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Canon EOS R8 Body

Item: Canon EOS R8 Body
Rating: 9,2
Author: Willem

9,2/10 (1 review)

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Product information

Coolblue's Choice

This product is our choice for a mid-range full-frame mirrorless camera.

Key specs

Type of image sensor: Full frame

Camera usage situation: At home for family and friends, Professional photography, Recording, Sports photography, Vacation

Lens included

Type of image definition support: Full HD (1080p), Ultra HD (4K)

Suitable for photographer type: Advanced, Expert

Type of image sensor

Full frame

Camera usage situation

At home for family and friends, Professional photography, Recording, Sports photography, Vacation

Lens included

Type of image definition support

Full HD (1080p), Ultra HD (4K)

Suitable for photographer type

Advanced, Expert

Autofocus

Viewfinder

IBIS

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Pros and cons

According to our mirrorless camera expert

You can photograph at 40 fps and won't miss a single activity moment
The camera has a high number of focus points, and the autofocus recognizes people, eyes, animals, and vehicles.
You can record at 60 fps in 4K resolution, which produces smooth images for social media.
The camera doesn't have a built-in flash for extra light in a dark environment.
A memory card isn't included.

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Description

The Canon EOS R8 Body is a fast mirrorless camera for the advanced photo or videographer. You can take bright and sharp images thanks to the 24.2-megapixel full-frame image sensor. With up to 40 photos per second, you can freeze every movement. That's useful to capture fast actions, like for sports photography. In the RAW burst mode, the camera makes a pre-recording of half a second. This way, you can capture a special moment even faster and won't miss any action. For videos, the camera makes a pre-recording of 3 to 5 seconds.

Sharpness

The focus points of the camera cover the screen edge-to-edge, so you can effortlessly focus all the way until the end of the frame. The autofocus follows moving subjects and recognizes people, eyes, animals, and vehicles.

Video

With this camera, you record in 4K resolution at 60 fps. This ensures sharp and smooth footage that's suitable for YouTube and social media. Record at 180 fps in Full HD. You can slow down this footage and turn it into cinematic slow motion videos. The EOS R8 has a recording limit of 2 hours, so you can effortlessly record a large video like an interview.

Sharpness

Video

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Manual (19.15 MB)
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Battery
Charger
Shoulder strap
Body cap

Included by default

Manual (19.15 MB)
Free Camera bag worth 25,-
Battery
Charger
Shoulder strap
Body cap

Key specs

Type of image sensor: Full frame

Camera usage situation: At home for family and friends, Professional photography, Recording, Sports photography, Vacation

Lens included

Type of image definition support: Full HD (1080p), Ultra HD (4K)

Suitable for photographer type: Advanced, Expert

Type of image sensor

Full frame

Camera usage situation

At home for family and friends, Professional photography, Recording, Sports photography, Vacation

Lens included

Type of image definition support

Full HD (1080p), Ultra HD (4K)

Suitable for photographer type

Advanced, Expert

Autofocus

Viewfinder

IBIS

View all specifications

Reviews

1 review

9,2/10 (1 review)

Rating

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Our expert review

Light full-frame camera with fast and accurate autofocus

Compact design with large sensor
Fast autofocus with tracking function
Out of balance in combination with heavy lens

Manon. cameraspecialist.
13 February 2023
Written for: Canon EOS R8 Body
Automatically translated from Dutch

9,2/10

Small full frame, biggest performance, little frustrations.

Fantastic autofocus
Featherweight
No rotating control dial at the back

Willem
20 September 2024
Written for: Canon EOS R8 Body
Automatically translated from Dutch

Our expert review

Light full-frame camera with fast and accurate autofocus

Compact design with large sensor
Fast autofocus with tracking function
Shooting at many frames per second
Out of balance in combination with heavy lens

The Canon EOS R8 is a light and compact system camera. Despite the large full-frame sensor, the body is small. I find that very useful, because I like to take my camera with me on a trip. I now use the 24-50mm lens on the EOS R8. This lens is also quite light and small. As a result, the camera is well balanced. With a bigger and heavier lens, I feel the camera leans forward.

Fast autofocus with object recognition
I find the autofocus very fast and comprehensive. When I put someone in the picture, the camera immediately recognizes the eyes. The autofocus extends almost all the way to the edge of my screen. In the menu I choose which eye the camera focuses on. This works from my model's point of view. I choose the right eye, but see on the screen that the camera then selects the left eye for me. He also recognizes cars and trams very well. The camera automatically focuses on the front. I am testing this from the 6th floor of a building. For example, he has a little more trouble recognizing vehicles. That's because I shoot from above. The design of the vehicle is less visible from that angle.

Good lighting during filming
For videography, I like the manual focus peaking function. The camera shows which parts of the image are overexposed and which are too dark. For example, if I record a vlog during the day and have windows in the background, this function ensures that the windows are well lit. I then expose all parts in the foreground that are too dark with extra studio lights.

Quickly delete photos
What I also find very useful is the deletion of photos. If I shoot many photos in succession in continuous shooting, the camera recognizes the scene. This is how I delete all photos of the same scene at once. This saves me a lot of time as I don't have to delete all the photos one by one. Even if I have made a RAW burst, this works fine. In this mode, the camera takes up to 40 photos per second. Once I've chosen the perfect shot, I delete the rest at the touch of a button.

Manon. cameraspecialist.
13 February 2023
Written for: Canon EOS R8 Body
Automatically translated from Dutch

9,2/10

Small full frame, biggest performance, little frustrations.

Fantastic autofocus
Featherweight
whisper quiet
No rotating control dial at the back

The camera initially left me a bit cold, and even caused/causes some frustrations.
After switching from the Canon 70D*, which was already feeling a bit worn out, I had high expectations, especially after a lot of glowing reviews. Initially, that was a bit disappointing...
Why?
Well, I use the control dials on the 70D quite a lot, and thought I wouldn't miss them/be able to bypass them on the R8.
It turned out that this was absolutely not the case for the autofocus: it works absurdly slowly via the 4-way button, but half with the control dial and the autofocus by using the screen as a trackpad is only useful if you are very handy with your nose.
One extra wheel on the back would have actually lifted this camera from "just a bit better than point and shoot" to "not quite a professional camera".
This is half-heartedly compensated for by a multifunction key that hides an entire menu, I am not a fan.

After a 4-week trip, the solution turned out to be that I have to handle the camera differently. For landscapes or architecture, I can still compose perfectly via the viewfinder, for portraits or street, the screen is the best way.
Via the viewfinder (which is very pleasant to use by the way) I just let everything happen in auto, but if people or something come into the picture, I hold the camera in front of me and I can start tracking with a quick tap on the screen.
For people who come from a smartphone or camera with few buttons, this will feel much more natural, I think.
In the settings, there is also some serious fine-tuning with the autofocus and tracking, which I was able to adjust more to my liking after a while.

But now for the good:
The photos are absurdly good. With good lighting during the day, you don't notice that super, but once the camera has to use its dynamic range, the results are simply amazing. Open sky and full shadow in 1 photo? No problem! Even hardly any noise! (I shoot in RAW, no idea what this camera does with jpegs).

This camera is really light and small, especially for a full frame. An R10 was my initial choice but a Canon action on the R8 and the much more logical choice of RF lenses on FF made me change my mind. Especially because the R10 also lacks that wheel on the back and I can't care less about that joystick: my nose is in front of it anyway.

The autofocus (tracking). A love-hate relationship: I haven't really figured out how to make it work properly yet, but when it does it's magic. Especially with photos with the lens wide open, good focus is a must and the camera is damn good at that. Also with EF lenses in an adapter, which is also a bonus!

If you set this camera to "silent shutter" you simply don't hear anything. What a relief.

Unfortunately I discovered an "unimportant" function too late: the "lock" mode between off and on. Please use this when someone else is taking a family photo because otherwise your settings will be everywhere but where you want them to be. And of course you won't realize that until way too late. By the way, you can set what is and isn't locked.

Also don't get caught out by comments about the limited battery or the lack of weather sealing.
- The battery lasts for more than a day, if necessary take a few extra batteries with you (3rd party doesn't have to be expensive).
- Weather sealing? Unless you're going to photograph snow leopards in the Himalayas and have no other choice, just don't hold the camera in the rain.

The lack of a flash is a bit of a shame, so I'll have to buy one again. Not a dealbreaker though.

*disclaimer: the 70D actually still works perfectly, but it weighs twice as much. So I can actually feel the ravages of time?

Willem
20 September 2024
Written for: Canon EOS R8 Body
Automatically translated from Dutch

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Specifications

Product

Product number: 923332

Manufacturer code: 5803C003AA

Brand: Canon

Warranty: 2 years

Processing of your defect: Via Coolblue

Old product returned for free

General properties

Suitable for photographer type: Advanced, Expert

Camera usage situation: At home for family and friends, Professional photography, Recording, Sports photography, Vacation

Menu language: Dutch, English, French, German, Multilingual

Size camera: Small

Lens

Lens included

Lens mount: Canon RF mount

Type of autofocus: Phase detection autofocus, Regular autofocus

Sensor

Type of image sensor: Full frame

Crop factor: 1

Effective number of megapixels: 24,2 MP

ISO sensitivity: 100 - 102400

Shutter speed: 0,00006 - 30 second

Image processor

Image processor type: DIGIC X

Photo file format: JPEG, RAW

Video file format: AVC/H.264, MP4, MPEG-4, MPEG-4 AVCHD (H.264)

Audio file format: Linear PCM, aac

Type of image definition support: Full HD (1080p), Ultra HD (4K)

Maximum fps in Ultra HD (4K): 60 fps

Maximum fps in Full HD (1080p): 120 fps

IBIS

Number of stops: 4,5

Number of focus points: 1053

Memory and storage

Number of memory card slots: 1

Memory card: SD

SD memory card version: SD, SDHC, SDHC UHS, SDXC, SDXC UHS

Expandable storage capacity up to: 256 GB

Lighting

Internal flash

Camera screen

Screen size: 3 inches

Fully tiltable screen

Touchscreen

Number of pixels: 2,36 MP

Viewfinder

Viewfinder

Viewfinder type: Electronic

Viewfinder size: 0,39 inch

Diopter adjustment: 1 - 4 dpt

Connectors

USB port

HDMI connector

Microphone connector

Type of microphone connection: 3.5mm jack

Connectivity

Built-in WiFi

Bluetooth

NFC

GPS sensor

Camera power supply

Power supply type: Rechargeable battery

Battery technology: Lithium-ion

Replaceable battery

Battery type: Canon LP-E17

Battery/battery capacity: 1040 mAh

Physical properties

Weight: 461 g

Height: 8,6 cm

Depth: 7 cm

Width: 13,2 cm

Material: Plastic

Color: Black

Resistance

Water resistance: Splash proof

Water-resistant

Dust removal system

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Key specs

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Most helpful reviews

Light full-frame camera with fast and accurate autofocus

Small full frame, biggest performance, little frustrations.

Light full-frame camera with fast and accurate autofocus

Small full frame, biggest performance, little frustrations.

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Viewfinder

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