How To Sanitize Your Canon Gear Explained In 40 Seconds

How To Sanitize

CanonUSA posted a 43 seconds video with instructions how to sanitize Canon gear (and every other brand too, for that matter).

We have more tips about how to clean and sanitize your cameras and lenses:

More tips and tricks are listed here.

How To Use A Canon EOS R As Webcam On A Mac Computer (and use it with Zoom)

Professional Canon EOS R Mirrorless

Why use a Canon EOS R as a webcam? Canon recently released a pretty cool free software, Canon EOS Webcam Utility Beta. Unfortunately, for the time being it’s available only for Windows computer.

However, Marius Masalar published a short and easy to follow tutorial about how to use an EOS R as an external webcam on a Mac OS X system. Following Marius how-to you’ll be able to use your EOS R as a high-quality webcam, even in the latest versions of Zoom that has disabled virtual webcams.

You need only three things:

  1. A Canon EOS R, and an USB cable to connect it to your computer
  2. Camera Live: Download the latest version from GitHub
  3. CamTwist: Download it from their website

If you have these, then follow Marius Masalar’s easy instructions to set up your EOS R as a webcam on Mac OS X.

Thanks Marius!

Canon EOS R5 Price Around $6000? Leaked Retailer Information Suggests

Canon Eos R5 Price

Update: the retailer changed the price to a AU$200 deposit, and added:

THIS IS JUST A WITHHOLDING DEPOSIT THAT’S FULLY REFUNDABLE. WE’LL CONTACT YOU ONCE WE HAVE FIRM PRICING

Still, AU$10,499 is a weird placeholder, isn’t it?


Original post:

An Australian camera retailer lists a Canon EOS R5 price that doesn’t seem at all to be a placeholder.

The Canon EOS R5 is listed at 10,499 Australian Dollars, which converts to approximate US$6254.

Too much? Not sure given the impressing features the Canon EOS R5 is packed with (all EOS R5 information is listed here), including 8K video.

An updated report about the EOS R5 specifications can be found here. Unfortunately it seems that the COVID-19 pandemic might delay release and shipment of the R5.

During Canon’s latest live-streamed announcement (you can watch it again here) Canon revealed a second teaser about the Canon EOS R5 after the development announcement and a subsequent reveal of more specifications. All R5 coverage is listed here.

After the last teaser, some EOS R5 hands-on and first impression videos have been published.

What do you think? This might be close to the real Canon EOS R5 price, isn’t it?

Stay tuned.

Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 Deal – $59.99 (reg. $99.99, Mac/Windows)

Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 Deal

Only for today (5/14/2020) B&H Photo has a very good Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 deal, with 40% discount.

Get Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 (DVD or download, Mac and Win) o sale at $59.99. Compare at $99.99. Free shipping.

Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 deal key features:

  • Comprehensive Consumer Video Editor
  • Automated & In-Depth Expert Workspaces
  • Interactive Step-by-Step Guided Edits
  • Themed Templates, One-Click Tools

More hand-picked deals are listed here.

Today’s Gold Box and one day only deals at Amazon USAmazon DEAmazon UKB&H Photo, eBayAdorama.

Refurbished lenses and DSLRs at Canon Store (best deals might be found here)

Save $10 on Luminar 4 and/or Aurora HDR 2019 using our code “WATCH” at checkout.

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Canon EOS Webcam Utility Beta Review (free and valuable, DPReview)

Canon Rumor Canon EOS Webcam Utility

In an unexpected and really nice move, a few weeks ago Canon released the free EOS Webcam Utility Beta software to help homeworkers and others who needed a webcam because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Kudos Canon!

DPReview published a short review of the EOS Webcam Utility Beta. They write:

In the end, I have to applaud Canon for making the effort to create this software quickly enough to allow locked-down workers to take advantage of it. It’s free, it’s valuable, and it could really benefit a ton of people out there with minimal effort. It may not be the best solution for everyone, but for at-home workers that still need to keep up professional appearances, this is a fantastic option. We find ourselves hopeful that more videoconferencing software will be supported in the near future.

You an download the beta version of the software here. Help can be found in the Canon support forum. These Canon gear is supported:

Canon EOS Webcam Utility
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Explained: The Best And The Worst Ways To Clean Lenses

Clean Lenses

Honestly: who didn’t question what is the best way to clean lenses? Well, here are some advices.

The folks at DPReview has some tips about how to do it best, and about how to do it in the wrong way in the 10 minutes video below. Enjoy.

Table of contents:

  • Introduction
  • A few things first…
  • Wiping surfaces
  • Cleaning liquids
  • Scratch resistance
  • Sand damage
  • An exciting new tool from Chris and Jordan!
  • In summary…
  • Lens tissues

More tips about how to clean lenses and camera: