Petapixel:
Canon has officially unveiled the new EOS R, the company’s first full-frame mirrorless competitor.
At the core of the EOS R is a 30.3-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor with an ISO range of 100-40000 (expandable to 50-102400), backed by a DIGIC 8 image processor. There is a low pass filter in front of the sensor that helps combat moiré patterns at the cost of slightly reduced sharpness. The camera has an 8fps continuous shooting speed (for bursts of up to 100 max-quality JPEGs, 47 RAW, or 78 C-RAW), a shutter lag is as short as 50 milliseconds, and a startup time of 0.9 seconds.
After last week’s announcement of the Nikon Z7, we knew this was coming. I can’t wait for the head to head reviews of them both.
Well, I have changed direction on my retirement camera system. I was going to go Olympus micro four thirds. But the Nikon Z system is for me. And having used Canon DSLRs at work for 15 years or more now, I’m not moved to change my pre-order to the new Canon mirrorless system. Nikon’s got the edge in new tech. A wider opening in the mount, a significantly shorter flange distance (the closer the lens is to the sensor, the better potential image quality and smaller the lens needs to be without vignetting). Canon sticking with SD cards while Nikon’s going XQD in the short term and CFExpress long-term (NVMe PCIe being the key technologies that will mean a massive speed increase over SD). Not to mention Canon not going with in-body image stabilization. That’s a really bad choice.
Of course that’s me. For many people it will be Canon that’s their choice. And that’s cool. Two mirrorless systems means each will benefit from competing with each other.
Well, mirrorless cameras should serve to make the media a LITTLE less obnoxious at White House press briefings! 😉
This just reminds me that I want something that will never happen – a DSLR with old Nion F-series-style replaceable viewfinders.
Mostly because I love waist-level viewfinders, and they’ve gone the way of the dodo.
(No, a flip-up giant LCD ain’t the same. Yeah, I know.)
Well, equally, SD also keeps getting faster.
The new V90 cards can do 90MB/sec writes, which claims to support 8K video.
And if we stick to the still realm, even old class-10 cards are plenty fast enough, eh?
(I can’t imagine why anyone refuses to do in-body stabilization, though. Seriously, WTF.)
Professional news photographers are not going to cover high-pressure, high-news value events with single-memory-card slot cameras. These Z6/Z7’s and the new Canon are for “enthusiasts”, not pros.
Fair enough, but it seems to me that, on principle, if mirrorless technology proves itself with these first full-frame, interchangeable cameras, that it will eventually be used in pro cameras: fewer moving parts, quieter, etc.
It’s already happening – I’m seeing more and more colleagues (especially in motorsport) using the Sony A9 system (which does have dual slots) – as there’s a considerable weight and space-saving advantage to be gained.
I think Fuji have already proved the value of mirrorless in the mainstream, and Leica, of course, are certainly there for the wealthier types (as they always have been).
The only reason to avoid in-body stabilization is if the camera is built primarily for video. Which is why Panasonic left it out of the GH5s.