Canon announced the EOS R8 Mark II on September 15, about three and a half years after the original R8 went on sale in early 2023. The sensor is the same 24.2MP full-frame chip. The autofocus is the same family. What changed is the stuff R8 owners have complained about since day one: no in-body stabilization, no AF joystick, and a card slot buried next to the battery. The price changed too.

A photographer running two Canon mirrorless bodies, an EF-to-RF adapter, and a pair of fast EF telephoto primes sits in one of the most common upgrade traps in the adapted-lens world: the kit already works, the next lens is legendary, and nobody can quite explain what it would actually change. The specific case here is an EOS R8 and an EOS R100 paired with the EF 85mm f/1.8 USM and the EF 100mm f/2 USM, with the EF 135mm f/2L USM as the candidate purchase.