The EOS R8 Mark II is an ideal Canon camera for travel. Compact, lightweight and stabilised, it's easy to use handheld for long periods. The camera's image stabilisation works together with Canon IS lenses to provide even greater protection against camera shake, so you can take sharper images on the go – whether that's shooting historic buildings on a city break, wonderful views on a walking holiday or the people you meet on a road trip.

Yes, the EOS R8 Mark II is a great all-rounder, making it well suited to landscape photography, as well as travel, wildlife and portrait photography. Its full-frame sensor helps to capture the scale and detail of wide scenes, from mountain landscapes to breathtaking seascapes. Being a small Canon mirrorless camera, it is easy to carry to viewpoints and remote locations, while image stabilisation helps you capture sharper handheld images when shooting at sunrise and sunset or in other low-light conditions.

The EOS R8 Mark II doesn't just deliver incredible full-frame image quality, it's built for speed as well – so you can react quickly when photographing action. It features advanced autofocus technology that's normally found in professional Canon mirrorless cameras, including intelligent subject detection that recognises people, animals and vehicles, and tracks them with improved persistence – even if they are momentarily obscured, the camera stays locked on.

Pre-continuous shooting for stills and pre-recording for video are particularly useful when shooting fast-moving subjects, as the EOS R8 Mark II starts recording before you've fully pressed the shutter release or record button.

With pre-continuous shooting enabled, you can record images around half a second before you take a shot – giving you 20 images to choose from when shooting at 40fps2. Plus, the expanded buffer can handle up to 73 RAW files (over 30% more than the EOS R8) or 190 JPEGs (almost 60% more than the EOS R8) in a single burst.

This increases your chances of capturing the decisive moment when photographing unpredictable action – from wildlife encounters on safari to other once-in-a-lifetime travel experiences that can be over in an instant.

Full-frame cameras offer impressive image quality, particularly when shooting in low light. If you're photographing an indoor event or a travel destination after dark, they can produce cleaner images with less visible noise and a wider dynamic range that helps preserve detail in both dark and bright areas of a scene.

They make it easier to achieve a shallow depth of field, helping your subject stand out against a smooth, out-of-focus background. This is an especially effective technique for portraits, close-ups and other images where you want to draw attention to specific details in a scene.

Crucially, full-frame cameras let you shoot wider. Cameras with APS-C-sized sensors record a smaller area of the image projected by the lens, so less of the scene fits in the frame. While this can be an advantage when photographing birds and other distant subjects, full-frame cameras help you to capture sweeping landscapes, towering architecture and spacious interiors without needing to move further away.

Yes, the EOS R8 Mark II has a new design that combines easy EOS handling with an improved control layout and intelligent automation that allows you to focus on what matters: your subject, story and creative vision. You can move seamlessly from fully automatic to fully manual as your confidence grows.

Improvements to the design include a multi-controller that allows you to operate the camera more fluidly – such as quickly moving the AF point to a different subject in your scene or skimming through the camera menus to change a setting.

Intelligent features include Register People Priority. This lets you register up to 10 individuals in the camera (with a further 10 sets of 10 individuals saved on the memory card) and arrange them in order of importance, leaving the camera to automatically track them and keep them in focus.