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One of the fun things doing this is analyzing potato images of unreleased products. This doesn't happen as much as it used to, but it's happening today!
*Update: The EOS R6 Mark III will be announced on November 6, 2025
We can now 100% confirm that the EOS R6 Mark III will enter our lives in November. There are two dates with confirmed NDAs attached. November 6, and November 26.
What do we see?
I have spent far too long looking at this image and have convinced myself that it is not an APS-C camera such as the EOS R7 Mark II, but instead is the EOS R6 Mark III.
The EVF Bump & Eyecup
The first thing I noticed is the EVF bump, it has a similar shape to the hard angles of the EOS R7. Though, with the orientation of the image, the size and angles may be distorted.
Then I look a little closer, and the eyecup is bigger and a different shape than what we see with Canon's APS-C cameras. This moved me past it being the EOS R7 Mark II.
The Strap Lugs
All of Canon's APS-C EOS R cameras have silver strap lugs, so this isn't the EOS R7. Canon's full-frame cameras have black ones. I love the black lugs because I can scratch the heck out of them.
The Tally Light
Unless my eyes are failing me, it looks like there is a tally light on the right side of the camera in the image. The tally light is a newer feature in Canon's EOS R cameras.
The Blue Dot
There is the blue icon that we see on the EOS R5 Mark II and the EOS R1 near the m-fn button. I don't think that is an image anomaly.
Canon EOS R6 Mark III Specifications
- 32MP Full-Frame CMOS (Non-stacked)
- DIGIC X Processor
- It doesn't appear to have the DIGIC Accelerator. (I haven't been told that outright)
- Dual Pixel CMOS AF II
- 40fps Electronic
- 12fps Mechanical
- AF areas are the same as the EOS R5 Mark II and EOS R1
- People, Animal, Vehicle Tracking
- IBIS: 8.5 Stops Center (I was wrong on this one, and I'm happy about it!)
- IBIS: 7.5 Stops Corner
- 1/320 Flash Sync (Full Width)
- 1/400 Flash Sync (Crop)
- This would suggest a pretty quick sensor. The EOS R1, which has the fastest readout speed of any CMOS sensor is 1/320. The EOS R5 Mark II is /250.
- Mechanical, Elec. First curtain & Electronic Shutter
- Register & Recall AF settings and Focus Presets.
- Pre-Capture
- Dual Slot: CFExpress Type B & UHS-II SD
- Open Gate 7K RAW Video Recording
- Canon Log-2 & Canon Log-3
- LGOP (Long Group of Pictures)
- All-I
- Mode Dial Now Includes “S&F”
- Update: This feature let's you select framerates based on a multiplication factor more efficiently. If you're shooting at 24fps, you can easily switch to 12fps by selecting 0.5x or double the frame rate by selecting 2x. I don't know if there are other multiplication settings.
- Max ISO: 64000
- Open Gate RAW 24/25p
- Open Gate (3:2 7K RAW, 7K MP4, Proxy Full HD MP4)
- RAW Video: 7K DCI (17:9) / (Open Gate 3:2)
- 7K RAW: 12bit CRM Audio: Linear PCM/AAC
- 4K/Full HD Time-Lapse Mode
- MP4 Video: 4K DCI/UHD (17:9/16:9), 2K/Full HD (17:9/16:9)
- 4K/2K/Full HD: XF-HEVC S/H.265, Audio: Linear PCM/AAC
- 4K/2KFull HD: MPEG-5 AVC S/H.264, Audio: Linear PCM/AAC
- 24-bit Audio
- Dual Slot (CFe Type B & SD UHS-II)
- Full-Size HDMI Port
- LP-E6P
- Price €2899 Body
- Price: $2799 Body
- Price: $2899 Stop Motion Body
- Price: $3149 with the RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS STM
- Price: $4040 with the RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
- Shipping Begins November 25, 2025
Have at it internet
We decided that posting the image with the entire alphabet written on it using MS Paint would ruin some of the fun. You're welcome internet publishers.
One of the good things about this sort of thing, it generally means the product is coming in the near-term and we believe that to be in the 2nd half of November (This is now 100% confirmed).
Unless I am missing something with the current Canon lineup, this camera currently does not officially exist.
But it would be interesting, which white lens is attached to that 2x extender 😉
Could this be a new one? Or is it an already released one?
We didn't report a rumor of a larger EVF for the R72 as far as I can recall.
The eyecup and the colour of the lugs.
0.9x equivalent OLED EVF with a higher resolution that the current 2.36m-Dot in the EOS R7 - everything we have been told about the R7mkii sep 20th. That implies it has to be bigger
The EVF could see a jump to 5.76M dots, pulled from the R5 Mark I, with improved refresh rate - Canon EOS R7 Mark II: Minor Tweaks or a Major Transformation? May 15th in now deleted article.
There's also been times where you've had "EOS R5 Mark II body size and layout" or some similar wording about it being larger that would again point to evf and eyecup etc being larger too.
I know a recent article kinda walked back on some that but you've mentioned it being bigger in the past a few times
The recent article was a wishlist...... anyway,.this isn't an R72 and this article has nothing to do with an R72 other than one paragraph that I thought was articulated well enough.
And I know I'm just pointing out that with everything that's been written about about the R7mkii on this site I don't think those points about the evf would necessarily confirm it's more likely a R6mkiii.
.....ok
1. The diopter dial is on the right side of the EVF, just like the R6 II and unlike the R7, where it is on the left.
2. There is a lock position inbetween the On and Off position, just as it can be found on the R6 II.
3. There seems to be a dial to the left of the EVF, possibly the stills/video switch as it can be found on the R6 II.
So unless the R7 II shares the nearly exact same body with the R6 III it is likely in my opinion that this is the R6 III.
Nothing there is wrong.