The new mirrorless flagship from Nikon is confirmed to be coming this year. It will have 8K video and is rumored to have a 60MP sensor. Sony’s Alpha 1 has a 50MP sensor and was designed to target the 1D series. Both can/will, shoot 8K video. Like it or not, 8k is the new standard. Canon knows this; so I fully expect to see a much higher resolution sensor make an appearance in this camera... And that sensor is going to need a seriously fast readout speed. What could be faster than global shutter? So don’t be surprised to see global shutter, because it’s time is here.... no longer a luxury, now a necessity.
Dynamic range will have to be competitive. Let me remind you, rumor has it that the current crop of Sony sensors can be enabled with Wide dynamic range mode, via a firmware update. This can boost their dynamic range to 16 plus stops... perhaps 14 plus usable stops? The stakes are high. Camera sales are dropping hard. This is definitely not the time to be holding back. It’s possible that Canon finally understands this.
I’m excited for this camera.
I don’t believe 8K is the new standard at all. It’s a novelty that people downscale from at best. Thanks to the R5, I think 8K is what you have to have in your tag line to get the camera to move as compared to other cameras. A handful of people might actually NEED 8K for something but I don’t know what it is.
Until they start hanging 8K TVs on the wall I still see it as a niche. You still can’t get HQ 4K streams from any of the major services unless you pay more for it (most people don’t/won’t) and the 4K on YouTube isn't much better than their 2K If you can tell the difference at all.
4K DVDs are as big of a flop as BluRay was, if not bigger. I don’t know a single person that buys 4K DVDs. If I have to have something in 4K I just find a source and download it.
Until ISPs get rid of their data caps I can’t see real, clean, HQ high res becoming the standard over the crap they serve now. My ISP (I’m very choice limited because I live on an island) caps at 1.2TB per month which sounds like a lot but isn’t. NETFLIX garbage 4K can eat 7GB per hour and it’s terrabad.
No one is screaming for 8K streams are they? I don’t even people really crying for 4K. MOST people just watch what’s on and don’t think about whether they could count the person’s eyelashes or not.