Canon R1 has been announced

[Kayaker72]

My R1 successfully arrived on Friday. I was on a plane back from Europe. My wife was at work. We had numerous notes on our front door, even inside the window to the side of the front door so they could tell it was us leaving the notes.

In the end, the box with the R1 was left by our garage. Entirely possible FedEx never saw the notes as they would have had to walk around the corner. IDK. But, it is funny to me.

But, initial impressions are very positive, very fast, AF very confident, etc. My first "1" series camera. I had borrowed the 1Dx and 1Dx III before. But this is the first I have owned. I'll be running some tests/playing with it soon. I am mostly curious about resolution, AF speed/hit rate, and a few new features like pre-capture. What I can say is that it is by far the most programable camera I have seen. As a quick example, but in changing hte "*" button to be a second backfocus button, that was easy, move it over to "Metering and AF Start". But then hit the info button and you can customize 11 features, turning them on/off with a check mark, but then you a press on each of those features to customize them. Yeah...3 layers of customization. It's like I'll have to know what I am doing to use this camera. Busy day yesterday, but I still managed a few shots around the house.

I will say, I have noticed a slight greenish cast. But that could be the camera or how LR wants to deal with the R1 files this early on. I have adjusted the calibration of these a bit to compensate.

[Jonathan Huyer]

My R1 successfully arrived on Friday.

Congrats and thanks for sharing your initial impressions -- I'm super interested in everything you have to report on. I've been a 1DX user through all the models, but I haven't made the jump yet to the R1. I'm sure it's only a matter of time now!

[Kayaker72]

Congrats and thanks for sharing your initial impressions -- I'm super interested in everything you have to report on. I've been a 1DX user through all the models, but I haven't made the jump yet to the R1. I'm sure it's only a matter of time now!

Thanks.

I know you have been concerned about buffering. This has been tested by a forum member on CR. Essentially found they hit the buffer after ~10 seconds at 40 fps, ~13 seconds at 30 fps, and they stopped the test at >900 frames/45 seconds at 20 fps.

Currently I configured my R1 to 20 fps, 10 fps, and 5 fps. I might modify that, but I typically shoot my R5 at 8-9 fps or lower.

I was looking into the resolving power Sunday night and photographed Saturn with the R1 and R5 and the RF 200-800. Both taken off a tripod, 1/200, f/10, and ISO 6400. I can improve this, but I found the results interesting, exported at 300%:

I prefer the R1 image. I suspect the R5 would have provided more detail, except for the noise at ISO 6400. I am waiting for more controlled studies, but I am hearing others make reference to this, the R1 has very low noise at higher ISOs. We'll see. I'll play with this more myself later.

For reference, here is the uncropped frame from the R1 image, and yes, Saturn is the white dot just below and right of center: