There were rumors that Canon will introduce their version of mirrorles full frame camera at the Photokina fair this year. Obviously, Nikon’s early announcement of its mirrorless models last week has forced Canon to put a “leak” through Nokishita, keeping a foot to the doors of very lucrative new market segment…
Unlike Nikon, Canon has leaked only one model, Named Canon EOS R, and Nokishita even leaked 15 pages of specs…
The main difference — it seems there will be NO in-body image stabilization in this model. Canon obviously stays firm to their philosophy that lenses should be stabilized, and not the body.
Thanks to Nokishita, we also have a back side photo which reveals interesting new control point — Customizable M-Fn Bar (marked with red line). According to the spec list, it should allow four types of actions — left, right, slide and press completely. In Shooting mode it can be assigned for control of ISO speed, White balance, Check focus/Display info, Movie shooting, Flexible-priority AE, AF, and User customization.
In Playback mode it serves as Function shortcut and Jump display.
Lenses and adapters
Canon has also prepared four RF lenses and three adapters, which will allow use of all EF and EF-s (with crop) lenses. So far, there’s no word about possible EF-m adapter. All of new RF lenses has one more control ring which will probably be programmable.
Lenses:
Canon RF 28-70mm F/2L USM
Canon RF 50mm F/1.2L USM
Canon RF 35mm F/1.8 Macro IS STM
Canon RF 24-105mm F/4L IS USM
Three adapters: -- Mount adapter EF–EOS R -- Control ring mount adapter EF–EOS R -- Drop-in filter mount adapter EF–EOS R”
The surpise is unique Canon RF 28-70mm F/2L USM, which have Canon’s L-designation for professional quality (and price).
Let’s see quick comparison of a new Canon R against the two recently announced Nikons:
Canon EOS R
Nikon Z6
Nikon Z7
Mount
Canon RF
Nikon Z
Nikon Z
Diameter
54mm
55mm
55mm
Flange
20mm
16mm
16mm
Sensor
FF (Canon CMOS with low pass filter)
FF (Nikon)
FF (Nikon)
MAX Resolution
6720 x 4480 (30.3 MP)
6048x4024 (24.5 MP)
8256x5504 (45.7 MP)
AF points
5655
273
493
In body IS
No
Yes, 5-axis
Yes, 5-axis
ISO standard
100-40000
100-51200
64-25600
ISO expanded
50-102400
50-204800
32-102400
FPS
8.4
12
9
Shutter speed
1/8000s-30s
1/8000s-30s
1/8000s-30s
Recording medium
SD/SDHC/SDXC
XQD card
XQD card
Display
TFT LCD fully articulated
TFT LCD tilting
TFT LCD tilting
Touchscreen
Yes
Yes
Yes
Format
3.15"
3.2"
3.2"
Resolution
2.10 MP
3.6 MP
3.6 MP
Video
4K/UHD
4K/UHD
4K/UHD
4K Framerate
30 fps
30 fps
30 fps
Wireless (Built-in)
802.11b/g/n + Bluetooth
802.11ac + Bluetooth
802.11ac + Bluetooth
Battery Pack
LP-E6N
EN-EL15b
EN-EL15b
Battery Life
370
330
330
Weight
660 gr
675 gr
675 gr
Dimensions
135.8x98.3x84.4 mm
134x100.5x67 mm
134x100.5x67 mm
At the end of our short preview, there is one more observation: from the photos leaked by Nokishita, it seems like Canon has again made wrong choice with ON-OFF dial, making it to the most atrocious position, but we shall wait to see it after the official announcement, scheduled for September 5th, so stay tuned… :)
