Canon EOS R8 Mark II: Canon can’t afford to play it safe this time

Opinion. The Canon EOS R8 Mark II has not been announced. Everything about it below comes from Canon Rumors and remains unconfirmed until Canon says otherwise — currently expected in early September. Every so often a camera arrives that quietly does more for photography than any flagship. The Canon EOS R8 was one of them: full-frame, 461g, and now hovering around £1,200 new. It took the sensor and autofocus from a camera costing twice as much and dropped them into a body you could genuinely carry all day. Three years on, a Mark II is rumoured for early September, and the interesting question isn’t what’s in it, but whether Canon has the nerve to make it the camera this market now demands. Who the EOS R8 is actually for The R8 occupies a very specific and rather crowded piece of ground. It is the camera for the enthusiast stepping up...