R for Landscapes

thanks everyone for the posts really appreciate it! I'm taking it as the R being more than acceptable for landscape - the posts and pictures show that. Some quirks certainly but most camera's have compromises. Lower dynamic range was one concern but as no one has mentioned that I'm assuming it not an issue.

Now what lens to buy :)

thanks all
Unfortunately, the ultimate landscape lenses are still to be announced:

- RF 14-28 f/2

- RF 24 f/1.2

Excellent and available:

- Sigma Art 28 f/1.4
 
Well, I would say it works quite nicely...😊

The only complaint I have is a continued one with all Canon mirrorless cameras that feature an EVF: The way the swapping between the LCD and the EVF works.

Mapping a button to enable manual swapping is a limp solution and the sensor for the auto-swapping is way too sensitive making it a struggle not to blackout the LCD inadvertently while making selections on it.















PK
Nice work, and on your website too.
Thanks! :)
I have never used the rear display much on a DSLR other than for an image review and an occasional change of settings that could not be done any other way. On the R, I do not use it at all, and use the EVF exclusively. Then there are no issues with switching between the display and the EVF, and I seem to be able to do everything in the viewfinder. It almost burnt me once when I wanted to upgrade the firmware, looking as usual into the viewfinder. After starting the process, the EVF froze up. I thought I had bricked the camera, but then it occurred to me to open the rear display and the instructions continued there. I was relieved.:)
Now, that's a scare, right there...

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thanks everyone for the posts really appreciate it! I'm taking it as the R being more than acceptable for landscape - the posts and pictures show that. Some quirks certainly but most camera's have compromises. Lower dynamic range was one concern but as no one has mentioned that I'm assuming it not an issue.

Now what lens to buy :)

thanks all
Unfortunately, the ultimate landscape lenses are still to be announced:

- RF 14-28 f/2

- RF 24 f/1.2

Excellent and available:

- Sigma Art 28 f/1.4
Why would you need such bright lenses for landscapes? If this is for the night sky, take a good picture of it once, and then cut&paste into every other shot. It will save you a lot of money and weight.:)
 
The R is not, in any way, the best body (by objective measures) at... well, anything. It doesn't have to be for someone to make incredible content, or be happy with the product. It's a really good little camera, that's a joy to use, and can produce professional level output.

That said, I just had a buddy of mine ask me if he should buy the R or wait for the new body, and my advice was that if he could spend 4k on a body, and wait until Summer, he'd probably be MUCH happier with waiting.
I absolutely agree. But for people like me, who do not want to spend 4k on a body, the R is perfectly fine for the time being. I plan to hold on to it for another year or two and then we heopefully have better visibilty of the Canon RF body line-up. If they came out with an R mk2, or if the rumored R6 were a bit like that, I would definitey make that purchase. Meanwhile, I'm saving for the rumored 10-24 f/4.
 
RP. Pano from Dolomites, Italy.



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thanks everyone for the posts really appreciate it! I'm taking it as the R being more than acceptable for landscape - the posts and pictures show that. Some quirks certainly but most camera's have compromises. Lower dynamic range was one concern but as no one has mentioned that I'm assuming it not an issue.

Now what lens to buy :)

thanks all
Unfortunately, the ultimate landscape lenses are still to be announced:

- RF 14-28 f/2

- RF 24 f/1.2

Excellent and available:

- Sigma Art 28 f/1.4
Why would you need such bright lenses for landscapes? If this is for the night sky, take a good picture of it once, and then cut&paste into every other shot. It will save you a lot of money and weight.:)
I do lots of landscapes at blue hour or night astro landscape.

And no, I am not using your technique ...
 
I use my R almost exclusively for landscapes and, in general, it is excellent at that task.

I'm on record here as someone who dislikes the EOS R quite strongly. It has many faults, some of them very serious, ranging from horrible user interface design and ergonomics, through lousy battery life, to substandard viewfinder and unreliable, imprecise focus system. My R doesn't get to do anything focus-challenging (i.e., birds and wildlife) because it cannot be relied on to grab a precise focus point and lock on to it, nor anything time-critical because it is slow and awkward and fiddly to operate. So for all those more challenging tasks, the R stays in the bag and I use the 5D IV, the 7D, or the 1D IV - all three are far superior.

Landscapes, however, are another matter. Time is generally not an issue (you can spend as long as it takes fiddling around with the R's cramped and clumsy settings); you seldom or never need to focus on a single precise point (like a bird's eye for example); and you often need to focus on an area which isn't under one of the small number of fixed AF points an SLR has - somewhere way down in the bottom left corner, maybe. With the R, you don't have to focus and recompose, you can just pick the AF area you want, no matter where in the composition that happens to be.

The R also delivers outstanding picture quality, with a richness that is ideally suited to landscape work. I know it is more-or-less the same sensor as the 5D IV, and in theory the results should be identical, but I can't escape the suspicion that that R delivers something even better than the already excellent 5D IV does. It's subtle, and maybe it's just my imagination, but I really like the way the R reproduces landscapes.

Awful controls aside (and we can live with them, I've used worse - though to be fair, not in the last 12 or 13 years since I sold the 400D), the biggest problem landscaping with the R is the EVF. It is very hard to adjust to not being able to see the subject properly. In good light it's not too much of an issue, but if you are out early or late, when the sun is low and there are interesting lighting effects going on, the R's EVF copes very badly. Strong sidelight is particularly difficult. Sometimes (in difficult light) I get tired of photographing blind and swap the R out for the 5D IV or even the 5D II for a little while until the sun gets higher.

At any time, but especially in awkward light, you have to learn to do all your composition with the naked eye, only looking through the viewfinder when you have decided exactly what will be in the frame and what won't be. (Contrast with an SLR, where you can look through the VF knowing only roughly what you want, and settle on your final composition in camera.)

I should also mention the dreadful electronic level. (What were they thinking?) Not only is it unreliable (much less accurate than the electronic levels in my various other Canon cameras, including even the tiny little Powershot G9X II), it also covers practically the whole screen, making it hard to see and frame your subject. Why? It was an insane design decision. I keep expecting them to fix in in a firmware revision but they have done nothing. Oh, and there is another gotcha - the electronic level doesn't work at all unless you first disable eye-controlled focus. (Watchout! They don't make that clear in the manual.)

I haven't mentioned using the rear screen. I practically never do that, so I'll leave comment on it to someone who has experience with it.

TLDR: The R is a deeply flawed product, however landscaping is one area where it performs very well. All things considered, it's the second-best landscaping camera I own, after the 5D IV. It is reasonable to expect from what we know already that the new R5 will be an outstanding landscape camera. I would give serious thought to waiting for that one.
Apparently I like R more than you. I have also 7d2, and when I'm going to shoot static birds or ice hockey, I always use R instead of 7d2. R's AF does also pretty good with BIF, but EVF makes it harder to track fast flying birds. I get less pics with R (5fps vs 10 fps), but I get more sharp pics with R. And those sharp 7d2 pics are not as sharp as sharp R pics. Yes I have done MFA with 7d2. Cannot wait R7 or R5 to replace 7d2... And yes R is absolutely the best landscape and portrait camera I have ever owned.
It's.... it's a good overall camera. It's not great, let's not get into hyperbole. When I switched from Sony I did miss the extra little bit of DR, and I have noticed some banding issues with exposures pushing the lower limit (which is an area I like to dabble in).

I dumped Sony for Canon because I love using my R, and I believe in Canon and the future of the system, and while your statement that it's the best landscape/portrait camera you've ever owned is valid, because it's your experience, let's not get carried away.

The R is not, in any way, the best body (by objective measures) at... well, anything. It doesn't have to be for someone to make incredible content, or be happy with the product. It's a really good little camera, that's a joy to use, and can produce professional level output.

That said, I just had a buddy of mine ask me if he should buy the R or wait for the new body, and my advice was that if he could spend 4k on a body, and wait until Summer, he'd probably be MUCH happier with waiting.
Yes, I'm not saying R is the best camera in the market. Sure Sony A7R4 is propably better for landscapes, especially if doing large prints. (I haven't used it.) And R has its faults, too, especially in fast situations (slow wake-up time from sleep, slow fps, slow EVF for very fast objects). But AF is pretty good, and I get better IQ than 5d3 or 7d2 gave me in many situations, such as landscapes, portraits, static birds, in some situation also BIF. In the past, I paid more from 5d3 than from R, and I find R overall better camera than 5d3 was. So my opinion is that R is very good camera for the price today.
 
Some great pictures in here but most seem to be portraits/lifestyle shots. Is anyone using their R for landscapes?How do you find it? any issues and would you mind sharing some examples. Does anyone have any direct experience between an R and a Nikon/Sony.

thanks in advance.
For me the Eos R is very good for landscapes.

Here is an example made with the RF 24-105.





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Works for me. Not a landscape bit still.

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