The Canon EOS RP is being announced tomorrow, it costs $1,299 and here are all the specs
Feb 13, 2019
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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The buzz regarding a possible new entry-level Canon RF mount mirrorless camera has been getting quite intense over the last few days. And now, just the evening before an official announcement is expected, the entire spec sheet seems to have leaked.
Thanks to Amazon UK jumping the gun, we also have some idea of the price, too, with the basic model and EF to RF lens adapter costing £1,300 and US kits rumoured to start as low as $1,299.
The complete spec sheet is down below, and I guess we’ll find out tomorrow just how accurate it is, assuming the announcement actually comes tomorrow. But here are the highlights.
- 26.2-megapixel sensor
- Lens mount: RF (EF and EF-S lenses with the various EF to RF mount adapterS)
- Autofocus Type: Dual Pixel CMOS autofocus
- Autofocus Tracking: Face tracking + Eye AF
- ISO Range: 100-40000 (expanded to 50-102400)
- Shutter speed: 30-1/4000 sec
- Flash X-sync: 1/180 Sec
- Viewfinder: 0.39″ 2.36 million dots EVF
- LCD: 3.0″ 1.04 million dots capacitive touchscreen LCD
As with the EOS R, it’s compatible with any flash that works with the EOS DSLRs, including the 3rd party ones and supports high-speed sync up to its maximum 1/4000th of a second shutter.
Where it gets interesting, though is with video. Despite basically looking like a mirrorless version of the 6D Mark II, the EOS RP is said to have 4K video at up to around 115mbps. Unlike the Canon EOS R, it’s all 8-bit video, even piped out externally through HDMI.
But what the spec sheet doesn’t specify is any kind of crop factor. Could this finally be full frame 4K from Canon? Did they just neglect to mention the crop factor? Or am I going blind and I’ve just missed it?
For $1300 in the US, or £1300 in the UK, it sure will give the Sony A7III a run for its money, especially if it really can shoot uncropped 4K video. I find it unlikely, but it would obviously be pretty awesome. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow how accurate these specs are. Five new RF mount lenses are also rumoured to be announced tomorrow, too.
[via Canon Watch]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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18 responses to “The Canon EOS RP is being announced tomorrow, it costs $1,299 and here are all the specs”
would be great to see people stop putting adapters on sony camera’s, but just use good ol’ canon – front and back.
In fairness, it sounds like even the good old canon will require adapters. I’m waiting for the supposed 100mp release next year.
Would be great to see people stop putting apostrophes in words that they’re trying to make plural.
And Canon continues to trowel out behind-the-times, gimped crap. Cropped video, and 8-bit video… what year is this?
Then again, Canon was the last company still pushing interlaced video, well into the 2000s. Sad.
RF-mount has what, 4 lenses? Adapters will be out in force for EOS R variants for years to come. On the bright side, Sonys AF EF-mount lenses incredibly well. So you get AF performance AND IQ.
Worst thing about shooting Sony is being mixed in with Sony users. They think taking pictures of boxes of expensive lenses they just blew their money on is an achievement. When you complain about having to send it in for repair, they tell you Canons have the same issue as if that somehow makes it alright.
I think we’ll see maybe an APC-C sized or 1.5x crop with this one, unless they decide to do oversampling ala the Sony A7III.
Furries be misreading this as the eos role play ??
So does that make you a furry ???
Found one ?
Will be buying this time it’s up for order
I was thinking if getting the R to replace my 70D. Is there a significant t advantage to the R?
Obviously we haven’t seen IQ on this but by the leaked features?
$1k goes a long way in upgrading glass. I’ve been itching to go FF, as my 80-200 would be much more apt for pics of the kids indoors.
I will definitely buy this as an addition, not a replacement, to my current kit.
The original EOS-M’s hardware is capable of doing 4k 30fps so why can’t the newer cameras handle it?
because bigger cmos require lot more process power and fast cmos
I don’t think so…. The way I see it, you can’t have digital stabilisation if you’re using the full width of the sensor…
yeah, what I said above ;) can’t have digi stabiliser if the whole sensor is being used..
No FHD 24 fps :(
crippled