Canon’s new EOS R8 combines significant virtues you don’t often see together: low cost, and a full-frame sensor.
Here are two words that you don’t usually see together in the same sentence: entry-level, and full-frame.
But I digress. These X number of words have piqued the interest of the photographers here at the Digital Life Labs, due to their rare combination, and due to the opinion we formed about a decade ago that the only way for the camera industry to fight back against mobile phones would be to apply those words to an actual product.
Compared to cameras with smaller image sensors , full-frame cameras have a number of significant advantages, most notably better low-light performance and better separation of the subject from the background. With bigger image sensors come bigger lenses. The EOS R8 on the right, versus the compact, cropped-sensor EOS R50 on the left.
It made us a little nervous, heading out with only a single memory card loaded into the EOS R8, until we considered our actual experience. In all the years we’ve been using full-frame cameras, we’ve never once needed that second SD-card in an emergency because the first one has broken.For us, it’s merely been about convenience – we have one card that holds RAW images, and another card that holds JPEG copies of those same images – and it’s one we haven’t missed while using the EOS R8.
Also, there is no joystick on the back for shifting the point of autofocus, but there are other ways to do that anyway., and we don’t think it’s a biggie, either.The autofocus system, which Canon has borrowed from the much more fancy EOS R6 II, is wonderful, which is important because focus, much more than any other factor in our experience, is the one thing that’s going to be the difference between a shot being usable and unusable.
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