Canon Officially Announces the Cinema EOS C50

[Richard CR]

Canon today announced the C50, a new compact full-frame cinema camera. It’s a newly developed 7K CMOS DPAF sensor cinema camera with all the related bells and whistles expected of Canon’s cinema cameras. Canon appears to be adjusting its positioning of the cinema cameras, having now released the C70 in 2020, R5 C(2022), C80 (2024), […]

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[Uneternal]

I'm doing a wild guess that soon-to-be-released EOS R6 Mark III will have the same sensor and specs.
Plus a EVF and mechanical shutter of course. It will be absolute Sony A7IV killer.

 

[Canon Rumors]

I'm doing a wild guess that soon-to-be-released EOS R6 Mark III will have the same sensor and specs.
Plus a EVF and mechanical shutter of course. It will be absolute Sony A7IV killer.

I think that's a safe bet. Though, one day the mechanical shutter will go away.

 

[DhlcadR6]

Stacked CMOS? That's actually decent even as stills camera.

 

[Maximilian]

First German prices (www.fotokoch.de):

3.799,- € for Canon C50 (incl. VAT)
1.749,- € for RF 85mm f/1,4 L VCM (incl. VAT)

 

[Maximilian]

I'm doing a wild guess that soon-to-be-released EOS R6 Mark III will have the same sensor and specs.
Plus a EVF and mechanical shutter of course. It will be absolute Sony A7IV killer.

Exactly my thoughts ... that sensor for the Mk III would be very interesting.

 

[mimbu]

Stacked CMOS? That's actually decent even as stills camera.

I think that was a typo by @Canon Rumors / @Richard CR. There is no mention by Canon or elsewhere of it being a stacked sensor, or even of it being a BSI sensor.

 

[Richard CR]

I think that was a typo by @Canon Rumors / @Richard CR. There is no mention by Canon or elsewhere of it being a stacked sensor, or even of it being a BSI sensor.

ah sorry. correcting! it's been one of those days.

 

[mimbu]

I'm doing a wild guess that soon-to-be-released EOS R6 Mark III will have the same sensor and specs.
Plus a EVF and mechanical shutter of course. It will be absolute Sony A7IV killer.

A7V will be what competes with this camera. It's expected sometime in the next month or two. Will be very interesting to see what Sony does with the sensor. So far there are zero credible rumors.

 

[Besisika]

No flash sync for flash shooters like me; as per Petapixel. I can live with that.

 

[Since_5DIII]

Overall it seems like the sensor is a step down from the C80/C400 and even the R5C. Am I right?

 

[Maximilian]

ah sorry. correcting! it's been one of those days.

Still an interesting new piece of silicon (and whatever else materials)

 

[Canon Rumors]

Overall it seems like the sensor is a step down from the C80/C400 and even the R5C. Am I right?

We'll have to see. It should be below the C80 and C400 all things considered. This isn't going to be the only camera this new sensor appears in.

I'm pretty confident it's going to have a much faster readout speed than the R5 C. It should be faster than the R5 Mark II too. It won't be R1 speed, unless Canon truly loves us.

 

[Maximilian]

... It won't be R1 speed, unless Canon truly loves us.

I'm sure, they love us... better said, our money. But surely not R1 speed...

 

[DhlcadR6]

No flash sync for flash shooters like me; as per Petapixel. I can live with that.

Why use flash on videocam?

 

[mimbu]

We'll have to see. It should be below the C80 and C400 all things considered. This isn't going to be the only camera this new sensor appears in.

I'm pretty confident it's going to have a much faster readout speed than the R5 C. It should be faster than the R5 Mark II too. It won't be R1 speed, unless Canon truly loves us.

Even with the benefit of fewer lines to read, it seems difficult to overtake the speed of the R5M2's fully stacked sensor. Upcoming CineD reviews promise to be interesting.

 

[Canon Rumors]

Even with the benefit of fewer lines to read, it seems difficult to overtake the speed of the R5M2's fully stacked sensor. Upcoming CineD reviews promise to be interesting.

Fair point

 

[Dragon]

Still no oversampled 4k/60?????

 

[sanj]

Does not seem like a true hybrid. I prefer R5c. Or R52

 

[Canon Rumors]

Does not seem like a true hybrid. I prefer R5c. Or R52

Speaking with someone at Canon (they don't all hate me). Canon is moving on from the "true hybrid”. They have probably spent a ton of money on market research to learn what the majority of consumers are looking for.

We have heard for years from photographers (which is what we know best) that they don't care about or want the video features. They feel they're paying for things they don't want, which takes the feelings of value for dollars down. The same may be true of videographers. So embrace each segment and bring those customers customer segments the product they want at the price they feel they're getting value.

Take an up market wedding. There's a photographer or two and a videographer. Neither of them are going to be overlapping on content. Sure there will be times the photographer or videographer wants to capture something cool on the opposite medium, but that will be at fleeting moments.

For the one person show, a pro stills camera and the second camera being something like this makes sense. Though the R52 does a great job of covering both in this scenario.

I haven't shot one video on my R1, and probably never will. That's just me though, I don't represent anyone else.