10 years jump forward, to EOS R

Tiikoni wrote:

I finally replaced my old 7D with new camera and went to mirrorless since it seems to be the future now. I've been using this camera few weeks now.

First of all, love it that all my old EF and also one EF-S lens works with adapter without any problems. As well as old camera's batteries. ISO ranges took quite a leap, I can finally use less flashlight.

Missing shooting mode dial button felt terrible first, but new Mode button/dial turned out to be pretty good. Still feeling though that swapping between photo and video modes could be for example part of power button (Off-Photo-Video) since they are very separate modes anyway.

There's still some minor weird things, like if camera is in power saving mode and I press Menu, camera wakes up but goes to shooting mode instead of menu. (If I press Play, camera wakes up and goes to play mode as expected. 7D went nicely also to menu after waking up.) And why I can't customize Lock button, only button I feel is completely useless. But I can live with these

Still one thing annoys me enormously. There doesn't seem to be way to disable Image Review from viewfinder? Super annoying that after taking a shot, live view is interrupted with review of shot just taken. I feel that viewfinder should always show the live view when in shooting mode. I've now actually turned off whole Image review, even this means I have to press Play every time I want to have a quick look how previous photo looked like. That is still less problem than viewfinder that "freezes" showing near-live-but-not-quite-live view in middle of taking photos. I know I could cancel the review by half pressing shutter button after taking a shot, but it would be in muscle memory in no time and it cancels the review from back display also, so it is same as keeping it off in first place.

I really hope that some firmware update solves this, for example have option to show review only in back display. Or have someone found workaround, or am I just only one in first place who doesn't like review in viewfinder?

Hi Tiikoni,

I believe the 'momentary review' you're seeing is a mirrorless thing (apart from the Sony A9 - which I gather doesn't have this), in that you either get a full blackout, or a review of what you've shot unless, as you've found, you keep your finger half pressing the shutter button.

(I understand Canon chose to give users the momentary review over a brief full blackout).

There is a thread on it Here . I don't think this can be resolved through a firmware update and this is one of the main reasons why some people prefer to have optical viewfinders.

Phil