Canon Sets Sights on Entry-Level Photogs With EOS R100

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Today Canon announced the EOS R100, another entry in its RF-mount mirrorless camera system. The camera is a blunt appeal to entry-level and budget-restricted customers, a segment that's been left behind by other camera makers. As such, price is one of the R100's major features, and we won't bury the lede, it's priced around $600 with a starter lens, a more competitive figure than you'll find from other camera makers. For comparison, Sony's entry-level a6100 is around $850 with a lens.

To keep costs down, the EOS R100 re-uses an existing imaging platform: the 24MP CMOS sensor and Digic 8 image processor are lifted straight from the EOS M50 Mark II. It's the same tact Canon takes with its bare-bones EOS T7 SLR, but here the older tech is not so egregiously outdated. The R100's autofocus supports face- and eye-detection for people, snappy Dual Pixel CMOS focus for stills and 1080p video, and full-width 4K movies with contrast-detect focus.

Leaning on the EOS M50 II platform limits some features—Canon's newer processor and focus system adds subject recognition for pets, birds, and vehicles, along with Dual Pixel AF for 4K video—giving customers reasons to step up to an EOS R50 or R10, two mid-entry options with fresher sensor and processor tech. But when compared with the Canon EOS T7 SLR, the R100 promises much better performance; the T7 has rudimentary autofocus for stills and manual focus 1080p video.

And while the imaging platform is the same as the M50 Mark II, the R100's body is very different. It's smaller, for one, and omits a swing-out LCD, though it does include an eye-level electronic viewfinder. And in a likely effort to attain low pricing, the fixed rear display is just for viewing; it doesn't have support for