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Unlike most mirrorless cameras, the EOS RP has no dedicated Exposure Compensation dial…and I miss it. A couple practical ones to me include Aperture (you can use it essentially like an aperture ring) and (my current choice) Exposure Compensation. The control ring is designed to add functionality to the camera itself (not just the lens), as like the other wheels, it can be assigned a variety of different values. One of those functions is the inclusion of a new “control ring” located on RF mount lenses (at least those from Canon). RF mount lenses have been designed with additional electrical points to the camera compared to EF lenses, and this allows for expanded functionality. You may need to disable that sensor if you plan on doing extensive video work, as it gets annoying. When you rotate it out to the side for video recording (and hold the camera close to your body for stability while looking down at the screen), it is easy to activate the sensor that switches between the LCD screen and the viewfinder, and it switches back and forth. The second quirk is when using the articulating LCD screen. It seems like having separate controls in the menu for the LCD and viewfinder brightness would be more intuitive. In my case I found that I had to maximize the brightness of the viewfinder to match the LCD at about 50% brightness. It controls whatever screen is active at the moment, so when you are looking through the viewfinder, it controls the viewfinder, but if you are looking at the LCD screen, it controls that. To change the brightness of the viewfinder, you have to be looking through it and then access that same menu setting called “Display Brightness” (it is in menu 2 under the “wrench” symbol).

After a lot of frustration and research, I finally stumbled on the solution…and it is a weird one. The two did not match at all, with the viewfinder looking very underexposed while the LCD screen showed correct exposure. I tried looking for a menu setting, but the only menu setting seemed to only impact the brightness of the LCD screen, not the viewfinder. Initially I found the viewfinder dark on the EOS RP that I tested. It works fine, but I did run into a couple of quirks. The EOS R’s viewfinder was one of the best that I’ve used, and the EOS RP has a decidedly average viewfinder by comparison.

5″ on the EOS R) and lower resolution (2.36 million dots per inch vs. It is essentially lifted from the EOS M50, and is smaller (.39″ vs. The viewfinder on the EOS RP is decent but certainly a downgrade from the EOS R. To be fair, I’ve never had a card failure during an event, but my personal preference is to have two card slots and write RAW files to one and JPEGs to another (which become a de-facto backup for me). There is only one card slot, but at least it is a UHS-II compliant slot that allows you to leverage cards with faster write speeds. The memory card slot runs a different direction than the battery itself, and is fairly easy to access.

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I’m not a big fan of “memory-card-on-the-bottom”, as it is much more convenient when shooting on a tripod to have side access to the memory card, but thankfully the EOS RP’s layout is much better than that of, say, the Sony a6000 series cameras. The right side of the camera (grip side) has no side door, as the single SD card slot has been shifted to the battery compartment. You’ve got a remote shutter release port, a microphone and headphone jack, then a mini-HDMI and the aforementioned USB-C connection. The side view with all the connection ports (shown above) is near-identical to that on the EOS R. I’ve spent some time with the EOS RP along with the Canon RF 35mm F1.8 Macro IS STM – the least expensive Canon RF-mount lens at the moment – and I feel like I have a solid feel of where this camera excels, where it comes up short, and who it is for. There are some obvious areas where the camera has been held back to provide market separation from the EOS R, but the low price of entry makes it easy to forgive these when the resulting camera is really quite good. It’s a surprisingly competent camera on a number of levels, with great autofocus, great ergonomics, good image quality (with a few caveats), and Canon’s fantastic “Vari-Angle” touchscreen.

#The iso zone review full

This second full-frame mirrorless camera comes with a slightly reduced spec list and a price tag roughly $1000 less – making it one of the most affordable entry points into a full frame camera, period, and also the lowest point of entry into a mirrorless full frame camera. The Canon EOS RP is Canon’s second entry in the new R series of mirrorless cameras from Canada.