Canon announces two boxes that could give its letters of nobility to its family of APS-C sensor cameras, which is not the most crazy there is. Their names ? EOS R10, for the mid-range body, and the EOS R7, for the high-end. This last name is not free: the EOS R7 takes over from the famous EOS 7D and EOS 7D Mark II, APS-C reflex cameras that were popular with sports and nature photographers on a limited budget.
The quality of their autofocus, their powerful burst and the APS-C sensor (which gives a x1.6 zoom coefficient on full-frame lenses) made them excellent performance/price ratios. The EOS R7 is fully in line with this filiation. Its little brother, the EOS R10, is presented as the successor to the 90D.
EOS R3 processor + 24 or 32 Mpix sensor
While the EOS R10 is more “entry-level” and the EOS R7 more “expert”, the two cameras share the same key component: the Digic X processor. This same chip that powers the EOS R3, a full-frame camera with integrated vertical grip dedicated to sports and nature photographers. In other words, a chip capable of swallowing hundreds of millions of pixels every second.
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In addition to different housings in grip, resistance and volume, the difference between the R10 and the R7 is also in the sensor. A traditional 24.2 Mpix for the EOS R10, and a brand new 32.5 Mpix sensor for the EOS R7. Extra definition for two purposes: more detail for “normal” photography (landscapes, portraits, etc.), but also extra zoom for nature photography.
Between the x1.6 multiplier between its APS-C sensor and full-frame optics and the cropping potential of a comfortable definition of 32.5 Mpix, nature photographers will be able to produce images closer to their subjects without having to buy a 800mm or significantly degrade image quality.
Competition autofocus
Developed to follow subjects and to swallow pixels, the Digic X offers an action photo score that will make Canonists 7D and 7D Mark II owners salivate. Not only is its image definition superior to its reflex ancestors, but it sends images like an automatic rifle. For the R7, it’s 15 fps with the mechanical shutter, and 30 fps with the electronic shutter, AF tracking active each time.
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Depth side of buffer, the EOS R7 can count on 224 Jpeg (L quality) and 187 CRAW in mechanical shutter, and respectively 126 JPEG and 93 RAW in electronic shutter at 30 fps. The quality (and therefore the speed) of the UHS-II SD cards will heavily influence its ability to empty this buffer and go back “into battle”.
If the EOS R10 does not have the same strengths to realize the maximum potential of the image processor (only one memory card slot, less buffer memory, no mechanical stabilization, cropping of the 30 fps RAW burst, etc.), its liveliness should however benefit “in the moment” photographers and occasional action scenes.
Oversampled video
After the monstrous success of the EOS 5D Mark II in 2009, which allowed Canon to give birth to its line of professional “C” cameras, the Japanese manufacturer has always restricted the video capacities of its SLR cameras first, hybrid then. Just compare a Canon hybrid to a Panasonic, Sony or Fujifilm body to see it.
However, the competition helping, Canon is forced to let go of ballast in certain areas. For the EOS R10 and EOS R7, it’s upsampling in 4K30p mode: the first captures in 6K, the second in 7K, which should produce very good 4K files at the end of the chain.
4K60p mode is not cropped on the EOS R7 – but the poor R10 takes 64% crop in this mode! The HDR PQ is part of both boxes, but only the R7 manages Log files (C-Log 3).
Stabilizations and tropicalization reserved for R7
One of the major technical differences between the two devices is the presence of mechanical stabilization of the sensor only within the EOS R7. This will give it a very noticeable advantage from ultra-wide-angle to small telephoto lenses. The EOS R10 relies entirely on the stabilization of the optics… when it is present.
If you have old optics or exotic lenses, prefer the R7! For videographers, the question does not even arise: the standards of the segment have evolved so much that we can no longer do without it (and if we wish, it deactivates) and the R7 will this time be a compulsory choice. Only regret, it will never have a grip with secondary battery.
In this same almost “professional” vein, the degree of resistance of these two boxes is again to the advantage of the EOS R7 which benefits, like its reflex ancestors, from a host of protective seals against dust and water. ‘humidity.
As a good successor to the EOS 90D, the EOS R10 has a little trick that its big brother doesn’t have: a built-in flash, sometimes useful for creating too strong a shadow on a portrait.
Two new lenses
The arrival of new ranges of cameras in the photo families is often an opportunity for brands to launch major lenses – meaning here both voluminous and emblematic. The first is an ultra-compact zoom, the RF-S 18-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM (29-72mm equivalent). An optic whose rather modest aperture values of this zoom (f/4.5-6.3) are as much the mark of the search for compactness at all costs as the faith in the quality of the electronic stabilization (which supports the optical stabilization ).
The other is a trans-standard, the RF-S 18-150mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM, the traditional “travel zoom” which, with its 29-240mm equivalent, allows you to shoot a wide shot and a close shot without moving. Not a precision lens, but the good companion for lazy photographers.
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More strategic and undoubtedly the most anticipated, the EOS R7 will arrive at the end of June:
- 1499 euros bare case
- 1899 euros with the RF-S 18-150mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM
The EOS R10 will be available from the end of July in three forms:
- 979 euros bare case
- 1099 euros with the RF-S 18-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM
- 1379 euros with the RF-S 18-150mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM