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Guys please push harder. It's almost 50 pages and 1000 comments. Break the record!
'Canon is doomed' isn't really working anymore, 'Why I will/won't buy this camera' comments don't help much as they don't produce a lot of responses (who cares why you won't buy it), but Dynamic Range, Photography as Art question and the Need for IBIS can help tremendously. "You don't need this feature" also produces a lot of traffic. Go go go!
I'm doing my bit for the betterment of mankind (and humankind lol), for society, and the planet... by contributing multiple posts in this tread.
So, I already wrote about "why I possibly
might buy this camera" - and had some nice interaction- some pages back... now to focus on more hard hitting comment-attracting themes, such as 1. DR, 2. Photography as Art and 3. Need for IBIS! ... lol
Don't forget 4. the FF vs APS-C topic and related sub-themes, such as 'equivalence' and 'dof', etc... lots of comments from there too.
1. I really found a big jump in ability to push shadows and highlights in my 80D compared to all previous DSLRs.
I look forward to the RS being an incremental improvement on the 80D sensor.... if it's somewhat better (even say 0.5-1.0 Ev better than the current best Canon FF sensor, it'll be neat. But if not, that's not a game changer (for me).
2. Thankfully I feel that photography is often art in both the eye of the photographer, and in those of the viewer/s...
How I engage with a subject (still, moving, human, animal, plant or other) is often greatly determined by the viewfinder (yes seriously) - if I feel confident and comfortable in what I'm viewing, it impacts the ability to get the shot, because my creative juices can take over (the more dry technical / essential composition aspects)
3. I have many EF lenses, including some great L glass... as well as a few EF-S lenses (I'm not ashamed to admit to having and using)... I am so thrilled the way that Canon has made the EF-RF adapter, so I can use all these lenses on the EOS R and EOS RP, respectively.
That I can use legacy EF and EF-S lenses at their full potential is huge... and to add IBIS will change certain photos that I have to date been unable to effectively get (without a tripod in particular).
IBIS will really benefit so many of them, especially my lenses which do not have stabilisation, e.g. the 50mm f/1.8 STM, etc.
If canon can make IBIS work WITH the ILIS in EF lenses (as well as the ILIS of RF lenses) - so both gain a stop or few advantage of stabilisation... well, now THAT would be very cool!
4. I love the size of my 80D, and I also own a 7D. I have used a number of 5D cameras and 1D cameras over time too. 80D is pretty much my ideal camera size.. a bit lighter would be fine, but the weight is ok. The ergonomics of the EOS R aren't 'terrible' - but they definitely don't work for me as well as DSLRs. To have the FF sensor size advantage - but in a camera body about the size / weight of a 80D, would be great. (I also own a M5 by the way).
No FF camera ever tempted me to move from APS-C to FF (yet) - but as I saw the "Canon going FF mirrorless, with a new lens mount" writing on the wall
several years ago, I held out till the right body would arrive... the R5 looks to be it.
Ok... that should do it for now... feel free to reply, quote and comment on my post, so we reach the 1000 comment and 50 pages full mark SOON!
PJ