Canon EOS RP Kit Camera
Briefly about the product
- camera with interchangeable lens support
- Canon RF mount
- matrix 27.1 MP (Full frame)
- minimum exposure: 0.00 s
- sensitivity 100 - 40,000 ISO, AutoISO
- 4K video shooting
- 3 ′ swivel touchscreen, waterproof housing
- SDHC, Secure Digital, SDXC memory cards
- interfaces Wi-Fi, USB, Bluetooth, HDMI, microphone input, headphone output, remote control connector
- weight without batteries and lens 440 g
- 133x70x85 mm
Getting to Know the Canon EOS RP
The Canon EOS R mirrorless system is the youngest on the market today, not even a year old! Therefore, it is not surprising that we are testing only the second model of Canon's mirrorless camera. This is the new Canon EOS RP. What to expect from this camera? In what way does it lose to the previously released EOS R? Or maybe it's better to still shoot with a DSLR? About this in our test.
What is the price?
At the time of this writing, the Canon EOS RP costs about 90,000 rubles without a lens. The amount is rather big, but more than modest by the standards of modern full-frame models. The universal lens RF 24-105mm f / 4L IS USM, with which the camera came to us for testing, will cost about the same amount. You can save on flash drives - Canon EOS RP works with the common SD format. It remains to buy a spare battery, because unlike the older EOS R model, the new product is equipped with an LP-E17 battery, designed for about 250 frames (using CIPA technology). So the starter kit isn't all that cheap.
By the way, the camera works perfectly with the "old" Canon EF optics through an adapter. So if you already own Canon full-frame lenses, feel free to use the included EF-EOS R adapter.
What can it do?
The main advantage of the Canon EOS RP is the 26.2MP full-frame image sensor. In all respects, the sensor is very similar to the one we saw in the Canon EOS 6D Mark II DSLR released two years ago, and surprises with the image quality are clearly not expected.
Unlike a DSLR, the EOS RP uses phase focusing only on the image sensor using Dual Pixel CMOS AF technology. No optical viewfinder! Both face detection and eye autofocus are supported. And the declared autofocus sensitivity is striking - up to -5 EV.
Continuous shooting speed is slightly lower compared to the EOS R and EOS 6D Mark II. The new "lightweight" mirrorless camera can shoot up to 5 frames / s with single-frame and up to 4 frames / s with continuous autofocus. But the buffer, according to the manufacturer, can hold up to 50 RAW files - a solid figure for the amateur segment.
Video shooting is possible in 4K at 25fps, but like in the EOS R, the crop factor appears here. From the full width of the matrix, video is recorded only in Full HD.
The approach to parameter management is broadly similar to what we've seen with the EOS R. Except for the multi-function touch panel and display on the top panel. The main control remains a 3 ″ touch screen with a fully rotatable design and a resolution of 1.04 million dots. And for sighting, an OLED viewfinder with a resolution of 2.36 million points is used - also slightly more modest than in more expensive cameras.
Canon EOS RP has one memory card, SD format with UHS-II support. Among the wireless interfaces, we hasten to mention Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
To the natural question of many amateur photographers, why, two years after the release of the EOS 6D Mark II, to release a mirrorless camera so similar to it, we have two answers. First, the compactness of the EOS RP looks like a definite plus of this model. Second, the EOS RP compatible RF optics are currently superior to EF lenses.
