{"id":11807,"date":"2026-09-20T05:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2026\/09\/20\/steady-progress-shooting-with-the-canon-eos-r8-mark-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T05:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:05:18","slug":"steady-progress-shooting-with-the-canon-eos-r8-mark-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brokenmount.com\/bm\/2026\/09\/20\/steady-progress-shooting-with-the-canon-eos-r8-mark-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Steady progress: shooting with the Canon EOS R8 Mark II"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tWe shot Canon\u2019s latest low-cost full-frame body with everything from kit zooms to \u2018L\u2019 series lenses<\/p>\n

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The EOS R8 Mark II is a refreshed and up-specced entry-level full-frame mirrorless camera, adding in-body image stabilization and an AF joystick as part of a complete re-styling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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This changes and a 2026 price tag position it essentially head-to-head with Nikon\u2019s Z5II, our current pick<\/a> in this part of the market.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had a chance to shoot the EOS R8 II for an extended period and with an array of lenses, so we\u2019ve used it for the everyday photo taking its designed for. We\u2019ve also got some friends to stand around in a flowerbed, to make sure we got to see how it performed for portraits and people pictures.<\/p>\n

Overall we found it to be a very likeable camera: relatively small, usefully light and with a pretty straightforward interface. It\u2019s not overflowing with clever features, but it has a lot of what a lot of photographers might need at a price that\u2019s a fair step below that of the more sophisticated EOS R6 III.<\/p>\n

We go into more detail about what we liked and disliked in our review, but this gallery should give a sense for what the R8 II can do. All the shots are unprocessed, out-of-camera images, but all of them taken in the camera\u2019s conventional Picture Style color modes because you can\u2019t capture Raws if you switch across to the more effect-like Color filter modes.<\/p>\n

As always, you can download the Raws or JPEGs to inspect or run through your preferred processing workflow, to see how they look.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Please do not reproduce any of these images on a website or any newsletter\/magazine without prior permission (see our copyright page<\/a> ). We make the originals available for private users to download to their own machines for personal examination or printing (in conjunction with this review); we do so in good faith, so please don\u2019t abuse it.<\/p>\n

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About the Author: <\/span>Richard graduated as a scientist but had a lot more fun writing and shooting for his university magazine. A number of years spent variously as a reporter, writer and editor on science and engineering titles combined his knowledge of science with his interest in images and words. But it was spotting the connections between emission spectra, white balance and all the nonsense he\u2019d taught himself playing around in Photoshop that helped kindle an interest in digital photography. Searching for a camera led to him discovering DPReview and Richard was recruited by Phil Askey in 2007. He\u2019s been combining his love of photography, communication and attention to detail (pedantry?) ever since.<\/p>\n

He has unusually strong opinions about lenses for the APS-C format.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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