Canon - EOS R10 Mirrorless Camera with RF-S18-45 f/4.5-6.3 IS STM Lens Content Creator Kit - Black

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.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I'm coming from a Nikon DSLR but had been curious about the mirrorless. I am not a professional, but enjoy photography and have taken several photography classes. First thing I noticed is that the body of this is significantly lighter weight than my Nikon and feels good in my hand. I knew that my Nikon lenses would obviously not be compatible, but what I hadn't counted on was the difficulty I would have learning the Canon menus and options after having been so familiar with the Nikon. Also, overcoming the muscle memory from the dial/button/everything placement from my Nikon to the Canon was and is frustrating. This is no fault or shortcoming of the camera, just my experience. If you want really nice pics, as with any camera, you need other lenses than what comes with this. I would assume it would be a relatively easy transition to this mirrorless Canon for anyone who is already in the Canon world. I'm eager to continue learning and using this camera to get some of the same stellar pics I am able to get with my Nikon.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This camera is great. It is easy to attach the lens and taking pictures is quick once you get focus. I love the fact that you can add a mic if you want and can use it for both pictures and videos. Just don't forget your SD card are you won't be able to take any pictures.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This camera is lightweight and easy to use has a lot of different settings still going through them all. Love the mirror-less capabilities, less chance of stuff breaking. Downside is prior models lenses do not fit as of now so would have to buy all new lenses or hope for some kind of compatible adapter. Easy to use app to auto transfer photos to phone and take remote pictures with the camera.