The wait is almost over. Retailers will begin shipping the Canon EOS R1 and RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Z on November 14. Some customers have already received their EOS R1, but the rest of us only have a few more days to wait. We expect to see shipping notices going out daily before the embargo officially lifts on Thursday.
In the US, preorders of the EOS R1 should be taken care of with the first allocation at major retailers, so we do expect to see some cameras in stock later in the week. As we’ve learned with the EOS R5 Mark II, that isn’t necessarily they way it goes in every country.
If you’re in the market for either product in the USA, peordering now will likely get you an EOS R1 from the first allocation.
Canon EOS R1 Preorder
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As for the RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Z in the USA, we expect to see it in-stock soon after preorder shipments have begun. A few retailers began receiving their inventory for the lens late last week. So we do expect that some will trickle out early as usually happens.
We don’t know if the allocation ratio is different than 50/50 for the two colours.
Canon RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM Z Preorder
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I expect to receive my copy from B&H on Thursday this week.
I ended up collecting the old flagships from pawn shops and garage sells and eBay. I’m going to do a huge review and shootout with every single flagship from the original F1 through the R1. If anyone has anything they’d like to see, let me know. Doing a 3 month road trip with the F1 series, T90, the film EOS 1 series, and digital EOS 1 series, and the R1 front and center.
and to be posted where exactly ?
It’s not Apple’s first go at this. The PowerBooks, iBooks and early MacBooks had matte displays. In 2008, they started using glossy displays and at the time they stated:
Still, for a couple of model releases just after that they charged $50 more to get matte as a CTO option (configure to order, like the 2 TB SSD option in the box above), then went glossy only. In 2015, they started putting an anti-glare coating on MBPs, but there were issues with it delaminating (including an unannounced repair program that is probably why they went with etching instead of a coating this time around).
Here are a 2004 12” PowerBook G4 (left), a 2010 17” MBP (center/back) and a 2008 13” Unibody MacBook (right) that was the first one to get a glossy screen.
I actually just prepped those three vintage Macs yesterday to have them recycled by Apple. All of them powered on! The 2010 17” MBP was in active use by my son until several months ago when my wife replaced her 2020 Intel MacBook Pro with a 14” M3 Pro MBP and handed the 2020 down to him, so I was able just erase the SSD and reinstall MacOS (no need for the latter, really).
The 2008 MacBook booted fine (testament to Apple’s durability), and I erased the SSD that I had swapped for the original HDD. That was as easy as it ever got on a MacBook, that model has a finger-release latch on the bottom that lets you directly replace the battery, and the HDD with just the two screws holding the bracket.
The 2004 PowerBook actually powered on but booted to a ? folder (no System Folder found), so rather than try to solve that conundrum I just opened it up, removed the HDD wiped it the sure and certain way…a strong magnet followed by a hammer. I was a little sloppy putting it back together, which is why the F11 key is askew (unlike the 2008 Unibody, that job was ~30 screws and going in under the keyboard).
/historylesson
My work Mac is a 16” M1 Pro in Silver, and I need some way to tell them apart when closed other than staring at the Thunderbolt ports and trying to figure out if they’re Thunderbolt 4 or Thunderbolt 5 ;).
My wife’s M3 Pro MBP is also space black, it's a very nice finish.
(Yikes, posted that from my phone and the screenshot was huge on my Mac, lol.)