Canon EOS R10 4K Mirrorless Camera with RF-S18-45mm Lens

The camera buying process is not an easy one. I was a bit of a newbie when I began my research, but I'd call myself an intermediate. I had done some photography using my school's cameras before, but this blew me away. I was worried this was too inexpensive compared to other higher-end alternatives, but I made the right decision. The camera is excellent for any type of photography. I have to do a lot of school sports, and I've never had any issues. The kit lens covers anything I need. I might get a zoom lens down the line, but for everyday use, it's fantastic. The automatic modes have improved so much on newer cameras that there's hardly a need to adjust many settings on your own. I think anybody who got this would love it, and I would buy this over any camera in this price range.

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Camera bought in February 2023. I was actually contemplating the move to mirrorless for some time then (from trusty old 50D supplementing 5Dm2) and was evaluating whether I should get The R7 (which several people were discouraging me against) or R10. Eventually I settled for R10 reasoning it would be pretty much a stop-gap before I decide it is wirth to get a mirrorless FF camera. Boy, I was in for a surprise! Despite its price, the camera doesn't feel cheap in any way. Sure, it may not have weather sealing, nickel-alloy body, two card slots and a battery, that can be treated seriously, but what it offers is worth every penny. And it offers A LOT. For starters 12 fps burst rate with UHS-II compatible card slot when used wisely will let you forget there's actually buffer limit. And image quality is more than decent - maybe not perfect, but for the price you get a proven sensor, latest imaging processor and very fine focusing and subject tracking. In fact fine enough to ditch my DSLRs and use the camera for almost a full year. With RF 18-150 lens it weights barely over 1 kg. It has wireless connectivity out of the box and works excellent with remote control software. Also it can operate and charge from an USB power bank - and that alone makes that tiny battery far less of a burden to the point you actually stop caring. I also got it with EF mount ring which made the transition even smoother. Needless to say, it works perfect with every EF/EF-S lens I had. What I don't like: - RF-S lenses move vignetting to almost an artistic level. Sure, you can fix it in postprocessing - especially when you're shooting RAW mainly, but that requires lens definitions/references and they're NOT perfect as of yet (even Canon's own DPP software can get illumination correction VERY wrong); - the flash is a nice addition, but what R10 has is bare minimum and, as with many new Canon cameras, third-party lamps are pretty much hit-or-miss; - the camera is in general very responsive, but it does have a noticeable shutter lag and digital shutter is usable for static shots mostly - sensor readout is just too slow.

I have had this camera about 5 months now. I have discovered most of its strengths & weaknesses. It is capable of excellent work under good lighting conditions; however, it struggles in contrasty light. Highlights get washed out & shadows are very dark. Detail can't be recovered Photoshop. Lightened shadows become gray & very grainy with no detail. Available light pictures have acceptable, but not great color under fluorescent lighting & highlights exhibit little detail. My main objections to the camera are related to its very small size. Canon currently only makes 4 RF-S lenses for it & 3 of the 4 are extremely slow (F4.5-6.3 or F5.0-7.1). I bought the 18-150mm lens because it was the only one with a decent aperture, F3.5 at wide angle. All the other RF-S lenses look like toys with dime sized front elements. Because the body is so small it is hard to use the small knobs & switches. I keep hitting buttons I don't want to, especially when I take vertical pictures. The built-in flash doesn't pop up very high & it is very underpowered. my partial fame Canon 70D's built in flash has 2 1/2 times the power. This makes the camera use very high ISOs for flash, which hurts image quality & flash range. It actually does better than I expected because the camera seems to handle high ISOs fairly well. Because of the limited lens selection of RF-S lenses, with most being horribly slow, I mostly use DSLR lenses with the EF-RF adapter. All my DSLR zoom lenses vignette with the built-in flash because it doesn't pop up high enough. Only my 22mm pancake doesn't vignette with the built-in flash. All these problems could have been avoided if the body were larger. Non-native EF & EF-S lenses with an adapter on such a small body create balance issues. Even the native EF-S 18-150mm lens balances poorly on the R10, because the lens is fairly long & it is pretty heavy. The biggest problem I found is that when I use my Tokina 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 fisheye lens & I take a picture with the EF-RF adapter the JPEG has serious chromatic aberration, but It is not coming from the lens. This lens works perfectly on my Canon 70D or if I use it with a Metabones Speedbooster on the R10, instead of with the Canon EF-RF adapter. There is no CA in the raw file. I will attach both pictures to illustrate this problem. The JPEG with CA is an, out of the camera, JPEG & the one with no CA is a JPEG converted from raw. I took the picture as Raw + JPEG. Both the Canon 10-18mm & 18-45mm RF-S lenses produce serious barrel distortion (& probably CA) that get corrected in-camera by the processing engine, when output as JPEGs. I learned this on reviews of those 2 lenses. Such an approach is less than ideal. A poor lens corrected digitally is not as good as a good lens that needs no correction. The R10 processing engine must be trying to correct non-existent CA in my Tokina lens & is therefore introducing CA as a result. That is the only way this can happen. I have shot professionally, so I am technologically proficient enough to shoot raw & convert the file to a JPEG to prevent this problem, amateurs are not. With the exception of the problems I mentioned, all my Canon EF & EF-S lenses & all my off-brand EF mount lenses work very well with the Canon EF-RF adapter. They all auto-focus well. All of my full frame Canon & off-brand lenses & 3 of my 4 off-brand partial frame lenses, that fill a full frame, work well using the Metabones Speedbooster on the R10. In fact some work better. My 28-80mm full fame kit lens does not vignette with the R10's built-in flash with the speedbooster because the speedbooster is shorter than the Canon EF-RF adapter & the 28-80mm full fame lens is shorter at wide angle than the partial frame equivalent 18-55mm lens is at wide angle. The R10 is a very complicated camera. The manual is over 900 pages, therefore it has a lot of capability, if you can master it. If the body were larger so it would balance well with adapted lenses so was easier to use with larger buttons & dials, it had a more powerful built-in flash & if it didn't have the CA problem with my Tokina fisheye lens I would give it a much better rating.

I bought the R10 with 18-150mm lens kit a month ago. The camera has a lot of nice features and in some circumstances takes amazing pictures. It does not do well in contrasty light, however. Highlights get washed out and shadows are really dark. Lightened the shadows in Photoshop just turns them gray. very grainy & reveals no details. But that is not the worst thing the R10 does. Now comes the ugly. When I use my Tokina 10-17mm fisheye partial frame sensor digital lens with the Canon adapter at 10mm it shows horrible chromatic aberration all across the frame at both wide & small apertures. This same lens exhibits no CA on my Canon 70D at 10mm or with my Canon 35mm camera at 15mm (the lens fills a full frame sensor at 15mm). I am attaching pictures to demonstrate this condition. I will try to include blow ups of the edge of the frame also. I have only seen this condition with my fisheye lens. It does not seem to happen with even my super wide Canon 10-22mm DSLR lens. The only way I found to use my Tokina zoom fisheye lens without this happening on the R10 is to use it with a Metabones Speedbooster with the lens zoomed to 14.5mm, instead of the regular Canon adapter. Then the images are the same coverage & look very similar to those that come out of my 20MP Canon 70D DSLR. This is obviously not caused by the lens or it would happen with my 70D at the same zoom setting. It does not. The R10 sensor is doing something weird. Incidentally, the Metabones produces amazing pictures with the R10 using full frame DSLR lenses of any make, including off brand Canon mount lenses sold for partial frame sensor DSLRs. Many of them fill a full frame sensor. It works perfectly with all my Canon EF, Sigma, Tamron & Tokina lenses with EF mount, including my Tokina zoom fisheye.

I bought the R10 to get back into photography. I grew up with film and now jumping into the mirrorless world. I've had this camera for a year now. with an adapter I can use my old canon lenses which was a huge plus for me. The camera itself it a good camera and fun to use. I have been lucky to get some good shots with it. The only complaint would be battery life. It does go quick. Overall I do like this camera and would recommend.

I love this camera and lens kit. After a bit of research, this was my entry into the world of photography. And I am having the best time learning with it. The biggest selling point for me was that it can grow along with me as my skills improve.

I’ve only used a little bit so far, but at this point I really like it. Wide range lens and small lightweight body are easier and more convenient to carry around traveling than a larger DSLR. Picture quality is great. Just need to get the hang of the Canon layout since my DSLRs are Nikon.

So, this camera has been great so far. This is the 1st camera I’ve purchased for myself. So obviously, I’m not well versed. I have used DSLR’s, and do a lot of “drone photography”, so I do actually understand some of the basics. I started shouting with “Auto”, but quickly started tinkering with “Manual” mode, and even set my “custom dial” C1 & C2 to some decent settings. My only real “gripe” is that if you enable HDR, you can’t save that to a custom mode. It has to be turned off before it lets you. I figured that I would be able to re-map a button to quickly get to the HDR settings, but again, a roadblock. I know a lot of people don’t use HDR, and maybe in the future I won’t either, but I really wish I could turn it on, without having to jump through a bunch of settings. That being said, I’m extremely excited to use this camera, and so far, I’ve loved the outcome of the photos.

I was looking for a camera that would capture everything I see and for once that is what I am able to do. I do a lot of wildlife photography and that can be the most difficult thing to do. For example, the photo of the Hairy Woodpecker was a point and shoot without time to make sure things were right. I thought for sure it would be blurry but ended up being one of my favorite shots.