Looking at Canon EOS R kits

MikeJ9116 wrote:

KEG wrote:

MikeJ9116 wrote:

If I were you, and based on what you like to photograph, I recommend waiting a little while longer to see if Canon releases a RF mount APS-C camera. The RP and R are not good for moving targets and especially BIF. Their AF systems aren't up to the task and their burst rate is abysmal. The R6 has adequate AF and burst rate but its 20mp sensor means you will need longer, heavier, more expensive zoom lenses to get the reach you will need for a full frame camera. APS-C's 1.6x crop factor and pixel density would much better suit your needs and I expect Canon's first R system APS-C camera be basically be a R6 with an APS-C sensor and a lower price.

This Arctic Tern, it travels from the antartica to the countries around the nortern pole at the start of summer, a travel distance of over 30k kilometers or around 20k miles. It is one the fastest and most agile birds out there.

As you see it is actually flying and the image of course was taken with EOS RP.

Even a blind squirrel finds and acorn every once in a while. The problem with the RP, and R, is poor AF and a terribly slow burst rate (especially in servo mode) makes the keeper rate when shooting moving targets very low.

Thing is, both the R and the RP have as good or better AF than any camera Canon had released up until they were both released.  And that improved significantly with firmware updates.  Just because they aren’t on par with pro-level bodies doesn’t mean they have poor AF.  It’s not like the world never saw a sharp photo from Canon until the R5 and R6 were released.  They wouldn’t still be the top selling ILC camera company in the world for many years if that were the case.