How soon before drone footage of the Mona Lisa?
Cameras getting it from all sides.... smart phones, and now super high quality drones.

Made my first ever trip to Iceland in September this year; went solo driving around the country over two weeks. Quite the amazing experience though I was a bit unlucky with the weather (clouds and rain) this trip therefore didn't get to experience the aurora much (especially with crazy activity happening during my first week there) and had to deal with my smashed up 14-35L thanks to them crazy Icelandic winds just 5 days into my trip haha. Anyway here are some of my favourites from the trip:

Gullfoss by Tony, on Flickr
Geysir by Tony, on Flickr
Skogafoss Selfie by Tony, on Flickr
Black Sand Beach by Tony, on Flickr
Myrdalsjokull Ice Cave by Tony, on Flickr
Vestrahorn by Tony, on Flickr
Diamond Beach by Tony, on Flickr
Dettifoss by Tony, on Flickr
Icelandic Horse by Tony, on Flickr
Arctic Fox by Tony, on Flickr
Kirkjufell by Tony, on Flickr

Maybe some of you are also parents and can help out. What are/were your most used lenses for your small kids, say 1-3 years old?

I didn't think about kids at all when I bought my previous lenses, so I'm planning to change that for any future purchases. What I should look out for in the future, what should go on my watch list? What's practical?

I have the RF 24-105 f4L, RF 15-35 2.8L, and the RF 100-500L. They're great and cover a lot of range. The 100-500L can do nicely isolated portraits, but even 100mm is long indoors (Europe, small rooms) and only f4.5@100mm.
So I mainly use the RF 24-105 F4L, but my kids images often aren't that much better or different to those my wife takes with her iPhone (at ~24-48mm). I feel like I maybe I should look out for a faster lens, but I'm not really sure.

I appreciate any input you might have.

A substantial number of people want a new 50 f/1.4, but they can't agree on price levels / specs. Probably never going to happen.
Everyone and their mother knows @roby17269 has unhealthy desires for a 35 f/1.2, but the rumor now is f/1.4 with is = unhappy Roby
Some people have posted about 50 and 180 macros. With 85, 35, 24 one half macros, the 50 seems unlikely. I guess 180 is likely sometime...
More than a few want mid-priced super tele primes.
Lately, I am interested in a fisheye.

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Post your shots from the One Zoom to rule all standard zooms, combining the useful focal range of the 24-105/4 with the faster aperture of the 24-70/2.8 and beating both on IQ.

My first impression of the lens is that it's reminiscent of the EF 70-200/2.8 zooms but with a petite hood – not a small lens but pretty easy to handle. It's a little weird seeing open screw holes on a weather sealed lens.

I'm not a fan of the tripod ring, and I wish Canon had made it removable. The tripod foot is easy to remove (which is a good thing), and the mount left behind is not as obtrusive as I thought it would be. The foot extends to the far end of the zoom ring, and that makes the ring harder to use with the foot installed. At least the zoom throw is short. With a lens plate (the RRS L85 fits fine) on the foot it's even worse (hand under the foot is even further from the barrel), so I really hope RRS makes a replacement foot. I've already put in a request, which received the usual 'we are tracking customer demand for this product' response.

I also don't like that there are no 90° detents in the ring rotation; my other lenses with a non-removable tripod ring (RF 100-300/2.8, EF 600/4 II) have those detents, and that makes it easy to position the ring at 0° (landscape) and 90° (portrait) orientations. The ring rotates smoothly, but you need to line up the markings to get it properly oriented.

On my way home from picking up the lens, I stopped by a local cemetery for some initial shots. Below is a selection, reduced for posting but otherwise just with basic processing in DxO.

This is another lens that requires correction of barrel distortion. I did not check, but I'm sure it's 'forced' in camera. The corners are black at 24mm, however the distortion resolves pretty quickly since the black corners are gone by 28mm. DxO PL7 does not have a profile yet, but applying manual barrel distortion correction of +80 takes care of it (but probably not optimally, since the distortion is probably non-linear as is the case for the RF 14-35/4L).

Sharpness is excellent, the bokeh can be a bit nervous with some backgrounds. Nice sunstars thanks to the 11-bladed aperture, lots of flare at f/22 but not at more typical apertures.

"Headstones"

EOS R3, RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z @ 95mm, 1/800 s, f/2.8, ISO 100

"Flags"

EOS R3, RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z @ 24mm, 1/15 s, f/22, ISO 200

"Flags corrected" (+80 manual correction of barrel distortion in DxO PL7)

EOS R3, RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z @ 24mm, 1/15 s, f/22, ISO 200

"Sunstar"

EOS R3, RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z @ 28mm, 1/80 s, f/22, ISO 1250

"Cannon shot with Canon"

EOS R3, RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z @ 105mm, 1/200 s, f/4, ISO 100

"Wren" – bonus shot, one of our two kitties with one of our four Christmas trees in the foreground

EOS R3, RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z @ 105mm, 1/60 s, f/2.8, ISO 6400

I've been listening to the petapixel podcast this week and there is some speculation about the R1 about 30 minutes in.

Their editor-in-chief (Jaron Schneider) mentioned that he heard rumors that Canon had an FF global shutter sensor ready to go a year ago, but was struggling with "something" in the rest of the camera.

He says he also believes that the issue to be throughput, i.e. Canon's current image processing pipeline can't deal with the volume of data coming off the sensor (which might make sense if every pixel also has to be DPAF, so you are looking at twice the amount of sensor data coming off the sensor than a traditional sensor).

Further he has also heard that Canon was "extremely disappointed and upset" that Sony launched the A9III with a global shutter, and finally he (and Gordon Laing from Camera Labs agrees) thinks that Sony launched the A9III so early is to steal Canon's thunder about an upcoming GS sensor-based camera launch.

No idea what to make out of it, but interesting to hear their opinions.

A couple of patent applications caught my eye over the last week – and of course, with me traveling and living out of a suitcase right now I filed it in my head to revisit. These two patents show some unique pixel structures that we are not used to seeing from Canon. Keep in mind

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In this patent application (Japan 2023-178037) Canon is describing a tilting EVF for a mirrorless camera. I had the EVF-DC1 for the EOS-M system and loved the tilt function of the EVF. It gave a different perspective and shooting angle and was a useful feature. In this patent application, Canon is describing the connection ribbon

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Bought my wife an R7 for Christmas. Before I wrapped it, I pulled the battery out of the box, so I can charge it and she can have a ready-to-go camera, when she opens it.

Glad I did.

Stuck it on the charger and got the dreaded blinkblinkblinkblink from the LED. Did some exhaustive internet research (30 seconds on Google) and found that it sometimes takes a few tries before it will take a charge. I did more than “a few tries”. No dice. Got the brain fart to try it in my R5 charger. Nothing. Tried my R5 battery in the R7 charger, it worked fine. Came to the conclusion that the new battery is pooched.

I know they are shipped completely flat, but is it a common occurrence for them not to take a charge, when brand new? Is there any way to “jump start“ the thing? (Preferably without burning my house down).

(Props to B&H - I sent Support an email and within a half hour -on a Sunday night, no less- I got a shipment notification. The new battery showed up yesterday and is blinking away happily in my R5 charger as we “speak”)

In 2023, Canon aggressively expanded its RF lens lineup with several new lenses. Looking ahead to 2024, we anticipate that Canon will continue this trend and focus on developing lenses that have been highly requested by shooters. Two previously rumoured lenses have appeared in recent patent applications and would surely be extremely popular. Canon RF

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This is completely inconsequential, but discussing pointless things is what forums are for, so here goes.

I finally broke down and bought the RF 24-70 2.8. In playing around with the lens, I noticed that the zoom lock switch doesn't only lock it at the widest angle where the lens barrel is full retracted. There's another spot where the lock switch is able to click into its locked position. In addition to 24mm, it also locks at the 31mm focal length, according to the lens data when you take a photo with it locked at this spot.

This is clearly unintentional, considering that 31mm is just a weird focal length. The switch sounds just a little different when it clicks into place at 31mm compared to 24mm as well. What makes it even more curious is that the manual specifically states "The zoom ring cannot be fixed in place at any position other than the widest position." Except that, you know, it can.

So anyway there you know, strange quirk about the RF 24-70. Completely useless to know and to use. I wonder what causes it though.

For anyone looking for 3rd party RF lenses with AF. The glimpse of hope is down to Yongnuo again.

Earlier on this year they re-introduce the YN85mm F1.8R DF DSM onto their official website and Taobao(the domestic version of Aliexpress, and it's much better than Aliexpress but PRC only due to the payment methods). They named to mount as 多規格(Multi-spec) to get away from Canon China's legal action.

And now they introduce the mark ii with movable electrical contact points to evading Canon's legal team further... And other manufactures should consider this as Canon didn't patent the RF design in this way


Source: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1pu4y137a8/



Sadly, the pricing outside of China is ridiculous, it's not competitive enough to get them instead of Canon's. Unless you have someone know how to buy it directly from Taobao or Yongnuo's official site.
And my personal advice is for RF users that doesn't have IBIS. it's not worth it to get it over native options.





Myself has the original batch of YN85 and YN35.

YN85 is perfect, no issue with the lens' performance and firmware updates.

YN35 is somewhat a letdown as the Servo AF with subject recognition on is not reliable enough. When using Human/Animal/vehicle recognition but no such subject in frame. It won't go back to normal servo AF and focus hunt everywhere across the frame. And the AF area is smaller(but bigger than f11 Duos). Forcing myself to switch it off or use Single shot AF only. No issues on video AF though.





Enough rant from myside. Praying Viltrox and other CN 3rd parties to do the same on the lens mount, so those APS-C primes can be available for RF-S as well. (16/50mm f1.8, 23/27/33/56/75mm)

btw Meike 85mm f1.4 RF when???? Was that just fake news?

We know with the most certainty possible that an RF 200-500mm f/4L IS USM is in the pipeline, and we’ve talked about it numerous times during 2023. We have been told that the lens has been delayed until the second half of 2024. The source claims part of it is meeting demand for the RF

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I have the R6 II and I shoot sports 1/1000 sec. but sometimes under poor lighting I get flicker/banding and I know the camera can detect and adjust the shutter. but it drops to 1/120.8 (example)
Anyone know how I can adjust the antiflicker easily with a higher shutter speed? Calling Canon and Tech does not know. or do I wait for a Global shutter?

We don’t get as much chatter about Cinema EOS products as we do with photography/hybrid focused products, but when we do, they tend to be fairly accurate. It looks like 2024 will also see Canon finally move forward with new Cinema EOS products. One camera that has been mentioned recently is a smaller version of

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Canon Australia has made available firmware v1.3.0 for the Canon EOS R6 Mark II. It’s a minor firmware update. Firmware Version 1.3.0 incorporates the following fixes and enhancements: Download firmware v1.3.0 for the Canon EOS R6 Mark II

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The changelog lists these 2 changes:

Firmware Version 1.2.0 incorporates the following enhancements and fixes:
1. Adds support for RF-S10-18mm F4.5-6.3 IS STM lens.
2. Fixes minor issues.

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I've been to Tuscany, Italy, this year, and it was wonderful. I took a truck load of photos with me and thought I'd share some here.
I'm still not done with PP, so more will follow.

Firenze



Cinque Terre (it's Liguria, I know)


San Gimignano


Siena

How many preordered I wonder?

November was a busy month for Canon, as they announced 3 new lenses following October’s announcement of the RF 10-20mm f/4L IS STM. Below are the expected ship dates of the new Canon lenses according to B&H Photo. They are usually very accurate with these sorts of dates. Thus far, the RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 IS

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