine lenses made specifically for mirrorless full frame cameras – initially available with Sony E-mount. These primes offer a pleasing, versatile look that is adaptable for an extensive range of shooting situations and a compact, lightweight design that makes them easy to use on any set

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If you recall back in November, I talked about a sensor that Canon was going to show off at IEDM (International Electron Devices Meeting) in December, we haven’t heard much about that until now. When I talked about this twisted sensor back in November, my thoughts on it were that it was a quad-pixel arrangement to

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Hi all,

I want to ask about if going with a camera model say for example EOS R7 can be a great or better upgrade from old models of DSLRs such as 30D or 7D or 1D Mark III?

Also which R model that is equivalent [or better than] to the old model of Canon 1DX?

It looks like Canon is nearing an announcement for an ILC in the near future. The registered camera has the name DS126922. The “DS” has historically related to ILC cameras. There is a second certification from Canon as well, this one is called ID0179. We have no historical reference for an item beginning with “ID”.

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The SmallRig Professional Fluid Head PH8 4287 is a professional fluid head to facilitate video shooting. The fluid head features an adjustable 6-step counterbalance system. When the height of the gravitational center is 55mm / 2.2″, the 6-step counterbalance system balances the camera or other rigs (up to 8kg / 17.6lb) and accurately controls the camera

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On February 20, 2024, Fujifilm is going to announce what will be one of the most popular camera models of the year, the X100VI. The first leaked images of the camera have hit the web, and it’s definitely a “if it ain’t broke…..” in design and execution. Fujifilm X100VI Specifications (Rumored) Source: asobinet

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Just a heads up. I ordered the RF24-105mm F2.8 L IS USM Z on Canons website that is back-ordered everywhere (including their website) 2 days ago and I got a shipping notice TODAY!.

If you are interested in getting a lens right now I highly encourage you to use Rakuten as they have 10% back right now. If you user a referral to sign up, you'll get another $30 as well.

So I got a $300 rebate coming for the new lens as well

I have now taken a couple of thousand images with charts and birds in the wild to test the RF 200-800mm on the R5 and some on the R7. This was both from sheer interest and for me to decide whether to keep the lens and if so which lens to use in various circumstances. Much has been posted in two threads: https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/threads/rf-200-800mm-500mm-vs-800mm-etc-with-birds.43235/ and https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/t...-rf-100-500mm-vs-rf-800mm-on-r7-and-r5.43183/

After another 1000 shots in the past two days, comparing with the RF 800mm f/11 and with extenders, here is a brief, final summary of results with the R5.

At 500mm, it is as sharp as the RF100-500mm, and this outstanding sharpness continues through to about 600mm. The resolution of the lens increases until about 650mm, where it levels off at about 1.4x the resolution of the lens at 500mm (or the RF 100-500mm). This means in practice that you won’t resolve any more detail, like patterns of feathers, after zooming in to more than 650mm or so but you will see very small continuous objects, like the numbers in my charts, more clearly with less pixellation. Several reports have the lens somewhat soft at 800mm. This is true in that it is not revealing 800mm’s worth of data and it does need more sharpening. But, to put this in perspective, I find the lens at 800mm slightly sharper than the RF 800mm f/11, which is rated by opticallimits using Imatest as “Very Good” on the R5 and “Excellent” at 30 Mpx.

Adding the RF 1.4xTC to give 1120mm, hardly increases resolution, ~ 10%, with poorer AF. The RF 2xTC gives up to 25% extra resolution, with less accurate AF and a lot of sharpening required. Many more pixels are put in the subject and small objects can show up much more clearly.

As I have posted in the other threads, the AF at 800mm is relatively slow and not up to fast birds in flight. Zooming out to 500 or 600mm does transform it into a useful fast focussing lens. You don’t have to use this lens at 800mm. I suspect when the comparisons are done, it will be found to be as good as the excellent Sony 200-600mm where they overlap, with the bonus of an extra 200mm thrown in, probably better than a TC.

I am keeping it to complement my RF 100-500mm. The smaller lens is less tiring to carry and to hand hold, better for close-up shots, and of a very convenient size for packing for flights. And, I suspect it is more useful and better for BIF. 100-500mm is good enough for most of my needs. However, 800mm has proved useful in the past for distant birds.

Here are the latest charts. They are all taken at 16.7m and are 100% crops. They are just laser printed on standard A4 paper (in portrait orientation), not professional ones, and are stuck to the wall of my house, illuminated by a grey sky.

Nikon looks to update their mid tier cameras in 2024, and rumored specifications for the upcoming Nikon Z6 III look pretty impressive for the predicted pricepoint. Nikon Z6 III Specifications (Rumored) Source: Nikon Rumors

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