Well this is interesting! When the R3 came out, I personally wished it had somewhere in the ballpark of 30mp. Still, the R3’s 24mp is a great sweet spot for those of us that spend all day shooting a sporting event and taking thousands of images. I spent a year letting the R5 replace my 1DXII and it crushed storage space and processing times for the workflow of processing an image from card pull-organizing-editing-exporting-delivering.
Also, being entirely honest, the R3 has been everything and more that I could have wanted. So if I ask myself “what would I improve?” This camera looks to address everything…hopefully the micro-HDMI is abolished from this earth. It’s like a 1up on the R3 and right in line with what I would expect with a 1-series.
The 16-bit DGO-RAW has me VERY intrigued. VERY... If I'm correct in my interpretation, this would mean the camera is simultaneously stacking the images from the dual gain sensor in camera, which creates a monstrous increase in dynamic range...in the cinema cameras that Canon offers with this technology, dynamic range can exceed 16-stops. On the downside, it decreases readout speeds and I believe some cameras have ghosting issues...so we'll see how this camera would potentially correct for that.
I have to wonder if this model will receive an improved IBIS high-resolution mode that could be handheld and not turn the camera into a brick while it works on creating the file. Hmm...I am very interested in these specs the more I keep looking at them.
I will admit this is not what I was expecting for individual, pie in the sky reasons. If these turn out to be the specs then I may end up keeping the R5 until the R5II is released and eventually replace my R3 bodies with R1 bodies. Resolution is something of beauty for my commercial and publishing work. 30mp is a great place, but now that I’ve tasted 45mp, I want at least that much or more if I want to replace the R5. Which is funny considering the days when I was pumped for 21mp, 30mp and even 15mp!
Side Note: If this camera has a 1/1,250 sec flash sync time then it would be the quickest readout speed of any previous rolling shutter camera. The sensor would be a marvel of engineering if Sony hadn't dropped the stacked sensor A9III...which I'm honestly applauding, but not impressed with after seeing how rotten it performs at ISO 12,800.
Sorry for the novel, but I'm sure we're all pretty excited to see this camera hit shelves in get into our hands.
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