forum thread
Canon EOS R100 Two Lens Mirrorless Camera Bundle $749 Starts 4/29 SAMS CLUB
Sam's Club
Sam's ClubDeal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
Deal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
Community Voting
Deal
Score
+5
Good Deal
Bad Deal
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!
10 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
You can currently get this from Canon's refurbished site for $400: https://www.usa.canon.c
-- -- --
One lens for $329: https://www.usa.canon.c
-- -- --
Body only $279: https://www.usa.canon.c
-- -- --
With that said, $750 is outrageously expensive for what little you're getting. That's a hard no from me.
Even $400 for the three-piece set is a bit outrageous.
It's not a great camera. This is the bare-bones entry-level model. It doesn't have a touch screen, so it's a poor choice for those moving up from a mobile telephone camera. It doesn't have two mode dials, so it's a poor choice for those wanting to learn photography/exposure/manual controls. The video is nigh useless on it with terrible rolling shutter. And the photo on it? Well, it's not terrible. Comparatively, it's not amazing.
And the kit lenses are about as flim-flam quality as you can get.
The only two things "good" about this camera is that it's a modern canon RF mount that hits a price point -- and that it's small + lightweight. But you can get cheaper cameras, smaller cameras, and more lightweight cameras than this. Or...maybe if they're nearly the same, you're getting far better performance for the weight/cost.
-------
If you have a budget of $750, you can quite a few very good options that far beat this entry-level... thing.
Canon's own R50 (a major step up) is $450 (https://www.usa.canon.c
If you don't mind going a bit older, you can get Olympus Micro 4/3rds -- the Olympus EM-1 Mark II can be had for roughly $400 + Olympus 12-40 f/2.8 lens for ~$400 (24-80mm full frame equivalent). This is an absolute pro-tier setup which will yield amazingly stellar results compared to the plastik-not-so-fantastik R100.
I'm sure there are Sony and Nikon equivalents, but I'm unfamiliar with much of those mirrorless systems so I'll leave that as an exercise for others to figure out.
You can currently get this from Canon's refurbished site for $400: https://www.usa.canon.c
-- -- --
One lens for $329: https://www.usa.canon.c
-- -- --
Body only $279: https://www.usa.canon.c
-- -- --
With that said, $750 is outrageously expensive for what little you're getting. That's a hard no from me.
Even $400 for the three-piece set is a bit outrageous.
It's not a great camera. This is the bare-bones entry-level model. It doesn't have a touch screen, so it's a poor choice for those moving up from a mobile telephone camera. It doesn't have two mode dials, so it's a poor choice for those wanting to learn photography/exposure/manual controls. The video is nigh useless on it with terrible rolling shutter. And the photo on it? Well, it's not terrible. Comparatively, it's not amazing.
And the kit lenses are about as flim-flam quality as you can get.
The only two things "good" about this camera is that it's a modern canon RF mount that hits a price point -- and that it's small + lightweight.
If you have a budget of $750, you can quite a few very good options that far beat this entry-level... thing.
Canon's own R50 (a major step up) is $450 (https://www.usa.canon.c
If you don't mind going a bit older, you can get Olympus Micro 4/3rds -- the Olympus EM-1 Mark II can be had for roughly $400 + Olympus 12-40 f/2.8 lens for ~$400 (24-80mm full frame equivalent). This is an absolute pro-tier setup which will yield amazingly stellar results compared to the plastik-not-so-fantastik R100.
I'm sure there are Sony and Nikon equivalents, but I'm unfamiliar with much of those mirrorless systems so I'll leave that as an exercise for others to figure out.
If someone really wants this R100 kit, try to catch it in stock refurbished straight from Canon for $400.
I bought my wife a refurbished R50 with the kit lens for $479 sometime last year. It looked and felt like it was new. Well worth the step up, even with that kit lens.
If you can catch it in stock, the R50 with kit lens is $499.
https://www.usa.canon.c
Just be aware that if you have been a chronic sufferer of G.A.S (gear acquisition syndrome) then you would want to upgrade almost right away.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Do *not* get m series!
Considering the price of this particular deal, I wouldn't recommend getting the R100, so a T7 should honestly be a good camera for a while.
The R100 was released in 2023 and runs the Digic 8.
Canon has moved its investment to the mirrorless RF system these days, not the old EF system. The last Rebel was the T8i, released in 2020.
So with the R100 you're getting a much newer camera and software, and crucially, you're investing in Canon's current RF platform, not the dead EF platform. Buying RF lenses makes a lot more sense these days.
Some will say you should get the R50 over the R100. And that's fine if you want to spend more money. But if choosing between the T7 and the R100 (for $60 more, $329 vs. $269), I would definitely get the R100. At this price point, if you want to upgrade in the future, you can sell the body and recoup nearly all of your original investment. Buying an RF body in today's environment (and then investing in RF lenses) really makes sense.
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!