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Canon EOS R8

Canon EOS R8

Mirrorless · Canon RF · released 2023-04-14
Lowest now
$978
Good price -35% vs MSRP
See prices at 5 sources (jumps down this page)
MSRP at launch
$1,499
Apr 2023
Inventory
61
across 5 sources

Well above the 90-day low

How we compute this

Today's price sits well above the recent low. Today's price runs 133% above the 90-day low of $419 (seen Aug 5, 2026). 65% of the $1,499 MSRP. Prices are down 11.1% over the last 30 days.

Lowest now
$978
MSRP
$1,499
vs MSRP
-35%
90-day low
$419
All-time low
$419 (Aug 5, 2026)
30-day trend
-11.1%
Observed across 5 sources · 81 days of history in last 90 · Methodology

Latest pricing by source

Each row is a direct observation from the seller. eBay links are affiliate links. How this works.
Source Condition Price Listings Observed Link
bh
good
→ good
$1,275
1 Observed yesterday view listing
ebay
used
→ good
$992
ships free
20 Observed yesterday view listing
keh
excellent
→ excellent
$1,218
1 Observed yesterday view listing
keh
like new minus
→ mint
$1,244
1 Observed 4d ago view listing
keh
new
→ mint
$1,449
1 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
excellent
→ excellent
$1,129
25 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
good
→ good
$1,159
1 Observed yesterday view listing
mpb
like new
→ mint
$1,199
6 Observed yesterday view listing
upp
fair
→ fair
$978
1 Observed yesterday view listing
upp
excellent
→ excellent
$1,142
2 Observed yesterday view listing
upp
mint-
→ mint
$1,203
2 Observed yesterday view listing
Buy new on Amazon (affiliate) New from Amazon. Used prices below.

Price history

One point per day per (source, grade) pair, connected with lines. Hue marks the source; lightness within a hue marks the condition (darker = better grade). The dashed line is launch MSRP.

See Methods notes #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4.

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Specs

Brand
Canon
Family
Canon EOS R
Category
body
Body type
Mirrorless
Mount
Canon RF
Sensor
Full Frame
Megapixels
24.2 MP
Lens type
—
Sensor family
Canon FF 24MP CMOS (R6 II/R8)
Autofocus
Phase Detection
AF system
Canon Dual Pixel CMOS AF
IBIS
no
Weather sealed
No
Max video
4K60
Max native ISO
ISO 102,400
Weight
461 g
Dimensions
133 × 86 × 70 mm
Body material
polycarbonate
Released
2023-04-14
Status
current

Notes

msrp_text: {{dollarsign|USD|1,499|lk=on}} - body only<br />{{dollarsign|USD|1,699|lk=on}} - | manual MSRP: Body only US launch

Computational features

Focus Stacking
merged in-camera (Depth Composite)
Focus Bracket
2-999 frames
Pro Capture
RAW Burst with 0.5s pre / 30fps
HDR
Multi-Exposure

Focus bracketing with in-camera Depth Composite plus RAW Burst pre-shooting.

Autofocus & action

Birds-in-flight keeper rate

#7 on Mirrorless Comparison's AF ranking
93%
AF score (sharp keepers), 99% counting slightly soft
93%
Drive score at 40 fps (37/40 sharp)

Birds-in-flight keeper rates come from Mirrorless Comparison. They shoot thousands of frames per body in the field and count how many come back sharp, which is the most useful hands-on autofocus test for wildlife we've found. Go read the full birds-in-flight rankings and their per-camera field notes.

See the full birds-in-flight test at Mirrorless Comparison →
AF system
Hybrid (phase + contrast)
Focus points
4897 positions (Dual Pixel CMOS AF II)
Subject detection
Human eye/face, Animal, Bird, Vehicle
Burst (mechanical)
6 fps
Burst (electronic)
40 fps
Pre-burst capture
No
Card slots
1 (Single SD UHS-II)
Sensor readout
Standard CMOS

Canon EOS R8; lightest Canon full-frame mirrorless; no IBIS; mechanical shutter tops at 6 fps (electronic first curtain).

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In our guides

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Measured dynamic range

Bill Claff's lab measurements of how much shadow-to-highlight range this sensor holds, plotted across the full ISO range. Higher is more latitude to recover a dark frame.

See the curve on Photons to Photos

Measurements by William J. Claff. We link rather than reprint them.

Sample photos

Real-world photos taken with this camera, grouped by EXIF data on Flickr.

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Methods

How we compute each section

References on each chart link down here. More notes will land as new sections grow.

1. Price history

#1.1 · Grade buckets
Each seller publishes their own raw condition labels (e.g. "Excellent+", "Like new minus", "Bargain"). Those are normalized to a small bucket set: mint, excellent, good, fair, poor, and unknown. The "Latest pricing by source" table above shows both the raw label and the normalized bucket so you can audit any individual mapping.
#1.2 · Missing days
A point is only drawn on a day when a snapshot existed for that (source, grade) pair. Lines connect across gaps so a series with sparse sampling still reads as a single trend, but absence of a point does not mean a stockout: it means we didn't see a listing at that grade that day.
#1.3 · Color encoding
Hue carries the source: terracotta = mpb, sage = keh, cobalt = B&H, honey = ebay. Lightness within a hue carries the condition: darker means a better grade (mint and excellent are darkest; poor is lightest). The dashed ink line is launch MSRP, included as a reference even though it isn't a price observation.
#1.4 · Shipping
Every price on this page is the item price, the number the seller puts on the listing. Where a seller quotes shipping we show it underneath as a separate line and add it up for you, because on used marketplaces it is not small: a lens listed at $189 can carry $74 of shipping, which is 39% on top. Dealers (mpb, keh, B&H) ship domestically free or flat and we do not ask them for a figure. Where eBay quotes nothing the row says so, because some listings calculate shipping from your address and we cannot know it; on the 2026-08-23 crawl that was about a third of eBay listings, and most of them were US sellers rather than overseas ones. Price history charts the item price throughout, so a series stays comparable to its own past.
#1.5 · Lenses sold in several mounts
A third-party lens like the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art is one optic in a dozen mounts, and the mounts don't sell for the same money, so each one gets its own page here. Listings are less tidy: plenty of them read "Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens" and never say which mount that is. We reject a listing whose title names a different mount, but a title that names none can't be contradicted, and we keep it rather than leave the page blank. That is a deliberate trade of precision for coverage, and it only applies to lenses carrying the note above the price table. If the exact mount matters to you, open the listing.