EOS R SYSTEM
I'm Joel Santos, a professional photographer and Canon ambassador
and I would like to present the new EOS R system cameras and lenses.
This is the first of several videos that Canon and I
invite you to watch, featuring different photographers
from various areas of photography.
Join me in travel photography
Fernando Guerra in architectural photography
Marisa Martins in social photography
Rui Bandeira in music photography
and André Teixeira in wedding photography
in a testimonial of the EOS R system's true versatility and results
regardless of your usage profile.
In general, mirrorless systems offer a set of distinct features.
The cameras are lighter, smaller, the viewfinder allows to access
information in real-time, the features the camera offers are all customisable
it's easier to switch from photography mode to video mode
and the electronic shutter that allows to work in a truly silent mode.
Although these features are common to every mirrorless system
Canon's EOS R system offers unique advantages.
RF MOUNT
In the heart of this system is the new RF mount
built for the future, but not overlooking the previous lens.
Namely, the EF and EF-S which can be used without
any loss of performance thanks to to the mount adapter included.
The new RF mount has 54 mm in diameter, but what makes it unique
it's the distance between the lens and the sensor, which is just 20 mm.
This detail made it possible to create lens with unique advantages.
Among them, lightweight, more compact and brighter optics
or with features not usually found in similar lens
like image stabilisation in the new 15-35 and 24-70 2.8.
Additionaly, this mount offers a 12-pin connection
increasing the speed and amount of information exchanged
between the lens and the camera, improving the autofocus
system performance and image stabilisation.
Another undeniable RF mount advantage is that it solves
some of the lenses classic problems, such as
chromatic aberrations and colour fringing on the image corners
but also provides sharpness from corner to corner, even when using
the lenses maximum apertures.
Together with the dual pixel system advantage
we have the amount and disposition of focus points.
There are more than five thousand in the EOS R
and all of them can operate at -6 EV
which means to focus in a room lit only by a candle.
Another advantage of the RF lenses is that they make 1/8-stop apertures
inherited from the cinema range and which provides
very smooth bright transitions in video recording.
This new camera generation also brings some optimisations.
One of them is regarding energy management.
Using batteries from previous generations
there's no loss in performance and autonomy.
For this new system, Canon presents three adapters
to adapt the EF and EF-S lenses to the RF mount.
The mount adapter, the control mount ring adapter
customisable with functions, such as ISO, exposure compensation
or changes to the aperture, and the drop-in filter mount adapter
which is suitable for the polarising filter
the variable neutral density filter and the UV filter.
Regarding the drop-in filter mount adapter, lenses like
the fish-eye and the TS, can finally benefit from these filters.
The second advantage is that one filter fits in every lense
no matter its diameter.
The third advantage is with the filters positioned on the back of the lens
its handling is much easier.
Just like any other system, it depends on a set of features
and not just one, the perfect integration between camera and lenses.
The RF 24-105 lens with image stabilisation
is suitable for any setting, even for the most demanding users.
The RF 35 mm f/1.8 macro lens, with image stabiliser and a STM motor
is small, lightweight and discreet, and ideal for macro photography
even in settings with low-light levels.
The RF 50 1.2 lens is perfect for low-light levels settings
since it allows to focus and register images in those extreme settings.
The RF 85 f/1.2 lens is the chosen one when it comes to portraits
since it provides an absolutely singular separation of planes.
The 15-35 f/2.8 lens is another testimonial of the RF mount features
since it not only has a superior wider angle zoom than the classic 16-35
it also includes an image stabiliser.
The RF 24-70 2.8 lens is innovating because it's the first with this range
of focal distances and this constant aperture to offer image stabilisation.
The RF 24-240 lens with image stabilisation is extremely versatile
which makes her suitable for every photographic genre.
The RF 28-70 less is absolutely unique
since at 28 mm and 70 mm, the maximum aperture is always f/2.
That is, no matter the focal distance used, it's always very bright.