CANON EOS R7 AND R10
SPECIFICATIONS Canon EOS R7 (specs for EOS R10 in brackets if different) Price: £1349/$1499 body only (£900/$879)
Sensor: 32.5-megapixel CMOS APS-C, 1.6x crop (24.2 megapixels)
Recording format: H.265 4:2:2 10-bit and H.264 4:2:0 8-bit 4K 59.94/50/29.97/25/23.98p, FHD 119.88/100/59.94/50/ 29.97/25/23.8p ISO range: 100-32,000, expandable 100-51,200 Stills: CRAW, HEIF, JPEG, Raw Stills frame rate: 30fps electronic shutter, 15fps mechanical (23fps electronic, 15fps mechanical) Gamma: Canon Log 3, HDR-PQ (HDR-PQ only) Lens mount: Canon RF Image stabiliser: Five-axis in-body Shutter speeds : 30secs to 1/16,000sec (30-1/4000sec) LCD: Three-inch, free-angle articulating touchscreen, 1620k dots (1040k dots) Viewfinder: 2360k-dot EVF Autofocus: 651 points for photo and video, on-sensor phase detection Connectivity: USB-C 3.2, micro HDMI, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Storage: 2x SD/SDHC/SDXC UHS-II slots (1x SD/SDHC/ SDXC UHS-II slot) Dimensions (wxhxd): 132x90.4x91.7mm/ 5.2x3.6x3.6in (122.5x87.8x83.4mm/ 4.8x3.5x3.3in) Weight: 530g/1.2lb body only (382.2g/0.84lb) no oversampled 4K at anything besides 30p and no audio in the HD-only fast frame rates means the camera is limited. But it’s relatively inexpensive and the 4K/30p oversampled is very good. One advantage of a smaller sensor is in image stabilisation, and the R7 combines IBIS with Optical and Movie Digital IS to keep the footage stable. It works decently, although it isn’t quite on par with the Micro Four Thirds cameras from Panasonic or OM System. But then again, nothing is.
“The 4K Fine setting takes the 7K signal from the sensor and oversamples it down to 4K”
Now the less good news. The camera offers 10-bit 4:2:2 in H.265 and 8-bit 4:2:0 in H.264, so there’s plenty of information when grading. But there are no all-Intra codecs at all, just two levels of Long GOP- style IPB options. If you want to shoot any 4K frame rates faster than 30p, the footage doesn’t make use of the high-quality oversampling mode, but starts throwing away info from the sensor – reducing quality. So 4K/60p isn’t as good as 4K/30p, and if you want the 4K crop mode which gives 60p, there’s an additional 1.8x crop of the sensor. This is already a 1.6x crop sensor anyway, so the 1.8x goes on top of that. If you want to go faster – and remember, this is a camera aimed at sports and wildlife shooters – then you have to go to HD and engage high frame rate options. Once selected, it doesn’t record audio, compressing the shot into a slow- motion file in-camera. That makes it awkward for speed ramping in post as you have no audio. Results from these settings are decent enough, but they do feel a bit old-school now compared to cameras offering much more in terms of codecs and frame rate options. No video Raw, no All-I,
and 1/16,000sec for electronic. It records in JPEG, HEIF, Raw or the new CRAW – a smaller file size that still offers many of the advantages of Raw capture such as no baked-in white-balance. For video use, the ultimate quality comes when turning to the 4K Fine setting, which takes the 7K signal from the sensor and oversamples it down to 4K – but only up to 30fps. Quality is excellent, with perfectly detailed footage in colours that are of the typically fantastic Canon style. Maximise dynamic range with C-Log3 gamma. If that sounds perfect for your use, you’ll love it. You only need V60-spec SD cards in the dual cards slots, too, saving cash over faster V90 versions.
DOWNSIZING New Canon RF-S lenses are a good match for the smaller APS-C camera bodies
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