R1 Reviews

Also wanted to share with people that the Delkin Black super fast 1.3Tb CFE card is again on sale at BH for $550 vs the usual 900. While the R1 might not be where people need it, I got a few for it and the R52 where I'll pair it with the Delkin Black 512 SD card and have the full raw go to the CFE and jpeg only to the SD. They should end up similarly filled for same shot count. On the R1 I'm just going to use my old protocol which is duplicate to both RAW and Jpeg but I suppose I could save a lot of $ by going similar to the R52 set up with only raw to CFE1 and then only jpeg to a much cheaper by speed and/or size card in CFE2.
I always want to have my cards be removed and set aside until saved onto my computer system, always having two copies somewhere so the redundant thing is for safety from theft and the unlikely damage or corruption which has only happened maybe 3 times since 2003 over several hundred projects.

JWest said:

Also wanted to share with people that the Delkin Black super fast 1.3Tb CFE card is again on sale at BH for $550 vs the usual 900.

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Thank you for sharing. I ordered a couple.

I thought about those but decided the regular Delkin power cards have a high enough speed for my needs. I can get about 15,000 pictures when shooting only raw to both cards and that suites my needs typically. I have only gotten into the situation one time where I needed more storage. I was shooting the GS Trophy USA qualifier in Greer SC a year ago. I shot 46,000 pictures over 3 days and had to dump cards during lunch to get through the day.

Edit: I run 512gb cards in my cameras for CFx, for the cameras I have SD cards in them, I run 256gb for those (SD) and store jpgs to them.

Canon Rumors Guy said:

I've had the Delkin 4.0 cards for a while, but I had to buy the ProGrade card reader, which bugged me a bit haha. Just need thunderbolt/USB-4.




I think it will take a couple of months of professional use to start to get good reviews. The Jan review was painful... I have to stop watching those.

I look at how the C70 reviews were in the first month... and then the longterm reviews. They're night and day.

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Hey, you are the one who post on the main page about deals right? That delkin black 1.3T $490 deal must have only been a moment because it's $550 and black friday isn't even here yet. Did you see it as 490 or do you know it will become 490? Thx

BH has the 1tb CFx cards for 299, slightly lower capacity and the speeds are within just a few mb/s of the black. While these are not the capacity I use, they are the same "model" I use and have always had good luck/performance with them.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...evices_dcfx4p1tb_1tb_power_4_0_cfexpress.html

neuroanatomist said:

They already use Bluetooth to trigger camera bodies directly, have for years and I don't see why they'd switch to the radio frequency used for flashes

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Bluetooth is consider RF as well. The 2.4 GHz ISM band is the only license free worldwide band available, which is why it became so popular.
We are both right: if they already use Bluetooth for triggering, no need to switch away, and especially not to an ancient and error prone technology as IR.

Do you know what frequency Canon is using for the speedlite triggers?

kaihp said:

Do you know what frequency Canon is using for the speedlite triggers?

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They use 2.4 GHz, same as Bluetooth but not the BT protocol or with the same range limitation like the BR-E1 remote. A smartphone can also trigger recent cameras via Bluetooth.

I've either dreamed this, or they may have scrapped it in production, but were there articles or images showing a battery % number on the LCD screen for the R1? I have been searching the camera menu for the battery meter % on the LCD and cannot find it. I would very much like to turn this on if it's in there.

OldDudePhotog said:

I've either dreamed this, or they may have scrapped it in production, but were there articles or images showing a battery % number on the LCD screen for the R1? I have been searching the camera menu for the battery meter % on the LCD and cannot find it. I would very much like to turn this on if it's in there.

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I think Fabian Fopp showed it in his latest video, the manual has it here: https://cam.start.canon/en/C018/manual/html/UG-03_Shooting-1_0450.html

koenkooi said:

I think Fabian Fopp showed it in his latest video, the manual has it here: https://cam.start.canon/en/C018/manual/html/UG-03_Shooting-1_0450.html

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Thank you, guess that was the one place I did not look. Turning that on adds it to the VF and the LCD in one go. Much better imo, they should add that to all of the cameras through FW update IMO, but am doubtful it will happen.

OldDudePhotog said:

I've either dreamed this, or they may have scrapped it in production, but were there articles or images showing a battery % number on the LCD screen for the R1? I have been searching the camera menu for the battery meter % on the LCD and cannot find it. I would very much like to turn this on if it's in there.

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I have mine turned on... it's in the "red" menu section, 9/9, first item "shooting info display", near bottom by "card free %"

OldDudePhotog said:

BH has the 1tb CFx cards for 299, slightly lower capacity and the speeds are within just a few mb/s of the black. While these are not the capacity I use, they are the same "model" I use and have always had good luck/performance with them.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...evices_dcfx4p1tb_1tb_power_4_0_cfexpress.html

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I get the black series in CFE and SD for the added durability. Their Black SD cards, along with SONY Tough "G" and "M" are much more durable due to being a 1 piece construction with no entry points for moisture or seems for potential separation in event of unforeseen abuse. The SD does not have the little sliding lock tab on these SD cards.

neuroanatomist said:

I’d start here, they are a Canon authorized dealer showing the R1 as in stock.

Canon EOS R1 Mirrorless Camera (Body Only)

The Canon EOS R1 is Canon's top-of-the-line full-frame professional camera that is a powerhouse for professionals working in fast action situations, carrying on the legacy of the Canon EOS-1D X Mark III digital SLR camera. The 1-series has a long tradition of providing excellent AF performance...

procam.com

I’d call them before placing an order online. When I was looking for the then-unavailable RF 10-20/4L, some shops showing ‘in stock’ did not actually have the lens. The third place I called did.

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Thanks again for mentioning this shop. I got the R1 last week and just now an RF 1.4x and an extra battery. Decent 1% rewards available within a day of purchase and easily applicable in small increments. So I got the ext for -$50 in rewards and then the LPE19 is on sale at $163 and I applied remaining $10 rewards from the R1 purchase. Free shipping and easy to get a person on a call.

OldDudePhotog said:

Not to hijack this but, has anyone preordered from bestbuy and received their camera? Mine says it is delayed and I preordered early morning of within minutes of the announcement.

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So what's funny is I also got mine from ProCam as my best buy was going to expire on the 29th. On the night of 28th best buy said in-stock LOL.

Today i just refreshed my best buy page for the rf70-200Z which had been showing sold-out for weeks. It JUST changed to in-stock as i was about to use BH which has the white one but nobody else big does.

So, if anyone is hot for white RF70-200Z, Best buy still shows in-stock after my purchase. After comparing on "the digital picture", I'm excited as I used my EF a lot. The lens image test is impressive at 2.8-4 and the almost 1 pound lighter will be cool.


I'll use the R52 for hiking, landscapes, and tripod work (backup to a gfx 100II). Hiking the two lenses I'll have will be the rf 24-105/4 and this Z 70-200, plus the 1.4x. With the mix of lighter things, both lenses are lighter, and the R52 body vs the R1, it'll be nice to work with)

The R1 will be more used with the EF 200-400/4, 70-200z and 28-70/2 for various things including night time city-walk-about.

I shot my first football match last night on the R1 and I was really impressed. The tracking system is really good, in my opinion it is definitely a step above what the R3 offers. On my R3 I ended up having it configured to just take focus on the focus point that I moved around because I found letting it track it too often it would jump around from player to player not landing on the one I was trying to select. So I used it like I did my old 1DXs with the addition of having eye focus set on the * button and having the Start/Stop tracking set on another button.

With the R1 last night I gave it ago with "Whole area tracking Servo AF" on, Subject detection people, Eye detection set to disable, and Action Priority set to on. I was pretty impressed with the results. The tracking is really fast at honing in on the player with the ball, ignoring suden obstructions. I had when situation where there was a free kick, two players lineup up to take it. I guess the one on the left was going to take it. So I framed her center left with the ball off center right of the frame. The other player was not even in the frame. When they went to take the free kick, the player I was focusing on faked a half step and the other player ran into the frame from the right to kick the ball. As soon as she ran into the frame the focus jumped to her. When I was reviewing the images in camera and it shows where the focus was, I was surprised that not a single frame had the focus on the original players that I was tracking it jumped over that quickly.

Pre-Continuous Shooting is a nice feature, but I am not sure about the current implementation. It starts working on a half press of the shutter. Then when you finally press and release the shutter it saves your shutter press and what it was buffering from the half press. I am pretty much always half pressing the shutter. So I found that I was getting a ton of images written to the card where I otherwise would have had like 3 images. Situations where you are just getting a simple player running with the ball and all of a sudden you got 15-20 images. I think it definitely needs a way for you to assign it to a button for it to be truly useful. So you can press a button in a situation you want it to be running rather than it always running on a half press of the shutter.

I have to say the firmware feels like it has a bit of bugs left in it. I had a situation durring the game where I had switched into my C2 custom shooting mode and was trying to switch out of it but the camera would not do it. It kept showing on screen that it was transferring an image. So I had to restart it once or twice. In the middle of the second half a temperate icon can up in the viewfinder. It had a little thermometer and to the right of it a bunch empty bars. It was strange because the camera was not at all warm. The icon remained there for the rest of the match, it even went up one bar at one point before going back down to zero. You can see it in the attached image.

I have rented the Canon R1 to see if want to buy one. I don't have to describe how good the AF is or how well it fells in your hand etc.

I have noticed two issues with my version and I have a couple of questions (coming from the R5m2):

Problem 1: Smart Controller is laggy in the horizontal position, works fine when I turn the camera 90deg and use the vertical grip and the 2nd SmartController.

Problem 2: Multi Controller doesn't want to move left, it does but I have to push it really hard to move it left. Other directions are fine.

Question 1: How can I assign custom functions to the 4 top buttons: WB, expose comp, Drive AF, Flash exposure?

Question 2: I miss quick access with my right hand (during shooting) to: play (review picture in VF), magnify (check focus), delete (reset Fv Mode settings to auto). How do you R3/R1 users handle this?

Problem1/Problem2 would probably make me RMA the camera - so not a big deal but kind of a surprise on a brand new R1.

docsmith said:

For those interested, a video compilation of wildlife in Costa Rica taken with the R1

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This guy takes “RAIN “ forest to another level. Thats as bad as it gets environment with not just the rain but the humidity.