Canon’s RF-mount mirrorless digicam vary has simply welcomed a brand new entry-level mannequin, the Canon EOS R100, that sits beneath the Canon EOS R50. Consider the EOS R100 as a modern-day Canon EOS 2000D, which is Canon’s most cost-effective DSLR digicam.

At its coronary heart, the EOS R100 is a stripped-back model of Canon’s DSLR-style Canon EOS R50 with a decrease record worth, and the identical 24MP APS-C crop sensor that has been round for a few years. Which means it might be an incredible choice for these on a restricted price range who need Canon’s glorious picture high quality. 

Naturally, concessions have been comprised of the EOS R50, so let’s take a better look if the general package deal makes extra sense, asking: is the EOS R100 what inexperienced persons want?

Canon EOS R100 worth and launch date

• $699 approx / £669 / AU$1,099 with the RF-S 18-45mm lens
• No physique solely worth but

The EOS R100 sits on the backside of Canon’s mirrorless vary of cameras and as such it’s the lowest-cost mannequin, at $699 (approx) / £669 / AU$1,099 with the RF-S 18-45mm lens. On the time of writing, we don’t have a body-only record worth, however we will verify that there will likely be a twin-lens package obtainable at the very least in Australia for AU$1,399.

For an additional $250 (approx) / £230 / AU$400 you may decide up the EOS R50 as an alternative to get a number of extra highly effective options. Canon cameras don’t come low cost, particularly in comparison with different main manufacturers, and even because the lowest price mannequin, inexperienced persons can solely hope the EOS R100 will come down in worth. 

Listing worth shouldn’t be the most important situation, although. Let’s check out the design alternative and distinction in options between the 2 cameras.

Canon EOS R100 specs and options

• 24MP APS-C sensor
• 4K video has a 1.55x crop
• Lightest RF-mount digicam
• No touchscreen

The EOS R50 and EOS R100 are nearly the identical measurement and kind issue, making them the smallest in Canon’s vary and positively miniscule for cameras with an APS-C sensor – a sensor measurement that positively dwarfs the sensors present in flagship smartphones.

In actual fact, at 356g together with battery and card, the EOS R100 turns into the lightest RF-mount digicam obtainable, though in real-world use the distinction from the EOS R50 is negligible. These cameras are for small palms and greatest paired with small lenses.

We’re undecided {that a} DSLR-style design was the best alternative for the EOS R100. Canon was extra switched on with its M-mount cameras and probably the most logical design for an entry-level RF-mount digicam would have been within the spirit of the EOS M200: a vlogging-friendly compact-style digicam with flip-up display. That’s what the EOS R100 ought to have been, however maybe that digicam is within the pipeline.

What’s extra head-scratching, although, is the design of the EOS R100’s LCD display. And that’s not a misprint – it’s a set display that isn’t contact delicate. It is a digicam for inexperienced persons and a smartphone technology – that has a set display with no contact operate in any respect, similar to the EOS 2000D.

Conversely, the EOS R50’s display flips round for selfies and is contact delicate and even the EOS M50 cameras do the identical. If worth wasn’t a deal breaker, then the design and display in all probability will likely be.

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Canon payments the EOS R100 for inexperienced persons whose main focus is pictures, however need to shoot the occasional video, therefore the DSLR-style design with the identical 2.36m-dot viewfinder as discovered within the EOS R50.

It does have 4K / 25p video, however with a 1.55x crop. Gradual movement video as much as 120fps is restricted to 720p decision. These specs match the EOS M50, in truth, and are fairly dated now, particularly when you think about that the EOS R50 shoots 4K video oversampled from 6K, with no crop.

To stabilize video clips there’s digital stabilization solely, and that brings an extra crop to what’s already heavily-cropped 4K movies. In brief, you may’t use the EOS R100 for wide-angle 4K video.

Section detection Twin Pixel CMOS autofocus is on board, with the AF factors overlaying 88% of the picture space. It is the extra fundamental model of Canon’s present day autofocus, however extremely efficient nonetheless, and consists of topic and eye-tracking AF.

Inexperienced persons might want to depend on the EOS R100’s efficient AF as a result of its design doesn’t simply permit for handbook choice of the AF factors. For video, the EOS R100 is restricted to distinction detection AF, which is way slower and fewer dependable, and one other strike for video creation.

Concessions have been made throughout the board within the EOS R100, too. Steady taking pictures is restricted to three.5fps with steady AF or 6.5fps with single AF. For perspective, the EOS R50 shoots as much as 12fps (or 15fps with the digital shutter). Total, the characteristic set is absolutely dated.

Canon EOS R100 first impressions

The tech contained in the EOS R100 is similar to the EOS M50, a digicam that’s now 5 years outdated. Picture high quality is a confirmed entity and would be the spotlight of the EOS R100, however 4K video is restricted in nearly each method. 

What’s extra, the non–contact delicate fastened LCD display is tremendous limiting, and we will solely assume it is a alternative that is been made to tell apart the EOS R100 extra from the EOS R50. 

Whereas the EOS R100 looks like a M sequence hangover, it does characteristic Canon’s newest RF mount and that is the system that Canon is investing in immediately. There’s nonetheless no assure of extra crop sensor RF-S lenses on the way in which, however Canon did launch its lightest full-frame lens but – the RF 28mm F2.eight pancake lens – on the identical day as the brand new digicam, and is a superb pairing for an entry-level digicam. 

Total, we want that the EOS R100 was a non secular successor to the M200 – a digicam that may be within the pipeline, too, and would in all probability render the EOS R100 out of date – slightly than a feature-light EOS R50. On the face of it, the photography-first EOS R100 isn’t a digicam that we’d sensibly advocate.