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cgarcia wrote:
Continuing my old "tradition" of being the first publishing this data I just have evaluated some RAWs posted in CR... the news is that there aren't news... the DR is the same (or in the worse case, maybe slighly lower):
https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php?threads/come-play-with-the-canon-eos-r-raw-files.35809/#post-742829
Well, that is okayish and expected (no 6D2 frights here).
And here is my take on EOS R... of course, I'm not trolling!. I like Canon a lot. I use Canon lenses. There is a lot of talent in their engineers. But one can't understand how their managers drive the company. Canon is a big company (e.g. compared with Nikon) and can do much better. They perfectly know that the future is mirrorless. And rather sooner than later.
Here in FM, the Canon forum last post in the first page is 7 days old (despite the EOS R launching). The same post is only 2 days old in Sony. There are 3 topics with more than 500000 views in the Sony forum. None to that level in the Canon. This is the same everywhere (dpreview). Canon is losing their "core" base. Many maybe only amateurs today. Canon still sells, but each time less and less people is interested on them.
After the EOS R launching I got delusioned. I like a lot Canon lenses and engineering. And the ergonomics (I find too "acute" the A7R3 corners, while the new EOS R is more rounded). But Mirrorless seems to be a second class citizen for Canon. There is no IBIS promise for the future. The EOS R still lacks spot metering linked to AF point, and has the classic metering modes, despite the sensor is now always switched on. While Sony has RAW zebras for perfect ETTR. They could have used the EF-M mount, in fact 1mm wider than Sony FE (and same flange)... but opted instead for a new an incompatible mount suitable for high quality huge aperture lenses. Just as Nikon, perhaps because of marketing. The fact that the "huge" EF-M mount (too big for normal aperture APS-C lenses) was designed to support full frame lenses on a full frame sensor, seems to indicate that the original Canon plans for mirrorless may have changed. Now they seek for the excellence. But maybe a medium format 40-100/2.8 would be more compact than the new 28-70/2, as in fact it is more compact the Canon 24-70/4 compared to the four thirds Olympus Zuiko 14-35/2, optically equivalent (huge apertures to compensate small sensors seem to not optimize the weight).
I bought the A7R3 in January. During the past months I felt as a Canon user with a Sony body, enjoying IBIS and viewfinder zoomed manual focus with my TSE. Since a week ago, however, I now feel as a Sony user with Canon lenses. No longer waiting for what Canon is about to come with. Definitely now I'll buy some of those incredible Loxia, Batis and Voigtlander I have discovered the past months. And hope that Canon continues releasing its marvelous TSE lenses for EF for a while (I think that movements could interfere with the grip if designed for R distance).
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I think you mean disillusioned, not delusioned.
I'm disillusioned with the Sony a7R III and cannot imagine that a 5D series R would be worse to use. Canon should learn a bit from whatever Canon users don't like about the cheap, 6D grade body.
I was also thinking that the TSE lenses might have clearance issues with the R bodies. (They are nearly useless on the EF-S unless you have really tough hands or use tools.)
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