The EOS R8 Mark II is Canon’s lightest full-frame camera with stabilization

Canon announced the second-generation of its EOS R8 pinch a caller retro-inspired redesign and the summation of in-body stabilization. That characteristic was 1 of the astir notable omissions from the original R8 that launched successful 2023 arsenic a smaller, cheaper, and much accessible replacement to the Canon R6 Mark II for photographers wanting a larger full-frame shooter. While the caller EOS R8 Mark II is somewhat heavier than its predecessor astatine 1.2 pounds acknowledgment to the further stabilization functionality, it’s lighter and cheaper than last year’s EOS R6 Mark III.

The Canon EOS R8 Mark II is expected to beryllium disposable sometime successful precocious October for $1,899 for the assemblage only, aliases $2,099 bundled pinch a Canon 24-50mm stabilized lens. That’s much costly than the original R8 that launched astatine $1,499, but much accessible than the $2,799 EOS R6 Mark III acknowledgment to immoderate little specs and omitted features.

Like its predecessor, the R8 Mark II features the aforesaid 24.2-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor arsenic the R6 Mark II, while the R6 Mark III sewage a bump to a 32.5-megapixel sensor. The caller R8 Mark II still exclusively uses an physics shutter alternatively of an further mechanical one, pinch high-speed captures maxing retired astatine 40fps again. To guarantee you’re not excessively precocious to a captious moment, a pre-continuous shooting mode captures up to an further 20 shots earlier you property the shutter button.

The caller five-axis in-body stabilization offers up to 7.5 stops of shingle correction that tin beryllium expanded by pairing the camera pinch a lens featuring its ain stabilization. The R8 Mark II besides features Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF II strategy pinch what the institution describes arsenic “more tenacious tracking” than what the R8 offered. The autofocus strategy tin besides admit animals, vehicles, and people, pinch the action to registry up to 10 different group by their faces and rank their priority.

Video capabilities max retired astatine 4K/60fps, but framework rates tin beryllium boosted to up to 180fps by dropping the solution to 1080p. As Canon is targeting the R8 Mark II arsenic a imaginable full-frame action for amateur photographers, the camera includes 16 different colour filters, an easy to measurement to summation aliases alteration extent of blur that handles settings for illustration f-stop and shutter velocity automatically, and imaginative bracketing that takes 3 photos pinch different brightness and colour tones.

Following different companies drawing inspiration from older movie cameras for the creation of caller integer shooters, the R8 Mark II eschews the curves of the original R8 for a much boxy and angular body. Canon credits the astir 40-year-old EOS 650 and its pentaprism lodging connected apical arsenic the inspiration for the R8 Mark II. Other hardware upgrades see a caller multi-controller joystick supra the camera’s screen, which makes it easier to prime focal points, and its azygous SD paper slot repositioned connected the broadside of the camera truthful it’s still accessible erstwhile utilizing a tripod. Canon will besides waste a matching $99.99 accessory that extends the R8 Mark II’s grip, making it easier to clasp erstwhile utilizing larger lenses.

In October Canon is besides releasing a free caller Windows app called Dual Pixel 3D Converter that leverages further info captured by Canon’s dual-pixel autofocus strategy to make 3D imagery from the 2D photos the camera takes. You tin usage the app to create a 3D photograph pinch a inheritance you tin move around, a 3D exemplary pinch the inheritance wholly removed, aliases short 3D videos demonstrating an animated position accommodation of close-up subjects.