The best of 2018 in gear as selected by our readers

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Happy New Year! Voting for the best from Canon in 2018 has finished, and here are the results! I put my picks in parenthesis.
Your favourite new Canon camera of 2018

Canon EOS R 66.4% (CR’s Pick)
Canon EOS M50 23.7%
Canon EOS Rebel T7 3.6%
Canon EOS 4000D 2.4%
Canon PowerShot SX740 HS 2.1%
Canon PowerShot SX70 HS 1.8%

Your favourite new Canon lens of 2018

Canon RF 50mm f/1.2L USM 20.5%
Canon RF 28-70mm f/2L USM 17.2% (CR’s Pick)
Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM 11.3%
Canon EF 70-200mm...


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Definitely agree with the EOS R as a top pick, a significant move for Canon.

I think the M32/1.4 is also a significant move. Fast primes and zooms are almost de rigueur for a new FF system, as is recapitulating the popular FF kit lens – nice, but no surprise. A fast prime for the APS-C M series was a surprise, and perhaps indicates a bigger commitment to the line. Plus, it's a great lens!
 
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I am really surprised that the majority of people favored the RF 50mm f/1.2L. It's a lens that's been done before...several times by Canon. The 28-70 f/2 has never been done by anyone else in history and is a significant engineering accomplishment.
 
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Surprised to find RF35 dead last on the lens chart.
Considering my perception of the demographics (Money and what most seem to shoot) of most of the crowd around here, it doesn't surprise me. From my own personal experience with 35mm, it doesn't surprise me either. I have a 24-70mm and a 35mm. The 24-70 is so good that I am hard pressed to find an occasion where my 35mm is called for. A mentor of mine challenged me to use it throughout two days of model boot camps once, and that is really the only time I've fooled with it. Got some great images, but it will never be my first choice. However, I'm just one guy. The zooms are getting so good a short prime would be very hard for me to justify anymore. I don't pixel peep and nobody has ever told me the corners aren't sharp enough. An RF 28-70mm f/2 USM? Beautiful as far as I am concerned. I'd not even consider an RF 35mm f/1.8 STM prime to be a competitive lens against that. I can see zero reason to choose the 35mm over the 28-70mm. Seriously thinking of selling my EF 35mm f/1.4 II to get the EF 85mm f/1.4 IS.
 
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Interestingly, it seems that in the two lens categories pragmatic aspects (i.e. usability particularly in mid range focal length and relatively brighter lenses) have collectively received more votes than innovative aspects (i.e. never done before lenses) and price point. I guess this says a lot about the CR readers who embrace usability and practicality of the tools. No surprise here.
 
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Considering my perception of the demographics (Money and what most seem to shoot) of most of the crowd around here, it doesn't surprise me. From my own personal experience with 35mm, it doesn't surprise me either. I have a 24-70mm and a 35mm. The 24-70 is so good that I am hard pressed to find an occasion where my 35mm is called for. A mentor of mine challenged me to use it throughout two days of model boot camps once, and that is really the only time I've fooled with it. Got some great images, but it will never be my first choice. However, I'm just one guy. The zooms are getting so good a short prime would be very hard for me to justify anymore. I don't pixel peep and nobody has ever told me the corners aren't sharp enough. An RF 28-70mm f/2 USM? Beautiful as far as I am concerned. I'd not even consider an RF 35mm f/1.8 STM prime to be a competitive lens against that. I can see zero reason to choose the 35mm over the 28-70mm. Seriously thinking of selling my EF 35mm f/1.4 II to get the EF 85mm f/1.4 IS.

I have the opposite approach. The more experienced I get, the more I value the possibility to use large apertures. For most of my use, I find the flexibility in aperture more important than the flexibility in zooming. Therefore I like and use prime lenses much more than zooms.

And yes, modern zooms offers fantastic quality images.
 
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I have the opposite approach. The more experienced I get, the more I value the possibility to use large apertures. For most of my use, I find the flexibility in aperture more important than the flexibility in zooming. Therefore I like and use prime lenses much more than zooms.

And yes, modern zooms offers fantastic quality images.
Yeah, but f/1.8 vs f/2.0... not a big deal. Especially considering the flexibility in focal length. Shall I choose a strict 35mm f/1.8 vs a 28-70 f/2.0? No brainer.
 
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I am really surprised that the majority of people favored the RF 50mm f/1.2L. It's a lens that's been done before...several times by Canon. The 28-70 f/2 has never been done by anyone else in history and is a significant engineering accomplishment.
The 28-70 is of no interest to me as it’s too heavy and too expensive, but it was my second pick for sure.

Maybe it’s because they’ve made it before that people have a relation to it, and when they made the RF a hundred times better people appreciate the effort.

And I’ve, at least, waited for a 50 L since 2006 when I bought and hated the EF version. And it’s an instant classic, even the feel and quality makes my 85 IS look and feel very cheap..
 
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Yeah, but f/1.8 vs f/2.0... not a big deal. Especially considering the flexibility in focal length. Shall I choose a strict 35mm f/1.8 vs a 28-70 f/2.0? No brainer.

Specs are one thing, the 28-70mm is beautiful and the top in that department. If you're aiming for a comfortable lens that you would take anywhere, all that glass is a burden to hang around your neck all day. the EOS R + 35mm is so light and compact, it might be hard to find a better FF package to compete with the portability, features, Images and video (IS is important to me for that reason).
 
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Specs are one thing, the 28-70mm is beautiful and the top in that department. If you're aiming for a comfortable lens that you would take anywhere, all that glass is a burden to hang around your neck all day. the EOS R + 35mm is so light and compact, it might be hard to find a better FF package to compete with the portability, features, Images and video (IS is important to me for that reason).
Yeah, but I tend to have a 70-200 around my neck all day.
 
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I am really surprised that the majority of people favored the RF 50mm f/1.2L. It's a lens that's been done before...several times by Canon. The 28-70 f/2 has never been done by anyone else in history and is a significant engineering accomplishment.
What I would really like to see is how many voted for these two lenses without owning either one????
 
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The 28-70 is of no interest to me as it’s too heavy and too expensive, but it was my second pick for sure.

Maybe it’s because they’ve made it before that people have a relation to it, and when they made the RF a hundred times better people appreciate the effort.

And I’ve, at least, waited for a 50 L since 2006 when I bought and hated the EF version. And it’s an instant classic, even the feel and quality makes my 85 IS look and feel very cheap..

Well, I suppose for an extra 1000€ (here in Europe) it should feel a bit more luxury than the 85 f/1.4. Besides, 2500€ for a prime lens isn‘t quite a bargain and I guess there are some psychological aspects to the „very cheap“ look and feel of the 85 f/1.4. We all love our new tools ;-).
 
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