Canon EOS R50 V
24 MP, 15 FPS APS-C Vlogging 4K60 (no viewfinder, 2025 ~ today)
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Canon EOS R50 V (works with Canon RF & RF-S lenses, 12.9 oz./365g with battery and SD card, $569) and RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ. bigger. I got mine from B&H. I'd also get it at Crutchfield, at Adorama or at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
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Construction, 10:40 AM, Wednesday, 03 June 2026. Canon EOS R50 V, Canon RF-s 14~30mm IS STM PZ at 15mm at f/8 at 1/200 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 13.6), Radiant Photo software to add light. bigger or camera-original © JPG file.
Pool, 12:55 PM, Thursday, 04 June 2026. Canon EOS R50 V, Canon RF-s 14~30mm IS STM PZ at 14mm at f/8 at 1/400 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 14.6), Radiant Photo software to add light to the shadows while retaining highlights. bigger or camera-original 24 MP © JPG file.
Zoey Ready for a Walk, Wednesday, 03 June 2026. Canon EOS R50 V, Canon RF-s 14~30mm IS STM PZ at 30mm at f/7.1 at 1/80 at Auto ISO 125 (LV 11⅔), curves adjustment layer in Photoshop to correct for the greenish window light. bigger or camera-original 24 MP © JPG file.
Porsche Crest on Sapphire Blue Metallic (Saphirblau M5J), Wednesday, 03 June 2026. Canon EOS R50 V, Canon RF-s 14~30mm IS STM PZ at 30mm at f/8 at 1/100 at Auto ISO 100 (LV 12.6), exactly as shot except for some minor cropping and perspective correction in Photoshop . bigger or camera-original 24 MP © JPG file.
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The EOS R50 V is a viewfinderless APS-C Canon mirrorless camera optimized for video and selfies. Of course it also works great for still shots as I do; the difference is in what and where are the controls. For instance, the top mode dial has 7 positions for video but only one for still photos. To select still shooting modes like P, Av, Tv, M and B we use the touch screen.
The R50 V's controls are optimized for video and vlogging. For stills the older EOS R50 has a much better set of controls as well as a viewfinder and a built-in flash.
The R50V is fun, like toy camera, and it takes great photos pretty much all by itself.
The R50V has no hot shoe and can't use normal flash unless you buy a special $50 Canon flash adapter. The R50V has no traditional flash contacts and only works with the newest EL-5 or EL-10 flashes. There is no built-in flash, either.
This is a much better and more capable camera than the vlogger-famous but older G7X III, which no one can get anyway.
I got my R50 V at B&H. I'd also get it at Crutchfield, at Adorama or at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH:
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
New intro top
No viewfinder.
Camera and controls optimized for video; very few still-image controls.
Extra front REC button for video selfies.
Second tripod socket on the side for vertical video (for social media).
Good intro top
Hand-held in-camera focus-bracketing, auto-aligning, stacking and compositing works great, even handheld!!!
The usual flawless Canon colors and image quality.
Battery life is great; I've made 650 shots with the mechanical shutter and it still reads full.
Tiny.
Square, 4:3 and 16:9 still image crop modes.
Stereo mic built-in, but I doubt it's smart enough and has enough mic elements to be in stereo when shot vertically.
100% U.S.A.-based high-quality technical support at (800) OK-CANON.
Bad intro top
No viewfinder.
Can't use normal flash unless you buy a special $50 Canon flash adapter. The R50V has no traditional flash contacts and only works with the newest EL-5 or EL-10 flashes.
Rolling electronic shutter (also electronic front-curtain, good).
Limited controls for still photos, only bad if you're silly enough to get this primarily for stills, otherwise the unique controls are a Godsend for vloggers and selfie hounds.
Auto ISO is poor, with no settings other than its maximum ISO.
Missing intro top
No viewfinder.
No AF/MF switch for lenses lacking one.
No built-in flash.
Can't use normal flash unless you buy a special $50 Canon flash adapter. The R50V has no traditional flash contacts and only works with the newest EL-5 or EL-10 flashes.
No ability to modify the slowest shutter speeds in Auto ISO.
No built-in continuous video light.
No second card slot.
No GPS, use an app.
No search ability in menu system.
No battery percentage meter, just an icon.
No in-camera sensor-shift image stabilization (no worries, Canon's optical IS works better and almost every lens already has IS).
No sensor cleaner. Some sensors are so brilliantly designed that dirt isn't a problem, so I can't vouch either way about this.
Specifications top
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I got my R50 V at B&H. I'd also get it at Crutchfield, at Adorama or at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH:
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
Lens Compatibility specifications top
Canon EOS R50 V. bigger.
Works with all of Canon's RF and RF-s lenses.
With an EF-RF adapter, it works flawlessly with every EF and EF-s lens made since 1987.
It won't work with any EOS-M lens.
It's NOT compatible with the STEREOSCOPIC RF 5.2mm f/2.8L Dual 190º Fisheye. The dual fisheye only works with the R5 and R5C.
I can't recall what it does with the crazy 7.8mm dual lens.
Image Sensor specifications top
Canon EOS R50 V. bigger.
24 MP: 6,000 × 4,000 pixels native.
14.9 × 22.3 mm CMOS.
3:2 aspect ratio.
1.6× crop factor.
NO ultrasonic cleaner.
ISO specifications top
ISO 100 ～ 32,000 for stills and video.
To ISO 51,200 H for stills and video.
Still Formats specifications top
JPG, HEIF and/or C-raw (that's Craw, not Craw).
Square, 4:3 and 16:9 still image crop modes.
Video specifications top
XF-AVC S/XF-HEVC S 4:2:2/4:2:0 8/10-Bit
4K (3,840 x 2,160) at 23.98, 25, 29.97, 50 or 59.94 fps [100 to 250 Mb/s]
1,920 x 1,080 at 3, 6, 12, 23.98, 25, 29.97, 50, 59.94, 100 or 120 fps
Audio specifications top
Recorded only along with video.
48 ksps 16-bit AAC.
S - t - e - r - e - O microphone built in.
Mic-in jack with plug-in power overrides built-in mic.
Headphone jack.
Autofocus specifications top
LV -5 ~ +20.
4,503 phase-detection AF points for stills, which crop to 3,713 for video.
Light Meter specifications top
LV -5 ~ +20.
Evaluative, center-weighted, spot and partial.
Finder specifications top
NONE; rear LCD only.
Shutter specifications top
Electronic Front-Curtain Shutter
1/4,000 ～ 30 seconds.
1/250 flash sync speed.
Silent Electronic Shutter
1/8,000 ～ 30 seconds.
Remote Releases specifications top
Use the free app to control over Bluetooth.
~ or ~
There's a 2.5mm socket for the Canon RS-60E3 or similar 2.5mm remote cords.
Frame Rates specifications top
To 15 FPS.
Buffer (Burst) Sizes specifications top
95 frames JPG or 36 frames raw at 15 FPS.
Flash specifications top
eTTL.
1/250 sync speed.
No Built-in Flash
External Flash
Dedicated hot shoe.
LCD Monitor specifications top
3" (75 mm) diagonal.
1,040,000 dots.
Connectors specifications top
Canon EOS R50 V. bigger.
Canon EOS R50 V. bigger.
3.5mm stereo mic in.
2.5mm remote socket.
3.5mm headphones.
Micro HDMI.
USB-C for both data and power.
Wi-Fi specifications top
2.4 & 5 GHz.
NFC specifications top
No.
Bluetooth specifications top
4.2.
GPS specifications top
None, use the app.
Storage specifications top
One slot for an SD, SDHC or SDXC card.
Power & Battery specifications top
Battery
LP-E17 rechargeable Li-Ion battery.
Charging
Charges over USB-C or with the included LC-E17 Battery Charger.
Size specifications top
3.4 × 4.6 × 2.7 inches HWD.
85.5 × 116 × 68.8 millimeters HWD.
Weight specifications top
12.860 oz (364.6 g) actual measured weight with battery and card.
Rated 13.1 oz. (370 g) with battery and card.
Environment specifications top
Operating
0º ～ 40º C (32º ～ 104º F).
0 to 85% RH.
Model Numbers specifications top
6895C002, body only.
6895C012, body with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ.
Included specifications top
Camera body, and maybe a lens with the kit.
RF-5 body cap.
Strap.
LP-E17 rechargeable Li-Ion battery.
Announced specifications top
26 March 2025.
Promised for specifications top
April 2025, although the stand-alone RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ doesn't claim to become available until July 2025. This usually means you can get the kit with lens in April 2025, but may have to wait until July 2025 if you want to get just the lens.
Price, U. S. A. specifications top
05 June 2026 ($80 off)
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
25 April 2025
Body-only: $649 at B&H, at Adorama and at Crutchfield, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $849 at B&H, at Adorama and at Crutchfield.
March 2025
Body-only: $649 at B&H and at Adorama.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $849 at B&H and at Adorama.
Getting a Legal U. S. A. Version top
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I got my USA version R50 V at B&H. I'd also get it at Crutchfield, at Adorama or at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH:
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
This section applies in the U. S. A. only.
U. S. A. Warranty Card. (half of the sheet. I got this as a kit with the RF-s 14-30mm at B&H). bigger.
Your R50 V must include a printed U. S. A. warranty card like the one shown above from Canon U.S.A., Inc. It should be on top inside your box as you open it. The serial number on the card must match the serial number on the back of your R50 V.
If you have no card or the serial number doesn't match, you got ripped off with a gray market version intended to be sold in another country. This is why I never buy from any place other than my personally approved sources. You just can't take the chance of buying elsewhere, especially at any retail store where strangers have probably opened your completely unsealed box and played with your camera, because non-U. S. A. versions have no warranty in the U. S. A., and you probably won't be able to get firmware or service for it — even if you're willing to pay out-of-pocket for it when you need it!
Shifty dealers may include copies of a card from a legitimate U. S. A. product in a gray-market box, hoping you won't check serial numbers and catch their fraud. A card with the wrong serial number means nothing other than that you have no warranty coverage.
The serial number on the box doesn't have to match, but it should. It will be hidden someplace on the sticker with all the bar codes. If not, it means a shady dealer took things out of boxes and was too sloppy to put them back correctly — and it means you got a used lens if anyone other than you took it out of the box.
If a gray market version saves you $200 the risk might be worth it, but for $100 or less I wouldn't risk having no warranty or support.
Always be sure to check yours while you can still return it, or just don't buy from unapproved sources and never at retail so you'll be able to have your camera serviced and get free updated firmware as needed. Get yours from the same places I do and you won't have a problem.
Performance top
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I got my USA version R50 V at B&H. I'd also get it at Crutchfield, at Adorama or at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH:
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
Overall Autofocus Manual Focus Focus Stacking
Auto ISO Color Rendition Crop Modes Ergonomics
Flash High ISOs Lens Corrections Mechanics
Stabilization Rear LCD Playback Power & Battery
Overall performance top
The R50V is a fun little camera.
It feels like a toy, and even just waving it around it takes great pictures pretty much all by itself.
Autofocus performance top
Autofocus is fine, fast and sure.
It has all the usual modes, including auto subject identification IFF, but lacks the ability to deselect modes for speed and simplicity's sake as can larger cameras.
Manual Focus performance top
Manual focus is poor because unless your lens has an AF/MF switch, you have to go into menus to get in or out of manual focus.
Worse, once you get into manual focus, good luck seeing what's going on with only a tiny screen that's dim in daylight.
Focus Bracketing, Stacking & Compositing performance top
YES! I easily can set my R50V to shoot, stack and composite multiple focus-bracketed images into complete, final pictures with unlimited depth of field — even HAND-HELD!
Bravo!!!!
Auto ISO performance top
Auto ISO is poor, with no settings other than its maximum ISO.
Auto ISO is simply one spot on the ISO scale, with no ability modify or set the slowest shutter speeds.
Color & Tonal Rendition performance top
It has the usual Canon Picture Controls and Styles, which I love.
Color rendition is how pictures look in the real world. Real-world color rendition has nothing to do with color accuracy measured in a lab. Color rendition is dependant on how a maker programs all the color matrices, curves, and look-up tables to generate color from the data read from the sensor, and varies widely between makers once you set a camera away from its defaults. I never shoot at defaults.
If you shoot raw then your colors and tones aren't created until you process the raw data later in software, and your choice of software will have as much effect on your images as the camera itself.
It's like pianos: anyone can talk forever about how pianos are made, but to most ordinary players the subtle variations between different samples of a Steinway Model D are eclipsed by their own limitations in playing, but when you're a virtuoso even subtle differences become obvious to the seasoned master. That's why when you buy, or choose a Steinway for your tour as a Steinway Artist, you go to Steinway's Astoria factory and pick from among several samples of the same model which suits your style best. To a master, the subtle details are everything, just like subtle differences in color rendition between different brands of camera. Art is not the duplication of reality; art is the expression of imagination.
I'm a seasoned working artist, not some online tweaker, YouTuber or tech blogger. COLOR is my life and work. I'm pickier about color than almost anyone; I see things most people don't. I can get photos that get oohs and ahhs with this camera, but I rarely, if ever, do I get to WOW! as often as I do with my Nikons and Canons.
This is just me; your preferences and results will vary. This is art.
Crop Modes performance top
Excellent!
I program my #1 Fn Button to set this, and thus it's easy to select square, 4:3 or 16:9 crops.
Ergonomics performance top
No viewfinder!
Canon EOS R50 V. bigger.
The power zoom lever around the shutter button is backwards.
Left is Wide and Right is Tele. It's as if someone destined it from pictures, not realizing that since Canon puts the wider focal lengths on the left of their zoom rings, that we have always had to turn the ring Right, not Left, to go wider.
Even the RF-S 14-30mm PZ works in the same way as all Canon zooms: turning it Right goes wider, but the top lever of the R50V is backwards. Oops!
Like other tiny Canons, it has tiny strap lugs optimized for narrower straps.
It's all gray except for two shutter buttons. It may be some people's idea of style, however the lack of colored markings makes it less intuitive. For instance, buttons used to have playback functions marked in blue, but they're now the same gray as everything else, and all the modes on the top dial are the same gray — no different colors for the Still, Movie, C123, SCN, S&F and A+ modes.
Cards poke in next to the battery from the bottom, which is more difficult than with a separate card door on the right side.
The card faces the wrong way. The label faces the front of the camera.
The Play and menu buttons are on the wrong (left) side, demanding a second (left) hand to hit them. I program my rear #2 Fn button to MENU and my #3 Fn button to play with magnification so I can use just one hand for everything, keeping my left hand free.
There is a DSLR-inspired [Q] screen that can appear on the LCD, but oddly it ignores touch, making it more of a way to see how your camera is set rather than a way to set things. Weird.
Flash performance top
Canon EOS R50 V Flash Contacts. bigger or view from above.
It has no standard hot shoe contacts, thus it has no hot shoe.
It has only a cold shoe with some very special gold pins that only work with the very newest EL-5 or EL-10 flashes.
While these new pins are fun if you want to use a Canon digital microphone or other goodies, you can't use normal flash unless you buy a special $50 Canon flash adapter.
High ISO Performance details dark detail performance top
There's no mystery to comparing cameras; I shoot this same test at all the ISOs in every other camera I review so you can compare for yourself. Caveat: I repainted these walls white from their previous tan as of the beginning of 2023, so the background wall won't match in older reviews, and this set is lit by natural light which is different every day.
It has the same high ISO performance as the R50, which has the same performance as the R7 and R10. The R100 is slightly worse than the rest.
Complete Images details dark detail performance top
As seen at normal image sizes below, the R50 V pretty much makes the same images from ISO 100 to ISO 6,400. Exposure varies a bit at random from ISO to ISO.
ISO 12,800 gets a tiny bit blotchier and shadows are less sharp.
ISO 25,600 is more blotchier with more color blobs and softer overall. Details are gone even at small sizes.
Higher ISOs get more color blobs with less and less detail at each higher ISO.
This is typical performance in 2026; all cameras work just fine for online image sizes at insanely high ISOs. Honestly I never use anything above ISO 10,000. If you have to use five-digit ISOs you're doing something wrong, and no one needs six-digit ISOs other than for fooling around. Photography is all about light and lighting, so if you have no light, you should be working on improving that light rather than worrying about which camera makes the least awful photos in bad situations.
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Fine Details: 600 × 450 Pixel Crops (10× magnification) High ISOs details dark detail performance top
Here are crops from the same images as above, showing the clock on the right.
What we see at the high magnifications below is that fine details go away as the ISO increases. This happens with all cameras (and our own eyes) and is an artifact of the noise reduction working harder as the ISO increases.
In the R50V the most detail is at ISO 100, and becomes softer at every higher ISO. This is normal and how noise reduction works in every camera.
It's getting much softer (at these high magnifications) at ISO 1,600.
By ISO 6,400 most of the detailed scrollwork between the clock numbers is gone.
By ISO 25,600 the minute marks are mostly gone.
By ISO 32,000 all the detail is gone from the clock face, leaving only the numbers and hour marks (almost).
At ISO 51,200 (H) even the numbers and hands are starting to disappear.
It's normal in all digital cameras for details to go away at higher ISOs. The differences between cameras are in how much detail is lost, and at what ISOs.
These are 600 × 450 pixel crops which vary in size to fit your browser window.
If these are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, the complete images would print at 20 × 30" (50 × 75 cm) at this same high magnification.
If these are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, the complete images would print at 40 × 60" (1 × 1.5 meters) at this same extreme magnification.
If these are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, the complete images would print at 80 × 120" (2 × 3 meters) at this same insanely high magnification.
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Dark-Area 600 × 450 Pixel Crops (10× magnification) High ISOs details dark detail performance top
Here are different crops from the same images as above, now showing the dark grillwork of the fireplace.
Higher ISOs greatly reduce the details in the shadows, as we expect.
The most detail in the fine screen is at ISO 100, and ISO 200 is pretty good, too.
At ISO 400 there is much less screen detail, and the screen is half gone at ISO 800.
The bricks behind the grill go away by ISO 3,200.
By ISO 25,000 the large iron bars are almost gone, and are gone as you go higher in ISO.
It's normal in all digital cameras for details to go away at higher ISOs. The differences between cameras are in how much detail is lost, and at what ISOs.
These are 600 × 450 pixel crops which vary in size to fit your browser window.
If these are about 3" (7.5cm) wide on your screen, the complete images would print at 20 × 30" (50 × 75 cm) at this same high magnification.
If these are about 6" (15cm) wide on your screen, the complete images would print at 40 × 60" (1 × 1.5 meters) at this same extreme magnification.
If these are about 12" (30cm) wide on your screen, the complete images would print at 80 × 120" (2 × 3 meters) at this same insanely high magnification.
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Lens Corrections performance top
It has complete options to correct for falloff (Peripheral Illumination Correction), Distortion and a Digital Lens Optimizer which corrects for a suite of other aberrations.
If you turn off the Digital Lens Optimizer, you are then offered à la carte ON/OFF options for Chromatic Aberration Correction and Diffraction Correction.
You may turn any of these OFF or ON, although some lenses use electronic correction as part of their optical design, and for those lenses we cannot turn off distortion correction.
If you shoot raw data rather than JPG images, whatever software you use to create visible images from raw data may or may not correct the distortion as is done in-camera as JPGs. You're on your own there; I don't bother with raw data.
Mechanical Quality performance top
Canon EOS R50 V. bigger.
It feels like plastic toy, with a metal mount and metal inside where it needs it.
Metal
Teeny strap lugs, flash shoe, lens mount, screws, door hinge and internal support, both tripod sockets.
Plastic
Everything else!
Rubberized
Eyecup, grip material.
Glass
LCD cover.
Serial Number
Canon EOS R50 V. bigger.
Printed on a sticker on the back of the camera. It ought to be safe; we don't normally touch back there.
Date Code
The serial number contains a date code.
My serial number starts with 159, which means it was made in November 2025.
Noises When Shaken
I hear only the slightest clicking from something tiny floating around inside.
Its a solid little camera.
Made in
Made in Japan.
Image Stabilization performance top
There is no internal stabilization, and it works great with Canon's stabilized (IS) lenses.
Rear LCD Monitor performance top
Like every Japanese camera, it's got the same dim, tiny screen as all Japanese cameras for the past 20 years. 3" screens should have gone away in 2007.
It's bright and sharp indoors or in shade, but it's still tiny.
It's dim in sunlight. My iPhone 17 Pro Max completely wipes this screen away. My iPhone is huge, sharper and brilliantly bright by comparison outdoors, while the pathetic little LCD on the back of the R50V is as bad as every other tiny little screen.
It only adjusts to a brightness of 7. There is no sunlight mode as some other Canon cameras have..
Worse, there is no automatic brightness control for the LCD as every iPhone has had since 2007. Thus we have to set it to 7 outdoors, and turn it down manually when we come inside. It seems as if only the spectacular Canon 5DS/R, the highest-resolution camera ever from Canon or Nikon, has an LCD with automatic brightness control.
I can't figure out how the Japanese haven't figured out that we expect much bigger and brighter screens.
Playback performance top
Playback images don't rotate as you move the camera during playback as does every iPhone. The "autorotate" playback menu option is simply a "rotate tall" option, not true autorotation if we move the camera during playback like an iPhone.
It zooms playback images with zoom lever around the shutter button. Aha!
The rear controller only works in 4, not 8, directions, but so what: you can zoom and move around images using the touch screen.
Power & Battery performance top
Battery life is great; I've made 650 shots with the mechanical shutter and it still reads full.
The bad part is that the tiny battery lacks the exact percentage readout of the larger batteries, so in other Canon cameras with the same battery I've found that when the icon first shows partial discharge, it's usually almost dead — which isn't particularly useful.
Charging is easy via USB-C. There's a green LED on the lower right of the back of the R50V.
It draws 5.7W (1.16A at 4.9V) while charging.
Compared top
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I got my USA version R50 V at B&H. I'd also get it at Crutchfield, at Adorama or at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH:
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
See Canon EOS R7, R10, R50, R50 V & R100 Compared.
This R50V has the same high ISO performance as the R50, which has the same performance as the R7 and R10. The R100 is slightly worse than the rest.
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Sample Images Introduction New Same Good Bad Missing Format Compatibility Specifications Accessories
Unboxing USA Version Performance Compared User's Guide Recommendations More
I got my USA version R50 V at B&H. I'd also get it at Crutchfield, at Adorama or at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH:
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
Canon EOS R50 V. bigger.
Passwords
These are foolish.
See Setting and Removing Canon Camera Passwords.
Setting Exposure Modes
These aren't on the Mode Dial.
These are set with the touch screen. Press INFO a few times, and when you get to the screen that shows both the live-view image as well as an exposure mode on the top left of the screen, tap the screen there and set it.
Color RGB histograms while shooting
Enable these at:
MENU > Camera page 8/8 > Shooting info. disp. > Histogram disp > Brightness/RGB > RGB, and
MENU > Camera page 8/8 > Shooting info. disp. > Histogram disp > Display Size > Small (so it covers less of the image.
Color RGB Histograms everywhere on Playback
To get color RGB histograms on the top right of playback detail screens rather than a silly gray histogram (and only getting the color histogram at the bottom of one screen, press:
MENU > Playback page 4/4 > Playback information display > hit INFO for any other than the #1 option > select RGB rather than brightness for the histogram.
Be sure to hit OK for the setting to be saved.
One-Click Playback & Zoom
For one click on an Fn button to both play and zoom in, I set my Fn3 in the Shooting Controls menu to " mag during playback" and to simply mag in the Playback control settings.
Mystery [Q] Screen
Press INFO while shooting will bring you to a DSLR-like [Q] screen, yet it only shows settings. It doesn't respond to touch so we can't set things there. Oh well.
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Sample Images Intro New Good Bad Missing
Specifications USA Version Performance
Compared User's Guide Recommendations
I got my USA version R50 V at B&H. I'd also get it at Crutchfield, at Adorama or at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH:
Body-only: $569 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon, or get it used if you know How to Win at eBay, or get it used at KEH.
R50 V with RF-S 14-30mm IS STM PZ: $799 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
R50V Creator Kit: $1,199 at B&H, at Crutchfield, at Adorama and at Amazon.
Be sure to get it only from my recommended sources so that you can just send it back if you don't love it. You never have to guess about how well it will work for you; order it and see for yourself. That's why I've used B&H and Adorama since I was a kid in the 1970s: I can try it in my own environment with my own other gear and if I don't love it, back it goes.
Personally I use my iPhone for video and miss the viewfinder, so this little camera isn't for me — I'd get the regular R50 which includes a viewfinder.
Lens Suggestions recommendations top
Feel free to enjoy the little kit lenses which are tiny and super sharp, but if you want this camera and want a very capable lens, the RF-s 18-150mm IS STM is my favorite because it replaces both a regular and a telephoto lens in one - eliminating any need to carry a second lens or change them between shots.
If you need an ultra telephoto, the RF 100-400mm IS USM is a superb lens at a bargain price.
If you need an ultrawide (few people know How to Use Ultrawide Lenses), then the RF-s 10-18mm IS STM is teeny; tiny gem, and almost free compared to what lenses like this used to cost.
This 100% all-content, junk-free website's biggest source of support is when you use those or any of these links to my personally approved sources I've used myself for way over 100 combined years when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. Canon does not seal its boxes in any way, so never buy at retail or any other source not on my personally approved list since you'll have no way of knowing if you're missing accessories, getting a defective, damaged, returned, gray-market, store demo or used R50V — and all of my personally approved sources allow for 100% cash-back returns for at least 30 days if you don't love your new R50V. I've used many of these stores since the 1970s because I can try it in my own hands and return it if I don't love it, and because they ship from secure remote warehouses where no one gets to touch your new R50V before you do. Buy only from the approved sources I've used myself for decades for the best prices, service, return policies and selection.
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