The 10 Most Important Canon EOS Digital Cameras of All-Time

[mangobutter]

Shot Canon since 2002 ish, and starting in 2005 with the large sensor stuff (5D).

I've thought about this topic recently, in terms of the most impactful Canon large sensor cameras.

Here's mine starting w/ my personal experience/timeline 2005 forward:

5D Classic - this made full frame "affordable." though still expensive. if you shot this camera back in the day, you were a rockstar.
5D II - For video stuff.
Rebel XS - I believe this is when digital large sensor photography as a whole became affordable and popular and the gateway drug to building a Canon system.
EOS M - mirrorless
6D - this was the next jump in full frame affordability -- those who got this launch day know how big a deal this camera was at the price it was launched at. the talk of the town back in the day. I got mine day 1 pre order.
Canon EOS R/RP - made FF mirrorless great again for Canon shooters and jumpstarted the R system as we know it today.

Honorable mention: EOS R5 (for high res)

I do not feel any other cameras belong on this list, however great they were. These in my opinion are paradigm shifts, monumental leaps forward, vs. incremental evolutions.

 

[Baywoof]

For some of us who owned a 5Ds/r (sold it to buy the R5), I take your arrogant and snobby remarks as someone who never took the time and effort to shoot with that camera. For me, the 5D s/r was an significant upgrade to the 5D M2 I previously owned. Perhaps you're in the "12mp is good enough" camp like many so called camera pundits. I sometimes wish I still had that camera, but you have to let go of things to get something else and move on.

 

[Del Paso]

I don't understand. AutoFocusMicroAdjustment helps with adjustment to improve autofocus. TSE is manual focus by using the ring. You can use the LCD and magnify to get the manual focus very precise.

I use, just as Sporgon wrote, the focus confirmation. Precise enough (my 24 TSE was 20 "units" off) !
Anyway, after AFMA, it works the way it should!
Using LCD? No way, putting reading glasses on and off, is a procedure I reject. Besides, I've never been able to use it in bright environments, and I always use my TSE lenses handheld!
These issues are now fully theoretical, having 2 R5 II and a backup R camera too.

 

[Del Paso]

I've never done AFMA with my DSLRs... there must be something wrong with me!

I believe you absolutely need the RF 35mm f/1,2 for mental stability!

 

[Sporgon]

I've never done AFMA with my DSLRs... there must be something wrong with me!

A perfectly good enough reason for getting the Hassey X2Dii ! Congratulations on ownership of a superb camera !

 

[roby17269]

A perfectly good enough reason for getting the Hassey X2Dii ! Congratulations on ownership of a superb camera !

To be fair, the R5 saved me from AFMA in 2021
My previous MF was so bad that shooting at anything below f/7.1 was a lottery although when all stars aligned the results were amazing

 

[roby17269]

I believe you absolutely need the RF 35mm f/1,2 for mental stability!

Can't believe Canon's callousness in refusing to give us the succor we need!!! Where are the UN when you need them!

 

[Del Paso]

Can't believe Canon's callousness in refusing to give us the succor we need!!! Where are the UN when you need them!

You should maybe join the "Board of Peace", bigly better than the UN!

 

[roby17269]

You should maybe join the "Board of Peace", bigly better than the UN!

oh deary dear

 

[P-visie]

Can't believe Canon's callousness in refusing to give us the succor we need!!! Where are the UN when you need them!

Maybe you should threaten to invade Japan, because you’ve got to have ownership .

 

[P-visie]

You should maybe join the "Board of Peace", bigly better than the UN!

@roby17269 has just bought a Hasselblad, needs to replace his lenses for his Hasselblad, and needs to save for the RF 35mm f1.2 L, so he can no longer afford the $ 1 billion membership fee.

 

[roby17269]

@roby17269 has just bought a Hasselblad, needs to replace his lenses for his Hasselblad, and needs to save for the RF 35mm f1.2 L, so he can no longer afford the $ 1 billion membership fee.

Ah, suddenly the mythical RF 35 1.2 doesn't sound too expensive

 

[roby17269]

Maybe you should threaten to invade Japan, because you’ve got to have ownership .

Of course! threatening other countries seems to be quite common nowadays

 

[Del Paso]

@roby17269 has just bought a Hasselblad, needs to replace his lenses for his Hasselblad, and needs to save for the RF 35mm f1.2 L, so he can no longer afford the $ 1 billion membership fee.

Pfttt! Not a bigly amount of money.
As long as it is not a European billion...
For Red Caps only: One European billion is 1000 US billions