Canon EOS R7 Body (No Adapter) at Etoren

I purchased my Canon R7 about two months ago from a local dealer and have been using it steadily since. I was hoping for a competent APSC with wide ranging use, but with special capabilities in bird photography. From my experience, there are very distinct pros and cons with the R7. The top 'pro' is its focusing ability. Compared to prior Canon DSLRs and even the R6, the R7's ability to acquire eye focus on a range of subjects is very impressive. The 'Cons' are several. Noise levels are essentially comparable to my old Canon eos 77D. Dynamic range is similar, maybe a smidge slightly better. The biggest Con is the shutter shock when using the mechanical and first curtain shutters. It is always compromising the sharpness of photos for any shutter speed less of 1/320 or ... MoreI purchased my Canon R7 about two months ago from a local dealer and have been using it steadily since. I was hoping for a competent APSC with wide ranging use, but with special capabilities in bird photography. From my experience, there are very distinct pros and cons with the R7. The top 'pro' is its focusing ability. Compared to prior Canon DSLRs and even the R6, the R7's ability to acquire eye focus on a range of subjects is very impressive. The 'Cons' are several. Noise levels are essentially comparable to my old Canon eos 77D. Dynamic range is similar, maybe a smidge slightly better. The biggest Con is the shutter shock when using the mechanical and first curtain shutters. It is always compromising the sharpness of photos for any shutter speed less of 1/320 or 1/250 or slower. It is entirely visible in all photos at slower speeds. But longer lenses - like when photographing birds - make it worse. So, the only way to get passable photos is to use electronic shutter and deal with the dynamic range limits and panning blur that comes with this. The other Con is that Canon hasn't yet provided any quality RF-S lenses for this and other apsc cameras. I cannot recommend this camera.

I've been shooting with Canon gear since the AE-1 days when focusing was a physical skill and this R7 makes the effort of 'focusing' remarkably fun again. It's fun because it isn't work, there's no guessing, and essentially no surprises. Everything you've read about the mirrorless focusing fantasticness is absolutely true. Five years ago this price point would have gotten you a competent but slightly underwhelming by serious photography standards body... today the R7 sets an incredibly high bar in the performance per dollar category. The quality of the autofocus, autoleveling, whitebalance, and extremely low noise out to 6400 ISO even in challenging lighting have cut my workflow time by two thirds to where I'm only concerned with minor cropping if anything at all. ... MoreI've been shooting with Canon gear since the AE-1 days when focusing was a physical skill and this R7 makes the effort of 'focusing' remarkably fun again. It's fun because it isn't work, there's no guessing, and essentially no surprises. Everything you've read about the mirrorless focusing fantasticness is absolutely true. Five years ago this price point would have gotten you a competent but slightly underwhelming by serious photography standards body... today the R7 sets an incredibly high bar in the performance per dollar category. The quality of the autofocus, autoleveling, whitebalance, and extremely low noise out to 6400 ISO even in challenging lighting have cut my workflow time by two thirds to where I'm only concerned with minor cropping if anything at all. I'm scratching my head to come up with anything to be disappointed with for the price... it's simply beyond worth it!!!*** Get RF lenses to get the most out of the camera *** I had a dozen high quality EF lenses including L-Series primes and zooms the worked fantastic with the EF to RF adapter but I was so impressed with the simple RF 18-150mm kit lens that came with it I went ahead and bought the extremely inexpensive RF 16 & 50 primes that also performed well beyond their price tag (beautiful night time pics with the primes handheld to 1/6 sec and only the IBIS stabilizing things... unbelievable). I picked up the bargain RF 100-400mm next and was equally impressed and today my RF 100-500mm L arrived and the first two shoots impressed beyond belief. B&H got a box full of a dozen quality EF lenses from me to roll into their used department to pay for my RF 100-500L with zero regrets. Pairing the R series cameras with the RF lenses unquestionably results in a synergistic bonus that made me realize the EF glass, despite being fantastic, just wasn't worth the weight in the bag on jobs. Take the leap!!!

The R7 arrived with firmware version 1.1.0 installed. So, I updated it to 1.2.0. The weather was unsuitable for photography for over a month, so I used the time to test and use it indoors. I was very satisfied with the results.When the weather finally allowed, I went out in my backyard with an EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM + EF 1.4x II extender and an EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM to try shooting small birds and animals. They were mostly congregated around a bird feeder about 20 feet from me. I shot at maximum zoom. The first EF 100-400mm shots were all terribly blurred. The R7 easily locked on and tracked the animals, but the photos were consistently back focused a foot or more. I tried every combination of AF settings I could think of with no effect. Results ... MoreThe R7 arrived with firmware version 1.1.0 installed. So, I updated it to 1.2.0. The weather was unsuitable for photography for over a month, so I used the time to test and use it indoors. I was very satisfied with the results.When the weather finally allowed, I went out in my backyard with an EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM + EF 1.4x II extender and an EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM to try shooting small birds and animals. They were mostly congregated around a bird feeder about 20 feet from me. I shot at maximum zoom. The first EF 100-400mm shots were all terribly blurred. The R7 easily locked on and tracked the animals, but the photos were consistently back focused a foot or more. I tried every combination of AF settings I could think of with no effect. Results shooting with the EF 70-200mm were similar.I found nothing on Google or YouTube about this except one YouTube video whose poster had experienced similar issues with long lenses after upgrading his R7 firmware from version 1.1.0 to 1.2.0. After contacting Canon, his solution was to perform a factory reset. I followed his instructions but still had the problem. I even reinstalled the 1.2.0 firmware. But since his problem began with firmware version 1.2.0, I decided to downgrade mine back to 1.1.0.When I tested the next day the EF 100-400mm still continued to back focus. The EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM + EF 1.4x II extender doesn't quite make sense to me. At full zoom (280mm) images are tack sharp. But it front focuses when zoomed in. For example, mine front focuses about 6 inches at 235mm for subjects about 20 feet away. Both of these lenses work fine with my 7D II.I don't know if it's the camera, the adapter, some setting I've overlooked or that the R7 just does not play well with some EF lenses. I'm still trying to find an answer. If I can resolve this issue, I will definitely increase my rating.