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A Year with EOS R

Started Dec 18, 2019 | Discussions thread
MikeB_2018 Contributing Member • Posts: 574
Re: A Year with EOS R
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Nice images.  I too have had my R for about a year.  I have to say that for all the negatives some people have ascribed to it, (I think mostly due to having to make some adjustments to how we shoot, and yes, the mostly unusable Multi-function bar), I have really come to love using this camera.  And, it has re-lit a passion in photography for me.  The new RF lenses are incredible.  The articulating screen is very useful for me as I get older.  And, the Eye-AF is a blessing.

I came from 1dsm3, 5dm3 and 5dm4 and while I still use and love those cameras, I have found myself using the R about 80% of my shooting with the 5dm4 for about 15% (mostly with my 400 and 600mm lenses for wildlife) and the 5dm3 and 1dsm3 only about 5% of the time.  Most likely selling those off along with a lot of my EF lenses as I now have 5 R lenses and still getting one or two more soon.

It's also the camera that kept me from going to Sony.  When I held the Sony A7RIII and A9 with battery grips I couldn't get a comfortable grip. Even with the battery grip added putting on a 70-200 f/4 zoom would pinch my middle finger so badly that I couldn't even get a purchase on the grip without sliding my fingers down from the top over the grip.  And within minutes the lens pinched it so bad it was terribly uncomfortable.

The R, while still smaller and less comfortable to grip than my DSLRs was infinitely more comfortable than the Sony cameras.  So the R really was a great camera at the right time.  I do hope Canon will make a higher MP, dual card, IBIS version that is a bit more on the pro side, but the R is so good I bought a second as I shift over to mostly all RF lenses.

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