Canon pulls a Leica and releases a “graphite grey” version of the PowerShot G7 X Mark III for the 30th anniversary of the PowerShot series. It looks to be around 400€ markup, so 40-50% more than the already difficult to find normal version. A couple of accessories won’t save it from being a shameless cash grab on a 6 years old camera that they were going to discontinue.

Canon just released the highly anticipated compact 14mm 1.4 targets astrophotography, architecture and video:

• high price of 2500€ in Germany
• compact body same as other VCM series, with additional integrated hood (50% length of Sigma 14mm 1.4)
• rear gel filter holder
• weight under 500g (less than half of Sigma 14mm 1.4)
• very advanced optical layout, lens elements, materials and coatings

Top to bottom a halo astro lens, I would expect reviews to confirm excellent coma control. Vignetting seems low from what I’ve seen so far.

For action, creative architectural and underwater photography, Canon translated the EF 8-15mm F4L to mirrorless: the RF 7-14mm F2.8-3.5L is fisheye zoom lens:

• diagonal from 12-13mm to 14mm
• circular between 7 and 12mm
• integrated filter holder (same as EF-RF adapter)
• STM motor (like 10-20mm, still fast due to focal length)
• 1900€ in Germany

Well, Canon serves now the wide angle mirrorless market pretty well. What I would like still, is a 12-24mm F2.8L with similar performance to the 15-35 F2.8L and a lower end 1.8 UWA.

As a noob astrophotographer, this is fascinating news.

Dear Canoners, I tried to round up the - in my opinion - most relevant reviews on the RF 45mm ƒ/1.2 STM lens.

Complete reviews:

• Petapixel
• The Digital Picture
• Jared Polin - YouTube
• CVP - YouTube

First impressions:

• DPReview
• Kai W - YouTube
• Gordon Laing - Youtube

In German:

• DAVISION - YouTube
• Comedy & Capture

In Japanese:

• Asobinet: Part 1 2 3

Sample galleries:

• LensTips
• JuzaPhoto
• DPReview
• Asobinet - Flickr

I began dabbling with it lately and - inspired by this comment - I though about diving deep in this topic and try to understand this function that works in a pretty cryptic way. Canon documentation says: trial and error -.-

The main questions are:

• how many steps do I need?
• how wide should each step be?
• is in-camera stacking any good?

I used it a couple of times with my R6II and never got anything deleted when the in-camera stacking gave an error: it created a final JPEG with only a selection of the stack pictures (this behavior is very good I recon) and didn’t delete anything- maybe on tbe R10 it works differently?

I got a very nice JPEG out of one of my first tries, but I couldn’t say I learned how to do it consistently:

My aim is to set up a small guide with some tips and reference values (ideally find out the correlation between aperture value, focal length, focus distance and the resulting step size): do you have any hints, failure or success stories? Let’s discuss :)

Review by Gerald Undone on the video features of the R6 III: not much to say, almost flawless.

Do you have a pet peeve or a detail that bothers you about a "feature" of Canon products? It would be fun to hear what irritates you - mainly small things that the company can't seem to be willing to address, as anything more would probably trigger a change of system :) Try to be specific!

I'll start: the impossibility of importing pictures to a Folder instead of the Photo app in the mobile Camera Connect app for iOS and iPadOS.

We are now spoiled for choices on camera equipment and each manufacturer offers excellent cameras: is there a little detail - apart from macroscopic features that lead the decision making - that you appreciate on Canon cameras?

I'll start: the smooth outer shell without sharp edges! I really find it cumbersome, on some other cameras, how the viewfinder bump or other features stick out of the camera body and catch on things while taking it out of a bag, for example. The very streamlined and smooth design of my R6 II was a nice plus I never thought of enjoying :)

EOS R6 Mark III

The highly anticipated R6 III takes the awesome R6 II to new heights, with incremental but significant improvements:

• 33MP
• Faster readout speed than R6 II (faster in 12-bit than the semi-stacked Sony sensor in the Nikon Z6 III in 14-bit)
• (Slightly?) improved autofocus
• Better pre-capture
• CFexpress Type B + SD UHS-II cards
• 1/320s flash sync (edit: only in APS-C crop mode)

Video capabilities very similar to the C50:

• Full-size HDMI
• Open gate 7K30p
• Canon Log 2
• Waveform
• Tally lamp

Reviews: The Digital Picture, Petapixel

RF 45mm 1.2 STM

This lens is really compelling: super bright nifty-tifty (it's called 45mm just to differentiate it from the 50mm 1.2 USM, the field of view seems to be almost the same) for under 500€, with big compromises with regards to image quality.

Main characteristics:

• 1.2 aperture (with significant falloff of 4 stops in the corners...)
• Low price <500€ (compared to nearest neighbors: 200€ for 50mm 1.8, >1500€ for 50 1.4)
• Acceptable autofocus
• No stabilization
• Compact and light
• Old school uncorrected optical aberrations (yes, every kind of them)
• High barrel distortion needing digital correction
• 70€ for the lens hood!?

An accessible 1.2 lens with autofocus, with the tradeoff of sharpness and performance, is a very interesting offering!

Reviews: The Digital Picture

Both will be available on 20/11/2025.

It looks like Canon - after years of blatantly ignoring the problem - has fixed the constant link drop of the RT Speedlite protocol.

The firmware update is available for:

• Speedlites EL-1 and EL-5
• Transmitter ST-E10

I already tested it on a EL-5 + ST-E10 and the connection doesn’t drop where it previously would (WiFi interference was the cause).

It’s not clear if older equipment without the digital shoe can or will be updated (ST-E3-RT, 600EX-RT etc…)

As expected, the pentad of VCM lenses comes to completion with a 85mm focal length: same body design and features, same outrageous pricing (1750€ in DE).

Highlights of this ~3800€ compact cinema camera:

• new 32MP sensor (non stacked, readout speed ~18ms)
• dual base ISO 800/6400
• open gate recording
• internal 7K60p RAW recording
• included handle with zoom and recording controls
• PL mount compatibility
• no EVF
• no IBIS

It looks like a well put together package, with features and price competing mainly with the Sony FX3 but covering the FX2, too due to the higher resolution.

A confirmation of the good and the bad already seen by other testers. Published on 6.6.25.

A big miss and always omitted by reviewers: no HF-anti-flicker-shooting = obnoxious video flicker under LED lights! The normal Anti-flicker-shooting only works for stills. Buyers beware.

If only lazy Canon would release a multi-function-shoe EVF...

I get the impression that this community is a bit dead, but I am going to rant about this anyway, because it annoys me and writing whole long rambling screeds about things is kind of what I do. I do realize this is explicitly useless because the chances of anyone from Canon A) reading this here, of all places, and B) actually caring are less than zero.

I like my new R10. It is a very fine piece of photography equipment. Canon's app for it, however, is the work of Satan.

Actually, no. It can't possibly be the work of Satan. If Satan designed it, it would be merely diabolical -- by very definition -- but at least you could rest assured that its evil were implemented competently.

Let's start with the elephant in the room which is this new dumbass requirement to have a Cannon ID account to even use the fucking thing. I don't care if they forewarned everyone about this for a few weeks ahead of time, it's still moronic. I have zero interest in any "cloud" functionality and don't plan to use any of those features, ever. So why all of the sudden do I need to register an account and be connected to the internet just to use the app as a remote release and portable viewfinder? It worked just fine for that functionality before.

Yes, I know why. It's so Canon can have an avenue to spy on you, possibly filch your images and use them to train a damn fool AI, or have the future capability to lock already existing features behind a paywall at some future date. We are well acquainted with the Corporate Enshittification Handbook around here. But it's still stupid.

Because here's exactly how it went down for me. I was at a scenic spot in the middle of the wilds and wanted to take a nice picture of myself and my wife with my shiny new(ish) camera, using the app as a remote shutter release like I've always done. Except the app had updated behind my back and now demanded that I sign in before it would even let me look at the main menu. We were in the middle of nowhere, where there was no cell signal. Which means you can't use the app. Period. For anything. No internet, no app functionality. It just sat there, login screen displayed, with both thumbs stuck up its ass and refused to let me do anything.

It's not like people take their cameras hiking with them or anything. You know, where there is no cell service.

Canon's app is so awful and so great is my wrath over this that it literally made me go out and spend real world money to buy a remote release. An aftermarket one, of course -- not an official Canon one. Fuck that, at this point.

Using an account should be fully optional, especially for local camera-to-phone features only, for the twisted subset of people who might actually want to do such a thing on purpose. Leave the rest of us out of it.

There is further stupidity:

Why, for all that is holy, does it consistently take thirty full seconds for the app to connect to my camera, displaying an infuriatingly ironic "switching to a 'faster' Wi-Fi connection" popup each time? Then, why does it not only lose connection if my phone goes to sleep (even if it is in remote shooting mode) but thereupon refuses to reconnect after I wake my phone up, producing only a vague and unhelpful error message? The only way to make it work again is to force close the app and restart it. But then, why is it implied by the message in the menus that the camera is transmitting wirelessly even when it's powered off, unless I deliberately put it in airplane mode? Even if it is, though, you still can't look at it in the app, e.g. to review images or suchlike. So no actual functionality is provided by this, other than slowly depleting your battery. So who would want that? It's precisely backwards. When the camera is off, it should be off. But if your phone falls asleep with a connection already established, it should remain connected until you power the camera off or explicitly disconnect.

Why does it take fifteen seconds per picture to transfer images to my phone, even over Wi-Fi? I think it would be faster to inscribe the ones and zeroes by hand, on papyrus, with ink and a quill.

Why does clicking "back" at the root menu of the app not close it, like every other app in the world?

The app is clearly called "Cannon Camera Connect," right? So why is its app name on your system just "Camera Connect," which inevitably just gets truncated to "Camera..." in your app launcher and has a nondescript icon that fails to differentiate it from your phone's inbuilt camera app?

I would say that whoever designed this pile of dogshit, and the manger who is prodding him to do it, should be cast into the deepest end of the lake of fire. But no, here's a better idea: They should have their cameras taken away, and they should be cursed henceforth to take every photo with an Aiptek Palm Cam for the rest of their lives.

Exhaustive review of the new Canon R50 V by Josh Sattin on YouTube.

The sensor is its biggest weakness, with meh dynamic range and barely usable rolling shutter, but the features/price ratio is a big selling point.

Review of the new Canon RF-S 14-30mm F4-6.3 IS STM PZ lens by Bryan Carnathan of The-Digital-Picture.

No surprises, performance slightly better than expected by a bottom of the line lens. Realistically, this lens only makes sense as a kit with the R50V.

My new dream lens… looks like an astrophotography, indoor/architecture and video champ. In my head it pairs wonderfully (as a secondary use obviously) with the R50V for 32mm focal length as a compact video and street photography rig.

But the price… that’s where the dream turns to nightmare D: