Reviews Canon EOS RP Kit Camera

Reviews Canon EOS RP Kit Camera

The Canon RP full-frame camera (FF) entered the market in 2019, a year after the Canon R.

The first time I picked it up after buying it by my friend and thought, why do I need it? After all, there is already a Canon R mirrorless camera for fans of Canon. But when I compared their cost and took a trial series of pictures, I generally understood the meaning of the output of this camera.

Canon fans and admirers have been waiting for a long time for the release of mirrorless cameras, and now this has happened. In 2018 , Canon R entered the market . The camera turned out to be pretty good, except for two simple things: a very high price and an incomprehensible joystick for settings, which, by the way, I personally didn't like too much when I first shot. Due to the high cost, sales were not as high as Canon expected.

Then Canon, without hesitation, decided to release a cheaper, but also full-format mirrorless Canon RP to fill this niche. Having taken pictures with both cameras and having the opportunity to compare, we will now analyze how much worse the younger brother turned out to be and whether it is worth buying him.

RP was released in 2019 a year after R and of course marketers certainly facilitated it to reduce the cost.

Disadvantages of the Canon EOS RP Kit camera:

Reduced by 4 MP., now it has become 26.2.
The quality of the electronic viewfinder and the rotary LCD display has deteriorated, at the same time reducing it to 3 inches.
Autofocus points were reduced by almost 1000. But at the same time they left the same percentage of screen coverage, which pleases.
The shutter speed was halved, it became 1/4000 s.
We installed a less high-speed USB port and reduced the battery capacity.
The battery wasn't too big anyway, but it got even smaller.
The rate of fire was removed by 3 points.
A small monochrome screen for settings was removed from the case.
In general, they chewed the camera, biting off pieces of parameters, showing this: if you want better, take more expensive.

So did this make the Canon RP camera really worse, or is it just a marketing ploy of the company.

But, not everything turned out so bad in fact, all the most important and necessary things were left in the camera:

A matrix of the same size and quality.
Magnesium alloy housing with dust and moisture protection.
The autofocus and sensor are of excellent quality.
The new 8th generation processor.
WI-FI and Blue-Tooth for work mobility.
Excellent quality of photos and videos in 4K format.

And in some small things, it has even improved a little.

Advantages of the Canon EOS RP Kit camera:

The maximum series of snapshots to the clipboard has increased.
The ISO sensitivity has slightly increased.
The weight has decreased by almost 200 gr., and if you did not shoot a full wedding day from 9 am to 1 am, then you do not know the price of the weight of these 200 gr. by the end of the day on your neck.

Conclusion:

In practical use, I did not feel any severe deterioration of the camera. And given the price reduction, you can safely take it and use it. The quality of the pictures and video output is excellent. Shooting on Canon RP, I didn't feel any discomfort compared to the older brother Canon R.

Having successfully sold my new Canon R, I switched to a cheaper and lighter RP and in general did not regret it.

The cheapest full-frame mirrorless camera I've found is Canon EOS RP. Well, Sony also had an old seven. But she's really old. I got confused here, shares-cashbacks-bonuses, in the end it cost me 68,000 money, 4 of them with a bonus for an additional battery. And it's for Canon EOS RP oh, how necessary. After the Canon 60D, which made 1300 frames on a single charge without strain, and this being already an 8-year-old device with a worn-out battery, despite the fact that the device never turned off, the screen is turned outward, shows 2 s. the resulting frame, and the camera flash is used in about 10% of frames on average. And Canon EOS RP is just pain and sadness. If you turn off everything you don't really need, make the viewfinder brightness 50% plus power saving mode, never open the screen, and turn off the camera every time, then the charge is enough for 380 frames, this is my personal record, usually less. And this is in the heat. But the most painful thing is that Canon in 2020 does not know how to charge via USB. That is, it can, but only if you buy a special cable for 10,000 rubles. Once I had such a glitch that when connected to a computer, the camera did not offer to merge the photo, but went to charge. But only once in two years, in the order of a bug, not a feature. And so I tried all the charging / cables – it doesn't furychit. In Canon, they replied to me that they would send my wish to the appropriate department. That is, there is no hope that the company will cancel its meanness. In general, I'm waiting for the Chinese to make a normal copy of the original cable. But you need to be prepared that you will have to buy an additional accum along with the camera (depending on the conditions, maybe several) There is another thought: buy another charger and solder it so that it works not from the mains, but from 5V. Or 12, at least. But so far I'm too lazy to collect such crutches.

The grip of the 60D is more convenient. Canon 60D is the last device before RP, so I mainly compare it with it. RP is good, but lower and narrower. Slightly "dangles" in the hand, the little finger is hanging out of business, despite the fact that the palm of my hand, to put it mildly, is not very large. But this is more than compensated by weight. It is so light that after installing the adapter on the EF, it begins to outweigh. And together with the adapter and the 18-55 lens, the device is noticeably lighter than the naked 60. It seems to me that it is even lighter than the canon 650D. And this is with a full frame.

Compared to focusing the 60D at the center point, the Canon EOS RP is noticeably slower. Although, if you compare it with the Sony A5000 mirrorless, it's a plane past a balloon. Sony is just dumb. I didn't measure the time on purpose, but many times I caught myself thinking that I had passed the shutter release button, due to the fact that the shutter hadn't clicked yet (this is in cases when I don't look at the video finder, I shoot so much). Yes, and she has a long way out of standby mode. If 60-ku raised, pressed, and received a frame, then RP raised, pressed, nothing happened, released, pressed, received a frame. At the same time, at a speed of 70 km/h and above, the road sign cannot be photographed from the car, which was easily done by a DSLR. Similarly with a child swinging on a swing – it's very hard to catch. But if you don't rush anywhere, then everything is fine. Although, in the "AF by 1 point" mode, the square turns out to be so large that when photographing, for example, birds in the grass, it often misses. Such a back-focus is not uncommon.

Since I mentioned the shutter release button, it is much more convenient than any device I had. This, it turns out, is useful when shooting at long exposures – less grease from the hands.

When HDR is enabled, saving automatically switches to jpeg. After turning off the HDR, it does not automatically switch back to the rav. That is, after turning off the HDR, you still need to climb and switch to the rav (or rav-jeep, depending on what you use. But on the Wi-Fi he shoots in the rav. Sony A5000 does not know how to do this, it is only in jpeg with remote control. On Sonka, it is impossible to turn on HDR until you switch to jpeg. It's not very convenient, but at least you remember later. But on Canon, no fig. You start HDR, then you forget to turn it back on. Fortunately, I don't really need the function itself.

I had to dance with a tambourine to hook up to the tablet via Wi-Fi. Although in theory everything is simple – the camera gives a QR code with a link to the program in the store, but I had to read the instructions. By the way, it is not in the Russian version of the firmware update. At the same time, foreign versions of the manual are in the PDF file, from which the text cannot be copied to the translator. A trifle, but unpleasant. Still, Canon treats its consumer very badly.

It's good that timelapse was added. It's bad that there is no electronic shutter that would help to do a lot of timelaps and hyperlaps without fear for the shutter resource. And it's just annoying. Well, damn, well, how can you not add an electronic shutter to a mirrorless camera in 2020, when timelaps are removed by any mobile phones. And in Canon RP everything is like this: in general, a cool camera for your money. This is such a budget modern full-frame device. But his shortcomings are just infuriating and annoying. Especially since they are not irremediable – they are just software. Well, not counting the batteries. But even the battery problem would be offset by the possibility of charging from the power bank. An-no, they want to sell a simple USB-c cord for 10,000 money.

In general, a good device is worth its money if there is a willingness to tolerate these shoals. And, another jamb: the Sigma 17-55 lens does not work with RP in the cold for some reason. It works with 60D and 650D, but not with RP. Although, of course, a crop lens with an FF camera is still fun, but on the whole such a set is working, it just turns out that the vignette is too big.

In general, with the adapter from the kit, it works perfectly with all EF and EF-s lenses that I came across. Perhaps if you buy a modern RF lens, the camera will focus faster with it, but I won't know until the camera is equipped with the ability to charge via a conventional USB-c cable and/or an electronic shutter. That's what I wrote to them - I won't buy a new RF lens until they meet their consumer halfway.