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Jesse Evans wrote:
Because you quoted me responding to a different question, and made it out to be about a different post. The discussion about the R6 and R5 market segmentation were not about the overheating, but that Canon continues to engage in artificial market segmentation.
You said "If people need more evidence of Canon's intentional market segmentation at the expense of utility: Canon produced the R5, and R6 simultaneously. You *cannot get* BOTH reliable 4k and reliable high frame rate video from *either camera*. If you want to be a Canon hybrid shooter and want reliable full frame 4k and reliable 120fps 1080p, you have to buy both the R5 and the R6."
You specifically referred to "*cannot get* BOTH reliable 4k and high frame rate video". What reliability issues were you referring to if you weren't referencing the overheating issues? Has there been a secondary reliability issue regarding video identified with the cameras?
Jesse Evans wrote:
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. If true, the theory would be that people would primarily not care, and those that did care would upgrade to their cinema line.
And I think that would actually remain true were it not for the launch of the A7s III.
I think all in all, the EOS R5 is a very good camera, and it has also been intentionally prevented from being as useful of a tool as it should be in order to provide an artificial upgrade path for the future.
Canon has not been shy in withholding features in the past in executing their segmentation strategy. They went so far to remove 24p support from previous cameras, which was ridiculous, before the market forced them to put it back in. Are we speculating the main lesson Canon learned from that experience was to be more sophisticated about how they go about crippling their cameras, to the point of having to issue revised press releases detailing specific thermal conditions and run times to help execute the ruse?
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