Not for those of us who have been using the traditionally placed rear wheel on camera after camera for decades. Especially if our thumbs don't quite reach the position of the thumbwheel and 8-way on the R7.
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The Canon EOS R7 Mark II is in the Wild
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Not for those of us who have been using the traditionally placed rear wheel on camera after camera for decades. Especially if our thumbs don't quite reach the position of the thumbwheel and 8-way on the R7.
i kind like that idea / sprit ;-)If people keep joking about the R100 I might just get one. Just to take great pics and post here or maybe I'll make a questionnaire: R100 or R5 out of it
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I love how Canon only omitted the AA filter from their base budget model when other manufacturers had been claiming its absence in their high-end models to be an advantage. Someone at Canon has a sense of humour !!
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Canon is now tending to remove the AA-fillter in just one direction, the vertical, and retain it in the horizontal. You can see the difference it makes in these downloads of charts from optyczne.pl of the R50 (larger chart) and R100 - the difference is clear in the vertical lines, where there is Moiré for the R100. The R100 does have better resolution (~95 vs ~85 lp/mm at the highest measured).
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Those are great pics! I especially love the one with the sunset and the leopard (or cheetah?). Great job!That's because the R100 is incredible for safari stills!
If I only did stills, I wouldn't even look at R mirrorless cameras. Most advantages are for video shooting, or "ergonomic" features like more reliable autofocus, high ISO, IBIS, more resolution for cropping, HDR HEIFs and such.
But for SDR social media JPEGs? Old bodies are amazing at that.
These are uncropped frames I took in Tanzania in 2025. I picked a few "suboptimal" situations with weird lighting, moving animals, shooting from a moving vehicle and such. You know, things you'd presumably need a fancy camera to compensate for. And my technique was pretty awful:
Those were taken on a 2008 Rebel XS (1000D), and a 50-250mm IS II. That's like a thrift store camera these days!
Would I have made more good shots on an R1? Or my new R50V? ...Yeah.
But for web-bound safari jpegs, it really not that different from a 1000D. Avoiding some technical mistakes I made would have made a much bigger difference.
What's more, I can process all these raws to HDR JXL photos. From a 2008 camera! Ironically, the internet hasn't even caught up to such ancient hardware (as CanonRumors won't let me upload any HDR files).
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Point I'm trying to make is, for stills, the volume of criticism for budget bodies like the R100 is definitely unwarranted.
Being a little cramped can be lived with on a budget. But on the other hand, the R10 does feel "neither here nor there." Not uber compact like the R50/R50V, yet not big enough to feel ergonomic like the R8/R7.
The R50V is a fantastic "carry around" stills camera, FYI. Even if I didn't shoot video, I wouldn't even think of trading it for an R50 or R10.
I would do unspeakable things for an R7V though. Shrink the R7, take away the EVF, keep the IBIS, and I'd be in heaven.
Makes me wanna go back to a Safari
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No idea, not even enough to speculate. I’ve seen a post blaming ‘the older hardware in the camera body’. Maybe? The R100 uses Digic 8 but so do the R and RP, and those work with the TCs and the 85L DS. However, there are probably different Digic 8 variants.
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I also trawled for the reason and only came across the same post. It's indeed a mystery.
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I assume there must be some technical reason for it, seems silly to restrict it otherwise. Bryan (TDP) suggests communication issues.
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Probably something related to autofocus and that "defocus smoothing" coating? As the R100 works with the 85mm 1.2 without the coating.
Look through Canon's supplemental info tables, and the R100 has uniquely limited AF on many lenses: https://cam.start.canon/en/H001/supplement_0110.html
That 85mm DS, specifically, also loses support for other autofocus-adjacent features, like DoF preview, that other lenses have.
Perhaps the DS coating "muddies" autofocus performance enough to break it on the R100. To avoid the (admittedly rare) scenario of someone trying the DS on the R100 and finding it's manual focus only, I'd wager Canon decided to exclude support entirely.
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Defocus smoothing should not affect autofocus. What it does affect is exposure metering at apertures wider than f/5.6, wide open the lens is f/1.2 but T/2.2. DS also makes DoF deeper at apertures wider than f/2…I expect that is why DOF preview is problematic.
Checking into it, I noticed that the other two Digic 8 R-series cameras (R and RP) required a firmware update to enable compatibility with the 85L DS, specifically to address proper metering with the lens. Thinking about the implications of that, I expect Canon decided it wasn’t worth the investment in a firmware update for the R100, given the presumably minuscule number of users who would pair that lens with that camera.
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