I’ll say what many people may be thinking.
If EOS R is 5D IV equivelant, there’s no guarantee a ‘higher end’ camera such as 5DSR equivelant has dual card slots, and probably not any better video specs.
And if canon continue the thinking of ‘high megapixel shooters don’t want or need video features’, we may even see worse video specs in a high megapixel body...
Yeah I was thinking about that as well. When Canon announced the EOS R I wasn't initially put off about the single card slot fiasco, because I believed at the time that EOS R was Canon's
entry-level full-frame mirrorless camera. I assumed that EOS R was simply the 6D standard (single card slot as well) for Canon's mirrorless push into the market, and a very promising offering considering the higher MP count and AF capabilities over the Sony A7 III and Nikon Z6.
But if Canon execs are reaffirming the DSLR product positioning for mirrorless by saying the EOS R is a 5D-series equivalent, and that we can expect a lower-end (6D-series) and higher-end (5DS(R)/1D X-series) in the future, then that's a serious setback for event and wedding photographers considering going into the system. Those genres of photography where tethering and wireless transfer backup isn't a feasible option has forced photographers to embrace redundant card slot capabilities. Apparently, only Sony and Fujifilm are the mirrorless system manufacturers who understand the needs of that market - and it's not a small market either.
I see a 6D EOS R equivalent camera with a single card slot as a forgivable exclusion, even though Sony
is including card redundancy in their entry-level mirrorless system. I cannot see the exclusion of dual card slots as being forgivable for a 5D level camera - that just defies all forms of logic in my opinion. Canon and Nikon refusing to offer data integrity/redundancy solutions in their product categories where Sony and Fuji are offering those capabilities is disturbing. But what I find more disturbing is that I'm able to achieve
quintuple redundancy on my
smartphone. Yes, my smartphone. A product that was never designed to primarily operate as a precision image capturing device is capable of storing my images and videos to: 1) the internal memory, 2) the external microSD media card, 3) my smartphone manufacturer cloud storage platform, 4) my Google Drive cloud storage platform, and 5) my paid subscription cloud storage platform. I get 5 methods of data redundancy on a general purpose device that cost me $300 whereas Canon are offering
no redundancy on a precision image/video capture device that costs $2,300. I see a huge oversight in this, but maybe that's just me.