Jumping off the fence

quiquae wrote:

After a month of staring blankly at the sky asking myself whether I really wanted a full frame mirrorless, I decided this afternoon that I'd be more productive if I just bought one and stopped daydreaming about it. So here we go.

They had the camera and the 35mm lens in stock, but the lens hood was not! The bastards!

With the sun setting rather quickly, I had to go shoot without even bothering to read the manual, so this is not a review, just a first impression:

As much as I like the EF 35mm IS, I think I'm going to sell it now that I have the RF version. The bokeh seems very nice.

Is it really the case that there is no magnification focus support for unchipped manual lenses? This shot with the Samyang 14mm F2.8 was a royal pain in the butt!

APS-C crop seems OK, to the extent that a 13Mpx crop is OK, but dusk was not a very good time to test it, since the noise level when cropped feels like a 13Mpx APS-C camera, too. (In retrospect, this should not surprise anyone.) I'll have to try this again some other time.

One thing is for sure, this is not something you can just pick up and expect to be an expert at in five minutes just because you have experience with an older Canon camera. You actually have to sit down with the manual and try to make sense out of it.

Congrats and lovely photos. I don't have an EOS R but focus peaking should be activated for manual focusing. That makes it very quick and easy.

Greg.