Please note that a few of these points I've made in replies in other threads, but I've add a few and boiled down what disappoints me as a loyal Canon customer. If you love your EOS R, that's great! Keep shooting!
I've admitted I haven't tried the EOS R, as a disclaimer. I've never tried to mislead anybody about this fact.
But thanks to all the resources on the web, we can view dozens of videos, read scores of reviews, and wade through and get entangled in pages and pages of forum discussions. We can look at the buttons layout ourselves, and we can read the user manual, all 600+ pages of it.
For me, this is more than enough information to decide that the EOS R is not the camera for me. Besides being awkward to use, it is not a pro level body. And that's fine--not everybody needs a pro level body.
But to see that Canon has released what are clearly lenses designed for the most demanding photographers, be they pros or enthusiastic amateurs, lenses that cannot be used on EF bodies, is very frustrating. They offer the great lenses, but there is a catch: We are supposed to buy a body we don't think is up to our standards. And Canon doesn't follow up, nearly a year after the release of the R and rf lenses, with any type of clear release schedule for a pro body.
Here's the key reason it's frustrating. My 5D's AF significantly outperforms my 5D III's AF. I could just buy a second 5D IV and sell the 5D III. Yet now those RF lenses are hanging out there; however, to use them, I'd have to take a step down from the performance, handling, and reliability of the 5D IV.
More than likely Canon and its customers will get though this transition period. But seeing the industry earthquakes of late, and Canon's lack of clear guidance, personally, I'm not as confident as in years past that Canon can and will follow through. Sure, it's extreme extrapolation to imagine Canon might just throw in the towel and sell off the EOS line and leave customers without the current wonderful support, but when a company just shrugs off the importance of a road map for its better customers, I wonder what the heck is going on.
I've admitted I haven't tried the EOS R, as a disclaimer. I've never tried to mislead anybody about this fact.
But thanks to all the resources on the web, we can view dozens of videos, read scores of reviews, and wade through and get entangled in pages and pages of forum discussions. We can look at the buttons layout ourselves, and we can read the user manual, all 600+ pages of it.
For me, this is more than enough information to decide that the EOS R is not the camera for me. Besides being awkward to use, it is not a pro level body. And that's fine--not everybody needs a pro level body.
But to see that Canon has released what are clearly lenses designed for the most demanding photographers, be they pros or enthusiastic amateurs, lenses that cannot be used on EF bodies, is very frustrating. They offer the great lenses, but there is a catch: We are supposed to buy a body we don't think is up to our standards. And Canon doesn't follow up, nearly a year after the release of the R and rf lenses, with any type of clear release schedule for a pro body.
Here's the key reason it's frustrating. My 5D's AF significantly outperforms my 5D III's AF. I could just buy a second 5D IV and sell the 5D III. Yet now those RF lenses are hanging out there; however, to use them, I'd have to take a step down from the performance, handling, and reliability of the 5D IV.
More than likely Canon and its customers will get though this transition period. But seeing the industry earthquakes of late, and Canon's lack of clear guidance, personally, I'm not as confident as in years past that Canon can and will follow through. Sure, it's extreme extrapolation to imagine Canon might just throw in the towel and sell off the EOS line and leave customers without the current wonderful support, but when a company just shrugs off the importance of a road map for its better customers, I wonder what the heck is going on.