I have an idea for the strange left-right button between thump-rest and EVF: I think you will be able to quickly select what the control ring (either on the RF lens or on the EF adapter) is supposed to be doing!
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You have to be legally blind to miss the fact that with an entry level DSLR, you can crop 50% and print poster.
My heart aches for all the people who can't crop 75% and still print poster size.
Lordy, I hope not - that would make it impossible to use for wildlife/bird photography...
The tiny size of the body and handling a long lens pretty much knocks mirrorless out for bird photography. Even crop body SLR users usually need a battery grip just for more stability with such long lenses. As cool as having the advantages of mirrorless for birds are the usability with such lenses is just not there.
There is a significant difference between a 30 Mpx sensor with an AA-filter and a 50 Mpx without one. If there wasn't to my eyes, I would use my 5DIV all the time and leave my 5DSR at home. The pixel size alone gives 30% more linear resolution (66% area) and dropping the AA-filter a further 10% on top. My 5DSR is like having my 5DIV with a 1.4xTC built in. The 5DIV has other compensating advantages, but not resolution.Indeed- and there's not that much difference between 30 and 50 from a cropping point of view...
I laugh at all the old people here still talking about resolution in terms of how big a print you can make. Go back to your darkroom, grandpa!
I do primarily images for online. And with 5K+ screens (14 megapixel) becoming the norm images for screen display a 24 megapixel sensor doesn't end up giving you a great deal of crop flexibility. 40-50 megapixel sensors give much better options for cropping and/or downsampling images to be displayed at their best on a retina-style screen.
A couple of things I'd love to know : will lenses be fly by wire ? 99% of my work being on a tripod with manually focused lenses, focus by wire is for me the ultimate nightmare and is one of the main reasons I am not so excited with MILCs. I was waiting to know if Canon would go the same route as the other (though I don't know if Leica has FBW). The USM of the R-L lenses seems to tell that it will be both, USM Full Time Manual on L lenses and FBW STM on "consumer" lenses. I guess it's less of a problem with mirrorless cameras since you need power to see anything at all anyway. But my experience with my 40 mm STM has been so frustrating with manual focus, I use it only for AF handheld shots, despite it being somehow better optically than my old 45 TS-E.
Finally about the sensor, I hope they'll have improved the 5D4 sensor, and finally removed the low pass filter.
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the 4 segment battery indicator so far..
Yep, both the M5 or the 5D have kind of the 'right' proportions for their respective sizes. But in real life and with a lens on, it will probably look better.
And having the same battery across most of the range is also clever.
But with the EVF I expect it do drain even faster than the 5D IV, which is also hungrier in liveview mode, around 30-40% more drain than the Mark III.
So I don't think it will be nearly as good as the newest Sony bodies.
(I truly don't get the "need" for GPS in a camera...)
You don't appreciate that many groups of photographers, like wildlife, are often reach limited and need to crop small areas. Others need to reproduce high detail. We don't necessarily aim to print poster size even if we print at all. High resolution cameras sell well for very good reasons.
Approximately 10cm (max. diameter) x 14cm (length).The 28-70/2.0 does not look too big.
Yep, true on all counts.
Most confusing, given the number of "expert opinion-havers" on here who insist that diddy little MILCs are all things to all men and "the (only) future"...
Can we have:
- 4K60
- 10bit HLG (a way to record proper HDR)
- Dual SD UHS-II card slots
- Extremely Good IBIS
- Unlimted recording (nah 30min video limit is not ok (30min tax ends end of year in Europe anyway))
And stuff I'd like too but I never see anyone else ask about:
- H265 options for all framerates and resolutions (half bitrate, same quality, faster for YouTube 4K uploading)
- Wi-Fi multi-camera live editing on the touch-screen (for example you have any phone or a gopro like wifi camera pointing at yourself which you can switch to once in a while during the interview. Or switching to another Canon R camera during interview. Or switching among several cameras while live streaming sports or concert.)
- Wi-Fi and Type-C Ethernet and Type-C LTE dongles with bonding for reliable live streaming directly from camera
- Built-in wireless microphone receiving in camera. Whatever the wireless technology. Could also be wireless microphones that later sync the audio automatically over Type-C or over Wi-Fi direct in one-click with each audio track that can be adjusted in camera and video file saved.
- In-camera basic video editing. Use phone or tablet to have a larger UI when editing in-camera. Rendering the edits at faster than real-time.
- Type-C to SSD/HDD backups and live recording.
- 4x SD cards RAID in grip to expand storage and backup.