Don’t forget a global shutter is a $2,000 upgrade. I don’t see the R1 having 45mp either and it’s going to have a quad pixel sensor, so AF and anything else they can accomplish with it. There are plenty of differentiating goodies they can put in an R1. Besides, studio shooters spending $7,000+ can get medium format body with 100+ MP and 16 bit files for less than that.The reason I believe that is the R3 is likely going to be a great sports camera with 45mp+ and 30fps meeting the needs of most sports photographers.
Therefore, the R1 needs to offer a different purpose rather than an incremental upgrade (eg. Same as R3 but with global shutter) to justify a $7,500+ price that Canon would want for its flagship.
Indeed a $7,999 R1 with a global shutter would be the cheapest video camera Canon make with the feature.
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