Canon’s first APS-C mirrorless camera is here, three and a half years after its first full-frame RF-mounted option. After a brief hiatus with effective rebel replacement, there are plenty of cameras here for 1,000.
Build quality and design
Like the Canon EOS R7 that was announced today, the R10 has an original body design and weighs less than a pound with a battery and SD card inserted. The layout includes a Canon camera’s common diagonal shutter button, a front and rear dial to control a few different modes of exposure, a multi-controller joystick for quick moving of focus points, and a user-programmable four-way D-pad. . On the front is a dedicated AF / MF switch with another programmable button.
One thing missing from this design is a third wheel to complete three aspects of direct exposure control: shutter speed, aperture and ISO. Instead of the third dial, we get a D-Pad that offers more customization options, so there’s at least one trade-off.
The body style is familiar to Canon users as a whole, yet it has been dropped in areas where there is very little space between the handgrip and the lens. Rubbing with the lens while using this camera created a blister on one of my fingers and my hands are only medium size. If the camera was long, he would have brought one Optional grip extension like EOS RPI think my fingers will be able to angle better in narrow gaps.
Holds the bottom of the door LP-E17 battery And a single UHS-II SD card slot. These are small batteries that are used Canon Rebel Series And EOS RP. In one day of taking about 700 pictures, my battery was almost half gone. Based on battery size and mirrorless camera performance, this is better than I expected.
Image quality
The Canon EOS R10 features a newly-developed 24.2MP APS-C sensor and DIGIC X image processor. Canon’s mirrorless APS-C cameras retain the tradition of having 1.6x crop vs. more common 1.5x crop features. This model has no in-body image stabilization, so the stability must come from the lens used or the electronic stabilization provided in the video recording.
Looking at the image file, R10 produces reasonably decent results. In my eyes, I see that there is some crunch involved with the way it renders the melody of a scene. That said, I had minimal hand time with my camera and not too much light to work with.
Speaking of which, reviewing the test shots taken across its 100 to 32,000 ISO range, it seems that the ISO is around 3,200 when the images really start to crumble. Nowadays, I see most full-frame cameras show it around ISO 6,400 or 8,000, so this little APS-C sensor aligns with my expectations.
With 15 frames per second mechanical shutter, the EOS R10 is much higher than others in this price range. I asked a Canon representative if there were any errors in using the fastest mechanical shutter, and I was assured that it would maintain the overall experience and quality of the entire image. The camera can also shoot 23 frames per second with an electronic shutter, but since it is not a stacked sensor it has a pronounced rolling shutter effect with fast-moving action.
I’ve learned that even though it does a maximum of 23 frames per second, it can turn off 11 frames of JPEG + RAW before it reaches the end of the buffer. It is also important to use a UHS-II card with the fastest writing speed you can get your hands on. With a Delkin SD card With a write speed of 250 MB / sec, it takes 10 seconds vs. 2.9 seconds to clear a complete buffer Sony Tough G card Which has a writing speed of 299 MB / s.
Autofocus
One of the most impressive features of the EOS R10 is the autofocus system. Canon claims that it has inherited its smarts $ 6,000 EOS R3 But not necessarily speed. Again, this is not a backside-illuminated stacked sensor. This means that it features the same recognition for humans, animals (including birds) and vehicles and can start tracking from anywhere in the frame.
I’ve been using the EOS R3 for half a year now, and for anyone familiar with the camera’s autofocus capabilities, it was a simple switch to the R10. Perhaps my favorite aspect of these cameras is my focus area and how low my focus point position needs to be considered. When my subject enters the frame, it is already trackable by starting autofocus. No time wasted on relocating focus points or changing focus area coverage: the camera works. When there are multiple objects in the frame, the arrows appear outside the tracking box and I can switch to the target I want.
With all this R10 knock reliability. It’s a smart camera, but autofocus speed and lock-on tracking isn’t always going to get the job done. This can be a matter of modifying the autofocus features, which can be done in the menu. I originally set it up the way my EOS R3 did, but the continuity of following a tracked topic was not perfect.
The lowest cost of access to RF and the future of Canon
$ 980 Canon EOS R10 jumps to claim the place where the Rebel and M50 once stood. To be clear, Canon has said it does not plan to close them at this time. However, the R10 is so far ahead of those slow, dated cameras that writing is on the wall.
With this release, Canon has gotten a lot more accurate, including a very fast uninterrupted shooting speed, multi-controller joystick, reasonably good ISO performance, and an intelligent autofocusing system. Most of the time I spent with the R10 using it as a tool to get good photos from my experienced hands and find out if there was really anything in its way. Aside from compressed handling, most of my other issues are things that can still be refined, such as autofocus reliability, working around, lack of three dials, or neglect like an electronic shutter.
In short, the R10 seems appropriate for its asking price.