expiredb_koala posted Oct 18, 2025 04:53 AM
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expiredb_koala posted Oct 18, 2025 04:53 AM
Canon EOS R8 Mirrorless Camera with RF 24-50mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM Lens $1489
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Honestly, those sort of options diminish the brand....hard to identify what's actually good when there's so much noise.
Having the entire EF and EF-S and RF and RF-S library available, which lenses are you failing to find? And I didn't even mention the plethora of manual lenses that are compatible with mirrorless, like Canon's older FD mount (or any other mount which can be easily adapted).
I've found that Panasonic's and Nikon's body pricing is off the charts bonkers compared to what the R8 can give you for roughly $1000 for the body used. It isn't until you start getting in the $2k body range (upper mid-tier/low pro-tier) when the alternatives start getting compelling -- and it's usually for stuff like video.
You do realize that cheaper cameras are getting fewer and fewer in today's belt-tightening era, right? Lower prices, less profit per unit. So instead of having 3-5x cheap options, there's one or two...R100 and R50. Everything else is now mid-tier.
The low light sensitivity on the R8 is pretty radical -- you can push the ISO to 25,600 without significant loss. So even shooting at f/6.3, you can still get nice images....while not increasing the base price for a kit from the predecessors. (especially when everything is always increasing in cost as the dollar gets weaker).
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