Canon officially announces the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II

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MELVILLE, N.Y., July 17, 2024 — Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today launched two new professional full-frame mirrorless cameras, the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II. The EOS R1 camera is designed for both professional still photographers and video creators in a wide range of fields including sports, news reporting and

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Is it me or Canon R5 mk2 is more of a flagship Camera than the R1 have to say I’m impressed with R5mk2 and it is basically what I needed but definitely canon needs a camera that can compete with fx3.
I would like to see a camera with r1 sensor and R5 mk2 body with smaller sensor in that body I presume the overheating would be avoided. The numbers for 4K120 on the R5 mk2 are not that great even with the cooling grip. That is my only disappointment especially since it seams that it’s not oversampled 120k. For some reason canon struggles with 120k even the c400 can’t do it oversampled.
The R1 is a great agency camera but considering how great R3 is it definitely doesn’t seams that it made a big enough gap between them considering how big the price gap is.
 
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The R5 II is the more exciting camera here, and more versatile. The R1 will dominate the press galleries of sports and media events but there isn't much reason to need it outside of those niches.
 
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So disappointed in Canon, so far behind the game in Megapixels.

An overlay in photoshop of two images, 1 taken on a 5DSR the 2nd on a 5DIV, both images used the same 600mm F/4 lens.
I had to upscale the 5DIV image by 34% to overlay perfectly with the same image taken on the 5DS.
So in the real world this shows me for my 5dIV to have the same subject size I would need a 800mm lens on the 5DIV to match that of the 600mm lens on the 5DS.
From this point of view Megapixels very much matter with lens costs so high.

I think this has done it for me, I held back for a long time for this release hoping the R5 II would break the 50mp barrier in order to replace my 5DSR, I would have pre-ordered the camera today if it had.

Now I have decided after 30 years of only using and owning Canon I will make the leap to mirrorless with Sony, the Sony Alpha a7R V a 2 year old camera with a 62.5MP sensor and capable of 10FPS RAW, are you hearing this Canon?
 
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