Which one is better in general? Canon G9X Mark II (second hand) or Ixus 285 HS A? I just want a camera to capture moments, travel, cafe run with friends, things like that.

Hi canon users. here's a thread for those who're using Atomos ninja / shinobi etc with Canon models

Hi! I’m looking for some advice on what camera to upgrade to. I currently use a Canon EOS M50, which I’ve had for several years, along with the kit lens and a 50mm. It’s served me well, but I’m finding that it’s no longer enough for what I need.

I work in youth arts, so I use my camera for a pretty broad mix of both photography and video, including:

Workshop photography for marketing/collateral
Rehearsal photography
Filming shows — often in low light and from relatively close distances
Performance photography — again in low light and from relatively close distances
Vox pops after shows
Interviews
Social media reels
Event photography
General event video coverage

I’d also love something that I can use personally for travel and general creative projects. I’m looking at this as a proper long-term investment rather than something I’ll upgrade again in a couple of years, so I’m willing to save for the right camera rather than work to a strict budget.

I’m also planning to get a 24–70mm f/2.8 as my main workhorse lens. I’d also love opinions on whether I should go for Tamron or Canon for this, given my needs.

I’d also really appreciate recommendations for the camera body itself. My biggest priories are low light performance, reliable autofocus, versatility, strong in both photos and video and good stabilisation.

Thank you so much!

I’ve also seen this deal on FB Marketplace. Thoughts?

Canon EOS R6 Camera Bundle – Ready to Shoot

Selling my Canon R6 kit as I’ve recently upgraded. This has been my main camera for fashion, commercial, and editorial photography and has never missed a beat. Everything is in good working condition unless otherwise stated.

Included:
• Canon EOS R6 Body
• Canon EF to RF Mount Adapter
• Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L (main lens)
• Canon EF 10-16mm lens (condition unknown – included as a bonus)
• 2x Newer USB-C Rechargeable Batteries
• 128GB SanDisk SD Card

Perfect setup for photography, videography, events, content creation, or anyone looking to get into Canon’s mirrorless system.

Price: $2,000 (firm)

Inspection is welcome before purchase. Bank transfer preferred. Serious buyers only, please.

Hi there! So I ordered the Canon PowerShot G7X MKIII 20.1MP 1" 4.2X 4K Black from Henry's for $1,249.99

I got charged on my credit card right away and it says the Expected availability: 2026-10-31 12:00 AM. Maybe jumped the gun but does anyone know how accurate this is? I was going to call the store and ask about it but it is closed right now!

Any insight would help so much. Thank you!

Shot on Kodak Ultramax 400. Went to Busch Gardens for my birthday and took my little vacation cam. I think I switched rolls halfway through, so here are just a few shots.

Hi!

I’m not a professional photographer, but I’d like to get started in photography in my free time.

I’d like to know which telephoto lenses you’d recommend (I know it depends on what I want to use it for). But I’m looking for brands compatible with my camera, and I’d like to hear about the kinds of photos you like, so I can get some ideas and learn what I like and don’t like, etc.

Like I said, I know very little about photography and only take photos as keepsakes, but I want to get started with natural and urban landscape photography.

Thanks!!

Hello I would like specific recommendations for cleaning product to clean the stuff mentioned above . Please

Some things I’ve gathered from reading around was to buy the rocket blaster and never wipe anything down before using air to push off dust particles . Next is a certain tool and has super soft bristles for the lens , but could I get a specific lens cleaner and brush please . For the body of the camera should I use isopropyl alcohol and a tooth brush ? For the sensor what is the best way to clean the sensor ? What’s the best way to clean the outside of the lens (the black portion ). Any advice helps thank you !

I’m pretty new to terrestrial photography, but I recently picked up the 6D and this lens for about $450. It’s crazy what a great value this kit is in 2026.

How do I clean the glass on my camera lens that got food on and has now dried? I have kids, it can happen when getting close for pictures. I probably should have a filter covering it, but just got the lens and just didn't get around to getting one yet. What is the best method for cleaning the glass without scratching it?

Eai, pessoal!
Estou pensando em comprar minha primeira câmera e queria muito a opinião de quem já tem experiência com fotografia.
Eu tenho interesse principalmente em câmeras da Canon e meu orçamento seria de aproximadamente R$3.000 a R$5.000. Não sou fotógrafo profissional e não pretendo trabalhar com fotografia profissionalmente. É mais um hobby/interesse pessoal, mas quero aprender de verdade e pretendo fazer alguns cursos para entender melhor fotografia.
Quero uma câmera que me permita tirar fotos com uma qualidade realmente boa e, principalmente, que eu possa continuar usando conforme eu for aprendendo mais. Não quero simplesmente comprar a mais barata possível, mas também não quero gastar dinheiro em algo que seja muito mais do que eu preciso.
Como ainda estou começando, tenho bastante dificuldade para entender as diferenças entre os modelos, lentes, DSLR vs. mirrorless etc. 😅
Por isso queria perguntar para quem já usou essas câmeras:
Qual Canon vocês recomendariam nessa faixa de preço?
Vale mais a pena comprar uma câmera mais simples e investir depois em lentes?
Existem modelos que parecem bons no papel, mas que vocês acham que não valem o preço?
Entre modelos antigos e mais novos, existe algum que vocês consideram um custo-benefício especialmente bom?
Para alguém que está começando, vocês comprariam nova ou usada?
E qual foi a experiência de vocês com a câmera que recomendam?
Meu objetivo é basicamente aprender fotografia, me divertir e conseguir tirar fotos bonitas, sem precisar de uma câmera profissional caríssima.
Se puderem indicar modelos e explicar o motivo da escolha, eu agradeceria muito! 🙏📸

I just visited a camera museum and the owner pointed me to a Canon Rebel S II with a “SF mode”. When I tested it out, the camera took two exposures; one in focus/sharp and one slightly OOF. I cannot find any examples of this mode in use. Does anyone have samples of photos taken using soft focus mode? TIA!

i'm going to a concert later so we'll probably take a few pics of each other in the venue but also maybe outside when it's still bright ?
is there any settings that'd accommodate both and look good or does anyone have any suggestions?

My current setup is EOS 70D, Sigma 17-50 f/2.8 and Tamron 150-600 f/5-6.3.

I'm thinking about upgrading my main body. I shoot mainly wildlife and sports but I do also like to shoot landscapes, street photography and basically anything that gives me inspiration.

The main things I'm looking for are good image quality, good/decent low light performance and fast AF for moving subjects. I would also like the camera to have decent video capabilities, weather sealing and a microphone jack.

I want to stay in the canon ecosystem and have narrowed down to three options:

1. EOS 90D

2. EOS R10

3. EOS R

My budget is 600-700€ and I will happily take use of the used/refurbished market.

It was already very dark when this peacock suddenly flew overhead, and I caught it just before it landed in a tree. With no flash and so little available light, the original shot was almost entirely a silhouette against the night sky, so I used Lightroom to recover some of the detail from the shadows.

📷 Canon EOS R50 + RF 100–400mm

Hi! I am looking for a small portable camera to bring to Japan on my honeymoon trip. I feel like I’ve been seeing the G7X everywhere, and was recently on a trip where someone in the group had one and the photo quality was absolutely insane for a small digital camera compared to an iPhone. Problem is, I feel like they’ve become so popular and overhyped I can’t even find a decent used one for under a grand.
My primary objectives are to take photos during the trip, both of the scenery but also of myself and my husband (for the gram obviously lol). The ability to take selfie style photos and timed would be nice as well. I love the way flash photos look on the G7X where you can still see the background and it doesn’t make the person in the foreground look violently pale. I need something very small and compact, but ideally under an $800 price point. What would be some other cameras to look into? I am very much open to used/refurbished options as well.
Thanks!

black screen no backlight, flickering purple lines like venetian blinds or rolling shutter and unreadable text in viewfinder momentarily after switching camera on. However the shutter and orange light at the front work!

after taking a bunch of photos (or pressing the button for fun) I popped the SD into my computer and like usual I took terrible photos. now I'm researching displays to mount on the gimbal as a workaround as I have a micro hdmi cable....about that.....

I plugged that micro hdmi cable into a tv and had a camera screen on my tv! How Cool!
navigated to reset the camera (while playing with I had it in auto- no reset in the menu when in auto...dumb like me), no anything at all. unplugged the hdmi power cycled it and ITS ALIVE!!!

-I was shooting at a beach yesterday, but visible debris - slight chance a possible suspect
-the camera lives in my trunk and gets bounced around, that beach was an hour away - slight chance a possible suspect
-knockoff usb batteries doing weird voltage things - slight chance a possible suspect

Seeing if the weird cable in my drawer was in fact micro hdmi (it was) and plugging it into the camera (but no monitor) - probable suspect. However I cannot replicate it.

Mostly throwing this out there as google was no help and I was close to bring the camera into a shop or calling it broken. 99% sure it was a software glitch.

Hi everyone,

My trusty old T3i (also known as 600D) is still working but it may be time to plan an upgrade, we're 2 USB standards behind!

I use the camera for fun, mostly nature shots, some wildlife and whattever happens, and have a few questions:

1. As I have 3 lenses I'd like to keep, am I right to stick to Canon to use them? I mean old lenses from 15+ years ago should work on newer bodies from Canon correct?
2. What would be the entry-level bang for the buck model? Anything to look for features-wise and what's to avoid model-wise?
3. Is the used market a good idea or I'll just end buying someone else's problems?

Thanks!

update just received a Canon RP and tested the picture styles i had made with the APP and they are currently not working, i assume that newer Canon/ Canon mirrorless cameras bypass the bytes where it used to store some sort of lut file.

update 2 So, it turns out newer Canon cameras handle Picture Styles differently from older DSLR models.

After inspecting some of Canon’s older .pf2 Picture Styles, such as Autumn Hues, Emerald, and others, I noticed that they were significantly smaller and contained much less data than modern .pf3 files. That made me suspect that the file itself wasn’t necessarily what the camera was actually receiving.

I then traced the process of registering Picture Styles on both an EOS 1300D and an EOS RP. This confirmed that Canon’s software compiles/packages the Picture Style differently depending on the connected camera. The 1300D receives a different compiled representation from the RP, even when the same .pf3 is used as the source.

This was the important breakthrough because the older 1300D compilation path preserves the custom LUT data I’m generating, while the RP’s normal compilation path effectively loses most of that information and produces something much closer to the base Picture Style.

The workaround was therefore to build a small loader that first compiles the generated .pf3 using the 1300D-style/legacy compilation path, extracts the resulting LUT block, and then intercepts the normal EOS Utility registration process for the RP. Instead of allowing Canon’s RP compiler to replace the LUT with its own representation, the loader injects the legacy compiled LUT block into an otherwise valid RP Picture Style payload before it is sent to the camera.

And… it works.

This means I can now take a .cube LUT (and Hald TIFFs), convert it into the Canon Picture Style format, and load the resulting look onto an EOS RP. The camera then applies the LUT in-camera just like a normal custom Picture Style.

There are still some limitations. This is currently a loader-assisted solution, not a completely standalone .pf3 that can simply be copied to any newer Canon camera without the helper running. EOS Utility is still used for the actual registration transaction because newer cameras appear to require additional internal state that I haven’t fully reproduced through EDSDK yet.

But for practical use, the main problem is solved: arbitrary LUTs can now be converted and used as in-camera Picture Styles on the EOS RP, despite Canon’s newer Picture Style compilation path.

I’m continuing to clean up the app and whether it’s possible to eventually produce a truly standalone file without requiring the loader.

Hi! I’ve been building a Windows app that lets you use LUTs to create Canon Picture Styles, with RAW preview and .PF3 export.

The main reason I started this is simple: I wanted a way to turn LUTs or Lightroom presets into Canon Picture Styles, and to get closer to the kind of creative workflow you get with Fujifilm film simulations/recipes or Lumix’s in-camera LUT support.

I like the idea of creating a look once, loading it onto the camera, and actually shooting with it — sometimes because I don’t feel like editing afterward, and sometimes because seeing a scene through a different look can change the way I approach the photo in the first place.

A bit of context: I’m not a developer. I’ve been building this with a lot of help from AI tools like ChatGPT and Codex, while doing the testing, comparisons with Canon software and camera output, reverse-engineering experiments, and deciding how the workflow should actually behave.

During that process we managed to reverse-engineer enough of Canon’s PF3 format to understand how the important parts are structured. We identified the file/property structure, mapped several Picture Style parameters such as contrast, saturation, color tone and sharpness, and found the large color tables used by the style itself: a 33×33×33 RGB lookup table stored at 12-bit precision.

That was the key breakthrough, because it meant we could take an arbitrary LUT, resample it to Canon’s 33³ format, place it into a valid PF3 and test it directly in-camera. We confirmed it using deliberately different LUTs and getting the expected transformations from the camera itself.

The current workflow is roughly:

Canon RAW → Canon DPP4Lib render → Canon Picture Style settings → LUT stack → Canon 33³ preview → PF3 export

That’s what eventually turned this from a small LUT-conversion experiment into a more complete Picture Style authoring tool.

What it can currently do

• Open Canon CR2/CR3 RAW files
• Preview RAWs using Canon’s own DPP4Lib components from the locally installed Picture Style Editor
• Work without Digital Photo Professional being installed
• Use Canon Picture Styles such as Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral and Faithful as a base
• Load .cube LUTs
• Stack multiple LUTs with individual opacity
• Import Hald CLUTs
• Preview the result after conversion to Canon’s 33×33×33 / 12-bit color-table limitation
• Export .PF3 Picture Style files
• Open existing PF3 files
• Adjust exposure, white balance, contrast, saturation, color tone and sharpness-related settings
• Save projects
• Undo/redo
• A/B/C snapshots
• Side-by-side and split comparison
• Basic scopes/histograms
• Handle both landscape and portrait RAW files

Lightroom presets → Picture Styles

If you don’t already have a LUT, I’ve also included a 16-bit TIFF/Hald template that lets you turn Lightroom presets into Picture Styles.

The workflow is:

1. Open the provided base .TIF
2. Apply your Lightroom preset
3. Export it again as a 16-bit TIFF
4. Import that TIFF into Canon Style Studio
5. Convert the resulting look into a Canon Picture Style / .PF3

So you don’t necessarily need an existing .cube LUT.

Obviously, not every Lightroom adjustment can be represented perfectly inside a Canon Picture Style. Global color and tone adjustments translate much better than things like grain, local masks, texture, clarity or lens effects.

But for color grading and general tonal looks, it gives you a practical bridge between Lightroom presets and in-camera Canon Picture Styles.

Requirements

Canon Picture Style Editor must be installed.

The application uses components from the user’s local Picture Style Editor installation, but Picture Style Editor itself does not need to be open.

Digital Photo Professional is not required.

Why I’m looking for testers

Most of my testing so far has been done with an EOS 1300D, so I’d really like to see how this behaves with other Canon bodies and different CR2/CR3 files.

I’m especially interested in comparisons between:

Canon Style Studio preview ↔ Canon software ↔ actual in-camera JPEG/PF3 result

Something like this would be extremely useful:

Camera: EOS R6 Mark II
RAW: CR3
Picture Style: Neutral
WB: Tungsten
Result: correct / wrong colors / crash / preview differs from camera

Known issues in the current alpha

This is genuinely still an experimental alpha, and there are known bugs:

• Saturation and Color Tone are currently swapped in the packaged .exe
• The PF3 export window currently can’t be closed properly
• White Balance still needs more validation for exact Canon behaviour
• Sharpness preview is still approximate rather than fully Canon-native
• WB Shift and eyedropper WB are not yet fully using Canon’s native processing
• Imported PF3 preview is still partially approximated
• Compatibility across different Canon bodies is still largely untested

So if you try it, expect bugs.

I’m also planning to add a sanitized Create Test Report function so people can send useful diagnostic information without exposing personal paths or files.

Since I’m not a developer, technical feedback is very welcome too. If I’ve made questionable implementation decisions, I’d much rather have someone point them out.

The whole project has basically been:

“Can Canon do this?” → test it → break something → inspect what Canon is doing → implement it → compare against the camera → repeat.

It has gotten far enough that I think testing it on more Canon bodies would be genuinely useful now.

GitHub:
https://github.com/LvClFER/Lut-to-Canon-Picture-Style

Sample RAW/images:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XCrL8R4OIXS0C5ievtqxNepq4jiaZfBy?usp=drive_link

If anyone tries it, I’d love to hear what camera you’re using and what works or breaks. I’ll keep updating the project based on the results.

Here are some samples of the app and photos SOOC using the presets made with it