Canon EOS R8 Mirrorless Camera Body with Cropping Guide Firmware - 5803C098

Canon 5803C098 EOS R8 Mirrorless Camera Body with Cropping Guide Firmware

Step Up to Full-Frame

The EOS R8 camera combines high-performance full-frame capabilities with a lightweight and compact design for creators ready to step up their content creation. With a 24.2 megapixel full-frame CMOS image sensor, RF mount allowing access to various creative lenses, and powerful stills and video functionality, the EOS R8 camera helps you capture stunning imagery to empower your creative vision.

Key Features

• Cropping Guide firmware comes pre-installed on this model.
• 24.2 Megapixel full-frame CMOS image sensor
• Dual Pixel CMOS AF II
• Uncropped 4K movie at up to 60 fps that is over sampled from 6K
• Max movie record time of 2 hours
• In-camera compositing
• 2.36 million dots OLED EVF
• 3.0" 1.62 million dots vari-angle LCD touchscreen
• UVC/UAC compatibility for webcam and streaming

Features

Introducing Cropping Guide: Precision Made Simple Optimize Your Photography with the New Cropping Guide Feature

Say goodbye to time-consuming post-editing and hello to perfect shots every time with our latest Cropping Guide feature. Designed to enhance your photography experience, Canon’s Cropping Guide provides on-screen guidelines that help you position your subjects with precision, ensuring consistent and professional results.

• Why Cropping Guide?
  • Consistency
    Whether you're capturing school photos, sports events, or any scenario where subjects need to stand in the same spot repeatedly, Cropping Guide ensures everyone is perfectly positioned.
  • Efficiency
    Reduce the need for extensive post-editing. With on-screen guidelines, you can align your shots perfectly in real-time.
  • Versatility
    Suitable for both vertical and horizontal compositions, Cropping Guide adapts to various shooting scenarios.
• How It Works
  • Send Device
    Send device to Canon’s service center for Cropping Guide to be unlocked.
  • Activate Cropping Guide
    Simply select the Cropping Guide option from the menu.
  • Choose Your Guide: Select from different guides to suit your needs:
    • Guide 1: Top and bottom guidelines to fit the head size.
    • Guide 2: Smaller head size option.
    • Guide 3: Choose from three different head sizes.
    • Guide 4: Left and right guidelines for positioning fixtures like balls or rackets.
• Picture Frame Compatibility
  The outer frame of each guide corresponds to standard picture frame sizes (8"x10" or 5"x7"), making it easier to prepare your images for print.
• Print Perfect Guides
  For the 5" x 7" magenta lines show the sides, and cyan lines show the top/bottom and for the 8" x 10" the image goes all the way to the sides of the frame, and the cyan top/bottom guides let you know how your image will come out on certain standard print sizes.
• Perfect Foot Positioning
  Use the bottom guideline for precise foot positioning, ensuring your subjects are always correctly aligned.
• Enhance Your Workflow
  The Cropping Guide feature is designed to streamline your workflow, making it ideal for professional photographers who require consistency and precision in every shot. Experience the ease and efficiency of on-the-spot alignment, and take your photography to the next level.

Camera Features

• The Lightest Full-Frame Canon EOS Camera¹
  Weighing less than a pound (body only), the EOS R8 camera is incredibly lightweight and compact while offering a high-quality full-frame imaging experience, utilizing the RF lens mount and providing access to a catalog of high-performance creative lens options. This offers photographers and content creators a convenient and portable camera in a comfortable, ergonomic package for travel, hiking or everyday shooting.
• High Image Quality Featuring a 24.2 Megapixel Full-Frame CMOS Sensor
  The EOS R8 camera captures stunning, detailed images with speed and accuracy, even in low light, due to the Canon-developed 24.2-million-pixel CMOS image sensor and DIGIC X Image Processor. The full-frame sensor allows for improved resolution at low ISO speeds and low noise at high ISO speeds, wide dynamic range of still pictures, and significant improvement in rolling shutter compared to previous Canon cameras when shooting fast-moving subjects and quick panning.
• In-Camera Compositing
  With its built-in image processing, the EOS R8 camera provides in-camera compositing including Moving Subject HDR, Depth Compositing, Panoramic Shot, HDR Night Scene, and HDR Backlight control so you can capture creative imagery that is challenging with conventional single-shot techniques.
• High-Speed, High-Precision Autofocus
  Dual Pixel CMOS AF II is a highly responsive system that covers up to approximately 100% x 100% of the picture area, breaking the image into up to 1,053 automatically-selected AF zones during Whole Area AF. This enables outstanding AF coverage on the EOS R8 camera, and the compositional freedom to focus sharply on a subject nearly anywhere in the frame.
• Accurate Subject Detection and Tracking
  Developed using Deep Learning Technology, horses, trains, and airplanes are detectable, in addition to conventional subjects like people, animals including dogs, cats and birds, and vehicles — cars and motorcycles — especially in a motorsports environment^2,3. For more ease of use, Auto mode is now available, in which the camera automatically selects the type of subject without the need to switch the Subject Detection setting in the menu. The EOS R8 camera will continue to track the movement and continuously focus on the subject.
• Animal Detection
  Effectively track the whole body, face, or eye of cats, dogs, birds, and now horses, for speed and precision — regardless of the animal’s size, posture, or orientation of the face².
• Head, Face, and Eye Detection
  The EOS R8 camera can locate and focus upon a person’s head, face, or eye when the Subject Detection menu is set to People. This allows for more ease of use, fast acquisition of your subject, and improvements to accuracy when capturing videos or still images, even in difficult shooting situations where many cameras may struggle to detect a subject. Additional control is now available for detecting the subject’s left or right eye – which can be also programmed to a Custom Button making it easy to focus on the preferred eye in the moment.
• Ample Features for Video Creators
  With video recording features such as 6K oversampled uncropped 4K movie at up to 60 fps, Full HD High-frame rate movie recording at up to 180 fps⁴, and Dual Pixel CMOS AF tracking, the EOS R8 camera makes it easy to step up your video content.
• Continuous Movie Recording That Exceeds 30 Minutes
  The EOS R8 camera can continuously record 4K UHD or Full HD video for up to 2 hours at 29.97 fps, allowing you to set up your video and keep your project rolling without worrying about it stopping⁵.
• HDR PQ / Canon Log 3
  Though the EOS R8 camera can record impressive video straight out of camera, content creators looking to take the next step in their imaging journey have the choice of two powerful video recording options in HDR PQ or Canon Log 3 video recording. With HDR PQ recording a 10bit color file is recorded that does not require additional editing, this 10bit HDR file is compatible with HDR displays such as TVs, monitors and smartphones which display your video with even more color accuracy and dynamic range than standard displays. For creators who like to edit their video files, Canon Log 3 is available, creating a 10bit log file which allows for powerful recovery of highlights and shadows as well as creative color grading capability.
• UVC Livestreaming
  UVC/UAC compatibility allows the EOS R8 camera to be used as a web camera to stream live video in Full HD, without additional computer software, to applications such as Zoom™, Microsoft Teams™, Skype™, and similar video conferencing software⁷. Thanks to the full-frame image sensor, you’ll be able to have versatility in your exposure, as well as strong background separation when using bright aperture lenses for video conferencing, or livestreaming content.
• Vertical Movie Mode and Aspect Markers
  Movie rotation information can be set during or after movie recording, allowing videos to be played in vertical composition when viewing on a smartphone. The Aspect Markers Function displays visual markers for different aspect ratios that may be desired for posting the same file to various social media sites. This display provides consideration for proper composition for the different deliverable files that can be created when editing.
• Movie Digital IS
  Record stable videos efficiently with minimum equipment, even when shooting handheld, with Movie Digital IS 5-axis image stabilization⁶. Camera-shake vibrations are reduced even more through coordinated control of Movie Digital IS when using a RF lens featuring optical image stabilization.
• Vari-Angle Touchscreen LCD
  Featuring a 3.0-inch, 1.62 million dot Clear View LCD II Vari-angle Touchscreen LCD, the EOS R8 camera makes it easy to compose and shoot from virtually any angle. With touch and drag functionality, you can intuitively and swiftly move the autofocus point on the touch-panel LCD.
• Precise Electronic Viewfinder
  The EOS R8 camera is equipped with a high-precision 0.39-inch OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) EVF with approx. 2.36 million dots and a 22mm eyepoint which displays a bright image and extensive shooting information. The EVF supports up to a 120 fps refresh rate and has been designed to provide a bright, sharp and colorful 100% view of the subject at hand. There’s also an Optical Viewfinder (OVF) Simulation setting, which provides a higher dynamic range viewfinder image for outstanding viewing in harsh, contrasty lighting situations.
• Shoot, Download and Share with Wired and Wireless Communications
  The EOS R8 camera supports both wired and wireless connections to your smartphone via its USB Type-C⁷ port, built-in Wi-Fi®, and Bluetooth® technology, making it easy to upload and share movies and photos to your favorite social network services.
• Built-in Bluetooth® Capability
  Bluetooth® pairing helps you connect the camera to compatible smart devices using the free Canon Camera Connect app. This low-energy wireless connection helps preserve battery life, while providing remote control of the camera. It also sends continuously updated GPS location data from your phone, letting you geotag what you've captured so you know precisely where you captured the photo.
• Built-in Wi-Fi Capability
  Enable wireless functions, such as remote live view, file viewing and transfer, by connecting to Wi-Fi quickly and seamlessly. Using the Canon Camera Connect app, you can also transfer files to your mobile device to browse and share on social media.
• USB-C Connection
  The EOS R8 camera can be connected to a computer or smartphone via USB-C⁷. All Canon Camera Connect app features that can be used with Wi-Fi are now available when the camera and smartphone are connected via USB, using a compatible cable for your device.

Footnotes

• ¹ As of February 7th, 2023.
• ² Effectiveness varies depending on the subject. In some cases, the camera may detect a subject other than a dog, a cat, a bird, and a horse (a zebra) as a targeted animal.
• ³ Some vehicles may not be detected depending on condition in some cases. In addition, the camera may detect entity as vehicle other than cars, motorcycles, trains, and airplanes for tracking.
• ⁴ High Frame Rate movie recording not available with RF-S or EF-S lenses or with movie cropping enabled.
• ⁵ Up to 20 minutes at Full HD 179.82/150.00 fps, and up to 30 minutes at 119.88/100.00 fps. Video may stop due to battery level, card capacity, or temperature.
• ⁶ When Movie Digital IS is activated, the field of view becomes narrower.
• ⁷ A compatible cable is required for wired USB communication (not included).