I have used the R6M2, and the R8, but I must say the R has a great feel to it--I love the grip. It's probably my favorite camera (even without the joystick) just because of the way it feels. It's fun to use.
I agree it does feel great in the hands! I don’t have experience using either the R8 or R6 2 thanks for sharing your experience! I’m sure others are considering those options:)
Thanks for sharing that! I like the quality of the videos that I’ve made with the camera but I have limited experience shooting video compared to stills. Good to know🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love my EOS R. I bought it in 2019. It is a really good camera. The 4K crop has never bothered me. I bought the Canon 16-35 4L and the Tamron EF 24-70 G2 and now I have the RF 16mm.
Nice!! It really is a great camera:) good to know about your experience with the crop. The 16-35 f4 is what I have too. I was thinking about the RF 16 but got the 28 instead! Thanks for watching and sharing your experience☺️
Just purchased the EOS R as my first mirrorless full-frame camera (Canon canon damaged box sale). Upgraded from the Canon 6D and the difference in work-flow and resulting image quality is fantastic. I also have an R10 for my sports and wildlife photos. But really love the R for portraits and family photos.
Hey man, great images and video! Been rocking the EOS R since early 2019. It helped me build a six figure photo/video side of my creative agency. I don't use it for video anymore, but it still does great for product photography and lifestyle photography. My clients love the images we produce with it and that's what matters to me. It's still fun to take with me on family trips and photograph my wife and kids. Lot's of people on YT crapped on it early on, but it's been a great investment for me.
Thank you! I appreciate that:) Good on you on your photography business! Congrats! Yeah it's a fantastic camera, I'm glad that we both saw through the negative ecochamber on YT. I think everyone was expecting the R5 on a first gen camera.
@jakealbrecht Thank you so much ! I used Canon 6d and Canon 6d mark ii (with single slot card) for many years, with not so expensive cards, for many weddings, and only once or twice I got card error . After the error , I replaced the card and lost about 10-20 images. Years ago, a lott of people in this business was using canon 6d and noone had worries about card failure. But now, when dual card slot is the standard on most cameras, I tend to have more worries about one single card, even this doesn't justify...
@@AmazyngWorld I don't even record proxy's on my C70 even though it has dual card slots and the ability. Maybe I've been lucky, but I always make sure to format the cards before use and I've not had failures with my Anglebirds. I did on a cheap SanDisk once though. Didn't format and follow my own protocols though, so it was my fault.
Great video mate!! 2024 - STILL using my EOS R - hell I built a six figure business off of it (video & photo) - used it for a lot of run & gun projects all over the world and it's built like a tank. Underestimated tool for sure. I'll be grabbing an R3 later this year when the price drops, but still hang on to this for B-cam stuff.
Thank you for the honest and balanced video, Jesse. I'm using the R since 2019 and I still enjoy it a lot. As an amateur, I play with it in several photography genres: landscape, portrait, macro, astro, wildlife etc. It is a bit too slow for sports and wildlife, although I always make great bird images with it (as a hobbyist, I have the luxury to miss a few oportunities without regrets). I love the detail it provides to landscape images, as well as its low light capability, useful for portraits and astrophotography. I have a bunch of EF lenses, plus the RF 24-105 f/4 (incredibly sharp). I occasionally use it with EF-S (why not?) and adapted vintage lenses as well. As you said, it is an underrated camera which I would still recommend today, particularly at the current price point. Cheers!
Me too. Agree with everything Jesse said. I haven't bought an RF lens yet, although I could, and the RF 24-240 is an intriguing one. My other camera is a 90D DSLR and I share lenses with the R. I have almost replaced the 90D with the R7 several times, but for wildlife and action there still is an advantage to the OVF and the R bells/whistles are less important for those functions.
I’m glad to see a review that isn’t all about selling the latest tech - that these days sometimes gets ridiculous. And also a very likeable approach. I wish more videos were like this. Well done.
Thank you:) There are so many well made (and not that old) tools out there that aren't being utilized. Im hoping more people will figure this out! Thanks for watching and your words:)
I bought the EOS R in late 2019 for a great deal… everyone had been complaining about it (lack of dual card slots, the stupid Touch Bar, etc, etc) so the price had dropped significantly. (Then the R6 came out with only 20MP and all of a sudden the R didn’t look so bad!) But now I’m looking at the great deals on the R6 Mark 2 and wondering if it’s time to upgrade and make the R a backup body. (I’m also sitting on an $1100 trade-in credit with one retailer, so I guess that’s part of my motivation.) As good as the AF is in the R - as compared to the DSLR world - it does frustrate me sometimes. I was shooting t-ball the other day and it was the first time I had really pushed the R in that way. The last time I regularly shot sports, I was still using a 5D Mark III and a 1D Mark II. After shooting a burst of images, the R would just completely freeze up on me… I couldn’t even pre-focus to be ready for the next burst until, I guess, the buffer cleared. In the moment, I couldn’t really comprehend what was going on… just that I was stuck with a blurry viewfinder and an inability to focus. I shoot professionally, but only part-time, so I keep questioning if I should even be considering upgrading. I know only I know my financial situation and that’s really not a problem… I’m still trying to be smart about it. I have the RF 24-105 F4, the RF 28-70 f2, the RF 70-200 2.8 IS, and a few carryover EF lenses, so it’s not even like I need to put my money towards lenses first. And there is always new gear coming, but I’m usually not an early adopter… I wait for price drops or used/refurb’ed deals and I keep my gear a long time. But with the way tech advances so quickly now, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of residual value left in older cameras, so it doesn’t seem to make sense to wait through too many upgrade cycles anymore. I feel like I’ve given myself every reason to upgrade… but still I hesitate!
Jesse, I agree with you 100% I too came from the DSLR crowd and I was looking to get into the Mirrorless market about 3 years ago and future proof my camera with the RF mount but still be able to continue to use all my EF mount- L Series glass. It is still my main workhorse today, only now, am I thinking of getting an R6 mkII for Video and start to upgrade my glass to RF. I would still hold on to my EOS R as a B Cam.
Nice! That’s pretty much what I did.. the EOS R is now my B cam but instead of the R62 I got the R5. It’s nice to be able to slowly upgrade everything:)
Great video. I have ordered the R, after using the 6D II for years now. It will be my first mirrorless cmera. I'm curious how the R will work. And I am taking all the EF-lenses with me on the R.
I have the EOS Ra version. It works for Astrophotography but also for regular photography even though Canon gives a warning. Again it works fine for regular photography. ❤
That’s a great combo! Did you get the control ring adapter for the ef lenses or the one that I got? Now after finding a use for the control ring I’m thinking about switching mine out.
Really interested in those comments Jesse, especially around the menu system, it’s one of the things that makes changing between Canon camera models painless. I operate an R7 and an R5 and have set them up as you have to make them as similar as possible especially using identical custom modes. I shot film from 1967 to 2004 and to be honest it’s things like AF and Image Stabilisation that have really improved the “keeper” rate as I don’t remember having too many problems with exposure. Of course there is video which is a dream compared to anything pre the 5d2 , when I think back to my dads clockwork 8mm film camera of the 60’s &70’s the capabilities of the R5 are a mind benders 😀 . BTW beautiful portraits 😀
OG I love that! How did you get your shutter count? I tried finding it to include in this video but had no success. There was a lot of noise on the internet about this camera when it first came out.. I’m glad we were able to tune it out! It definitely brings smiles 😁
I really do wish I can afford this camera right now it definitely will be a game changer for me I fully want to go into photography and videography then creating tourism content in my Country the only thing stopping me is not having my equipment to get started…Hopefully next year will be different Amen
Does the Canon R keep the separate configurations that we have established for video and photography ? So we don`t need to reset the settings each time we switch bettween the 2 shooting modes. This involves basically the settings for ISO, aperture and shutter speed.
Do you feel that shooting this camera is kinda slow? I own the eos R and the 6d Mark I and the 6d is definantely faster, probably the sensor reads faster on the 6d due to less mgpxels
Just bought a R6 Mk ii as an upgrade from my R but I gotta say I’m disappointed in the “improved” features this camera has to offer. 4k crop on the R never bothered me, the R has a better video format in 4k then the R6 mkii and it blows it out of the water in terms of photo. The full frame in 4k in the R6 is nice but out able to shoot it in IPB instead of ALL-I is a real bummer. I’m probably going to sell the R6 and buy a second R and use the rest of the money to invest in another RF lens
@ higher mp count is the only thing I can think of, biggest difference for me is the video quality format is better on the R and the fact that the R6mk2 can’t record in ALL-I and only does IPB is a deal breaker for me for a camera that came out 4 years after the R
I got 964 shots the last time I used mine and the battery is at 23%. (PowerExtra LP-E6 2,600mAh.) Something that people miss is that the 4K crop puts it in-line with a lot of standard film industry crop factors. If you have an issue with the crop, buy a different lens. If you buy the body specifically for video, you've bought the wrong body, whether it has 6K down-sampling or not which the R doesn't. If you want a photograph centric body for video, buy Sony, not Canon. The R, more the RP has soft video (and aliasing issues at 2K), but nothing in comparison to a good amount of television cameras still in use and popular demand. I don't like the sharpness Sony bodies produce, I find it ugly and unappealing, same goes for the latest of Canon R bodies with the down-sampling, but nowhere near to the same extent.
Good to know on the shot count/battery life! 🙏🏻 Good point on the video crop:) it works fine for me.. it’s just worth mentioning that it does have one. Whether that’s positive or negative it’s really up to the user!
@@JesseDeyoungIt really is. Super 35, I think. And a lot of film S35 cameras have an MFT mount. You can say goodbye to anything remotely wide angle unless you have the money for MFT mount S35 lenses. :D The crop doesn't bother me either, I prefer it in all honesty. Yeah, still a deal breaker for some.
The crop factor is 1.7x in 4K and it doesn’t have ibis. Neither really bother me since the video work I use this camera for its always on a tripod and I have a wide angle lens (16-35) that makes the crop not so bad. I think it really shines in the still department though.
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great video! nice to know i’m not the only one who’s still shooting on the Eos R
Thanks! I feel like we are part of a secret club:)
I still use it for my prime lenses at wedding to back up my Z6II with a zoom
Absolutely not! In 2024, going into 2025, I’m still rocking two! 📸
Oh I’m struggling to find what is canon EOS R in market. It has whole letters/ numbers added, like RP, R50etc. Could pls specify this camera pls?
For this camera, It's just R@@maduragodavitharana9182
I have used the R6M2, and the R8, but I must say the R has a great feel to it--I love the grip. It's probably my favorite camera (even without the joystick) just because of the way it feels. It's fun to use.
I agree it does feel great in the hands! I don’t have experience using either the R8 or R6 2 thanks for sharing your experience! I’m sure others are considering those options:)
This is how it’s done; plenty of sample images while you talk.
Thank you!
One of the best cameras I've ever owned! The look and FEEL of the camera were superb!
I use mine mainly for video and it gets great quality with the L series lenses.
Thanks for sharing that! I like the quality of the videos that I’ve made with the camera but I have limited experience shooting video compared to stills. Good to know🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love my EOS R. I bought it in 2019. It is a really good camera. The 4K crop has never bothered me. I bought the Canon 16-35 4L and the Tamron EF 24-70 G2 and now I have the RF 16mm.
Nice!! It really is a great camera:) good to know about your experience with the crop. The 16-35 f4 is what I have too. I was thinking about the RF 16 but got the 28 instead! Thanks for watching and sharing your experience☺️
Just purchased the EOS R as my first mirrorless full-frame camera (Canon canon damaged box sale). Upgraded from the Canon 6D and the difference in work-flow and resulting image quality is fantastic. I also have an R10 for my sports and wildlife photos. But really love the R for portraits and family photos.
Nice! Are you adapting your old EF lenses or did you trade them in?
Hey man, great images and video! Been rocking the EOS R since early 2019. It helped me build a six figure photo/video side of my creative agency. I don't use it for video anymore, but it still does great for product photography and lifestyle photography. My clients love the images we produce with it and that's what matters to me. It's still fun to take with me on family trips and photograph my wife and kids. Lot's of people on YT crapped on it early on, but it's been a great investment for me.
Thank you! I appreciate that:) Good on you on your photography business! Congrats! Yeah it's a fantastic camera, I'm glad that we both saw through the negative ecochamber on YT. I think everyone was expecting the R5 on a first gen camera.
Hi! Can you tell what card did you use without errors? Thank you!
@@AmazyngWorld I used mostly Anglebird V60 Cards. I've had a great experience with Anglebird cards.
@jakealbrecht Thank you so much ! I used Canon 6d and Canon 6d mark ii (with single slot card) for many years, with not so expensive cards, for many weddings, and only once or twice I got card error . After the error , I replaced the card and lost about 10-20 images. Years ago, a lott of people in this business was using canon 6d and noone had worries about card failure. But now, when dual card slot is the standard on most cameras, I tend to have more worries about one single card, even this doesn't justify...
@@AmazyngWorld I don't even record proxy's on my C70 even though it has dual card slots and the ability. Maybe I've been lucky, but I always make sure to format the cards before use and I've not had failures with my Anglebirds. I did on a cheap SanDisk once though. Didn't format and follow my own protocols though, so it was my fault.
Great video mate!! 2024 - STILL using my EOS R - hell I built a six figure business off of it (video & photo) - used it for a lot of run & gun projects all over the world and it's built like a tank. Underestimated tool for sure. I'll be grabbing an R3 later this year when the price drops, but still hang on to this for B-cam stuff.
Thank you for the honest and balanced video, Jesse. I'm using the R since 2019 and I still enjoy it a lot. As an amateur, I play with it in several photography genres: landscape, portrait, macro, astro, wildlife etc. It is a bit too slow for sports and wildlife, although I always make great bird images with it (as a hobbyist, I have the luxury to miss a few oportunities without regrets). I love the detail it provides to landscape images, as well as its low light capability, useful for portraits and astrophotography. I have a bunch of EF lenses, plus the RF 24-105 f/4 (incredibly sharp). I occasionally use it with EF-S (why not?) and adapted vintage lenses as well. As you said, it is an underrated camera which I would still recommend today, particularly at the current price point. Cheers!
Me too. Agree with everything Jesse said. I haven't bought an RF lens yet, although I could, and the RF 24-240 is an intriguing one. My other camera is a 90D DSLR and I share lenses with the R. I have almost replaced the 90D with the R7 several times, but for wildlife and action there still is an advantage to the OVF and the R bells/whistles are less important for those functions.
Dude. Never knew about the sliding touchscreen focus joystick thing when using the EVF... game changing for my little rp. Thanks!
Total game changer! Glad to help!!
I’m glad to see a review that isn’t all about selling the latest tech - that these days sometimes gets ridiculous. And also a very likeable approach. I wish more videos were like this. Well done.
Thank you:) There are so many well made (and not that old) tools out there that aren't being utilized. Im hoping more people will figure this out! Thanks for watching and your words:)
I bought the EOS R in late 2019 for a great deal… everyone had been complaining about it (lack of dual card slots, the stupid Touch Bar, etc, etc) so the price had dropped significantly. (Then the R6 came out with only 20MP and all of a sudden the R didn’t look so bad!) But now I’m looking at the great deals on the R6 Mark 2 and wondering if it’s time to upgrade and make the R a backup body. (I’m also sitting on an $1100 trade-in credit with one retailer, so I guess that’s part of my motivation.) As good as the AF is in the R - as compared to the DSLR world - it does frustrate me sometimes. I was shooting t-ball the other day and it was the first time I had really pushed the R in that way. The last time I regularly shot sports, I was still using a 5D Mark III and a 1D Mark II. After shooting a burst of images, the R would just completely freeze up on me… I couldn’t even pre-focus to be ready for the next burst until, I guess, the buffer cleared. In the moment, I couldn’t really comprehend what was going on… just that I was stuck with a blurry viewfinder and an inability to focus. I shoot professionally, but only part-time, so I keep questioning if I should even be considering upgrading. I know only I know my financial situation and that’s really not a problem… I’m still trying to be smart about it. I have the RF 24-105 F4, the RF 28-70 f2, the RF 70-200 2.8 IS, and a few carryover EF lenses, so it’s not even like I need to put my money towards lenses first. And there is always new gear coming, but I’m usually not an early adopter… I wait for price drops or used/refurb’ed deals and I keep my gear a long time. But with the way tech advances so quickly now, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of residual value left in older cameras, so it doesn’t seem to make sense to wait through too many upgrade cycles anymore. I feel like I’ve given myself every reason to upgrade… but still I hesitate!
Jesse, I agree with you 100% I too came from the DSLR crowd and I was looking to get into the Mirrorless market about 3 years ago and future proof my camera with the RF mount but still be able to continue to use all my EF mount- L Series glass. It is still my main workhorse today, only now, am I thinking of getting an R6 mkII for Video and start to upgrade my glass to RF. I would still hold on to my EOS R as a B Cam.
Nice! That’s pretty much what I did.. the EOS R is now my B cam but instead of the R62 I got the R5. It’s nice to be able to slowly upgrade everything:)
Agreed 👍🏼
Great video! Still using my EOS R.
Thank you:) great to hear!!
Full Frame EOS 6D mark II had that screen mechanism more than a year prior the original R.
Nice review. Thank you. Just a small correction. The first full frame camera with such a display is the DSLR EOS 6D mk2. 😊
Thanks! Good to know! I totally missed that since I wasn’t in the market for a new camera when that came out:)
I just bought my R and I love it so far. The focusing is a bit odd to me sometimes it will randomly focus on something other than the subject.
Great video. I have ordered the R, after using the 6D II for years now. It will be my first mirrorless cmera. I'm curious how the R will work. And I am taking all the EF-lenses with me on the R.
I have the EOS Ra version. It works for Astrophotography but also for regular photography even though Canon gives a warning. Again it works fine for regular photography. ❤
I got the Canon eos R... It's perfect cam
It’s definitely one of the most underrated cameras! I’m glad you picked one up and are enjoying it!
@@JesseDeyoung I got 3 lenses for it.
Sigma ef 50mm f1.4 Art
Canon ef 24-105mm f4l is usm II
Canon rf 35mm f1.8 is stm macro
That’s a great combo! Did you get the control ring adapter for the ef lenses or the one that I got? Now after finding a use for the control ring I’m thinking about switching mine out.
Really interested in those comments Jesse, especially around the menu system, it’s one of the things that makes changing between Canon camera models painless. I operate an R7 and an R5 and have set them up as you have to make them as similar as possible especially using identical custom modes. I shot film from 1967 to 2004 and to be honest it’s things like AF and Image Stabilisation that have really improved the “keeper” rate as I don’t remember having too many problems with exposure. Of course there is video which is a dream compared to anything pre the 5d2 , when I think back to my dads clockwork 8mm film camera of the 60’s &70’s the capabilities of the R5 are a mind benders 😀 . BTW beautiful portraits 😀
Someone who knows how to use the tools! great work
I appreciate that thank you🙏🏻🙏🏻
Bought my body on launch for 2300$ plus tax and got a free RF adapter. Over 125k “clicks” and it still makes smiles. It’s a portrait beast!
OG I love that! How did you get your shutter count? I tried finding it to include in this video but had no success. There was a lot of noise on the internet about this camera when it first came out.. I’m glad we were able to tune it out! It definitely brings smiles 😁
@@JesseDeyoung There is an App simply named, "ShutterCount" the icon looks like a camera shutter. I have it for my Macbook. I found it on the Appstore
Ah thank you!
I really do wish I can afford this camera right now it definitely will be a game changer for me I fully want to go into photography and videography then creating tourism content in my Country the only thing stopping me is not having my equipment to get started…Hopefully next year will be different Amen
Great video, this made me upgrading from 6d to the R :)
Thank you 😊 that is a perfect upgrade! Switching to mirrorless definitely makes life easier once you get used to it!!
Does the Canon R keep the separate configurations that we have established for video and photography ? So we don`t need to reset the settings each time we switch bettween the 2 shooting modes.
This involves basically the settings for ISO, aperture and shutter speed.
Do you feel that shooting this camera is kinda slow? I own the eos R and the 6d Mark I and the 6d is definantely faster, probably the sensor reads faster on the 6d due to less mgpxels
Hi Jesse , great video (fresh Subscriber )
I love the top lcd
Same! My had a slight malfunction due to moisture but it eventually came back! I didn't realize how much I used it until I couldn't!
Nice review.
Thanks 😊
Just bought a R6 Mk ii as an upgrade from my R but I gotta say I’m disappointed in the “improved” features this camera has to offer.
4k crop on the R never bothered me, the R has a better video format in 4k then the R6 mkii and it blows it out of the water in terms of photo.
The full frame in 4k in the R6 is nice but out able to shoot it in IPB instead of ALL-I is a real bummer. I’m probably going to sell the R6 and buy a second R and use the rest of the money to invest in another RF lens
how is the r better then r6m2 in terms of photo, all reviews have the new sensor showing better than the r
@ higher mp count is the only thing I can think of, biggest difference for me is the video quality format is better on the R and the fact that the R6mk2 can’t record in ALL-I and only does IPB is a deal breaker for me for a camera that came out 4 years after the R
I got 964 shots the last time I used mine and the battery is at 23%. (PowerExtra LP-E6 2,600mAh.)
Something that people miss is that the 4K crop puts it in-line with a lot of standard film industry crop factors. If you have an issue with the crop, buy a different lens. If you buy the body specifically for video, you've bought the wrong body, whether it has 6K down-sampling or not which the R doesn't. If you want a photograph centric body for video, buy Sony, not Canon. The R, more the RP has soft video (and aliasing issues at 2K), but nothing in comparison to a good amount of television cameras still in use and popular demand. I don't like the sharpness Sony bodies produce, I find it ugly and unappealing, same goes for the latest of Canon R bodies with the down-sampling, but nowhere near to the same extent.
Good to know on the shot count/battery life! 🙏🏻
Good point on the video crop:) it works fine for me.. it’s just worth mentioning that it does have one. Whether that’s positive or negative it’s really up to the user!
@@JesseDeyoungIt really is. Super 35, I think. And a lot of film S35 cameras have an MFT mount. You can say goodbye to anything remotely wide angle unless you have the money for MFT mount S35 lenses. :D
The crop doesn't bother me either, I prefer it in all honesty. Yeah, still a deal breaker for some.
what are the main limitations of the Canon R for video ?
The crop factor is 1.7x in 4K and it doesn’t have ibis. Neither really bother me since the video work I use this camera for its always on a tripod and I have a wide angle lens (16-35) that makes the crop not so bad. I think it really shines in the still department though.
I am seriously considering selling my EOS R. What would be a worthwhile upgrade coming from this camera?
It depends on your budget but the OG R5 is a great upgrade and you can probably find a good deal on one used right now!
I am not getting this type of images with EOS R :( not getting this level of sharp images. Still using EOS R
What lenses are you using?
@@JesseDeyoung I have RF 24-105mm F4, EF 70-200mm F2.8 USM, EF 50mm F1.8, EF 85mm F1.8 (I get good sharp images in this but as sharp as yours)
@@JayKachaRF 50 1.2 is spendy but super sharp on my R .
Canon R8 czy R?
The R is a better camera even though the R8 is newer.