Post your shots from Canon's first RF pancake lens!

I just took mine out of the box, here's my first shot with it. I'll have more in a few weeks, since I'll be bringing this convenient little lens on vacation.

"Tiger Lily"

EOS R3, RF 28mm f/2.8 STM, 1/320 s, f/2.8, ISO 100

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, (June 27, 2023) — Phase One has announced the XC Camera, purpose built for travel photographers who demand the finest in image quality. Designed for convenience, the XC is Phase One’s most compact digitally integrated camera to date. “We’ve designed the XC Camera to be a companion camera,” said Drew Altdoerffer, VP of Digitization,

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Angelbird has launched new CFexpress Type B SE and SX memory cards, with larger capacities and improbeved speed and performance. Angelbird AV Pro CFexpress B SX The AV PRO CFexpress B SX memory card is specifically designed to meet the demands of professional photographers and videographers shooting in up to 12K+ RAW. An uninterrupted sustained

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I bought the Cannon R-7 for the speed of the camera. I cover a lot of events, Ren. Fest, where I want the speed of the camera. A few months, after I bought the R-7 I was at a Ren. fest shooting. I started having error messages, the camera started to lock up. The view finder would go black. I received Error 20 messages and other messages where i had to pull the battery out and reset the camera. It became annoying. I had my back up R-5 with me. A few months latter I was at a big fashion show. The event was outdoors, low light. The R-7 started to act up again. Same issues. I had to tell people that I was having camera issues, once again, I switched to the R-5. I took it into the camera shop. They sent the camera into Cannon to get it fixed. Over this past weekend, I was at a heavy shooting event. The R-7 locked up on me, again, Error 20. It is now going back to Cannon to be looked at again.

I have had issues with the R-6 as well. Fashion shows, heavy shooting, the camera will not track the models. It has a hard time trying to focus, it will go in, out, it will over expose photos, it has a hard time with exposure. I have had to switch to the R-5 or my D90, which, does a great job, but the speed is not there.

When I bought these cameras I thought I was getting great, high end cameras. Did Cannon put out the cameras, knew the issues, but put the cameras out anyhow?

Birding who wants to make the plunge into the big boy canon lenses. Weight is an issue as i like to bird with a camera and hiking may be an issue with a heavy lens. Current set up Canon R5 and 100-500 7.1

Option 1: Canon rf 600 f4
Heavy and pricey but looks to be an awesome lens. Would get me more reach and some very nice shots

Option 2: Purchase the 200-500 f4 and the rumored super Teleconverter. Probably pretty heavy but maybe lighter than the 600 not sure. I like the many options this gives me. At worst I have the same focal length I’m used to but f4 to f7.1 is a noticeable difference I believe. With the Teleconverter I could extend and have 700 at 5.6 which also would be great. Then for certain scenarios like ID shots etc I would be at 1000mm f8 which quite frankly sounds great. Probably pretty heavy and maybe 20k when it’s all said and done yikes

Option 3: purchase 100-300 2.8 and stack a 2xTC and be at 600 f5.6. Not sure of the weight but I’m thinking this would be the smallest and lightest of the options. I don’t like that I would never use the lens without a Teleconverter really. This would also maybe be the cheapest of the options.

Love the insight and feedback from this forum. Thank you

Canon has announced what they’re calling “cinema kits” for the Canon EOS R5 C and Canon Cinema EOS C70. What makes it a kit? Well they add the Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM to the box. Canon Cinema Kits You save about $300 USD with current rebates buying the EOS R5 C and RF

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Insta360 is proud to announce the highly anticipated Insta360 GO 3, the latest iteration of its groundbreaking tiny action camera. The tiny but mighty GO 3 takes on-the-go capturing to new heights, building upon the ultra-portability of its predecessor with unparalleled versatility. Truly tiny, the camera comes in smaller than thumb size and weighs in

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We have been told that the Canon EF-EOS R mount adapters will be going up in price very soon, possibly by the first week of July. Both the standard EF-EOS R and Control Right EF-EOS R mount adapters will go up by $50 USD. If you’re in the market for one of these adapters, this

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I just bought the EOS R6 Mark II yesterday. and trying to go thru and compare the Mark 1 to the Mark 2. One ? I have with the Mark 1 when shooting you can press the set button and the focus point will reset to center. but the Mark 2 it does No. Do I have a setting incorrect? Im trying to shoot in Single point.

Can anyone suggest any videos to follow to go thru the options?

Recently picked up a used boxed pristine 7artisans 35/1.4 I’m currently using it on my M50, works great. I also have a used 7artisans 25/1.8 arriving tomorrow too
Both were ridiculously cheap so no damage to the wallet

I’m now tempted to buy a used cheap 7artisans 55/1.4 mkii as well, but
I have several 50mm inc a few non canon.
My question is would the 55mm 7artisans give me something that my canon 50/1.4 usm cannot??

My worry is that focusing the 25 & 35 manually is easy, however, the 55 is almost equivalent to 90mm (88mm) in FF and at 1.4 the DoF is gonna be crazy thin, I’m just wondering given the M50 has eye focus if I’m better off sticking with my canon ef50/1.4 ?

Optically would there be much difference ?

Any advice?

[Following was originally posted in "CR Pro General Board", but I think this is the right/better place to post it...]


It started by I spotted this thread discussing rumors and the CR rating system going from CR1 to CR5 !

As an old user on CR, I knew the CR1-CR5 rating system was very old and had been replaced by CR0-CR3 ratings many years ago.

But it was really hard to find proof of that! I started clicking around on the CR-site to find description of ratings. No success at all.

Then tried searching CR and found only the old CR1-CR5 ratings.

Finally I found the CR0-CR3 description via WaybackMachine to the old design of CR-site where page describing current rating-system was easy to spot. And that gave me some words to search for. But via Google! The page doesn't seem to be indexed in CR's own search engine!?:


So I think the CR-site needs an update to make it easy to spot/find the information about the rating-system. Right now it is practically impossible to find the correct version.

The latest major Canon EOS R5 C firmware update had an annoying bug that was quickly spotted by users. The bug was found after the first couple of days of release, which was on June 15, 2023. It seems to have taken more than a week for Canon to acknowledge it and pull the firmware

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Canon invited Gordan Laing of CameraLabs fame to film the teardown of the brand new Canon RF 28mm f/2.8 STM Pancake lens. If you’re at all a lens nerd, it’s always fascinating to see what’s inside a camera lens, even one as “simple” as the new pancake. The teardown covers everything from design for a

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Canon R8. 24-50mm @24mm f8 1/15s ISO 4000. I think this camera/lens combination is fanstastic as it can stay in my bag all the time.

Canon is actively working to redefine their “PowerShot” series. Last month they announced the PowerShot V10 and are expected to announce two more this year. One of the coming cameras will be for VR applications, and it looks like a higher-end version of the PowerShot V10 is on the way. The New Camera reports that

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Canon continues to release content creator kits for certain cameras, so there must be some value in these bundles. The Canon EOS R8 Content Creators Kit will hit stores on July 12, 2023. When you buy this kit, you save about $200 over buying the items separately. Canon EOS R8 Content Creators Kit Preorder –

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MELVILLE, NY, June 22, 2023 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, and the Los Angeles Times, the West Coast’s leading news organization, announced today a new multi-year partnership that makes Canon the Official Imaging Provider of the L.A. Times. “As one of the world’s most notable newspapers, the Los Angeles Times had

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MELVILLE, NY, June 22, 2023 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced that seven Canon product designs were recognized by iF International Forum Design GmbH with prestigious 2023 iF Design Awards. It marks the 29th consecutive year that Canon has won iF Design Awards. Encouraged by the recognition of the Company’s

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RF-s - Lenses in excellent quality needed for the phantastic EOS-R7 (for photo-entusiasts, who don't need/want full-frame)!

While on holidays at Kos island in Greece we had several quite windy days with more than 5 bft.
It was a real pleasure to watch all that kitesurfers in action.
I did some tries on them and here are my first results.
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/8, 1/800, ISO160

I'm using "dpreview terms", hope I can explain it

I've always seen the forum threads with a "flat"view, so with each answer shown in chronological order.

Since a couple of days I'm seeing a different view, where subsequent messages are not show chronologically, but answers to a specific message are grouped under the very same message, creating mini threads into each discussion, see example below.



How that happened? I moved something (don't remember I had; also I just searched in options and preferences and not seeing anything related to control the view) or it's a server side change? Is it possible to revert my own view to the normal flat chronological view?

Thanks.

I think it’s safe to say there hasn’t been a lot of the normal hype around Canon since late last year with the release of the EOS R6 Mark II. We have seen some cool products since, but not really the things that have historically driven Canonites into a frenzy. It seems Nikon has had

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Today Nikon announced the release of the NIKKOR Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR and the NIKKOR Z 70-180mm f/2.8, two new super telephoto NIKKOR Z lenses for enthusiasts that combine outstanding zoom capabilities with lightweight design. The NIKKOR Z 180-600mm f/5.6-6.3 VR has been highly requested from Z series users, especially those capturing wildlife, nature and

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I messed up and dropped my 70-200mm 2.8 MKII now it won’t zoom in or out an stuck at 90mm. I sent it off to Canon and they quoted $1000! Originally quoted $500. I have never heard of this issue so therefore I haven’t been able to find any information on how to fix it. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I found this very prophetic 2012 article on Kodak being killed by digital photography that in turn was decimated by iPhones and Androids.