Canon EOS RP Review

CameraLabs has completed their review of the Canon EOS RP.

The Canon EOS RP, is Canon's latest entry level full frame camera that surprised the industry with its ultra low price at launch. Considering its low price, Canon put in a fair amount of compromises into the design of the camera, including some of its video features.

CameraLabs had this to say;

The Canon EOS RP is the most affordable new full frame camera to date, whether DSLR or mirrorless. Sure, there’s often bargains to be had on older models, like Sony’s frequently discounted A7 II, but in terms of newly-released full-framers, the RP achieves a refreshingly low price at a time when other manufacturers are pushing ever more expensive models.

There’s inevitably some compromises, but let’s start with the positives: you’re getting a big sensor, attractive JPEGs out-of-camera, a fully-articulated touchscreen, microphone and headphone jacks, and Canon’s industry-leading dual pixel AF which does a solid job with native RF or adapted EF lenses and delivers effortless 1080 video. On the downside, the battery life is modest, there’s no built-in stabilisation nor twin card slots, and there’s a raft of frustrating video limitations: filming in 4k incurs a tight crop, losing the benefit of having a full-frame sensor, and annoyingly loses dual pixel AF too. There’s no high-frame rates for slow motion and strangely no 1080 at 24p either. Even weirder, when you fit an EF-S lens, the 1080 options disappear altogether, leaving owners of these lenses to film in either 720p if they want dual pixel or 4k without. Then there’s the absence of a low-cost native RF zoom, forcing owners to either go for the fixed RF 35mm, or adapt an older EF lens.

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Interested in a Canon EOS RP, at a glance it features are;