Canon EOS R10 - digital camera RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM lens
$1,478.99
Mfg # 5331C016
CDW # 7362691
| UNSPSC 45121504
Quick tech specs
- Digital camera
- 24.2 MP
- 4K / 60 fps
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
- mirrorless
- APS-C
- 8.3x optical zoom RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM lens
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The EOS R10 is perfect for content creators looking to take their creativity to the next level. Featuring a high-speed shooting 15 FPS mechanical shutter, a 24.2-megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor, and lightning fast autofocus, the EOS R10 camera brings some of the best features from the growing EOS R series to a sleek, lightweight design.
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Canon EOS R10 - digital camera RF-S 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 IS STM lens is rated
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Rated 5 out of
5 by
Wndml01 from
The good, the bad and the ugly
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.
Date published: 2024-03-03T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Wndml01 from
Small complex highly capable camera with some drawbacks
I previously reviewed this camera and only gave it 3 stars. One of my reasons for that rating was a problem I had with the R10 introducing chromatic aberration in JPEGs using my Tokina 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 Fisheye lens. Today I spoke with a Canon tech, and he instructed me how to correct the problem. Canon has no way for me to edit old reviews, so the best I can do is to make a new review.
The tech instructed me to turn off lens aberration correction in camera menu 5. It was set to "standard" and the Camera said, "No Data, unable to correct". After I disabled this option, more options came up. Chromatic aberration was listed as "on". After I turned that option "off", the camera no longer introduces unwanted chromatic aberrations in JPEGs with my Tokina fisheye lens. Therefore, there is a way to fix the problem, it just requires more work.
Canon has always had good technical service. That is very important with today's increasingly complex cameras. They are to be commended for that.
I still have issues with the R10. They are mostly related to the small size of the R10. I keep hitting buttons I don't want to, and it is hard to use the very small knobs. The built-in flash is very underpowered and does not pop up very high, leading to the front of adapted lenses shading the built-in flash. The underpowered flash pushes the camera to use very high ISOs, which affects image quality. The R10 actually handles high ISOs pretty well, so most users will be pleased with their flash pictures.
3 of the 4 native RF-S lenses that Canon currently sells for the R10 are very slow (F4.5-6.3 or F5.0-7.1). I purchased the only native RF-S lens with a decent maximum aperture, the Canon 18-150mm F3.5-6.3. It covers a wide focal length range that covers most shooting situations. It operates well with the built-in flash. It is fairly heavy, so it unbalances the camera when hanging from my neck because the R10 body is so light. Adapted lenses are even more front heavy.
Because of the very small selection of native RF-S lenses, and the very slow apertures of those that Canon does sell, I tend to usually use adapted DSLR lenses on the R10, which are out of proportion to the size of the diminutive R10. It is apparent that Canon wants to encourage users to use full frame RF lenses on the R10, hoping they will upgrade later to a full frame body. While I was hoping the R10 could replace my Canon 70D it really can't. The body is just too small, with all the problems I mentioned. It appears to be a replacement for the M cameras which Canon recently discontinued.
This unfortunately leaves all Canon M customers with the unhappy prospect of starting a whole new system, because M lenses can't be mounted on RF or RF-S bodies & it leaves partial frame DSLR users, like me, with no good larger size mirrorless option with a decent built-in flash.
When you do all or nothing thinking, you usually end up with nothing. Therefore, at the present time, the R10 is the best Canon mirrorless body available with a built-in flash, despite its weaknesses. The camera does take good pictures if the light is not too contrasty. It does not do well in contrasty light. It is a highly capable camera with many high-end features. The manual is over 900 pages. I am still learning how to use it after 5 months.
if you have a lot of full frame EF mount DSLR lenses, the Metabones .71X Ultra Speedbooster works well with the R10, even off brand lenses. All 3rd party partial frame lenses come with EF mounts, not EF-S mounts so they also will work with the speedbooster & many even cover the full frame. The speedbooster compresses the image circle of full frame lenses to fit the smaller partial frame R10 sensor. Effective focal length range of the converted lens is very close to what you see in the viewfinder of a 35mm film camera, but it will be less than if you mounted the lens on a full frame mirrorless body, like the Canon R6 Mk II.
Film camera viewfinders crop the image compared to what is recorded on the film. Film gets cropped when printed, scanned or mounted in slide mounts. The viewfinder shows you effective output. Mirrorless cameras, on the other hand, crop nothing, so they change the effective focal length range of full frame lenses compared to when used on a 35mm film body.
A 28-80mm lens on a full fame mirrorless body will act like a 26-73mm lens on a 35mm film camera body. I prefer the output of the speedbooster, because it gives me almost identical results as when used on the 35mm film camera that I purchased those lenses for. The speedbooster is shorter than the Canon EF-RF adapter, thus I get no shading from the front of my 28-80mm full frame lens when used on the R10 with the built-in flash. The 1 stop aperture boost is a nice extra.
Partial frame DSLR lenses used on a R6 Mk II get cropped to less than 10MP. On the R10 they are 24MP with the Canon EF-RF adapter, & full frame lenses are 24MP when used with the speedbooster. It is a win-win.
Date published: 2024-03-16T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Wndml01 from
A small mirrorless camera capable of good work, with some problems
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.
Date published: 2024-03-14T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Charlie78 from
A small camera with good & bad points
I bought this camera kit a little over a month ago. I ordered it from my local camera shop based on pictures I saw of the camera & reviews. When I received it I was disappointed by how small it is. I had planned to use it primarily with a Canon control ring adapter with my DSL lenses. The sensor is the same size as my Canon 70D & both have built-in flashes but the body is much smaller. So much so that any of my DSL lenses will unbalance the camera. Canon does not make a mirrorless body with a built-in flash that is of a similar size to my 70D. The small buttons, dials & switches are difficult to use.
Because the body is so small the built-in flash is very underpowered, requiring high ISOs, especially with the other RF-S lenses Canon sells, which is extremely limited at this time. I got the 18-150mm F3.5-6.3 because I didn't want any of the other RF-S lenses which are all horribly slow. The 18-45mm & 10-18mm are both F4.5-6.3. The 55-210 is even slower at F5-10.1.
The built-in flash in my 70D is 2.5x as powerful as the one in the R10. That coupled with the ultra slow lenses is a recipe for shooting at very high ISOs, which degrades image quality and limits flash range. I shot some flash pictures at F4.5 & F5 and indeed it did degrade image quality somewhat.
I was surprised how well it did with my F3.5-6.3 kit lens at the high ISOs the camera selected (ISO 800-3200). Flash pictures were sharp & highly detailed with good color. The camera stopped the lens down to F4.0 for flash. Red eye may be more of a problem than with my 70D because the flash does is not nearly as high, because of the small body size.
Flash pictures at F4.5 & F5 pushed the ISO to ISO 6400 & resulted in slight under exposure with a slight reduction in image quality. They would probably be considered OK by amateur photographers. The camera can accept a large external flash, but the flash will dwarf the tiny body. Because Canon makes so few RF-S lenses, at this point, you are forced to use either overly large R lenses or larger adapted lenses. The salesman at the store showed me the larger R7 & R5 bodies with 2 full frame R lenses. One was a 24-105mm zoom with a filter diameter of 82mm. The other had a 77mm filter thread. Even on the larger bodies the lenses dwarfed the full frame bodies. On my R10 it would be like attaching a bazooka to a match box.
The R10 has a pretty good viewfinder. It is the same size as in my 70D & you can review pictures in the viewfinder when the LCD gets washed out outside, a major selling point, the viewfinder also is much brighter in dim lighting that a DSLR, even with the horribly slow RF-S lenses Canon sells. All but my 18-150mm lens have dime size front elements. They look like toy lenses, which will completely turn off any customers a professional has.
Canon's 18-45mm lens (28-70mm 35mm film lens equivalent) doesn't reach portrait focal length. Digital cameras crop images less than 35mm cameras did so the 18-45 may be mathematically equivalent to 29-72mm but in practice is equivalent to 28-70mm. Portrait range is 85-105mm on a 35mm camera. My Canon 70D came with a more versatile & faster 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 (28-85mm equivalent on a 35mm film camera) that does reach portraitfocal length.
If you also get the RF-S 55-210 F5-F10.1 lens there is a 10mm gap between the RF-S lenses that does not exist with my DSLR. My 40 year old Canon AE1 35mm film camera had a 28-70mm lens. The 70mm end was useless as a telephoto or for portraits. When I got my Canon Elan auto-focus camera, Canon made a 28-80mm for it. It was a big improvement, but it still was a little shy of reaching the minimum 85mm portrait range.
When I got my first Canon digital DSLR it came with an 18-55mm kit lens (28-85mm equivalent). Canon finally did it right and made their kit lens go all the way to portrait tele, Yea! Now Canon is sending customers back 40 years to a 28-70mm RF-S kit lens. Because the 18-45mm lens is collapsible it is super small, but as soon as you start taking pictures it gets almost as big as the 18-150mm lens & looks very amateurish with it's dime sized front element.
The front filter sizes are also a mystery. Canon's 35 mm manual focus lenses used a 52mm standard. When they came out with auto focus this increased to a 58mm standard. Even my 18-55mm kit lens still had the 58mm filter size.
Now, with the RF-S lenses you need to buy new 49mm or 55mm filters. My question is: Why did Canon abandon 20-40 years of standard filter sizes & require customers to waste money on new filters? It makes no sense. I tried a 55-58mm step up ring on my new kit len's so I could use my 58mm filters from my 70D kit lens, but no soap. It vignettes with a polarizer.
For all the reasons I have cited, the super small body that is unbalanced with most available lenses or a large flash, the super slow lens selection that look amateurish, the underpowered flash that doesn't lift very high, the change back to a 40 year old 28-70mm kit zoom standard, my old remote which works fine on my 70D, but will not work with this R10. You need a new radio remote that can't be attached to the strap like the old remote could, Canon's changing interface cables with every new model they make I can not give the R10 a glowing review. If you really want a super small body it fills the bill. It takes pretty good pictures in even lighting, but struggles in contrasty light. When I try to lighten overly dark shadows in Photoshop the shadows get all grainy & look gray, while the highlights get all blown out and also can't be recovered in Photoshop. The R10, in my opinion, is strictly designed for amateurs. If a pro were to show up at a photo shoot with one it would probably be his last photo job.
Date published: 2023-12-28T00:00:00-05:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Jackie Van Ostenbridge from
Great for a beginner, with room to grow
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.
Date published: 2023-04-18T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
Johntmast from
Nice little camera
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.
Date published: 2023-04-14T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
NateinSeattle from
Good camera for beginner and Intermediate photographers.
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.
Date published: 2023-10-27T00:00:00-04:00
Rated 5 out of
5 by
JackSnaps from
Couldn't Be Happier Six Months In
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.
Date published: 2024-09-21T00:00:00-04:00