Is the EOS R6 V Canon’s Answer to the Nikon ZR?

The Nikon ZR uses CFexpress Type B and a microSD card to fit everything into its thin body. We haven't seen that configuration from Canon yet, but microSD is going to start appearing in more cameras this year and in the future.
MicroSD? Interesting. The PowerShot V10 has a microSD slot, as does my little PowerShot Zoom monocular (I took a couple of pictures on it once, then spent quite a while trying to find the little adapter for the card).
 
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MicroSD? Interesting. The PowerShot V10 has a microSD slot, as does my little PowerShot Zoom monocular (I took a couple of pictures on it once, then spent quite a while trying to find the little adapter for the card).

I have never figured out how not to lose them. There's a half dozen of them in my house somewhere.
 
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It has to have CFExpress B to do any of the 7K and raw codecs, but perhaps just a single slot.

If this camera doesn’t have IBIS, I think it will struggle. I use my R6 III way more than my C50 for video because it has IBIS (I like fast, manual focus primes). A big reason for the FX3, S1 II, and ZR success is that you can keep them small and handheld because of the IBIS. Plenty of ways to differentiate the R6V from the C50 (handle, XLR, timecode, cooling) and R6 III (EVF, mechanical shutter) and still have IBIS.

Not to sound dramatic, but I used the ZR and was blown away. The 4" screen should be mandatory for any video-focused camera going forward (nice work, Kinefinity Vista).
 
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SD card slot? That would mean no 8K video i guess. So no 33 MP Sensor neccessary, could work with the R6II 24MP sensor. And no IBIS. Except for the LP-E6 Battery (and the ?dual SD slot?) we are pretty much in R8 territory with that.

Will it even shoot 7K? It is the same sensor though. There will be compromises somewhere.

The CFe/mSD setup is interesting.

Scared about the HDMI port!
 
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It has been a weird few days around here. There have been lots of gaffes on my part, but the full-frame “V” series camera is coming soon. I have been trying to figure out where an EOS R6 V would fit in the line-up from a pricing angle. I have no idea what the price […]

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I hope it has an active hotshoe for flash and IBIS. It will make it a clearer distinction from the C50, but I doubt it due to its placement being cheaper than the C50 in the lineup
 
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Thank you for this article. I'm personally very excited about the R6V, this is something I've been wanting since the R5C. My hope is they will add IBIS to the video-line "V" cameras, and leave it out of the "C" cameras. Generally - and I don't speak for everyone here - but generally cinema cameras are preferred not have IBIS, as there can be issues with vibration distortion, even with a floating sensor that has IBIS disabled. The types of video work I do involve tripod (interviews, no ibis needed) handheld (terrible without ibis) and gimbal (ibis optional). Canon has/had some corner wobble distortion in video with ibis on wide angle lenses - for this I am thankful that the R5c works great on a gimbal with no ibis, and thus no corner wobble. Handheld, however, is as jittery as an iphone 5 after 4 cups of espresso.

If Canon is aiming the R6V at small content creators, vloggers, and indie film folks - those users are absolutely going to be pissed off to not have IBIS, especially when all the previous R6 series cameras have it. For those folks that don't want IBIS, there's the C50. I would appreciate a dual line of cameras with and without ibis, like an R6V and an R6VI (with ibis) something like that, similar to the 5DS and 5DSR without the antialiasing filter. This would make a lot of people happy. Choices. Then we can complain about something else other than ibis.
 
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I'm more interested in an R7V than an R6V, mostly because most of my FF lenses are old and can be noisy when focusing during a video. Most of my APS-C lenses are Sigma zooms and primes that work well on my R50V. There is also the rumor that the R7-2 would be 7680 X 4320 5120 pixels, more than the C50 or rumored R6V. One possible result that Canon could introduce an R7V using the same body as the R6V. What the relative prices would be is anybody's guess.
 
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I like the idea of this camera, specially because I needed something smaller than the R6mark iii and I got the lumix S9, which size and features are incredible, love the footage from it, I would deff return it if Canon releases this to compete with a camera like lumix S9, otherwise theres the R6 mark ii and c50 already out there. IBIS on lumix is amazing and would hope this new camera has IBIS too, mechanical shutter would be great but I doubt it cause its a V camera. Anyway hope its small otherwise I have no idea who this camera is for when they can just get the R6 mark iii for couple hundred more than the expected 2k price? Plus lens? Yeeez, my lumix s9 with kit lens was $1259.
 
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