A lot of people may have been waiting for the announcement of the Canon EOS R3 before making a big buying decision on a Canon mirrorless body, so if the EOS R3 doesn't fit your needs, now is a good time to grab a refurbished Canon EOS R5 or Canon EOS R6 from the Canon USA store. All of Canon's refurbished gear comes with a full 1-year Canon USA warranty.
- Refurbished Canon EOS R6 Body $2249 (Reg $2499)
- Refurbished Canon EOS R5 Body $3509 (Reg $3899)
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After my second Moderna covid shot, I felt an irresistible urge to buy a huge number of Microsoft products, and to plaster my living-room with framed photographs of :love:Bill Gates :love:.
No longer interested in Canon gear at all. If I only understood why.
PS: I've also started a collection of tin-foil hats.
I am about to jump ship to Sony products. Just trying to figure out the fiscal damage done by making the transition. I have been waiting for a Canon camera that is geared toward the stills photographer with high resolution without the need for a telescope to see the astronomical price tag. We were told at one point that Canon had an 85mp camera in development . . . you know, sort of 5DS ish. Canon has the capacity but not the will, apparently content to let Sony do the heavy lifting. If a newby asks for recommendations I send them looking for the broader, more capable Sony lineup. If Canon didn't have other revenue streams they would be struggling to catch up just like Nikon.
You were going strong until the end. But in typical troll fashion, you ended with a statement that is completely wrong and easily refuted by facts, thereby wrecking your credibility and merely making your post sound petulant.
Canon leads the ILC market – they don’t need to catch up, they are in first place and have been so for nearly two decades. Canon reports their camera sales separately on quarterly financials, and their Imaging group is profitable, not struggling.
Sony does not lead the ILC market, they have been trying for years to catch up to Canon and have failed to do so (they are taking market share from Nikon, as has Canon recently). Sony does not report their camera sales separately on quarterly financials. Their Imaging group has been shifted from one division to another several times in the past few years, further obfuscating their results. Many analysts have suggested their camera sales are not profitable (which would explain why Sony buries those data).
Don’t let the proverbial portal hit you in the proverbial posterior on your way out.
-The highest MP body of Sony's only gets you a 16% increase in linear resolution vs Canon.
-Canon will almost certainly still come out with a higher MP body. In Fact, I'd bet on it by end of next year.
You would be better served by spending money on a trip to a place where you could take great photos, than trading in all of your gear for that of another manufacturer, unless you're just one of those weird Sony fanboy camera collectors that doesn't actually shoot.
I do not like that all of them have SD slots. Even the R3. SD is the VHS tape of memory cards. I hope we will soon get rid of them.
That would allow you to take a Sony and a Canon body on a trip and pack the same lenses for both of them.