I’d be a little surprised if Canon puts a stacked sensor in the 6-series so soon. Yes, Nikon did…but they need to be more aggressive than Canon.
I agree that Nikon needs to be more agressive than Canon to maintain their marketshare. On the other hand, as I posted in an other thread about the R6 Mk III: When Nikon announced the Z6 III they said on Petapixel: “Nikon says the “mid-range” market — think Canon EOS R6 Mark II, Sony a7 IV, and the Fujifilm X-T5 — is booming and comprises nearly 60% of all revenue in the interchangeable lens camera space and an even greater percentage of cameras on a per-unit basis.”
It is an already existing sensor though with essentially no more r&d required. Would probably be one of the cheapest ways for them to “respond” to the z6iii. There is some precedent with the original r6 inheriting the 1dxiii sensor (minus the trick AA filter)
But note that Nikon did not put the fully stacked sensor out of the Z 8 and Z 9 into the Z 6III or even a lower resolution one with the same technology. They went with one partially stacked lower resolution sensor which is likely quite a bit less expensive to produce.
Thanks, I had read at some point that but forgotten. It was on a list of stacked sensor cameras, and stood out as the ‘cheap’ FF one.
Raiding the spare parts bin is good business practice to introduce new features to warmed-over upgrades.
Honest question…why do you keep buying Canon gear? It seems all you do is complain about your Canon cameras, ever since at least the 7D.
Canon definitely seems to be behind schedule for new RF lenses released this year!
I think there's a decent chance the R3 is simply discontinued. If it does live on as a mark II, I could see them giving it the R5II sensor.
Specifically it's these chunks of silicon abutting the sensor. Seems to let them increase the speed without it being as complicated to build as a true stacked sensor. Readout speed is about the same as the R6II (~14.5ms), though it is 14-bit instead of 12-bit, so there is still ~4x as much data being transferred in the same amount of time.
