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 p.4 #7 · p.4 #7 · Canon Rumors: 100MP+ Canon R5s coming in 2023 | |
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I suppose I might qualify as a "professional". I get paid for my portrait, landscape and real estate work. Not that I have to beat some drum to say my opinion might hold as much weight as the next guy. I have to say that the year and a half I've owned my R5 and grip along with several RF L glass and select Sigma Art lenses, the R5 has not failed me once to get images that in my world are top flight not lacking anything. Since that last 1.5.2 update my R5 now nails focus of a animal's or human's eye as soon as I half press the shutter no waiting, and tracks it like it got glued to said eye.
So I have to ask myself, even though I'm at the top of a major vendor's R1's list knowing I wouldn't see it for at least a year or more anyway, is it worth bothering? Sure it's going to have QuadPixel, but if I'm not missing anything now what is the value of that going to mean? It "might" have another stop dynamic range (a big maybe) and will shoot at absurdly fast rates ( I don't do that now). It will have a huge long lived battery......whoopie.....I put two batteries in my grip and go for days.
The fact if I desired, I can take my grip off and slap on a RF24-240 for a travel/vacation and have a very compact lightweight companion that will do nearly all I could need. I love the EVF now having no issues. I don't do the touch screen so that means nothing to me. So I can't help but wonder if it's meaningless to wait for or bother with the coming R1. The R3 to ME is going backward for my use. So I may be grossly in the minority, but the R5 sure did hit my sweet spot, and I have NO need for larger files to be sure. I already have the cropping power I ever need. Oh well. Guess we'll have to see what Canon truly has up their sleeve....Show more →
Your story reminds me of what happened back when the 5D was introduced. At that time folks who needed higher resolution and wanted full frame had to get a 1Ds series body. That was a fine camera, for sure, but in addition to being quite expensive it was also very large and heavy.
Quite a few folks who had been using the 1Ds version at that time took a look at the performance of the 5D also full frame, almost as much screen resolution, used the same lenses and decided that the lighter weight, smaller bulk, and significant'y lower cost was a fair and practical trade off.
Ultimately the 1Ds-series was toast. Even though it was arguably a better camera, practical photographers did not feel that the nature of the "better-ness" was worth it.
I think there is still going to be a good market for a rumored 100MP R camera, particularly if the price is in the same ballpark as the R5. (Note that the price difference between 5D-series and 1Ds-series was substantial.) But, in truth, as a user of a 50MP camera and a person who talks with others who use similar cameras and who have used higher MP cameras the 45MP of the R5, coupled with its high levels of performance in other areas, is going to make the higher MP option less clearly appealing than it was in the past.
I still think that a 100MP camera would "have legs" and I'd certainly consider it, but...
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