We have had a few reports about the Canon EOS R5 Mark II over the last couple of months. We were told back in July that prototype Canon EOS R5 Mark II camera bodies were in the hands of initial testing photographers, which is a very limited number of people and not the YouTubers. We

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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Sony Electronics announces the launch of the new ILX-LR1, an interchangeable lens camera designed for industrial use with approximately 61 megapixels 35 mm full-frame image sensor. With high resolution and in a lightweight, compact form, it is ideal for inspection, investigation, surveying, and mapping by drone. “As the industrial market

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San Jose, CA September 5, 2023, 8:00 am ET — ProGrade Digital, Inc., founded with a mission to provide the highest quality professional grade digital memory cards and workflow solutions, announces the 3rd generation of its CFexpress™ Type B Cobalt-class memory card in a new 1.3TB capacity. This new generation features the same industry-leading quality of ProGrade

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I don’t know how many of you followed me back on my older site, but I was always talking about Canon’s SPAD (Single Photon Avalanche Diode) image sensor patent applications – so much so that I thought Canon was starting to troll me. Needless to say with the release of the MS-500 I felt a

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I have no idea if that’s a good title, but we’ll go with it. Y’all can raze me in the forums. Consider a photo where you have the desire to have motion blur, but also have a main subject. Usually that involves some sort of composite, or if the motion is fast enough a shutter

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In a report published today in the Nikkei, Techno Systems Research reports that Canon has continued its dominant market share in the digital camera space for 2022. Both Canon and Nikon showed every so slight increases in market share, with Sony going on the other. According to Techno Systems Research the entire digital camera market

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During the Canon EF mount days, there was a running joke about the ancient Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM being in the lineup. The lens had been around for about 25 years when the EOS R system was announced. A lot of people jokes that Canon kept it around for the after purchase revenue stream

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The Wetzlar Camera Auction, which usually takes place every October is one of the biggest and most prestigious auctions of its kind for collectors and camera/lens nerds. Being that the auction takes place in Wetzlar, Germany, it’s tends to be very Leica focused. Though, you do see some unique items from Canon, Nikon and others.

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LOS GATOS, California – CompactFlash Association (CFA), the organization responsible for professional removable media specifications such as CompactFlash®, CFAST®, XQD®, and CFexpress® announces the release of the CFexpress 4.0 logical and physical specifications increasing the performance of the existing CFexpress 2.0 specifications while maintaining backward compatibility targeting the professional imaging and industrial markets requiring high-performance

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TOKYO, August 31, 2023—Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, Canon Inc., and Canon Europe Ltd., a world-leading provider of imaging and information technology solutions, and Starling Lab, an academic research lab based at Stanford and USC innovating with the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols, announced today the completion of a pilot

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CFexpress 4.0 has been announced and the only real changes are in the NVME spec that has been bumped to 1.4, to give greater efficiency, though the NVME spec used in CFexpress is still behind the latest (2.X) used by SSDs, due to the feature upgrades having no real use with rewriteable flash media used by cameras and other such devices. No camera bodies are expected to incorporate it until 2025, at the earliest, as the existing card and device host controller designs have to be upgraded and tested together, before they can be certified and brought to market. As intended, the new cards and cameras will be backwards compatible with the current cards and cameras that are using the current CFexpress standard.

Canon’s new Speedlite rollout for the EOS R generation has been a bit messy. The first Speedlite announced for the lineup was the entry-level EL-100. Which felt like a bit like a half-baked attempt to address the line. There’s nothing wrong with it for $149, but the missing rear display always irks us. The second

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It seems Canon is quietly updating firmware on multiple EOS R cameras. The first camera to be updated was the Canon EOS R6 Mark II, as we reported a new version 1.1.4 being installed on customer cameras earlier this month. Now we have reports that the Canon EOS R5 is returning from service with firmware

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Hi,

I was curious if anyone has tried one or both of these lenses in the RF mount?

TTArtisans 11mm 2.8 Fisheye

7Artisans 10mm 2.8 Fisheye

I am looking for a casual fisheye lens for fun. The pricing on the two lenses is close enough that it’s not a deciding factor, but the smaller size/weight of the TTArtisans is compelling. Something easy to throw in the bag just in case, but not a huge pain to lug around on a hike.

I am curious to see if anyone has used one or both of the lenses, and what your feedback is. I already have wide angle rectilinear lenses, so this is just for fun and would be to keep the fisheye look. Ease of De-fishing is not important for this decision. It will be my first MF lens so I am hoping to have fun with it without breaking the bank… or the back.

Anything feedback you can share is greatly appreciated, thanks!

In this patent application, Japan Patent Application 2023-120952 Canon discusses developing lenses for video, surveillance, and stills photography that have very quick autofocus. The method they use for this is reducing the weight of the focus group to allow for quicker focus. There are a few embodiments that look cool – but the back-focus distance

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Sony Electronics announces the release of two new additions to the Alpha 7C series of compact full-frame interchangeable lens cameras, the Alpha 7C II (model ILCE- 7CM2) and Alpha 7C R (model ILCE-7CR). The Alpha 7C II is equipped with a full-frame image sensor with approximately 33.0 effective megapixels and features the latest still image and video functions and performance in a compact and lightweight design (approximately 4.88 in wide x 2.8 in high x 2.5 in deep and weighs approximately 18.1 oz.) It is the second-generation version of the Alpha7 C, which is celebrated for its combination of performance and features in a compact size, perfect for a wide range of shooting scenarios such as travel and street photography.

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Back in March Canon released a major firmware update for the Canon EOS R5 with version 1.0.8.1, which added a ton of features including the 400mp IBIS high-resolution shooting mode. There was then a bunch of reports in regards to a new firmware coming in Q3 for the EOS R5 that would add further features.

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Canon continues to wind down the production of the EF lens line up, this time the EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM 1.4x has gotten the axe. There are only a couple of other EF super telephoto lenses still listed as current products. Various subsidiaries around the globe have stopped importing EF lenses, most notably Canon

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Dear Everyone

I am returning from a trip to Alaska where I used the RF 100-300 mm f2.8 lens with the 2x TC as the prImary lens for my wildlife photography of bears, sea otters, seals and some birds. Overall I am very impressed with the lens on the R3 camera. Focusing was still very quick and pictures were sharp by my standards.

I used the combo on land both handheld and with a tripod. I also used the combo when sea kayaking. I was overall very impressed and found the 200-600 mm range very useful.

All photos shown below and the vast majority during the trip were taken wide open at f5.6 with the 2x TC with the Canon R3. Photos are processed in DXO PhotoLab 6 with only mild sharpening (Unsharpen Mask I=75 Radius =0.5) applied. Focal lengths range from 300-600 mm, but most photos I took were within the 450-600 mm range.

I have a R6 Mark II and wish to use my 600 RT ii Flash. Do I need the AD-E1 Adapter? You cant find that anywhere

In this Japan Patent Application, JP 2023-118490, Canon is investigating creating smaller built in teleconverters for use in lenses that we would normally not expect to see a teleconverter installed in. The idea of this patent application is to make the mechanism and the sliding out of the optical elements that make up the teleconverter

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I have some high-quality manually-focus Canon Cine EF lenses. They have digital contacts on the back (so they relay information to the camera), but they have no motors for focus or aperture.

I'm also a manual-focus shooter generally, going back to my film days, when the microprism at the center of the optical viewfinder worked great for me. In fact, I don't think I've ever shot an auto-focused photo in my life that I can recall, at least not one that I actually used for anything (I've of course tested autofocus before). I'm funny that way.

But as I'm reading about various Canon DSLRs, I'm seeing that they have varying support for manual focus through the OVF.

First, many of the modern ones don't have swappable focusing screens, and you can't see the true depth-of-field for your lens at large apertures (the extra bright default focusing screens eliminate off-angle light). In the 5D line, you have to go back to the Mark II to swap in a true-matte screen that lets you see the true DOF. And this matte screen is readily available still. If you go into the 1D line, up to the 1Dx Mark II (but not Mark III), you get a whole range of possible focusing screens, including micro-prism and split-prism screens. But none of these seem to be available anywhere.

Then there's the issue of whether the AF points could be used easily to confirm sharp focus in manual mode.

Seems like this worked well in the 5D Mark II, but not the 5D Mark III and later, as described here:


Maybe in the Mark II, as you focused back and forth, all 9 of the focus points would become active in turn as they each passed through being in focus.

Likewise on the 1D series---it seems like things got worse with the 1Dx, as described here:


Perhaps you could pick a point in the 1DS Mark III, and then that point would light up when it was in focus. But in the 1DX, the point itself doesn't light up, but instead some other light in the corner of the OVF lights up.

Of course, this could potentially be overcome in the 1DX and 1DX Mark II, if you could get micro- or split-prism focusing screens.

But even so, it seems like for manually focusing using AF points to confirm focus, the 5D Mark II might be the best of the bunch?

And I'm not even sure how helpful the AF points are for manual focus anyway. Perhaps they allow too much wiggle-room around a truly sharp focus.

But reading about these in manuals only gets me so far, and most reviewers don't spend a lot of time talking about this issue.

Does anyone have experience manually focusing with these different Canon DSLR models? Is there one that really stands out in terms of the best manual-focus experience?

(And no, I don't want to use the live view... the whole point of a DSLR, for me, is the optical viewfinder.)

A bit of geek from me about the RF 100-400mm. I do a lot of semi-macro photographing of dragonflies and butterflies with it at 1 to 3m (3-10') and wanted to know what the magnification is at those distances and for amusement how the focal length drops as you get closer to the target. Here is a plot of my measurements of the magnification at close distances and the calculated focal length at each distance. I used the read out of the distance from target to sensor from the exif data - because that is what I know from all the images I take. You can calculate the size of your object from the second graph of magnification vs 1/distance using the equation in the plot (for the R7 I used).

At the minimum focus distance of 950mm at the focal length setting of 400mm, the magnification is 0.43, close to the 0.41 claimed by Canon. The calculated focal length at this distance is 200mm. By 3.5m distance, the focal breathing has improved and the f is 340mm.

The EF 100-400mm II, in comparison, has at 970mm a magnification of 0.31x and f calculated to be 178mm. The RF 100-500mm at 970mm has 0.33x wuth a calculated f of 224mm.

August 24, 2023, Saitama, Japan – Tamron Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Shogo Sakuraba), a leading manufacturer of optics for diverse applications, announces the launch of the 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III VXD (Model A058), a fast-aperture telephoto zoom lens for Nikon Z mount cameras on September 21, 2023. Preorder PRODUCT NAME 35-150mm F/2-2.8 Di III

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August 24, 2023, Saitama, Japan – Tamron Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Shogo Sakuraba), a leading manufacturer of optics for diverse applications, announces the development of the 17-50mm F/4 Di III VXD (Model A068), a wide-angle zoom lens for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras. PRODUCT NAME 17-50mm F/4 Di III VXD (Model A068) For Sony

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