Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was impressed with my images I took!! Would recommend to family and friends!! Light and convenient to carry during outings.

Back in 2008 I decided I wanted to learn photography. Back then, and perhaps to some extent still today, Nikon and Canon were the only game in town for “serious” or “professional” photographers to buy DSLR cameras from. I wasn’t opening a photography studio and I certainly wasn’t going to be on the sidelines of a sporting event shooting for Sports Illustrated, but the geek in me thought it would be amazing to capture great photographs of nature and those Hollywood shots of people you see in movies when I was out on personal vacations. So I spent far too much money on a Nikon D90 camera, a tripod, travel bags, flashes, camera lenses…. I was all in baby! Next I bought a few “how to become a photographer” books, I signed up for a few online photography courses and I spent a few months trying to learn the art. Focal lengths and shutter speeds and ISOs…. The whole thing was just too complex for my brain to digest and when I looked at all the knobs and buttons on the D90 my brain just froze with this overwhelming sense of dread of not knowing which dial to set or which setting worked best. It went on like this for a few months but the freedom of not having to pay for film to develop allowed for far more experimentation with the photos. I was able to produce a handful of amazing photos, some which still are framed and on my bookshelf today. The turning point for me to move away from DSLR was a trip to a local waterfall where a camera club was visiting. I watched each one of them spend 10-15 minutes setting up their equipment trying to get the perfect shot while the other tourists walked up, snapped a shot in under a minute and kept walking. Sometimes all you want is a quick and simple photo of a moment. I asked one of the enthusiasts if he would mind using my D90 to take a photo of me and his reply was “well I’m not comfortable with what settings you’ve configured for your camera so I’d rather not.” I shrugged, asked a different stranger who wasn’t part of the camera club and after a quick “just point and shoot” I got a few photos of me in front of the waterfall. Would the results win any photography awards? No, but to this day I can still look at the photo and remember that moment. I also remember looking down at my heavy bag of equipment and realizing how overly complex I had made my life by not only having to think way too hard about which settings and knobs to set the camera to, but also how much extra room lugging all this equipment required. I came home from that trip, put the D90 in the closet, and let it collect dust for a few months before I decided to cut my loses and sell it on eBay. My cell phone camera would be just fine. Fourteen years later, I’m holding this Canon EOS R10 in my hand. Aside from the fact that it’s a smaller, lighter camera, and the technology moved from mirrored to mirrorless, it is still a terrible experience to take photos. There are still far too many knobs and switches, made even worse by a fold out tiling LCD screen that adds even more complexity. Perhaps some people love this mess of buttons and knobs and now a touchscreen, but it’s just not for me. So I’ve settled on using the EOS R10 for one specific purpose: recording videos using a tripod stand. And for video recording, it’s one dial setting on the knob, it’s start and stop simple and the videos the camera records are excellent quality and sharpness so I love it. To support video recording I purchased a Canon GH-100TBR Tripod Grip to use with the R10. The Tripod stand works great for my primary use case of sitting the camera on a desk. The GH-100TBR comes with the Canon BR-E1 wireless remote control but I was disappointed to learn that the wireless remote will not pair with the R10. I’m hopeful a future firmware update for the R10 will address this limitation. One other gripe: the camera comes with a USB-C cable to connect to a computer and this experience worked for me to use the camera as a webcam, but I was unable to get the USB-C cable to charge the camera in a stand alone configuration. There is a mini USB port on the device and it seems that Canon has a different USB accessary that is required in order to power this camera. This seems like a missed opportunity as USB-C is quickly becoming the single plug and cable for charging everything these days.

Great amateur camera that’s an in between beginner and advanced photographer. Specs are decent and quality is good for the price. The shutter sound is a bit loud, but silent mode is available. Kit lens is decent, but definitely upgrade if looking for higher quality.

My friend bought it for his house warming ceremony, captured perfect pictures.

The Canon R 10 camera is a wonderful mirrorless mid-level camera. Offers a great selection of shooting modes and and a good selection interchangeable lenses.