Avenger 2.0

22 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

Panasonic themselves may have little to do with it (other than the cash back) as Amazon is full of re-sellers.

Maybe it’s them with the temporary amazeballs deals?

Seller/Shipping was both Amazon. Cashback refund to Amazon account after 30 days.

Lowest I found was for €1779 with a €400 cashback voucher on Amazon.de (so only €1379 new!)
Unfortunately the price has changed now, but might change back tomorrow or this weekend.

35 minutes ago, Andrew Reid said:

Can you shoot video in Aperture priority mode on this one?

🙂

Yes you can 😀 And finally custom modes on the dial for video are also separate. 

But the usual cripple like custom WB picture, disappearing histogram (after recording), etc are still there.  

Nice upgrade if you do hybrid work.

Hopefully some of the new video features come to the R7 with a firmware update or maybe Canon just releases the R7II next year 🤑

Don't know about that R8. The rumor specs were too good to be true. Why would it have 30mpix sensor and dual card slot and ibis? Would not make much business sense.

6 hours ago, Kisaha said:

I heard a rumor that..

Canon R6 Mark II Leaked Specification

The Canon R6 will use the same stacked sensor we have seen in the Canon R3 camera. The camera announcement is expected first half of 2023.

Nowhere in the rumors it says it will have a stacked sensor. People just hope it does... But we all know Canon...

18 hours ago, markr041 said:

R7 with Viltrox Speedbooster and the Ef 24-70 f4 lens at night.

Does the IBIS work with the Viltrox speedbooster on the R7?

Nice, does he share the cad's or stl's?

3 hours ago, BTM_Pix said:

It will be interesting to see if this also applies to the Viltrox speed boosters and if so will Canon go after Metabones with the same vigour.

It could well be that the contention here from Canon is more related to alleged theft/cloning by Viltrox than it is about reverse engineering.

Since the Metabones is more expensive then the Canon one, I doubt it. The Viltrox speedbooster has already been pulled from their site.

Makes me wonder what Blackmagic will do with their next cameras. Guess a RF mount is out of the question now and an EF mount is a dead end in the long run. Would personally love to see a 6k with MFT mount.

1 hour ago, Django said:

Yeah I'm still pretty upset the R6 didn't get any kind of overheating fix but at least R5 seems like a solid option now.

Indeed, but I guess the R6 is just too cheap so to protect the R5 sales, they will not fix the overheating. Still surprised they didn't limit the R6 to 1 sd card and max 1/4000 shutter like the 6D series.

7 hours ago, Kisaha said:

So, it overheats then?

Only when using Atomos recorder it seems. Another firmware bug likely.

The big question is, how will this affect camera life? Once bought a second hand 70D with low shutter, that failed quickly with a faulty motherboard (was used a lot for video).

6 hours ago, FHDcrew said:

Good idea. I don’t see any NPF330 batteries. Any tiny batteries that might work?  Smaller than the NPF 550?  Could it be possible to power the monitor with the camera battery?  I know battery life would be poor, but things would be light. 

I have some old Sony NP-F to LP-E6 battery adaptors (from my Atomos Ninja 2) to use Canon batteries on the Atomos (and they also fit the Ninja V), but I'm unable to find them on Aliexpress at the moment.

Did some pro/cons for myself after watching some video's as I'm thinking of getting the R7 for photo/video combo.

Pro:
- 32 MP sensor and good low light for an APS-C
- Dual SD (backup recording also for video), R3 level autofocus
- Multi-function Hotshoe (Tascam CA-XLR2d, etc)
- Canon/Viltrox speedbooster (0,71x) & VND adapter works

Cons:
- No ALL-I, but only IPB / IPB-light
- No battery grip possible (as body is smaller then 2 batteries)
- Only 2 control wheels, not 3 like R5/R6, no top LCD
- Build quality / weather sealing not like 7D-series, more like XXD-series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agTLsPoIYis

The low light performance looks really nice 😎

Indeed, you can forget any continues autofocus for video in challenging conditions (low light, backlit, etc).
The main reason I'm not investing into the GH6 or S1/S5 at the moment. Already enough MFT glass that might become worthless if Panasonic doesn't get their AF shit together in the next camera releases.

With the upcoming R7 now, they may loose whatever advantage they still had.

1 hour ago, tupp said:

Yet another Blackmagic Super35/APS-C camera with an EF mount...

Indeed, still waiting for that G2 BMPCC4K...

Nice, let's call it OBIS (Out-body image stabilization) 😎

4 hours ago, Kisaha said:

I found locally the EF to RF ND adapter for 430€, are there any other brands offering something similar? Isn't that too much?!

I have decided I will go to RF soon, maybe crop (sweet spot for me), maybe full frame (I am not a huge fun). I have a lot of EF glass too, and maybe a couple of the cheap primes will do for now..

I got the Meike EF-RF ND adapter (Meike MK-EFTR-C) which costs €159 / $159.

Got some cheap manual Chinese EF primes (35mm f2, 50mm f1.4, 85mm f1.8) for about €100 a piece that were super easy to declick.

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In the standard profiles, the R7 encodes video in 4:2:0 8-bit using H.264, but it also supports C-Log 3 and HDR-PQ which encode in 4:2:2 10 bit using H.265 HEVC and at slightly higher bit rates.

So if I understand correctly, you can still do 8-bit 4:2:0 using h.264 in all modes except when you enable C-Log 3 or HDR-PQ. While it is nice to have 10-bit 4:2:2 using h.265, will definitely need a new laptop/desktop with hardware support before I'll be using it.

4 hours ago, herein2020 said:

I am also concerned about the quality of the camera body. I was very disappointed in the R6, my R5 still doesn't come close to the workhorse build of my 5DIV, so I can only imagine what the body of the R7 will feel like. Panasonic of course is still cranking out magnesium bodies like the S5 but even that felt like a step down from the GH5.

The build quality will indeed be a downgrade when you compare Canon mirrorless to DSLR. While not as bad as Sony, Panasonic has certainly a better and more quality feel. Somehow all Canon mirrorless feel like Rebel series now 😆

Actually the R7 4k crop mode has an advantage, the Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 would become a ff eq. 28-100mm lens 😎

On 6/8/2022 at 8:51 PM, herein2020 said:

I haven't read much about the R7, but with the R7 and possibly the speedbooster that @Avenger 2.0 mentioned, the R7 could actually be the perfect camera for your needs. From what I have read about the R7 it is going to be a real video and photography powerhouse (32MP sensor, R3's AF capabilities, 7 stops of IBIS, no 30min video record limit, 7K oversampled 4K, dual card slots, etc), I might even get one and use it as a dedicated C70 b-cam at some point; of course paper specs mean nothing, overheating, DR, ISO performance, etc will determine if it is all paper specs or real specs.

The only thing I'm afraid of is low noise performance in any mode except the fine 4k (that has potential overheating).
Since line skipping or crop mode will effectively only use a 2,9x 'crop portion' of the sensor (line skipping doesn't have a crop, but only uses as much lines as the crop mode does).

So in that regard the low noise of M43 2x crop might even be better than the R7 modes that have a 2,9x crop.

9 hours ago, herein2020 said:

Funny enough, if the R7 does not overheat, the R7 with FF lenses might actually be the perfect hybrid camera; to me it is very similar to the S5 but with way better AF but lacking all of the excellent S5 video assist tools.

And Viltrox already has a speedbooster for it to use your fullframe EF lenses (originally designed for the crop R and C70)