R50 Random Thoughts

[RLight]

As you have both the R3 and the R50, I have a question to you. Can Highlight tone priority and auto lighting optimizer be used at the same time with R50? Can R3 do that?

Yes. And I recommend it.

I returned the R50 though. Lackluster lens offerings kills it for me. Canon won’t fix it either. I’m pretty optimistic with Canon so that’s big talk from yours truly to give up hope there.

Canon doesn’t want the RF-S competing with RF…

 

[justmeMN]

Canon doesn’t want the RF-S competing with RF…

Couldn't Canon make compact, affordable, RF (no S) lenses that are appropriate for both FF and APS-C?

They plan on releasing 7-8 new lenses per year. It will be interesting to see how the system develops.

 

[Ali]

Canon doesn’t want the RF-S competing with RF…

Couldn't Canon make compact, affordable, RF (no S) lenses that are appropriate for both FF and APS-C?

They can, and they have a few already, but those lenses would still be unnecessarily large and heavy for APS-C cameras, defeating the purpose if goal was to have a small, light setup.

The EF-M 32mm f1.4 remains the benchmark for me. I’d love to pair my R50 with RF-S version of that.

They plan on releasing 7-8 new lenses per year. It will be interesting to see how the system develops.

 

[RLight]

Canon doesn’t want the RF-S competing with RF…

Couldn't Canon make compact, affordable, RF (no S) lenses that are appropriate for both FF and APS-C?

They plan on releasing 7-8 new lenses per year. It will be interesting to see how the system develops.

Of course they could. They won’t repeat the mistake of the M competing with the R… Why would they give up margins? They won’t is the answer.

 

[RLight]

Canon doesn’t want the RF-S competing with RF…

Couldn't Canon make compact, affordable, RF (no S) lenses that are appropriate for both FF and APS-C?

They can, and they have a few already, but those lenses would still be unnecessarily large and heavy for APS-C cameras, defeating the purpose if goal was to have a small, light setup.

The EF-M 32mm f1.4 remains the benchmark for me. I’d love to pair my R50 with RF-S version of that.

That’s precisely the sort of lens Canon wishes they never released. Trust me. They’ll never make that for RF-S. Ever. They already made the RF 35 after all… Why would they make yet another 35mm-ish for around 400-500 for just RF-S users? They won’t.

When you put yourself in Canons shoes for 2 seconds, it’s easy to see RF-S glass is a dead end street. You as the consumer just don’t know it, you’re just imaging a construction sign that ain’t there. Even Nikon has a roadmap. Canon promises nothing here. And I’d bet nothing too. In fact, I did rebuying M.

Here’s Canon roadmap for RF-S glass in fact…

4 RF Prime Lenses to Use with Your APS-C Camera

Like the R50 replacing the M50, they did tell you so. Posted that one too a few months ago…

They plan on releasing 7-8 new lenses per year. It will be interesting to see how the system develops.

 

[KLO82]

Canon doesn’t want the RF-S competing with RF…

Couldn't Canon make compact, affordable, RF (no S) lenses that are appropriate for both FF and APS-C?

They can, and they have a few already, but those lenses would still be unnecessarily large and heavy for APS-C cameras, defeating the purpose if goal was to have a small, light setup.

The EF-M 32mm f1.4 remains the benchmark for me. I’d love to pair my R50 with RF-S version of that.

That’s precisely the sort of lens Canon wishes they never released. Trust me. They’ll never make that for RF-S. Ever. They already made the RF 35 after all… Why would they make yet another 35mm-ish for around 400-500 for just RF-S users? They won’t.

When you put yourself in Canons shoes for 2 seconds, it’s easy to see RF-S glass is a dead end street. You as the consumer just don’t know it, you’re just imaging a construction sign that ain’t there. Even Nikon has a roadmap. Canon promises nothing here. And I’d bet nothing too. In fact, I did rebuying M.

Here’s Canon roadmap for RF-S glass in fact…

https://snapshot.canon-asia.com/article/eng/4-rf-prime-lenses-to-use-with-your-aps-c-camera
Like the R50 replacing the M50, they did tell you so. Posted that one too a few months ago…

They plan on releasing 7-8 new lenses per year. It will be interesting to see how the system develops.

It seems to me that if someone is serious about their APS-C setup, they should use Fuji. The first hint that Canon deliberately criddled their APS-C format ? That 1.6 crop factor, instead of the more commonly used 1.5. They tried to make it small enough so that it is much harder to replace the FF setup using their crop setup.

 

[KLO82]

As you have both the R3 and the R50, I have a question to you. Can Highlight tone priority and auto lighting optimizer be used at the same time with R50? Can R3 do that?

Yes. And I recommend it.

From DPP manual

It's weird that you can't do it with R5 or R6, whereas with some old cameras like 5DII !