Renewing Camera

[Fergie38]

My Canon M3 is broken and I fancy replacing it with a full frame camera. I don't want to go overboard with spending so the Canon EOS RP would seem to be an option.
Opinions welcome.

 

[Golem]

My Canon M3 is broken and I fancy replacing it with a full frame camera. I don't want to go overboard with spending so the Canon EOS RP would seem to be an option.
Opinions welcome.

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Great choice. Do it. You may need new lenses.

 

[Thiophilos]

No clue because we don't know your requirements.

 

[Fergie38]

Landscapes, Portrait, Street and anything else that catches my eye.
Hope that helps.

 

[Fergie38]

Just wondering if it would be ok to use my existing EFS lenses, or would doing that make it a bit pointless having a full frame camera.

 

[Thiophilos]

Just wondering if it would be ok to use my existing EFS lenses, or would doing that make it a bit pointless having a full frame camera.

Why do you want a full frame camera?

 

[RAZKY]

Just wondering if it would be ok to use my existing EFS lenses, or would doing that make it a bit pointless having a full frame camera.

You would lose the advantages of full-frame if you used APS-C lenses.

 

[KJ_North]

I picked up the Canon EOS R about 8 months ago as it was on for an amazing price. Can't go wrong with the RP though its a great camera.

In order to use any EF/EF-S lens on an RF mount body you would need one of the Canon EF to RF mount adapters. Be aware that EF-S lenses are made for APS-C image sensors, so they project a smaller image circle than a full frame EF lens.

This means the camera will enter a crop mode if it detects a Canon EF-S lens has been attached to the mount adapter. Because of the cropping, the full resolution of the sensor will not be retained in the crop images.

So, what does this mean? Well, effectively your 26MP sensor is using only 39%, rendering only aprox 10.3MP which is a significant reduction in quality.

 

[azheat]

No clue because we don't know your requirements.

Nor your budget...

 

[Don Fischer]

I'm thinking full frame is the latest and greatest. But at the end of the day it simply gives you a photo. I have no idea what my Nikon 7000 is but got well before full frame. I print photos up to12x24 and happy as a clam with them. 12x24 is getting pretty big for a hobbyist! There's going to be some magical up grade to the full frame and God only knows what it will be. But camera's are like most other things, company's will up grade so long as they can find people to buy the stuff.

 

[zombiesniper]

The Canon EOS RP will do you very well.

There are VERY few photographers that ever out perform their cameras. Unless you need specific perimeters such as Astrophotography where IR is a benefit any modern camera will do.

 

[Fergie38]

My Canon M3 was returned to me after repairs by Canon so I will hang on to it for the moment.
Trouble is that having been repaired three times now I just don't feel confident while using it.

 

[Fergie38]

Took this shot a couple of nights ago with my newly repaired M3.
Set to AV F6.3 1/8 sec ISO 6400

 

[petrochemist]

I picked up the Canon EOS R about 8 months ago as it was on for an amazing price. Can't go wrong with the RP though its a great camera.

In order to use any EF/EF-S lens on an RF mount body you would need one of the Canon EF to RF mount adapters. Be aware that EF-S lenses are made for APS-C image sensors, so they project a smaller image circle than a full frame EF lens.

This means the camera will enter a crop mode if it detects a Canon EF-S lens has been attached to the mount adapter. Because of the cropping, the full resolution of the sensor will not be retained in the crop images.

So, what does this mean? Well, effectively your 26MP sensor is using only 39%, rendering only aprox 10.3MP which is a significant reduction in quality.

Some APSC lenses do actually cover FF (nearly all will cover more than APSC, but in most cases the difference is marginal)
Several of my Pentax DA lenses cover FF despite being sold for crop.
My Sony APSC telephoto covers about 10% beyond the designed sensor.
One of my adapted lenses actually turns out to cover more than double it's intended format.

I suspect Canon bodies that use digital comms with their native lenses will automatically restrict the sensor to the intended format, but they might (like Sony) allow you to override the auto crop.

Despite this the benefits of a large sensor will only be truly seen using lenses designed to cover that sensor size. To my mind it only makes sense to get a FF body if you are intending to eventually use lenses for the larger format - but this could be adapted film lenses rather than expensive modern ones.

 

[Fergie38]

Talking about compatible lenses, Amazon has on offer, a Canon EOS R6 mark ii with an EF-M 15-45 lens.
How does that work out,?