A lot of speculation about the resolution of this camera .
It appears to be very much a specialised body for sports photographers so I think it will only be 20-24 mp for 3 reasons :
- smaller files speed up the camera as the processor can work faster
- smaller files mean a faster work flow
- most professional sports photographers have suitable Big White lenses and they don't need to crop much and usually are working in arenas which are well lit and human subjects are quite large and don't move very fast (less than 30mph). Motorsports move very fast but in a very predictable way that's easy to track and the Pros are in ideal positions to shoot from.
I really like this camera but for hobbiests like my self who shoot birds in flight especially small fast moving and unpredictable species like swallows, kingfishers and flycatchers a crop sensor version of this camera with 30-35mp would be an ideal camera.
I wonder how many full time professional sports shooters there are compared to amateur bird shooters ?
I suspect we out number them at least 10 to 1 , here in New Zealand I would think there are only a few dozen sports pros in the country but hundreds of amateur bird shooters (similar ratio in the rest of the world I suspect) so I think the market for a really good crop sensor camera is pretty large.
Personally I'd be prepared to pay a similar price to an R6 (in my dreams a bit lower still) for such a camera but whether Canon chooses to make one at such a price who knows ?
I don't think camera companies make much profit on these flagship bodies (which have very small production runs) but probably make good margins on lenses and making the best ones must help sales of more affordable cameras.