The sensor in the upcoming Canon EOS R3 is designed and manufactured by Canon

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After the development announcement of the Canon EOS R3, the internet went a bit silly with stories about who is actually manufacturing the image sensor in the Canon EOS R3. Why it mattered? I don’t know, but I stayed away from the claims made by a bunch of sites.
PetaPixel reports that Canon has directly told them the following about the Canon EOS R3 image sensor.
The sensor in the upcoming EOS R3 camera is Canon designed and manufactured.
I’m glad this issue has been put to rest and we can get on with things.

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Sharlin

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For real, where did all those rumors come from?

Hardly surprising as Canon only use their own sensors in all their current cameras, why would they start using Sony hand me downs ?

Well, you know how the Internet works? Presumably the rumors stemmed from the idea that obviously Canon can't have made such an advanced sensor themselves, so it's actually a Sony camera in disguise and Canon is only not d****d thanks to Sony. Or something.
 
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For real, where did all those rumors come from?
Since it was stacked sensor, people immediately assumed it had to be Sony, but Canon had stacked sensor patents several years ago. I had hoped to see it earlier in production, but good to see them compete in this space with Sony.
 
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