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dcisive · Jun 26, 2025

Kind of sad to see the R1 pricing rise so high even past the price of a new Sony A1. The A1 has been a complaint of many for it's excessive price making what was the R1's price more attractive for a top line camera. Now Canon is the excessively priced one. Oh well.

Michael Clark · Jun 26, 2025

EOS 4 Life said:
Canon surveys pros when they take suggestions for the 1 series.
For the rest of the line, they take suggestions from any Canon users.

They send multiple choice form surveys to a lot of users. Questions like, "Pick two from the following list (of 8-10 or more features) that you consider the most important when selecting a camera." Or statements with a range of numbers with "0" being 'strongly disagree' and "5" being 'strongly agree'. (These days they're digital, but in the 1990s they used to be hard copy.) The results are aggregated and I get the distinct impression from listening to those who are more in a position to know than I am that those making decisions in Japan mostly just see the aggregate numbers.

I was told years ago by a very high ranking Canon Technical Advisor in the U.S. that Japan takes free form suggestions regarding the 1-Series seriously from only a few handfuls of pros that are closely affiliated with Canon. I've also been told by a PJ acquaintance who shoots a lot of major college sports within a certain radius of his location for the national media conglomerate who owns the local publication for which he works that a lot of top level pros in the sports world know who some of those shooters are, and will offer suggestions to them in hopes they will pass them on rather than contacting Canon directly and their suggestion never being seen by anyone with any authority to consider it.

David - Sydney · Jun 26, 2025

John Wilde said:
(USA) An indirect impact of tariffs is that it damages consumer confidence, so people are less likely to buy nonessential items.

indeed, inflation is a lagging indicator which explains why the Fed is reluctant to reduce rates. Lots of pre-loading of orders in the US to avoid tariffs will eventually hit consumers and business owners once the inventory has been exhausted.
Given the global events at the moment, our prime minister can't even get a sidelines discussion about tariffs. Only 2 weeks to go before the current pause ends. Will the pause be extended??

David - Sydney · Jun 26, 2025

EOS 4 Life said:
It is pretty obvious that the Z 8 far outsells the Z 9.
Only Nikon knows by how much.

We would assume so but they would know what drives the buyer justification for the price difference vs size?

I often think that a R5ii SKU with integrated grip would be an interesting option. The integrated grip would incorporate the features of the 3 difference grips plus higher battery voltage to drive big whites plus fancy AF smart controller. This item would capture the buyers who buy grips for sure and at least provide an option for an integrated high mp body.

But what about cannibalisation of the R1 you say?
- Well, you get to remove 3 SKUs for the R5ii grips for starters.
- You get to capture the market of whiners who bemoan the lack of a high mp "flagship". I mean the 1 series was split for a long time for speed vs mp. Whether you call the new SKU a 1 series or a 5 series is a good question.

EOS 4 Life said:
I am not sure that Nikon even knows or cares what percentage of Z 9 users are pro.

I think that they would be interested in their buyer demographics but there will always be a % that buy without expecting to make money from their purchases. The rest would be defined somehow as "pro" I guess.

David - Sydney · Jun 26, 2025

Michael Clark said:
If printing using inkjet or dye sublimation, astro work really uses the ink/pigment like nothing else.

What can I say... we like our night skies black!

Jethro · Jun 26, 2025

Click said:
Nicely done, Nemorino. I prefer the 2nd and 3rd.

Agreed - I think the 4th is good too, and could be the best - but I'd probably crop out the foreground blur which I find a little intrusive. I know it was probably left that way as a comparison with the others.

neuroanatomist · Jun 26, 2025

jo6466 said:
And the result quality?

Here are mine (with the EF 600/4 II):

RF and EF extenders on the EF 600/4L IS II

After getting both the RF extenders to use with my RF 100-500L, I became curious about whether they would perform better than my EF MkIII extenders when used with my EF 600/4L IS II on my EOS R3. As most will know, the protruding elements of the RF extenders do not fit into the Canon EF-RF mount...

www.canonrumors.com

Michael Clark · Jun 26, 2025

koenkooi said:
Renaming on import has been a huge quality of life upgrade for me! I'm purely a hobbyist, so the only restrictions are time and motivation Like your system, I like to keep everything sortable by date:

With a few extras: zoom lenses get their focal length added, for the MP-E the magnifcation gets added and when available, the focus distance as well. The original image name is in there twice, the first entry is to keep it chronologically sorted, the second one to make it easier to ID when the file browser shortens the filename.
This works very well for my macro+family niche of photography

I'm glad that works for you. I'd go nuts with file names that long!

I try to keep mine to 24 characters or less to the left of the dot.

jo6466 · Jun 26, 2025

kaihp said:
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt: EF200-400mm f/4L 1.4x + EF 2xTC + Commlite + RF 2xTC = 2240mm.

And the result quality?

Michael Clark · Jun 26, 2025

OldDudePhotog said:
I do shoot bursts, I use Lightroom to sort, and keep many of them (1/2 -2/3). I sort them by event. Usually takes about an hour to sort that many.

As in you use LR to manually go through and view each image to decide whether or not to cull? Or as in letting LR automatically "decide" which ones are "bad"? Does LR even have that functionality? There are several apps that do. I haven't used LR in years.

Michael Clark · Jun 26, 2025

koenkooi said:
The slice that is in focus will always have the same magnification, so there will be some distortion when stacking. In Helicon Focus that will show as a really weird border around the resulting image. There is some tolerance for that, both Helicon and Zerene can do adjustments to align the pictures, I don't know if they will do single digit percentage resizes or not.
A similar issue exists when keeping the distance the same and changing focus (on a non-fixed focus lens!), all macro lenses that I have used will show heavy focus breathing around MFD, so that may result in an even bigger perspective change than the focus rail.

My focus rail arrived last week, still getting up to speed on 'best practices'. An M6II+MP-E+MR14 is very hit and miss currently, I think I need to practice on a less complex subject. The damselfly exuvia have a lot of overlapping sections that are hard to stack.

This was done handheld using the built-in focus bracketing on the R5II+RF100+EL5, you can see the 'halos' around the legs with the concrete background and around the white cords. I think this is an area where generative 'AI' could be a big help: generating the missing parts and/or removing the bokeh 'haze'. Or learn how to use Photoshop masking and blending
View attachment 224831

Thanks for that explanation. I've never done focus stacking, and only played around with an MP-E 65 1X-5X a couple of times many years ago. As in "still shooting film" number of years ago.

John Wilde · Jun 26, 2025

(USA) An indirect impact of tariffs is that it damages consumer confidence, so people are less likely to buy nonessential items.

Click · Jun 26, 2025

Nicely done, Nemorino. I prefer the 2nd and 3rd.

Click · Jun 26, 2025

Very nice shots, Nemorino.

Click · Jun 26, 2025

Nice shots, Nemorino. I especially like the second one.

Nemorino · Jun 26, 2025

Maximilian said:
With the people in the BG I'd prefer the 52 frames stack

For this reason I prefer the stack of 53 frames because people in that are unusual.

One mushroom, three lenses, four stacks
You might notice the different look of the mushroom with changing focal length

15mm Laowa

Laowa Rf58mm @ f/2.8

Laowa RF58mm @ f/5.6

RF100L 2.8 macro @ f/4

Nemorino · Jun 26, 2025

Pied advocet chicks
R5 + RF200-800 + 1.4 TC
@ 1039mm, 1/4000s, f/13

@ 1039mm, 1/640, f/13

Askeladden · Jun 26, 2025

CanonGrunt said:
What is this going to do to the used market?

There has not been much innovation in the camera space that necessitates the newest model for the average consumer, in fact previous gen might still be overkill for what they intend to do with it. The market was trailing upwards before the trade war.

Nemorino · Jun 26, 2025

Black kite (milvus migrans)
R5 + RF200-800 + 1.4TC
@ 1039mm, 1/4000s, f/13

TboneSteak · Jun 26, 2025

Super cool. Is the last image taken from over the back fence?

P-visie · Jun 26, 2025

mimbu said:
Oh yeah, it was just total coincidence that every new Canon camera broke compatibility.

Next you'll tell me that Microsoft didn't intentionally break compatibility of Lotus 1-2-3 to push Excel.

Would you by chance be interested in purchasing a bridge?

You use a lot of words to hide that you have no evidence to backup your claims.

David_B · Jun 26, 2025

Apple Just Patented an Image Sensor With 20 Stops of Dynamic Range - Y.M.Cinema Magazine

Apple’s new patent reveals a stacked image sensor with 20 stops of dynamic range and on-chip noise correction.

ymcinema.com

All your shadows and highlights will belong to Apple!

Key items from story:
* dynamic range of 120dB (almost 20 stops)
* stacked sensor with low noise
* Lateral Overflow Integration Capacitor
* Built in noise-sensing circuitry
* 3 transistor pixel design

CanonGrunt · Jun 26, 2025

What is this going to do to the used market?

EOS 4 Life · Jun 26, 2025

David - Sydney said:
Nikon is the only OEM offering basically the same camera in integrated and non-intergrated grip formats... both at competitive pricing. Only they will know the volumes of each to determine which is preferred by pro/non-pro alike.

It is pretty obvious that the Z 8 far outsells the Z 9.
Only Nikon knows by how much.
I am not sure that Nikon even knows or cares what percentage of Z 9 users are pro.

rombe3jr · Jun 26, 2025

Askeladden said:
This is the problem with international trade in general. Too many middle-men and parasites

mhnamba said:

I manage an authorized Canon service center in Brazil and I can say this tariff is directly affecting photographers here. The price of parts went up 35% in June, causing a huge increase in the cost of repairing photographic equipment. Since the products and parts are distributed by Canon USA throughout Latin America, we have to pay Trump's tariff even though our country has nothing to do with this trade war.

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Interesting... so even places that do not have a tarrif are getting price increases. What is going on?

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