Back in 2019 I ordered the Canon EOS RP. This was a big upgrade from my Canon t3i. But I didn’t think it fit all of my needs back then, so I decided to send back the RP and ordered the Canon R instead. This is a short review of the camera. Here are my thoughts after about 2 years:

The Good:

• Feels much more like a premium camera very sturdy
• Touch screen is bigger than the RP
• EVF is bigger brighter faster and more detailed than the RP
• Battery life is much better. This is a big one. The RP’s battery life was fairly short, but the EOS R uses a almost the sane battery as the 80D and other full frame canon cameras. Bigger battery, longer battery life.
• Ability to record 1080P 24 fps video. I have no idea why this was missing in the EOS RP. Thankfully it’s not with the EOS R.
• No issues with high speed sync flash photography. Another big one for me and a big reason why I sent back the RP. This camera works perfectly with it.
• With the new manual focus guide system, using manual focus is useful and fun for me again.
  Be aware that it only works with lenses that have electrical contacts.
• I love that the shutter closes to protect the sensor. Why can’t all cameras have this?
• Canon colors. I love it and continue to love it after trying different companies.

And the not so good:

• Still only one sd card slot. This is something sony’s a7III and fujifilm’s xt3 mirror-less has over canon. To some if you’re doing big pro work like a wedding, sports or news press, many believe you got to have a second card slot for backup in case of sd card failure. While I’ve never personally had one fail on me in 16 years, some pros wouldn’t risk it. Me personally, I’m fine with it for now. You can back up to your phone via Bluetooth but only high res jpgs no raw files. Good enough for me at the moment. Hopefully canon will get the memo and add it to the next version.
• That touch bar… is meh. You can find good use for it, like setting it change the white balance, etc. But I wouldn’t feel bad if it was gone.
• Again, only crop 4K video. Not a big deal for me, but for some videographers it may be an issue.
• Heavier and bigger than the EOS RP and other mirror-less cameras like sony’s a7II series. First thing I noticed when holding it for the first time. The one thing I liked about the EOS RP over the EOS R was how light and small it was.
• Ability to shoot 120 fps for slow mo video but only goes up to 720p. Would of preferred 1080p. Once again, it may be an issue for videographers.
• Eye auto focus is pretty good after a firmware update, but not on the same level as the R6 (will review that later)

So, overall a big improvement over the RP. If the eye auto focus was as good as sony’s a7iii series, and it had two card slots instead of one (and maybe full 4K for the videographers), the EOS R would be the perfect camera for me. I know eventually they’ll have newer cameras that will address those two issues. However even with these flaws I still like this camera.