JurijTurnsek

The EOS R full-frame mirrorless camera will be available in October, 2018 for $2,299, or $3,399 with the RF 24-105 F4 L IS lens. The EF-M 32mm f/1.4 STM will cost $500 and arrive in September, the RF 50mm f/1.2 L will cost $2,299 when it arrives in October 2018, the RF 28-70mm f/2 lens will cost $2,999 and come to stores by December 2018. The RF24-105 F/4 L IS USM lens will cost $1,099 and hit stores in December, 2018.

Does anyone really believe the rumored $1900 price? Why would they not price it the same as 5D MKIV?

I am still firm APS-C believer - best compromise between size, IQ, price and DOF capabilities. FF is just too expensive and too big. All these FF rumors have me wondering, who has the money for this stuff (professionals aside)? Hopefully, Sony and Fuji will keep the flame alive and Sony won't just focus everything on their FF efforts.

Go to DXOMark website and look at T stop ratings for f1.2 and f1.4 lenses and be amazed at the marketing mumbo jumbo. Also, what good is light if it is almost completely OOF? Lens designs have matured to the point that most high end primes are excellent wide open. No more stopping down that f1.2 lens to get decent sharpness etc.

Why oh why did Canon announce the 85mm f1.4? Because that is fast enough. Just make it usable (or excellent even) wide open. I had their 50mm f1.4 and it was not stellar at all, so IMO f1.2 was the only real choice for PROs. I would bet that Canon will replace the current 50mm f1.2 with a f1.4 excellent wide-open. Judging by the forums, videographers and astrography are two of the most common use-cases for most DSLR, which is ridicules of course (they are loud, though). Astro can be done with super fast manual exotic primes from less known manufacturers and it would be stupid for Canon to cater to these niche needs (make lenses needlessly huge and expensive). Same could be said for pre-DPAF videography, when manual focus was king. If you need no focus breathing, parfocal lenses, you will not haul these huge, expensive lenses around, when using your gear causally and Canon will gladly sell you some photo lenses as well. This super fast primes is just a nice buzzword for headlines at launch. They will be negligible once the new mount lens line-up matures.

I cannot be bothered to look for any statistics, but I doubt Nikon or anyone else for that matter lost any sales, because they didn't sell f1.2 or f0.95 AF lenses. These are such niche products, it's ridicules. DOF is simply to shallow to be used often and f1.4 is very comparable.

If 4K has DPAF and no crop, this thing will destroy Sony/Nikon sales, no doubt. And because it is Canon, 3rd party lens producers will all speed up development of lenses for it. We all know Canon can do it (though the mount is still a mystery), but hasn't done it so far, because they are very careful at cannibalizing their existing models.

I read somewhere that you can power it using a power bank, so the 15min limit is moot. And with a power bank, overheating is far less likely, even in a small body like this.

I am not seeing the same water-resistance as D850 in the press release? Drip resistance could be used to describe the a7 series as well.

Congrats to Nikon for bringing so much new tech (for their cameras) in the first generation and for publishing the lens roadmap. It is not perfect, but it is very competitive. I wonder what the product cycle will be, since they are now competing with Sony's fast release schedule.

Here's an idea that is already plausible: make the entire back a huge screen (think Samsung NX Galaxy), that is tilted out like the Sony a99mkII and a slew of differently textured buttons underneath (so you can distinguish them by touch) - when the screen is tucked in place, all controls are available with touchscreen controls. Massive battery drain, though.

Any environmentalist worth his/her salt would immediately point out to his dislike of public transportation. His vision is the same car-centric gridlocked cities, but with electric vehicles. So, I wish him a lot of success, but the is not a true visionary, just a capitalist that is driving the current trends. He also has made some ridicules comments regarding media, which is worrisome. Tesla is a bit like Sony - very innovative, but once the established forces pick up on the tech, they will drown it out simply with their manufacturing might and retail presence.

Smartphone innovation will be up soon - only with dedicated sensor/lens components can you have a FF eqiv. 18mm/12mpx, 35mm/12mpx and a 50mm/48mpx for a 100mm lossless zoom in daylight. Triple lens smartphones are rumored to be unveiled as the next flagships from Apple, Samsung S10 and LG V40. You know that at least LG is putting some king of HDR video mode in and that they will all do 4K60p, with OIS this time, hopefully. I never really got the appeal of the Note series - the big screen was it for a year or two, but these days big phones are everywhere and cheap.

If you ever done a trick on a skateboard, timing is everything. A single flatground trick lasts less that a second and the duration of the clip. The degraded IQ (zoomed in?) and Ty Evans' general affliction of all new gear, I would imagine he used a Phantom camera. Spinning that beast with exactly the same speed as the skateboard, triggering the spin at the exact same moment (we are talking miliseconds here), while nailing the manual focus seems highly improbably. There is the 1% chance it was done this way, just because a professional skateboarder would be able to a few hundred takes with such a basic trick if needed.

What is Nikon's strong-point anyway? DSLR AF was second to none, but without the prism (video AF) it has been abysmal. Have they ported the Nikon 1 AF to a FF sensor? Simply copying Sony with a bigger grip and similar performance? I guess it will add legitimacy to mirrorless as a professional tool. And they better come out swinging with a no-compromise adapter for their current mounts.

Maybe that is why Sony smartphones are the last to have adopted a duel lens design .... Smartphone manufacturers are increasingly scared to innovate and instead churn out a million models that differ by just a few dollars. Meanwhile, a triple (or four) lens flagship could offer FF equivalent 18-24-50-75mm primes that zoom computationally ... or even put in a periscope zoom for some telephoto reach and cover the wide angle with a dedicated prime or two. Sensors are cheap, flagships are huge, there's space to squeeze some more in.

The RX100 naming scheme is unfortunate, since the average affluent consumer (which is target market) would be very confused if the VII was an upgraded V lens design and no the continuation of this new lens. Same goes for RX10 - they could've evolved the camera with the original lens (24-200) and kept the super-zoom lens a separate line, each with different intended markets. Just make it a 2 year cycle for both lens designs, since 1" sensors are not really seeing much progress each year anyway.

Man, some of you are prepared to jump through a lot of hoops just to get that Canon color in 4K. It's 2018, it shouldn't be that hard, don't you loyalist think?

Yes, of course. I was just refuting the claim that the a7 series were overheating, which they haven't since the second generation. So the third generation of a7S should be more than capable of recording longer clips and the limit could be removed.

Time to google results with the 30min limit removed then. I seem to remember people had some impressive running times.

But the meager 3% and 7% tariffs shouldn't be an excuse to limit a7SIII to 30 minutes ... it makes more sense for the "budget" a7III variation. Or they could at least offer a paid FW upgrade for the few that absolutely need it.

Yeah, I really hoped Sony would come up with an RX smartphone, but no luck. Hopefully, the dual-camera module in the announced XZ2 Premium can live up to the announced capabilities (Sony's smartphones have a bad track-record): https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_xz2_premium-9166.php I believe that announcement was the last nail in the 1" sensor smartphone coffin from Sony.

CIPA sales numbers only show a slow rise in mirrorless sales, but they do not show the huge Canon/Nikon base of users not buying anything new and that would buy a mirrorless body only from their preferred brand no matter the features. Migration to Sony will slow down to a crawl, I'm afraid. Sony would more a more affordable lens line, but even then the retail presence of Canikon will be hard to beat. I mean, what good is innovation when an average customer will believe the marketing more. And marketing can claim anything they want and a strong brand reputation will seal the deal.

I fail to see how this is different from any technology advance in history. Why does it warrant an announcement or anything? Of course CPUs will get faster, sensor-readouts as well and 8K will get propagated down the price brackets in the following years ... as for PRO content creators - we have reached the era of perfecting 4K capture, just as 1080p was being perfected years after it first became available.

If any of the rumored specs would be true, they would begin with the mount and none have. These are just wish-lists.