Practically every single camera in 2023 does have a touchscreen display and one that can be articulated in some way. Canon, however, thinks that there’s a market for a truly barebones camera with the EOS R100.

As the most affordable RF-mount camera at $480(Php 26.8k) for the body only, the biggest quirk about the EOS R100 is that its rear display is fixed and is not a touchscreen–that’s something unheard of in any camera in 2023.

Frankly speaking, the EOS R100 feels like Canon checked its parts bin and made a “new” camera: it uses an old 24-megapixel sensor and DIGIC 8 Processor that’s found on the EOS M50 Mark II–which can only shoot 4K in crop mode, only has support for a single UHS-I SD card, and opts for one dial. It even uses the same 2.36 million dot EVF found on the EOS M50 Mark II. It’s even a slow one–only capable of 3.5FPS in Servo AF and 6.5FPS in One-shot AF.

In a nutshell, the EOS R100 is reminiscent of Canon’s Rebel and Kiss entry-level cameras, where you simply have the barebones features and is geared towards beginners. While it does have Canon’s revered Dual Pixel AF tech on a sub-$500 price, the cost-cutting measures that Canon did is just hard to justify–especially the very basic rear display.

If the EOS R50 does not prove the point, the EOS R100 makes it clear that Canon is completely abandoning its EOS M series cameras–the EOS M6 Mark II is considered to be discontinued, and there’s absolutely no reason for you to buy an EOS M50 Mark II in 2023 given the complete entry-level lineup of the EOS R series.