There’s too many pages to be able to read every single post, but the main thing I’m interested to learn is about the 20fps.
I see many people on other sites trying to claim the R5 won’t be able to do the 20fps with continuous AF/Exposure. I’ve read that the M6 II and 1DX3 are able to do this so I think it’s same to assume the R5 can too?
I hope these questions can be answered at WPPI!
if it's a July release, i doubt WPPI will be able to tell us much other than just have units under display.
There's
CP+ , PhotographyShow, NAB, PhotoKina all lined up before this baby gets released. If this was imminent release, then sure, they would have live models that you could play with that show.
I can't see that happening this far away from release.
yes the hardware is usually finished well before now, but usually the firmware isn't done yet.
If I was looking at a crystal ball. this is what I think we'll see at the shows;
- WPPI - units under display. Maybe touch / hold non functioning units.
- NAB - 8K on display.
- PhotoKina - fully operational models, CFE cards locked up though
on the 20fps .. it's REALLY a lot of data to move.
I wouldn't be surprised to see AF/AE locked for 20 fps. it's not a question of crippling, it's a case of it being 2.25x the data that the 1DX Mark II is processing at 20 fps.
we're talking somewhere in the range of 1.8 Gigapixels / second - just to put this into perspective, and far more than that needed to be processed.
however - conversely - it sounds from the 1DX Mark III whitepaper that DIGIC X has ASICS in it specifically for DPAF AF. Which is a first.
So while it MAY happen, i'm leaning to AF/AE locked on all the extreme performance options in the R5;
- 20 fps
- 8K30p
- 4K120p
That way i'll be pleasantly surprised if they do have DPAF / AF/AE.
Sony, et all fanboys will call this "crippling" i'm sure. however, it's doing things that no other ILC can do at the moment - not sure how you'd call that crippling.