Photography News issue 72

Canon EOS R System

Light fantastic “One of the many things that impressed me about the EOS R,” viewfinder you’d hardly have been able to see anything in some ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE

One of the big draws of Canon’s full-frame mirrorless EOS R system is the way it mixes top-drawer image quality with small size and lowweight, as Simon Raynor discovered on a recent shooting tour of India

locations. With the enhanced view, I could see exactly what I needed and frame perfectly.” As a long-time DSLR user who still shoots with an EOS 5D Mark IV, a good EVF was always going to be vital for Simon in making the switch. “I’m a traditional photographer and I want the camera up to my eye as much as possible,” he says. “That is unless there’s something that I want to shoot at low or high level, and there the EOS R’s angled LCD

says Simon Raynor, "was how well it performed in low-light situations.” Simon, a member of New City Photographic Society, a PN reader and a dedicated enthusiast with LRPS and CPAGB awards, put his new EOS R through its paces on a photo tour in India, including shooting in the streets and markets of Agra and Delhi after dark. “For starters, the camera’s EVF makes composition much easier in those situations,” Simon explains, “because with a traditional optical

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