Canon's new EOS RP full-frame mirrorless camera is aggressively priced at $1,299

[Shawn Knight]

The big picture: With offerings from several of the world's top manufacturers including Sony, Canon, Nikon and Panasonic now available or hitting the market soon, there's never been a better time to shop for a full-frame mirrorless camera.

Canon has announced the EOS RP, its smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera to date.

Billed as an affordable solution for those looking to graduate to a full-frame mirrorless camera, the new EOS RP features a 26.2-megapixel CMOS sensor powered by the company’s DIGIC 8 image processor. Its dual pixel CMOS auto focus system boasts 4,779 manually selectable AF points that can lock onto a subject within 0.05 seconds.

Canon’s latest has a standard ISO range of 100 – 40,000 for stills and 100 – 25,600 for video and utilizes the same 0.39-inch, 2.36-million-dot electronic viewfinder as the EOS R that Canon announced last September. You also get the same 3.0-inch vari-angle touchscreen LCD as well as built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Video isn’t the EOS RP’s strong suit as it can only capture 4K UHD (3,840 x 2,160) at 24 fps (or Full HD at 60 fps).

The EOS RP works seamlessly with RF lenses and with one of three optional mount adapters, you can also utilize EF and EF-S lenses.

The body won’t add a ton of heft to your camera bag. It tips the scales at just 17.29 ounces and measures approximately 5.0 inches x 3.77 inches x 2.36 inches.

The Canon EOS will retail for $1,299 at launch for the body alone. You’ll also be able to get it with a 24-105mm f/3.5 – 5.6 IS EF-mount lens for $1,699 or the RF 24-105mm f/4 lens for $2,199. It’s available to pre-order from today and is scheduled to launch in March.

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[Uncle Al]

Looks like Canon is starting to figure it out althought the 4K only video format is still a bit of a miss. Also no mention of an adapter that will allow backwards compatability of the new line of lenses. Might not be perfect but it would be a smart play on their part to make the equipment universally compatable (within limits) across the Canon mirrorless and DSLR landscapes ......

 

[wiyosaya]

Also no mention of an adapter that will allow backwards compatability of the new line of lenses. Might not be perfect but it would be a smart play on their part to make the equipment universally compatable (within limits) across the Canon mirrorless and DSLR landscapes ......

Maybe that is just not possible. IDK, however, IMO, if the new lenses require more signals for the AF function than the old, and all the intelligence to drive those signals is in the R series bodies, it is possible that the R series lenses AF functions might not work at all without those signals. If AF is important to anyone, then they might be disappointed that AF does not work on pre-R series bodies. For those that do not care about whatever functionality might be lost, then the adapter would be a good idea.

Some reviews of the previous R body release have stated that AF is much improved - going so far to say that manual microadjustments are unnecessary.

You might never get it, but if you put in a suggestion at the Canon site for such an adapter - who knows.

 

[Bao Nguyen]

Looks like Canon is starting to figure it out althought the 4K only video format is still a bit of a miss. Also no mention of an adapter that will allow backwards compatability of the new line of lenses. Might not be perfect but it would be a smart play on their part to make the equipment universally compatable (within limits) across the Canon mirrorless and DSLR landscapes ......

The flange distance of RF mount by design is way too short for the lens to be adapted into EF mount, it's quite impossible to do so. Good thing is their EF-mount lens could be adapted to virtually every popular mount type these days with 44mm flange distance.