Canon’s subsequent full-frame mirrorless digicam guarantees to be its most succesful, highly effective mannequin but. In a improvement announcement immediately, the corporate teased a number of particulars on its forthcoming EOS R3, a mirrorless mannequin that is positioned between the EOS R5 and 1D X Mark III.
Particulars are a bit skinny, however that is anticipated with one of these information. It is a sign that the EOS R3 is able to exit into the arms of photographers for real-world testing.
We do know that the R3 is constructed to fulfill professional photographers. Its physique design contains an built-in vertical taking pictures grip, and Canon guarantees that its total construct high quality and weatherproofing are made to the identical requirements as its 1D collection. It is a digicam that photojournalists working in battle zones can depend on.
Inside there is a full-frame picture sensor, the primary that Canon has developed with a stacked BSI design. It guarantees very fast readout, adequate to seize pictures at 30fps with its totally digital shutter, with out fear of skew or different rolling shutter distortion artifacts.
The autofocus system from the EOS R5 continues right here. It leverages Canon’s Twin Pixel CMOS AF focus system, one which leverages clever face, eye, and topic recognition. It is already among the many greatest you may get in any digicam, and will solely enhance together with sooner sensor readout.
A brand new digital viewfinder is included. Canon is utilizing it to resurrect an historical, practically forgotten characteristic from its 35mm movie days—Eye Management AF. The digicam’s focus level will transfer together with the photographer’s eye. We’re wanting to see how effectively it really works—the Canon EOS ELAN 7ne movie SLR, from 2004, guarantees to do the identical factor. I occur to personal an ELAN 7ne, however I used to be by no means capable of get it to work with my eyeglasses. We’ll simply need to see how a lot Canon has been capable of enhance the tech within the interim.
We’ll know extra in regards to the R3 at a future date. There isn’t any doubt that Canon is working to get the digicam in arms of sports activities specialists overlaying the delayed Tokyo Olympics, now on schedule for this summer season.
New(ish) Tremendous Telephoto Lenses
The RF lens system is rising too. Two new entries are additionally sure to be Olympic darlings, however aren’t new lens designs. For its first tremendous telephoto primes, the RF 400mm F2.8 and RF 600mm F4, Canon is taking the optical formulation from the newest editions of its EF 400mm and EF 600mm and placing them in made-for-mirrorless housings. Each EF variations have been refreshed in late 2018.
The result’s a giant lens that is only a bit longer than the SLR model. If you happen to already personal both lens, there isn’t any purpose to improve, however you’ll be able to lighten your load by a number of grams versus utilizing the EF editions and a lens adapter collectively by choosing the native RF lenses.
Each primes help teleconverters, embrace 5.5-stop optical stabilization, and are protected against mud and splashes. They’re priced the identical because the EF variations—$11,999 for the RF 400mm F2.8 L IS USM and $12,999 for the RF 600mm F4 L IS USM—and can go on sale in July.
A Model New Macro
Canon can also be introducing a brand new macro lens for the EOS R system. The RF 100mm F2.8 L Macro IS USM options a completely distinctive optical design, so it is not fairly like macros for another digicam system.
The 100mm focal size is fairly typical, however the RF 100mm focuses nearer than different macros. Its most magnification score is 1.4:1, a formidable feat for a lens that may nonetheless focus to infinity.
It additionally contains optical stabilization, a plus for getting workable handheld outcomes at shut focusing distances. The IS system works along with cameras with in-body programs for as much as eight stops of correction. If you happen to use an EOS R or RP, fashions with out IBIS, you may get pleasure from as much as 5 stops of correction from the lens itself.
Most intriguing is the lens’s Spherical Aberration (SA) management ring. At its default, impartial place the SA ring attracts photos as you’d count on—with sharp particulars and tender, blurred backgrounds.
Rising the quantity of SA hardens backgrounds, netting the cleaning soap bubble bokeh impact that is drawn guide focus photographers to boutique manufacturers like Meyer Optik Görlitz. Dialing the SA down nets pictures with the a tender focus impact. We’re wanting to attempt it out for ourselves—it is a artistic instrument that you just cannot get with different digicam programs.
Canon guarantees to ship the RF 100mm F2.8 L Macro IS USM to clients in July for $1,399.