The more I think about it the more I wonder how perfect this camera could have been without the crop in 4K video.
However, Magic Lantern is working on a solution to bring full-sensor readout to 5D Mark IV. If this is the case, then couldn't Canon potentially fix the crop issue via a future firmware update?
No, and thank God Canon won’t use the entire sensor.
I’m tired of reading about the crop factor. It’s a non-issue that has become an issue in the “spec wars”. 4K cinema sensors are only around 12 megapixels. The EOS R is a stills camera. If you want high resolution stills, you use a massive sensor that has an effective video resolution of 8K. With that much data, your camera would cook trying to process a video stream.
A few Sony A series cameras allow a full sensor readout where the processor either compresses info, or samples a few pixels instead of all of them. This leaves you with video that is noisy and not sharp. It’s not turned on by default and Sony sets a 1.5x crop factor for video. Even at 1.5x crop, Sony is oversampling to 5k and bringing you slightly lossy video to a 4K codec at a rate of 8-bits.
The EOS R is cropping to 1.7x and using the least oversampling, the most direct sensor data output, and the highest data rate. This means you get HIGHER QUALITY VIDEO in this format. Canon has a successful series of Cine cameras because image matters, not silly spec sheets argued on Internet forums.
Don’t believe me? Look up the noise you get on the “uncropped” Sony mirroless cameras. It’s a mess. Why do you think it’s easy for Panasonic to output higher frame rates on a 4/3rds sensor? It has less processing to do. We live with the crop because these cameras are used primarily for stills. If you want a camera without a rolling shutter, higher color output, and less artifacts; buy a cine camera with no crop and a much lower pixel resolution sensor.
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