Recording Features
Play, Edit, and Print Functions
Included Lens
Battery Information
Downloadable Software

Recording Features

Content Creator Kit Overview: Canon's new mirrorless EOS R50 digital camera has a 24.2 Megapixel APS-C CMOS image sensor. It features the 54mm wide RF-mount, which is much larger than the EF-mount found on Canon DSLRs. The camera is compatible with RF-mount lenses, and with the EF-EOS R Mount Adapter (sold separately), you can use all of your EF and EF-S lenses, as well. This R50 Content Creator Kit includes the RF-S 18-45mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM wide angle zoom lens, and the following bundled accessories:

• Stereo Microphone DM-E100: The Stereo Microphone DM-E100 lets you achieve crisp, high-quality audio when recording videos, livestreaming, and vlogging. The lightweight, portable microphone securely mounts the camera's Multi-Function Shoe. A slip-on "furry" windscreen is included.
• Tripod Grip HG-100TBR: The Tripod Grip HG-100TBR is a handy accessory for capturing selfies, and for high- and low-angled shots. The fold-out legs pull out so you can use it as a tripod. The head can tilt forward or backward, and lock into any of 10 positions. It can also rotate 360° and lock into place in 4 positions (0°, 90°, 180°, and 270°). The Tripod Grip comes with the Wireless Remote Control BR-E1 for controlling the camera up to 16 feet away.

24.2 Megapixel CMOS Sensor: The EOS R50's 24.2 MP CMOS sensor (22.3mm x 14.9mm -- APS-C) delivers images of up to 6000 x 4000 pixels. The DIGIC X Image Processor enhances still image processing and 4K and Full HD video capability to make your photos and movies sharp and clear.

3.0" LCD Touch Screen Monitor: The EOS R50 features a 3.0" color LCD monitor with approximately 1.62-million dots which allows you to view and shoot real-time images. The fully-articulating rear touchscreen flips out and rotates for framing shots from multiple angles. The LCD monitor offers 100% horizontal and vertical coverage and 7 manual brightness levels to choose from. In Live View, grid lines can be displayed in 9 sections (3x3), 24 sections (6x4), or 9 sections (3x3) with diagonals.

OLED Electronic Viewfinder (EVF): The Canon EOS R50 uses an eye-level 0.39" viewfinder with 0.95x magnification for approximately 100% vertical and horizontal coverage. The OLED EVF has approximately 2.36-million dots. A -3.0 to +1.0m^-1 diopter lets you adjust the viewfinder's image to your eyesight.

Recording Media: The EOS R50 is equipped with a single memory card slot, designed for SD, SDHC, and SDXC cards. The SD card slot supports UHS-I cards.

Still Image Recording Formats: The camera records still images in JPEG, HEIF, RAW and C-RAW. JPEG and HEIF images can be set to Fine or Normal compression (Image Quality). Simultaneous RAW + JPEG and RAW + HEIF recording are also possible. The image's aspect ratio can be set to 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, or 1:1. JPEG and HEIF images will be saved with the set aspect ratio. RAW images will always be recorded in 3:2. The selected aspect ratio is added to the RAW image file, allowing the Digital Photo Professional (EOS software) to generate an image with the selected aspect ratio when processed. Available image sizes include:

Still Images:

Movies: The EOS R50 can shoot UHD 4K footage at up to 30p. The videos are recorded at 8-bit H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (HDR PQ Off) or 10-bit H.265/HEVC (HDR PQ On) with IPB Standard or IPB Light compression. Audio is recorded with AAC compression. Resolution and frame rates are as follows:

Image Stabilization: The EOS R50 does not have in-body image stabilization, however, attaching an RF lens with Optical Image Stabilization provides compensation for camera shake when shooting still images and movies.

Drive Modes: The Canon EOS R50 offers the following Drive modes:

651-Zone Autofocus System: The EOS R50 features a Dual Pixel CMOS AF system with a maximum of 651 zones (31 x 21) for shooting still images and 527 zones (31 x 17) for movies. The autofocusing area coverage is approximately 100% horizontal and approximately 100% vertical. Within an AF area, you can select from a maximum of 4503 AF Points (79 x 57) for stills, and 3713 positions (79 x 47) for movies.

Focusing Modes: The camera uses the Dual Pixel CMOS AF focusing method for still images and movies. You can choose one of the methods for focusing:

• One-Shot AF: suited for still subjects, the camera focuses only once.
• Servo AF: for moving subjects when the focusing distance keeps changing. The subject will be focused continuously while the shutter button is pressed halfway.
• Manual Focusing: focusing manually using the focus ring on the attached lens

Subject to Detect: In the Autofocus menu, you can choose the type of subject you want the camera to detect. If you choose "People," the camera prioritizes faces or heads of people as the main subjects to track. If "Animals" is chosen, the camera detects dogs, cats, birds, and other animals, as well as humans to track. The menu lets you enable Eye Detection for people or animals to help focus on the subject. Otherwise, the camera determines the main subject automatically from the subject information detected. "Vehicle" subject detection can be used for detecting and focusing on vehicles, keeping your subject in clear focus for shooting motorsports.

Shooting Modes: The EOS R50's top-mounted Mode Dial lets you choose the shooting mode that's best for the subject and shooting conditions. There are two main zones, plus Custom Shooting and Movies:

• Basic Zone:
  • Fully Automatic (Scene Intelligent Auto): The camera analyses the scene and sets the optimum settings automatically.
  • Hybrid Auto: You can make a short movie of the day just by shooting still photos. The camera records approximately 2-4 second clips of scenes before each shot, which are later combined in a digest movie.
  • Special Scene (SCN): Options are provided for specific types of scenes, such as Self Portrait, Portrait, Smooth Skin, Group Photo, Landscape, Panoramic Shot, Sports, Kids, Panning, Closeup, Food, Night Portrait, Handheld Night Scene, HDR Backlight Control, and Silent Shutter.
  • Creative Filters: Special effects can be added to your image using these Creative Filters: Grainy B/W, Soft Focus, Fish-eye Effect, Water Painting Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Miniature Effect, HDR Art Standard, HDR Art Vivid, HDR Art Bold, and HDR Art Embossed.
• Creative Zone:
  • Program AE (P): The camera automatically sets the shutter speed and aperture value to suit the scene's brightness.
  • Shutter-Priority AE (Tv): In this mode, you set the shutter speed and the camera automatically sets the aperture value to suit the brightness of the subject. A slow shutter speed can create a blurred effect, while a fast shutter speed can freeze action.
  • Aperture-priority AE (Av): In this mode, you set the desired aperture value and the camera sets the shutter speed automatically to suit the subject brightness. A low aperture number can create a blurred background (narrow depth of field), while a high aperture number can create a sharp foreground and background (wide depth of field).
  • Manual Exposure (M): In this mode, you set both the shutter speed and aperture value as desired.
• Movie Recording: The Movie Recording mode lets you shoot movies using auto exposure, manual exposure, and HDR (High Dynamic Range).

Shutter Modes: The EOS R50 offers two types of shutter modes to choose from: Electronic and Electronic 1st-Curtain. Electronic shutter reduces sound and vibration from shutter operations, and offers a higher shutter speed than for electronic 1st-curtain. In Electronic 1st-Curtain mode, the electronic shutter is used for first curtain, while mechanical shutter is used for the second.

Bulb (B): When Bulb is set in the Shutter Speed setting menu, the shutter stays open as long as you hold down the shutter button completely, and closes when you let go of the shutter button. The Bulb Timer function lets you preset the bulb exposure's exposure time. Bulb exposures are used for shooting night scenes, fireworks, the night sky, and other subjects requiring long exposures.

Metering Modes: The Canon EOS R50 offers real-time metering using the image sensor in 384 zones (24 x 16). You can select from the following metering modes:

• Evaluative Metering: The camera's standard metering mode suited for most subjects even under backlit conditions, after detecting the main subject's position, brightness, background, front and back lighting conditions, etc, the camera sets the proper exposure.
• Partial Metering: Effective when the background is much brighter than the subject due to backlighting, etc, uses approximately 5.8% of the frame at the center.
• Spot Metering: For metering a specific part of the subject, uses approximately 2.9% of the frame at the center.
• Center-weighted Average Metering: Metering is weighted at the center and then averaged for the entire scene.

ISO Speed: The camera's ISO speed can be is set automatically, or manually at the following settings: For still photo shooting, the normal ISO speed range is ISO 100-32000 in 1/3-stop or 1-stop increments. You can also select an Expanded ISO speed equivalent of ISO 51200 (H).

Picture Style: By selecting a Picture Style, you can achieve various effects matching your photographic expression or the subject. You can also adjust the Sharpness (with separate strength, fineness, and threshold parameters), Contrast, Saturation, Color tone, Filtering Effect (monochrome), or Toning Effect (monochrome) of each Picture Style. Picture Style selections include:

• Auto: Color tone is adjusted automatically to suit the scene. The image will look vivid, especially for blue skies, greenery, and sunsets in nature, outdoor, and sunset scenes.
• Standard: A general-purpose Picture Style to suit most scenes. The image looks vivid, sharp, and crisp.
• Portrait: Suited for close-up portraits, this Picture Style is for nice skin tones, making the image look softer. You can change the color tone to adjust the skin tone.
• Landscape: For vivid blues and greens, very sharp and crisp images.
• Fine Detail: Suited for detailed outline and fine texture description of the subject, and slightly vivid colors.
• Neutral: For natural colors and subdued images, no sharpness applied.
• Faithful: When the subject is photographed under a color temperature of 5200 K, the color is adjusted to match the subject's colorimetrical color, no sharpness applied. (recommended for users who prefer to process images on their PC)
• Monochrome: Creates black and white images
• User Defined 1-3: You can register your own Picture Style settings for Portrait and Landscape modes.

High Dynamic Range (HDR): You can take artistic photos having a high dynamic range and preserving detail in highlight and shadow areas. HDR shooting is effective for landscape and still-life photos. With HDR shooting, three images of different exposures are captured for each shot, then merged together automatically. The HDR image is saved as a single JPEG image. You can choose from several options: Natural, Art Standard, Art Vivid, Art Bold, and Art Embossed.

White Balance: White Balance is for making the white areas look white. You can choose from the following white balance settings: Auto (Ambience priority), Auto (White priority), Daylight, Shade, Cloudy/Twilight/Sunset, Tungsten Light, White Fluorescent Light, Flash Use, Custom, and Color Temperature.

EL/EX Speedlite Compatible: The EOS R50 has a built-in pop-up flash, and a multi-function shoe for attaching optional flash units. The camera features the acclaimed E-TTL II flash metering system. With any of the flashes in the EL/EX-series Speedlite line, E-TTL II provides reliable flash output whether shooting fill-in flash pictures in sunlight, or using flash in total darkness.

Wireless Functions: The camera features built-in Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11 b/g/n -- 2.4 GHz) and Bluetooth (ver. 4.2), which allow you connect wirelessly to a compatible smartphone, tablet, or computer. You can also wirelessly print images via Wi-Fi using a Pictbridge-compatible printer. Using the free Canon Camera Connect app on a compatible iOS or Android device, you can shoot remotely from a distance, with complete control of settings such as aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focus, and shutter release.

Live Streaming: You can Live Stream using the camera while connected to a computer using UVC/UAC-compatible applications. Images are streamed at approximately at 2K (1920 x 1080) at 30 fps.

Play, Edit, and Print Functions

Single Image Playback: When playing back a single image, you can choose from these display options: No Information, Basic Information Display, or Shooting Information display.

Touch Playback: Using the touch-screen monitor, you can use touch controls similar to those on a smartphone for playback. You can browse images one-by-one by swiping left or right. When multiple images are displayed, you can swipe up or down to browse multiple images at once. Using a pinching motion on the touch screen, you can go from a single image to multiple images (Index Display).

Image Magnification: When viewing a still picture in single image playback mode, you can magnify the image to 2x, 4x, 8x, or 10x. While the image is magnified, you can scroll anywhere around the image.

Index Display: You can search for images quickly with the index display, showing 4 (2x2), 9 (3x3), 36 (6x6), or 100 (10x10) images on one screen.

Auto Rotation: Vertical shots can be rotated automatically so that they are displayed upright during playback.

Image Review: The image can be displayed on the LCD monitor immediately after you shoot. The review time can be set to off (not displayed), 2 seconds, 4 seconds, 8 seconds, or Hold, which keeps the image displayed on the LCD monitor until the camera is focused again.

Slide Show: You can view all images on the memory card one after another with the Auto Playback function (slide show). You can choose which recorded images will be displayed in the slide show by selecting All images, Folder, Date, File Type (movie, still image) or Rating. The display time interval can be set to 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, or 20 seconds.

Rotating Images: You can rotate an image by 90° or 270° clockwise in the LCD monitor.

Protect Images: You can select specific images from being erased accidentally.

HDMI Output: A Type D Micro HDMI connection is provided for connecting the camera to an HDMI-equipped TV. The camera automatically switches the output resolution to the capability of the HDTV, or you can set it manually to 1080p. The HDMI connection is not CEC-compatible.

Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0): A Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0) equivalent USB-C port is provided for connecting the camera to your computer. It can also be used to charge the battery inside the camera, and to power the camera. No USB cable is included with the camera.

Resize: Images shot with the camera can be resized to make the pixel count lower, and saved as a new image. You can only resize JPEG or HEIF Large, Medium, and Small 1 sized images. JPEG/HEIF Small 2 and RAW images cannot be resized.

Included Lens

Lens Overview: This Canon EOS R50 camera kit includes the RF-S 18-45mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM wide angle zoom lens designed for everyday use. It fits R-series mirrorless cameras, and was designed for cameras with the smaller APS-C images sensors. The lens offers 100% x 100% Dual Pixel CMOS AF coverage for APS-C sensors (like the EOS R50). On cameras with Full Frame sensors, the lens provides 80% x 80% Dual Pixel CMOS AF coverage in crop mode. Its unique lens retraction mechanism keeps the lens short, making it ideal to carry with you wherever you go. Its Optical Image Stabilization provides up to 4 stops of correction on most cameras, and up to 6 stops with EOS-R cameras with In-Body Image Stabilization (IBIS), such as the EOS R5.

Lens Construction: The lens is constructed of 7 lens elements in 7 groups, including 2 aspherical lens elements for superb image clarity from the center to the edges of the frame, and 1 Ultra-low Dispersion (UD) lens elements to reduce aberrations and distortion. The lens has Canon's Super Spectra Coating (SSC) minimizes ghosting and flare, and ensures a consistent color balance across all lens elements.

12-pin Communication: The Canon RF-series lenses feature a 12-pin communication system between the camera and the lens (compared to 8 pins for the EF-series). This 12-pin system is the fastest available for a Canon lens and camera combination, and provides faster AF, Image Stabilization, Digital Lens Optimizer, and more. In addition, the EOS R camera can display lens information directly to the viewfinder, making it easy to confirm the lens' focal length without looking away from your subject.

Dual Function Manual Focus/Control Ring: The RF-S 18-45mm lens features a dual-function manual focus ring/control ring. The electronic ring can be used for full-time manual focus, and has no physical limit to its rotation. In the connected R-series camera, you can switch the function of the ring to serve as a Control Ring. The control ring function lets you make a variety of adjustments, such as aperture, shutter speed, ISO speed, or exposure compensation.

Stepping Motor: The lens is equipped with a Lead Screw-type STM (stepping motor) that provides smooth and quiet auto focusing. When you press the shutter button halfway, the stepping motor rotates the lead screw which moves the focus lens in and out. Because it operates in near silence, no focusing noise is picked up by the microphone when shooting video.

Image Stabilizer (IS): The RF-S 18-45mm lens features Optical Image Stabilization (IS) when mounted to a Canon EOS R series camera. The camera and the lens share data to dramatically reduce blur caused by camera shake while shooting still images and videos. Image Stabilization can be turned on or off with the switch on the lens barrel. When paired with the Canon R5 or R6 cameras, which have In-Body Image Stabilization, the effect of Coordinated IS is equivalent to 6 stops. On other EOS R and RP cameras, the optical image stabilization effect is equivalent to 4 stops.

Optional Lens Hood: The optional petal-shaped EW-53 bayonet-type lens hood (sold separately) cuts out unwanted light and protects the front of the lens from rain, snow, and dust. When attached to the lens, the hood adds approximately 1" to the overall length of the lens. When not in use, you can reverse-mount the lens hood for storage.

Optional Filters: The RF-S 18-45mm lens has a 49mm mounting thread on the front of the lens for attaching screw-on type filters.

Specifications:

• Focal Length: 18-45mm (with APS-C sensors); 29-72mm (35mm equivalent)
• Maximum Aperture: f/4.5 (at 18mm), f/6.3 (at 45mm)
• Minimum Aperture: f/32
• Maximum Magnification: 0.16x (at 45mm)
• Aperture Design: 7-blade circular
• Angle of View (Diagonal): 74° 20' to 33° 40'
• Lens Construction: 7 elements in 7 groups (2 Aspherical lens elements)
• Filter Diameter: 49mm (screw-on type)
• Minimum Focus Distance: 7.87 inches (at 18mm)
• Dimensions: Diameter 2.7", Length 1.7" (2.336" with caps)
• Weight: 4.6 ounces

Battery Information

Power Options: The EOS R50 is powered by the supplied LP-E17 Lithium-Ion battery (7.2V, 1040 mAh, 7.5Wh).  The battery can be charged in the LC-E17 battery charger (included) in approximately 2 hours. The supplied battery performance specs are as follows:

Optional AC Power: With the optional DR-E18 DC coupler and the AC-E6N, you can connect the camera to a household power outlet and not worry about the battery becoming exhausted.

Optional USB Power Adapter: The optional USB Power Adapter PD-E1 lets you charge the LP-E17 battery pack inside the camera. The PD-E1 can also power the camera when not charging the battery.

Downloadable Software

Canon EOS Software: The EOS R50 does not include any software in the box. The following software, available for Windows and Mac, can be used with the camera and is available for free download from the Canon website:

• Digital Photo Professional: Recommended for users who mainly shoot RAW images. You can view, edit, process, and print RAW images at high speed. You can also edit JPEG images while retaining the original images.
• EOS Utility: The EOS Utility is software for communication with your EOS R50 camera. You can download images to your computer from the camera's memory card, as well as set various camera settings. You can also shoot remotely and live stream from the software.
• Picture Style Editor: This software lets you edit Picture Styles and create and save original Picture Style files.

Smartphone Apps:

• Camera Connect: Canon Camera Connect enables you to transfer recorded images and movies from the camera to a smartphone over a wired or wireless connection. You can also change camera settings and shoot remotely from the smartphone. Camera Connect is available for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (with iOS 15.0 or later) and Android devices (version varies with device).
• Digital Photo Professional Express: Canon Digital Photo Professional Express is an application for processing RAW images, and editing on an Apple iPhone or iPad (with iOS 15.0 or later). Canon DPP Express requires a paid subscription, and is not available for Android devices.