Which Canon EF-EOS-R?

I see the benefit of the control ring on the original R. On the R5, which has three controls already, I've never personally had a need and so I have never owned a control ring adapter (nor have I mapped the control ring to anything on my RF lenses). But that's just me. I shoot manual 99% of the time and so having the three controls is excellent, though.

I actually could imagine using the control ring on the R7 to have a dedicated control for ISO while shooting manual. But pressing the ISO button is, in my experience, not so bad. It's not like it's something people haven't done before.

For the filter adapters, they are all as good as one another (as I believe they all take the same filters). I have a Kolari one which came with a set of filters (CPL, VND, clear). I also use that adapter with a Breakthrough CPL filter. Having a universal filter for EF lenses (including ultrawides) is a major plus of the RF mount. Plus, I find it's so much easier to turn a wheel on the drop-in filter than to deal with the filter on the front of the lens (and removing or adjusting the hood if necessary). It has let me shoot with a CPL more often!

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Please no offense, but how should we guess your shooting needs, habits, preferences when you do not describe any of it? You should know best how you use your stuff and therefore which of these would suit you the best.

No offense taken, I just wanted to make the post short. I am an hobbyist, use to shot on EOS 7D now going to full frame with the R8.

I will keep my 7D and most of my EF lenses.

But sure I understand that you want to be inspired by other who might have bigger experience and that is of course very fair.

That's exactly that, benefit from other experience.

I have the basic adapter on every EF lens as a standard for most usual use. Plus I did buy the filter adapter with variable ND and polarizer filters since its use is moch more convenient with my lenses: my EF lenses have 3 different filter threads (77, 82 and 105mm) and one lens does not even have any filter thread (Sigma 14-24/2.8). Also operating especially the polarizer filter is MUCH easier on the adapter than on the lens with lens hood attached. For example with 70-200/2.8 it is near to impossible.

Yes, having one filter for all of them makes a lot of sense.

The basic adapters I bought are Canons, the filter adapter is from Meike. Its build quality is very equal to the Canon but is WAY cheaper and also its VND filter is a bit better quality (less color shift near max ND settings).

Good to know, I will look into this one.

And I never opted for the control ring adapter since I find the ring fully useless with my R6. In other words I can not find any suitable setting which I would need to transfer to the ring since I already have all important settings spread conveniently on the R6's buttons and dials.

Personnaly, I used to shot manually on my Leica R7 and M6, I am quite use to have a "ring" for aperture exactly there.

Here in Canada, the Canon EOS EF adapter are quite difficult to find, si when I preordered my R8, they had the one with the ring available, so I jumped into it.

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I've ended up with four adapters, but not entirely from choice! My first EOS R System body was the R5, which included a free adapter but it wasn't bundled, it was one of those that you had to apply for and wait for it to arrive. And wait. And wait. In the meantime a local bricks-and-mortar camera shop knew of my problem and was kind enough to contact me when they had a control ring adapter. All the EF-RF adapters were as rare as rocking horse poop at the time, so I grabbed it while I had the opportunity - I figured I might be glad to have two adapters, and to try out the control ring version. Three months later I finally had the plain adapter as well.

I did like the control ring adapter, and actually it had one advantage over the RF lenses' built-in control rings in that it was always in the same place. But as time went on I began to realise that I just wasn't using it. The R5 has three wheels so the control ring was a fourth that just wasn't needed. What had seemed like a great innovation back when I learned about it and tried it for the first time - at an EOS R launch event - had become surplus to requirements.

So the answer to your question, is that it depends which body you have. If it's one which doesn't have three wheels, the control ring is useful and possibly worth the extra cost. But if you have the R5 or any other which has three wheels, the plain adapter is honestly all that you need. It's interesting that Canon has now launched four RF mount big whites which have no control ring! The assumption must be that these lenses will only be used with high-end bodies, and that is probably true.

For the very small number of people who (a) noticed that I said I had four adapters, and (b) won't rest until they learn about the other two: the third was bundled with the R7, and that also took three months to arrive (because it was in the box with the R7 - which took three months to arrive...). The fourth is a drop-in filter adapter, the Meike one which I picked up recently and haven't had much chance to use. I'm hoping it will work really well with my EF 16-35/4L IS, but I don't think I would want it as my only adapter.

Great review !
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As an Hobbyist, I will begin my journey with Full Frame with the R8, and used to shot with 350D then 7D, I won't have all the control ring, so the one with the ring may be helpfull.

And as you, they seems to be quite rare here in Canada, so since the one with the ring was available when I preordered my R8, I jump into it,we will see.