Well, as expected and just like Nikon…Canon made a good camera that’s not exceptional and has some of the usual Canon quirks. I think the best part of this new Canon are the lenses and I hope Sony will take a note on that :)
Jared Polin:
TOny and Chelsea Northrup:
Photosku made this accurate size comparison between the new Canon EOS-R (specs here) and the Sony A7III. Indeed the new Canon is an entry-level FF camera and does not compete with the Sony A7rIII and A9 cameras:
– The Canon has a great articulating screen, great autofocus system (to be tested), more Megapixels and I expect better ergonomic and wather sealing too.
– The Sony is $300 cheaper, has two slots, real FF 4K (Canon has 1.6 crop), superior image quality (Canon uses same old 5DIV sensor), double the battery life, faster FPS rate and fully functional Eye-AF (Canon Eye-AF doesn’t work in continuous AF).
Canon finally announced their first Full Frame mirrorless Canon EOS-R camera (live coverage on CanonWatch). And unlike Nikon there seems to be some clear outstanding feature. For me this mainly the new autofocus system. It has over 5.000 points, works down to EF-6 and Canon claims it’s the fastest autofocus system of the world. This bundled together with their reliable Dual Pixel AF and the fully articulated screen makes it a killer camera for filmmakers and youtubers. It certainly will have a hard time to keep up with the Sony stills quality.
What we have to see if the real tests lives up to the hype. And first issue have been already reported by ThePhoBlographer:
In our very brief tests so far, I have to admit that the focusing on the Canon EOS R is very good. This statement applies to working with the native lenses and those adapted. With linear autofocus though, a few problems can occur.
Filmmkaer Phillip Bloom seems to be very disappointed:
For me this camera isn’t a revolution at all. Canon are playing catch up and with these specs they are far behind the competition, as in Sony and even the new Nikons.
I am going to sum up the PROS and CONS based on technical specs. Of course this list may change after factual tests:
Canon PROS:
– World’s fastest autofocus
– Full compatibility with existing EF lenses
– A cool adapter with drop-in filter (see this cool video by Caleb Pike)
– The new EOS-R lenses are focus by wire and have an extra customizable ring
– The new EOS-R lenses are stunning (50mm f/1.2 and 28-70mm f/2.0)
– It has 10 bit 4:2:2 output just like the Nikon Z
–$2299* for the body only. It will also be sold as a body-and-lens kit with the new RF 24-105mm F4 L IS USM lens for $3399*.
Canon CONS:
– lack of IBIS
– single slot card
– Low battery life: 350 shots
– The EOS R does have eye-AF but only S-AF. (info via Jordan Drake)
– It uses the same “Old” 30MP sensor from the 5D IV (with more phase detection pixels added)
– The cool lenses are expensive: RF 50mm f/1.2L at $2,299, the RF 28-70mm f/2L at $2,999
– Roadmap doesn’t disclose what lenses we can expect
– The dial on the left is just an ON-OFF button
– Canon will not be opening up the RF mount specs to third parties (info via Jordan Drake)
– No AF-C in continuous high drive (slower FPS compared to Sony cameras)
– Still a huge ass crop in 4K recording (1.7 crop). Looks the same as 5D IV. Heavy rolling shutter as well. (info via Jordan Drake)
– 1080p does 60fps and not 120fps
– 34 RAW buffer only
– no compatibility with their EOS-M lenses
Some more images from the camera and lenses.
We have some very good new Sony deals:
85mm f/1.4 GM for 1457 Euro at Amazon Spain.
Sony A7II for just 949 at Amazon Spain.
18-110mm G lens for 3039 Euro at Amazon France.
35mm f/1.8 E-mount lens for 299 pounds at Amazon UK.
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The Canon R and Nikon Z lens roadmap includes some lenses that are currently NOT available as a Sony E-mount version. So here is the question:
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Sony confirmed it will have a live press conference at 9.30am CET on Friday 14. Trusted sources told us Sony will announce a new PRO camcorder. They have no info yet about a possible E-mount announcement. We still don’t know if the Sony A7sIII will be announced on September 14 or if Sony will wait out the Canon-Nikon-Panasonic FF camera launch storm first.
The only reliable info I got about the Sony A7sIII so far is this:
Source 1 (with a track of sharing 5 correct rumors out of 6)
4K HDR 60P
The sensor is Exmor RS
The number of pixels is unknown.
Sony is nervous about information leakage, it is difficult to obtain detailed specifications.
But according to sources, the A7S III is amazing, it is really amazing.
Source 2 (with a track of sharing 4 correct rumors out of 4)
The sensor of a7sIII would be new stacked CMOS sensor with integral memory
which means a7sIII would have 4KHDR/60P.
The sensor is technically superior to a9/fs sensor.
