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PhilH wrote:
Just had a brush up on a whole lot of R1 rumors. Fascinating stuff. I'm certain the camera will be faster in terms of FPS.
I can see it aiming towards a higher resolution R3 essentially with a fair bit of focus on video.
But another bit which hasn't been discussed is bringing things back into what the 1Ds series provided. Which initially was a focus on higher resolution. But perhaps an s series comes later or not at all and resolution becomes the focus of the R5 range.
Whatever the case, I don't think this will be sub-45 megapixels. The question is what Canon has been up to on the sensor R&D side of things as this will be very much the flagship. Though honestly I think the R5 and R3 really were the flagships thus far of their body form factors.
Personally with a few R bodies now, R5 and R5c mainly. I'm looking where other 135 systems have been evolving and also the new range of middle/medium format bodies and how/when Canon aims at those....Show more →
I think we’re far enough along now that a fair number of folks may not know about the 1Ds system. (See the “bifurcated” comment above, and read on about how the flagship Canon line WAS “bifurcated” for years.)
As you point out, it was basically a version of the 1D series that gave up some operational speed (esp. fps) in order to provide what was then the highest possible sensor resolution. This was originally back when the only full-frame Canon cameras were the 1-series bodies, and the others were all cropped-sensor bodies.
Back then I knew folks whose photography benefitted more from resolution and larger sensor than from operational speed who paid the (substantial!) additional price for the 1Ds models.
That all largely changed when Canon introduced the original 5D with a full frame high resolution (for the time) sensor and a much lower price point, but without quite the beefy 1-series build or the speed increment of the 1D models. The great majority of those who wanted a full frame sensor with higher resolution decided that the value proposition of the 5D was better than that of the much more expensive 1Ds models. Canon continued to improve the 5D line and eventually the 1Ds line was no longer competitive.
They tried to claim that the 1Dx was the camera that merged the assets of the 1D and 1Ds lines, but few were convinced. (It was a fine upgrade to the 1D models, but it didn’t offer much to those who were happily using the 5D line.)
I’m betting that this idea has remained on the collective Canon mind — that they would still like to have a camera that is both high resolution and fast. In fact, a camera with R5 resolution and 1Dx speed would meet almost everyone’s logical needs. However, with the competition continuing to push forward with higher resolution sensors (and the miniMF format sitting out there on the horizon), I think that Canon won’t be able to avoid producing a camera with a higher resolution for very long. It already impresses some as being a bit odd (though not really a big deal in IQ terms) that the R5 has slightly less resolution than the older 5Ds/5DsR line.
In any case, if they can produce a 45MP R body that offers performance at the 1-series level, it will sell to those who currently want/need 1D series performance.
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