Nikon vs Canon vs Sony

24 MP (Z6)

45 MP (Z7)

26 MP (EOS RP)

30 MP (EOS R)

24 MP (A7 III & A9)

42 MP (A7R3)

Overall Technical Image Quality

(these differences are so subtle that most people's abilities are the limiting factors, not technical camera performance. Great photographers can create incredible work with anything, while most consumers are limited by their own abilities, not the camera's)

Excellent

Great colors, great dynamic range and super sharp, but very rough at the highest pushed ISO of 102,400

Excellent

Great colors, great dynamic range and great at all ISOs. Seems to have a stronger anti-alias filter than the others.

Good

Super sharp, great dynamic range and fantastic at the highest ISOs (especially in the A7 III), but real-world color rendition is worse than Canon or Nikon.

Poor

Shutter open when off. Expect visible dust at smaller apertures after about a week of daily use.

Excellent

EOS R shutter closes when off. I get no significant dust even after a month of daily shooting.

EOS RP shutter stays open when off; time will show if dust is a problem.

Poor

Shutter open when off. Expect visible dust at smaller apertures after about a week of daily use.

4 FPS (EOS RP)

5 FPS (EOS R)

10 FPS (A7 III & A9)

20 FPS (A9)

4 FPS (EOS RP)

5 FPS (EOS R)

10 FPS (A7 III & A9)

20 FPS (A9)

5 FPS (EOS RP)

8 FPS (EOS R)

10 FPS (A7 III & A9)

20 FPS (A9)

Excellent

The same superior Nikon DSLR colors we love.

Excellent

The same superior Canon DSLR colors we love.

Good

The images look great to most people, but as an artist specializing in color my Sony JPG images never Wow! me as much as what I get from my Canons and Nikons. Color rendition is a very personal preference.

Fair

Color rendition goes out the window at ISO 102,400 (Hi 2), at least if you use Picture Controls; at ISO 102,400 my Z7 gets much yellower.

Excellent

The same colors as at ISO 100.

Excellent

The same colors as at ISO 100.

NO

Monochrome (B&W) histogram only, useless for color shooting. Color RGB histogram only available later on playback.

YES

Extremely helpful when shooting bold colors as I do. You can see your precise JPG exposure before you fire.

NO

Monochrome (B&W) histogram only, useless for color shooting. Color RGB histogram only available later on playback.

Excellent (EOS RP)

Very Good (EOS R)

Silent Shooting

(None work with HDR, flash or anti-flicker)

Excellent

Highest ISO limited to 25,600. No restrictions on lowest ISO or shutter speeds.

Fair (EOS RP)

EOS RP only does Silent in a fixed SCN mode in single frames; you can't change anything about it or shoot with continuous shutter.

Excellent (EOS R)

EOS R has no restrictions on ISO or shutter speeds.

Excellent

A7 III: no restrictions on ISO or shutter speeds.

A7R3: Lowest ISO restricted to 100, no restrictions on shutter speeds.

A9: Highest ISO restricted to 25,600, slowest shutter speed limited to 1/8 in Continuous advance.

Built-in Flash?

No

No

No

External Flash Performance

Excellent

Same control system as Nikon DSLRs and uses the same flashes.

Excellent

Same E-TTL II control system as Canon DSLRs and uses the same flashes.

YES

Just set it in manual exposure mode between X200 and BULB settings.

Press the shutter, and it stays open until you press the shutter again — but sadly there's no built-in timer even though the top OLED stays on. Weird.

YES

Use the "Bulb timer" at MENU > CAMERA page 6 > Bulb timer to program any exact time up to 100 hours. See my Canon EOS R User's Guide and my Canon EOS RP User's Guide

no

8

8

5

24-70/4

Good: 50% less zoom range than 24-105s, but weighs 6.3 oz./175g less than the 24-105s and collapses when not in use.

RF 24-105/4L IS

Excellent lens

24-105/4 G OSS

Excellent lens

Poor

Only 3 blah lenses so far

Good

4 good lenses so far

Excellent

Took them 5 years, and now they have a full line of pro lenses.

NO

Good luck finding this in a menu when you need it.

Excellent

Rear lens caps go on any of four ways so you can attach them by feel.

Poor

Rear lens caps and body caps only go on one way, requiring you to stop and look for index marks. So sad.

Excellent

Rear lens caps go on any of three ways so you can attach them by feel.

Excellent

Body caps go on any of four ways so you can attach them by feel.

Poor

Body caps only go on one way, requiring you to stop and look carefully for the index mark on the cap.

Poor

Body caps only go in one way, requiring you to stop and look carefully for index marks on both camera and cap. So sad.

Lens Adapter Compatibility, Camera-brand lenses

(Good luck if you slum it with junk-brand lenses; it's a new world and God only knows if whatever you saved money on yesterday will work today)

Excellent to Poor

Nikon FTZ won't autofocus with half of Nikon's lenses:

Excellent for recent AF-S & AF-P lenses, which are only 80% of the autofocus lens models Nikon sells new today (70 out of 88). So sad.

Poor: No autofocus with AF and AF-D lenses, which are 20% of the autofocus lens models still sold new today! (18 out of 88 AF lenses sold today, and a much larger percentage of the lenses we actually have in our bags).

Fair with Manual-Focus Lenses: no ability to record aperture settings in EXIF and no more matrix metering leads to poorer exposures.

This section looks like a mess because the FTZ adapter's compatibility is a mess because Nikon got cheap and didn't include an autofocus motor or aperture-ring feeler needed for full compatibility.

Excellent

Canon's EF adapters are 100% compatible with every EF lens made since 1987.

Excellent

Sony's LA-EA4 and LA-EA3 adapters work great with old Minolta MAXXUM and Sony A-mount lenses.

AMAZING!

Fast, full-frame AF. Works great!

AMAZING!

Holy cow! Works great, with fast, full-frame AF with my 100‑400L IS II even when used with both my 1.4x and 2x converters at the same time (280‑1120mm f/12.6‑16 equiv.)!

Are older lightweight, high-performance, low-priced classic lenses from 1990s available and work well with the adapter?

These lenses all sell very inexpensively used today.

No

Nikon made many light, high performance AF lenses like the 18-35 D, 35-105 D and 35-70/2.8D, however these will not autofocus with the Nikon FTZ adapter.

Yes

Canon's ultralight 20-35 USM, 24-85, 28-105 USM, 28-135 IS, 28-200 and everything all work great with Canon's EF adapters, and additionally have a Digital Lens Optimizer to improve performance to modern standards.

Mostly

All of Minolta's old MAXXUM lenses and Sony's A-mount lenses work great with Sony's LA-EA4 adapter, and while there are plenty of good lenses like the MAXXUM 28-135mm, Sony's mirrorless cameras don't digitally optimize these lenses and that adapter handles autofocus, not the camera itself.

Poor

Usually only partial correction, and the effects are only visible on playback — not during shooting.

Excellent

The corrections are complete and even shown live as you compose!

None

Even though you can set MENU > Camera 1 > page 2/14 > Lens Comp. > Distoetrion Comp. to AUTO, it doesn't correct anythign with Sony Alpha-mount or Minolta MAXXUM lenses on the LA-EA4 adapter.

Exposure Accuracy with legacy Manual-Focus Lenses on Native Adapter

Good

While there is no matrix metering with AI lenses on the FTZ (so shots of white objects like snow or sand may require manual compensation), otherwise exposure is reasonably accurate.

Sony made no manual-focus lenses for the E mount.

Exposure Accuracy with random Manual-Focus Lenses on Random non-electronic adapters

Good

While there is no matrix metering, exposure is reasonably accurate.

Good

Need to remember to shoot in Av or M modes; P, Fv and Tv modes will lead to random exposure errors with legacy manual -focus lenses on random passive Chinese adapters.

Very Good

Need to remember to shoot in Av or M modes; P and S modes can lead to random exposure errors with legacy manual -focus lenses on random passive Chinese adapters.

Corner performance with wide-angle rangefinder lenses

Poor

Often curvature of field leads to defocus and softness exactly as it does on Sony.

See also Adapted Rangefinder Lenses on Nikon Mirrorless.

Poor

Often curvature of field leads to defocus and softness.

Corner performance with ultra wideangle rangefinder lenses

Good

Usually works great, with minimal softening or color shift. See Adapted Rangefinder Lenses on Nikon Mirrorless.

Poor

Often curvature of field leads to strong defocus and softness, and color shifts can be strong.

4

Dull new lenses, and disappointing compatibility with existing lenses. Only AF-S lenses work well on the FTZ.

11

Some nice new lenses and works great with thirty years of great EF lenses we already own.

11

Full line of excellent new native lenses, if you don't mind buying them.

Poor

All-Area AF, even with the latest firmware in the Z9, Z7 II and Z6 II, doesn't always identify and use the correct sensor, so you often have to select AF areas manually - or miss the shot!

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Excellent

Holy cow! Works great, with fast, full-frame AF with my TC-20E and FTZ.

Excellent

Fast, full-frame AF with my 100‑400L IS II even when used with both my 1.4x and 2x converters at the same time (280‑1120mm f/12.6‑16 equiv.)!

Nubbin

and 4-way clicker.

Touch Screen

and 4-way clicker.

Touch Screen

and Nubbin.

Poor

Recognizes faces well, but usually selects a random face in the background giving out-of-focus pictures unless you stop what you're doing and select a face manually. Isn't smart enough to pick out the correct face as other brands and iPhone do much better.

Very Good

Works as we expect.

Excellent

Works instantly and is almost always in perfect focus.

Poor

Slow and pokey, or just gives up.

Excellent

Might get slower, but sees in less light than I can and gets perfect focus.

Excellent

Might get slower, but sees in less light than I can and gets perfect focus.

Excellent to Poor

Excellent in AF-S: Green for OK and Red or blank for out-of-focus.

Poor in AF-C: Red for OK (are they kidding?) and Yellow for out-of-focus.

Good luck if you expect to use both AF modes: red means GO in AF-C and green means GO in AF-S! So sad.

Very Good

Green for Locked (ONE SHOT), Blue for Tracking (SERVO) and Gray for unfocused.

Excellent

Green for OK or Gray for unfocused.

Yes

Vivid green LED

Yes

Amber LED

Yes

Amber LED

3

Good AF, but more difficult to control and not always well displayed.

10

Excellent AF and easy to control.

12

Extraordinary AF and easy to control.

Excellent

Works as we expect; just grab the electronic manual-focus ring in any mode at any time and you're in charge.

Poor

Rarely responds. Only works in some modes and only in certain conditions.

Poor

Rarely responds. Only works in some modes and only in certain conditions.

Yes

Yes

Yes

YES

Set MENU > CUSTOM (pencil) > d Shooting/display > d10 peaking highlights > Peaking level and make your choices.

YES

Set MENU > AF page 2 (EOS R) or Camera Page 8 (EOS RP) > MF peaking settings > Peaking > ON. It's OFF by default.

YES

YES

No

YES

Good

The auto-selected brightness isn't always at the correct brightness so you may wind up setting it manually anyway.

None, so usually needs manual adjustment as you move outdoors or indoors, but once you set it, it looks great until your light changes.

You can save the brightness to the C1, C2 and C3 settings, so you can have a preset for each condition.

Excellent

Always at the right brightness. Sony makes it look so easy I wonder why no other camera company has this working properly yet - and it's critical to being able to see what you're doing.

Good

Updates at only shooting rate.

Good

Usually updates at shooting rate.

Very Good if you work in a mode where the High speed display option can increase the finder frame rate above the shooting rate.

Good

Updates at only shooting rate.

(A9: Excellent; smooth, unblinking live finder display even while running at 20 FPS.)

Poor

Blacks out for all exposure times, except in the highest frame rate setting where it doesn't.

Excellent

Doesn't black-out for exposures of 0.8s or less. Blacks-out during exposures of 1s or longer.

Poor

Blacks out for all exposure times, except in the highest frame rate setting where it doesn't.

Very Good

Limited by viewfinder optics.

Very Good

Limited by viewfinder optics.

Very Good

Limited by viewfinder optics.

Poor

Large, grotesque graphic covers the subject — so you can't compose with the level display active!

Excellent

Well-designed display shows levels and doesn't interfere too much with your composition.

Excellent

Well-designed display shows levels and doesn't interfere too much with your composition.

Yes

No

Weird design flaw doesn't allow the level to display if you are in Face-Recognition or All-Area AF modes.

Yes

No

Only visible on playback.

Yes

The corrections are shown live as you compose!

There may be no correction with adapted lenses; I haven't tried.

no

There can be an uncalibrated bar that appears, but it only shows an ∞ mark and a flower icon with no actual distance marks in between.

Yes

Calibrated focus scale, with native RF lenses only.

Yes

Rough digital display with uncalibrated scale.

Visible

The live image in the EVF is pretty good, but you will see active noise in the dark areas. (Actual camera images are fine.)

None

The live image in the EVF looks great.

Poor

The live image in the EVF is horribly noisy, dark and unsaturated. (Actual camera images are fine.)

Very Good

The live image in the EVF is surprisingly good, much cleaner and more colorful than in the Z7. It gets softer in very dim light, but much better than the noisy black mess in the Z7's finder.

Fair

Tiny letter in lower left. Even tinier indication for U1, U2 or U3 mode.

Excellent

Big display.

Excellent

Big display.

9

Great finder, but sloppy level display and iffy auto brightness control.

10

Great finder with best displayed range of data, but requires manual brightness control.

11

World's best, the only one with good auto brightness control.

Good

Needs a lock; easy to knock ON or OFF.

Fair

A wimpier copy of Nikon's switch.

Left side

I program my redundant left rear controller key to be a MENU button, so I can reach MENU while shooting with one hand.

Good

Moderately thin, hard plastic not particularly protrudent or grippy from front of camera.

Very Good

Hard, slightly rubbery knurled dial reasonably protrudent from top of camera.

Very Good

Hard dial on front of camera.

Very Good

Big, hard metal knob.

Very Good

Big, hard metal dial that also serves as MODE dial.

Poor

Painful over time; too small, hard and sharp. Called the "Sony Razor Wheel" painfully reminiscent of the razor-like front focus dials of 1940s and 1950s CONTAX and Nikon rangefinder cameras.

Excellent

Big engraved metal mode dial, but lock button can get in the way.

Good (EOS R)

combined with rear dial; needs an extra click to activate.

Excellent (EOS RP)

Fast, normal mode dial. No lock.

Excellent

Normal mode dial. No lock on A7 III, but lock on A7R3 & A9 can get in the way.

Fair

Requires second (right) hand to try to unlock and turn dial. Dial is on wrong side of camera.

Good (EOS R)

Tap MODE button then move with thumb.

Excellent (EOS RP)

Just turn with thumb.

Good (A7 III)

Normal MODE dial, but it's farther forward on the top deck requiring some reaching with your thumb.

Fair (A7R3 & A9)

Same dial as the A7 III above, but an additional lock button requires a second hand to reach-around and press the LOCK button and then turn dial.

no**

One Nikon lens has copied this, the Nikon Z 24-70/2.8.

YES**

no

Many dials can be programmed to do this

I program the new lens control ring for exposure compensation

Yes, dedicated top dial

But watch out, no lock or stronger detent at Zero so it can get knocked.

No

Auto switching is so magical that a button isn't needed.

No

Auto switching is so magical that a button isn't needed.

10

11

7

Iffy controls, the rear dial hurts after long periods of use. Feels like VCR, not a camera — but the dedicated ISO dial is the best here.

OLED

LCD (EOS R)

None (EOS RP)

None

None

Blank when off or sleeping.

Always shows exposure mode, even when off or sleeping.

Shows WI-FI icon if Wi-Fi enabled when camera is off or sleeping.

(on EOS R; no top display on EOS RP).

Nothing.

Poor

Almost invisible in direct sunlight. Can't get bright enough outdoors so you have to shield it from the sun to read it.

Excellent

Always very legible on EOS R; no top display on EOS RP.

No top display

Excellent

Looks great with auto brightness control.

Excellent

Always very legible. Like all LCDs, contrast can vary on clear days depending on the direction it's pointed due to the polarization of the blue sky. (on EOS R; no top display on EOS RP).

No top display

Excellent

Looks great with auto brightness control.

Excellent

Very legible. Like all LCDs, contrast can vary on clear days depending on the direction it's pointed due to the polarization of the blue sky on EOS R; no top display on EOS RP.

No top display

Excellent

Looks great with auto brightness control.

Good

Dedicated ☀ button for backlight (EOS R; no top display on EOS RP).

No top display

Excellent

Looks great with auto brightness control.

Fair

You have to hold the dedicated ☀ button a few seconds to get a weak backlight. (EOS R; no top display on EOS RP).

No top display

Excellent

Expert industrial design gives us a camera that's mostly curves. It's comfortable to hold, and because every surface is at a different angle it makes it easy to find buttons by feel without having to look at them.

Excellent

Expert industrial design gives us a camera that's all curves. It's comfortable to hold, and because every surface is at a different angle it makes it easy to find buttons by feel without having to look at them.

Poor

Uncomfortable. Buttons hard to find by feel, and all feel the same.

Body is all flat surfaces and hard edges, making it both uncomfortable to hold and difficult to find buttons without looking at them.

No

You can change ISOs, apertures and similar by counting clicks. The Nikon always responds to every click, no matter how fast you turn a dial.

No

You can change ISOs, apertures and similar by counting clicks. The Canon always responds to every click, no matter how fast you turn a dial.

Yes

You can't set the camera by counting clicks, because often Sonys will ignore some clicks when changing ISOs, shutter speeds or similar if the camera isn't ready or you move the dials faster than it can handle, which isn't that fast.

On open side of camera

Easy to see, find to use

On open side of camera

Easy to see, find to use

Between grip and lens mount

Hard to find and hard to use

Fair to Poor

Tiny white ball on black at random location outside lens mount flange.

You can feel for it and almost see it in the dark, but you wouldn't have to if Nikon put it properly at the 12 o'clock position in which case all you'd have to do is get the lens' index to 12 o'clock and you'd be good.

Very Good: Very visible and at 12 o'clock

Big red mark at top of mount easily visible even in this thumbnail photo.

It's easy to see and you don't have to look for it since it's at the 12 o'clock position. Just get the lens' index to 12 o'clock and you're good.

Poor: Invisible and unfeelable

Invisible white dot engraved into random position on silver lens mount. You never can find it and wind up just grinding the lens around until it goes in.

Fair

Tiny white ball on black barrel.

Paradoxically this white ball is at the 12 o'clock position on the lens — but only after you've mounted it! This is a design flaw; the mount index should be at 12 o'clock on the camera before we mount, not on the lens after we're done.

It should be a big, bright red ball that really stands out in low light and can be felt in the dark.

Good

Big red mark on the silver part of the lens' mount. It's easily visible, but it's not raised so you can't feel for it in the dark.

It should be a raised ball, but so long as you can see it and bring it to 12 o'clock on the camera, you're good.

Poor

Tiny white ball at random place.

It's hard to see in any light, but you can feel for it.

It should be bigger and bright red.

Very Good

Works any time the LCD is lit for everything: shooting AF selection, Playback and Menus.

Doesn't do anything while viewing through EVF; can't select focus areas with EVF viewing.

Very Good

Works any time the LCD is lit for everything: shooting AF selection, Playback and Menus.

Selects AF areas while using the EVF which is great, but that's all it does with EVF viewing. While using the EVF you can't set menus with it or control playback; those only work while using the LCD itself.

Fair

Only works for selecting AF areas while using the LCD or while using the EVF, which is very helpful.

Does not work during playback and does not work to set menus and does not work for entering text in the menu system. So sad.

Yes

BIG counter on top LCD (EOS R) and small one in Finder and on rear LCD (EOS R and EOS RP).

Yes

MM:SS counter on top LCD (EOS R) and on rear LCD (EOS RP).

Poor

Big crappy soft plastic straps that require a lot of attention to get pressed back down, otherwise they stay popped out and flopping around. They cover as many as three connectors with one cover, and you may have to pull off the whole thing just to get to that one connector.

Fair

Floppy plastic covers that snap in, but at least they snap in easily and fast, better than Nikon's bigger, softer covers. More, smaller covers so you don't have as big a piece of plastic flopping around if you're using a connector.

Fair

Floppy plastic covers that snap in, but at least they snap in easily and fast, better than Nikon's bigger, softer covers. More, smaller covers so you don't have as big a piece of plastic flopping around if you're using a connector.

Excellent

Side door integral with grip that slides open easily and never opens accidentally.

Excellent

Side door located in grip that slides open easily and never opens accidentally.

Good

Side door that pops open when you slide a little button, but takes a little more attention than Nikon's or Canon's to find the tiny release button. Also can get caught under the strap; one more thing to which you have to pay attention in order to open it.

Excellent

Big door pops wide open. Push-push to get card in or out.

Excellent

Door pops wide open with plenty of space inside to get the card out without having to stop and look for it.

Good

Small door pops wide open, but the small area inside requires you stop and look to figure out exactly where to push to get the card in or out.

Good

Typical battery door with small spring-loaded catch.

Good

Typical battery door.

Good

Typical battery door with larger catch than Nikon, but it's not spring-loaded so you have to remember to close the latch manually any time you close the door.

Good

Well organized so things are sort of easy to find, even if it's not color coded.

Pages run-on requiring many item-by-item clicks to get to the bottom of each page.

There is no AF settings menu like Canon; AF settings instead are hidden in both the CAMERA and CUSTOM menus.

more

Excellent

Expertly laid out, organized and color-coded so it's always easy to find things.

Every page is distinct, and there is one page to a screen. It takes only one click to get to the next page or to the next category. more

Poor

Completely disorganized and everything is the same orange so you have to look through the entire menu system to find what you need again. more

Excellent

Big, contrasty text that fills the screen well.

Excellent

Big, contrasty text that fills the screen well.

Excellent

Big, contrasty text that fills the screen well.

Menu Color Coding

NEW: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji & OM SYSTEM Menu Systems Compared.

Poor

All the same color

Excellent

Fully color coded

Poor

All the same color

Excellent

Everything feels great with thin gloves.

Excellent

Everything feels great with thin gloves.

Fair

Buttons even harder to find by feel

Excellent

Works great at 15º F (-10º C).

YES

Easy to save and share a .BIN file that lets you setup any other same-model camera to be identical to the first. (completely different from preset recalls.)

No

No ability to save or share the total camera state. You have to set every menu item from scratch again if you get another sample of camera or if someone resets it.

No

No ability to save or share the total camera state. You have to set every menu item from scratch again if you get another sample of camera or if someone resets it.

10

12

Best in the business.

0

Worst in the business.

Three: U1, U2 & U3

Three: C1, C2 & C3

A7R3 & A9: Three: 1, 2 & 3

A7 III: Two: 1 & 2

A7 III & A7R3: Yes

A9: No

No

Nikon got lazy and it seems that most of the SETUP menu isn't recalled.

Yes

No

Nikon got lazy and it seems that most of the SETUP menu isn't recalled.

A7 III: No

No

Nikon got lazy and it seems that most of the SETUP menu isn't recalled.

No

No such option, so as you refine your preferences, especially with a new camera, you have to save each update manually.

Yes

It's easy to enable Auto-update so when you get a new camera it keeps updating each preset as you refine your preferences.

Yes

Skies show banding when viewed full-frame or at reduced sizes both through EVF and on LCD, as other Nikon DSLRs sometimes do. Images look great when zoomed and the images themselves look great downloaded.

Yes

Pressing magnify buttons while in histogram mode zooms image in the small window and shows the histogram for just what's in the window.

No

Pressing magnify button while in histogram mode zooms image to fill the full screen, with no histogram.

A7 III: No

Pressing magnify button while in histogram mode zooms image to fill the full screen, with no histogram.

2 Fingers on Touch Screen

Multiple presses of + and − buttons

2 Fingers on Touch Screen

Tap button then spin top dial

Finger on Touch Screen

4-way rear controller

Finger on Touch Screen

4-way rear controller

8-way rear nubbin

4-way rear controller

Yes

no

Excellent

More than enough capacity for a full day of shooting on one battery.

About 450 shots per charge poking around one shot at a time and playing back each one for landscape shooting.

1,000 ~ 1,500 shots if you just shoot and don't spend much time playing back or setting menus.

Excellent (EOS R)

More than enough capacity for a full day of shooting on one battery.

About 1,000 shots per charge as I shoot in ECO mode, >7,000 shots with long continuous sports sequences or as little as 350 shots on your first charge piddling with setup and test shots.

Very Good (EOS RP)

Not quite as much capacity as the EOS R, Nikon or Sony's top models, but the EOS RP has a smaller battery so it weighs much less.

Excellent

More than enough capacity for a full day of shooting on one battery.

YES

Usually goes to sleep by itself in 30 seconds, settable from 10s to forever at MENU > Custom (Pencil) > c3 Power off delay > Standby timer. I set my delay to 10 seconds.

There's no significant benefit to turning off the power unless you're putting it away in a case.

Usually

Regardless of how I set my menus, my EOS R goes to sleep in 1 minute and the top LCD turns off in 4 minutes. (The top LCD always shows the exposure mode, even with the camera turned off).

Since it runs for a minute after you're done shooting, there might be some benefit to turning off the switch after each shot.

No

A design flaw prevents Sonys from going to sleep when worn around your neck. They detect your body next to the finder and mistakenly confuse that with your eye and active usage, so they don't go to sleep unless you set them down on a table or tripod.

In-Camera via USB C

or

External Charger

Included dorky charger needs a cord or stub. No charge-level indicator, just a "charge or done" LED.

As shipped, you can charge one battery in the camera while you charge a second in the included charger!

External Charger

Excellent included folding-plug charger with a two-color blink-coded charge-level indicator.

USB C PD

It won't charge with regular USB chargers, but if you use a special USB-C PD (power delivery specification) charger often used with laptop computers it ought to charge in-camera.

In-Camera via USB C or Micro B

or

External Charger

External charger has a charge-state bar graph, but needs a cord. Optional with A7 III and included with A7R3 and A9.

As shipped with the A7R3 and A9, you can charge one battery in the camera while you charge a second in the included charger!

11

Excellent battery life, auto-sleeping and USB charging. Crummy charger, but you don't have to use it and if you do you can charge two batteries at once!

10

Excellent battery life and charger and good auto-sleeping, but no free in-camera charging.

9

Excellent battery life but poor auto-sleeping and probably only USB charging depending on model, but if you get the external charger it's very good and lets you charge two batteries at once.

Excellent

Cards formatted fast and properly titled as "NIKON Z 7" or "NIKON Z 6."

Excellent

Cards formatted fast and titled as "EOS_DIGITAL."

Poor

Cards take a while to format and are left untitled and loaded with junk folders. Arbitrarily titled as either "Untitled" or "NO NAME" depending on the slot!

no

no

YES

Every day can have a new folder added to your card with that day's images if you set  MENU > Suitcase > page 6/7 > Folder Name > Date Form.

3

3

3

Made in Japan

Made in Japan

China (A7 III, A7R3)

or Thailand (A9).

Thailand

Made in Japan

China or Thailand

FTZ: Made in Japan

Control Ring Adapter: Taiwan

LA-EA4: Made in Japan

Fair

I rarely get definitive answers at (800) NIKON-US opt. 1, opt 1, and that's only if they're open (they're only open 9AM~8PM ET work days Mon-Fri). While they're US based, whoever picks up the phone always seems to have to go away and research every question; they don't know anything off the tops of their heads. Sad!

Excellent

100% competent, 1-on-1 live USA support. Try them at (800) OK-CANON. Every time I call, the first person to pick up the phone always knows the answer right off the top of their head. They're so good they were able to answer a question about my Nikon Z7 while Nikon's support line was closed!

I don't know; I haven't needed to call (877) 899-SONY and find out. I've heard they're somewhere between Canon and Nikon.

7

Nikon seems to look at customers as annoyances and makes most things overseas, even if the Z7 body is made domestically.

12

Canon both cares about its customers and makes almost everything domestically.

7

Sony offshore almost everything to wherever it's cheapest.

23.5 oz. (667g) Z7 or Z6

23.0 oz. (652g) EOS-R

17.0 oz. (481g) EOS RP

22.9 oz. (650g) A7 III

23.2 oz. (658g) A7R III

23.8 oz. (676g) A9

28.2 oz. (801g) Z6 or Z7 & FTZ

27.4 oz. (778g) EOS-R & Control Ring Adapter

21.4 oz. (607g) EOS RP & Control Ring Adapter

28.5 oz. (810g) A7 III & LA-EA4

28.8 oz. (818g) A7R III & LA-EA4

29.4 oz. (836g) A9 & LA-EA4

41.0 oz. (1,163g) w/24-70/4

47.5 oz. (1,347g) w/24-105L (EOS-R)

41.5 oz. (1,176g) w/24-105L(EOS RP)

46.3 oz. (1,312g) A7 III & 24-105)

46.6 oz. (1,320g) A7R III & 24-105

47.2 oz. (1,338g) A9 & 24-105

$1,997 (Z6)

$3,397 (Z7)

 $2,299 (EOS-R)

$1,299 (EOS RP)

$1,998 (A7 III)

 $2,998 (A7R III)

 $3,998 (A9)

$2,146 (Z6 & FTZ)

$3,547 (Z7 & FTZ)

 $2,498 (EOS-R & EF Ring adapter. Other adapters cost more or less.)

$1,499 (EOS RP & EF Ring adapter. Other adapters cost more or less.)

$2,346 (A7 III & LA-EA4)

 $3,344 (A7R III & LA-EA4)

 $4,446 (A9 & LA-EA4)

$2,597 (Z6 & 24-70/4)

$3,997 (Z7 & 24-70/4)

 $3,399 (EOS-R & 24-105L)

$2,199 (EOS RP & 24-105L)

$3,296 (A7 III & 24-105)

 $4,296 (A7R III & 24-105)

 $5,396 (A9 & 24-105)

$1,997 (Z6)

$3,397 (Z7)

 $2,299 (EOS-R)

$1,998 (A7 III)

 $2,998 (A7R III)

 $4,098 (A9)

$2,146 (Z6 & FTZ)

$3,547 (Z7 & FTZ)

 $2,498 (EOS-R & EF Ring adapter. Other adapters cost more or less.)

$2,346 (A7 III & LA-EA4)

 $3,344 (A7R III & LA-EA4)

 $4,446 (A9 & LA-EA4)

$2,597 (Z6 & 24-70/4)

$3,997 (Z7 & 24-70/4)

$3,296 (A7 III & 24-105)

 $4,296 (A7R III & 24-105)

 $5,396 (A9 & 24-105)

65

87

65

Limited native lens range, adapter incompatibility with old-style AF lenses and finder auto brightness control need improvement, and needs a second card slot.

If all your lenses are AFS or newer like the 28-300, then the Nikon scores 73— but most of us have older design AF lenses still sold new today like a 135/2DC, 14/2.8D or 80-200/2.8ED we'd like to use but just became manual focus boat-anchors on these new cameras.

Lens caps ought to be redesigned to fit any way, needs a second card slot and finder should have auto brightness control, but these are the worst things I can say about the EOS R and EOS RP.

Superior system "made-in" and customer support quality, superior adapted lens performance and lack of any major flaws lets the EOS R win.

Awful menus, painful ergonomics and body industrial design that were tolerable before Nikon and Canon entered the picture need a complete overhaul to stay competitive. Color rendition needs to be stepped-up a notch to match or exceed Nikon and Canon for use by experienced virtuosi.

Even with the best overall finder, high-speed AF and frame rate technology, Sony needs to step up its game to stay in the game it invented.