How was $4500 a shock to you? EVERY Youtuber, EVERYONE here all thought it woulf be around 4500/4600.
Considering I work with Youtubers, I do not listen to their takes on things like corporate pricing. If this was going to be as "aggressively priced" as was promoted by canon, you would think that it would at least be the same price as the FX3, or in the ballpark of that. Yes, the FX3 doesn't shoot 8k, but, that's basically unusable footage anyhow (No one even broadcasts 8k). To be clear, I am no Sony fan boy, I have all my monies in Canon glass and bodies. But, there certainly seems to be some serious gap these days on the offerings from Canon comparatively to what Sony is offering.
After taxes, 5k$ is really pushing the usability mark for me, along with the things that I mentioned in my post. Weather exposure, which is kinda funny when Kolari figured out how to make the R5 no longer over heat without putting a silly fan in the body... I do have the R6 and I am quite happy with the photos that it takes, but, that filming limited by overheating in 2022 is crazy to have happen, also having no "All-i" just to be funny is really a joke...