it didn't really make sense. It was all waiting for IBIS, DIGIC X and whatever magic they tossed into their sensors.I've given up trying to guess as there are so many guesses out there ranging from £3000 / $3000 to £6000 / $6000. If we ignore that this may be a 5d mkIV replacement along with the 5D MKIV price and look at it just on the specs alone, the price could be up to £/$ 6000 as it's similar spec to the 1DX mklll.
However, although Tony & Chelsea Northrop are sometimes a little annoying, their video from 2018 was interesting about canon playing the waiting game, made a lot of sense, allowing Sony etc to develop the tech from scratch, which is hugely expensive and then reverse engineering it with new elements to take a giant leap forward without the massive initial development costs. Could this mean the price is a little more reasonable?? Who knows?
We will find out in due course I suppose, just frustrating they don't just come out with it with a caveat on potential delivery dates, instead of drip feeding and creating hype but then thats what marketing is all about.
You can see a pretty natural and common sense progression in Canon's development.
The exception perhaps being the jump they took this time. but it takes YEARS of R&D and pull of an R5. It's not as if they said we're going to hold onto this, it simply was not ready.
Further proof is all the patent applications that were filed for IBIS that didn't even publish for the tech in the R5 until last year.
it's not as if canon did all this 5+ years ago and sat on it. the patent applications are still processing for IBIS and most likely alot of other stuff that went into the 1DX Mark III and R5.
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