Three new segments of EOS R cameras coming in 2025

As a wildlife photographer, I wish for a full fledged APS-C camera.
Everything like the R5 but with at least 30+ MP (why not 40 as fuji), so ergonomics the same.
It will sell like hot cakes
 
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I do not wish for more than 50 mpx. But others do, and they may get it...

I do not understand why \'as a wildlife photographer\' anyone wishes for APSC. For me, the only reason to get APSC would be size and weight.
 
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I do not wish for more than 50 mpx. But others do, and they may get it...

I do not understand why \'as a wildlife photographer\' anyone wishes for APSC. For me, the only reason to get APSC would be size and weight.
You must take wildlife photos in a zoo! Reach is by far the most important reason most wildlife photographers desire APSC. Not all of us can afford an RF 600 F4 lens.
 
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If Canon wants to sell APS-C cameras, they need an actual lineup of APS-C lenses to go with them.
I think that they have decided to let Sigma handle that for them. The only things Sigma needs to add are a small and light 50-135 f/2.8 and maybe the 70 macro ported to R mount, I use the Canon 100-400 and adapted Sigma 150-600 FF lenses on the R7 and I can't see why converting them to APS-C would improve them. (Recall that the size and weight of long lenses is dominated by the focal length and size of the front elements.)

Incidentally, the Sigma 10-18 and 18-50 DC DN C lenses on the R7 are light weight dreams.
 
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You must take wildlife photos in a zoo! Reach is by far the most important reason most wildlife photographers desire APSC. Not all of us can afford an RF 600 F4 lens.

Sorry for mansplaining, but it's not "reach" you need but pixel density. The smaller APS-C sensors have a higher pixel density than the larger full frame cameras, which means the image circle of the lion covers more pixels. The APS-C sensor doesn't give you reach, it just crops for you.

The other side of that is that it is more cost effective to produce 24MP APS-C sensors than it is 24MP FF sensors but if Canon made a 61MP FF sensor, it would have the same pixel density as the 24MP APS-C - it would just cost more.
 
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Things are super quiet at the moment. The next big thing around here will be the shipping of the EOS R1, which should be happening some time in November. Canon is starting in-store demos with a lot of official retailers in the coming weeks, be sure to check out your local store to see if

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100MP, gives me what, 38"x29" when printing at 300dpi. or 4'x3' at 240dpi. That might at least be big enough to not need to do panorama stitching for good size prints. Might.

I wonder if Canon would "fix' their printer line up so that they could print a full resolution image from such a camera? 100MP can fill A0 at 300dpi.

Why would I buy a Canon retro camera and not a Nikon retro camera?
 
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You must take wildlife photos in a zoo! Reach is by far the most important reason most wildlife photographers desire APSC. Not all of us can afford an RF 600 F4 lens.
Here's what you need to do. Get yourself a Xiaomi 12T Pro smartphone, which has a 200 MP camera with 0.64 µm pixels. Put it behind this $90 20-40X phone camera zoom lens:

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Now what you have is a 960mm lens with a 200 MP sensor. That's like having a 3000mm lens on your R7. That's REACH! Don't be bothered by all those naysayers talking about needing larger sensors for better image quality. You'll have way, way more reach than any of those fools using their pathetic APS-C cameras and thinking they have 'reach'.

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100MP, gives me what, 38"x29" when printing at 300dpi. or 4'x3' at 240dpi. That might at least be big enough to not need to do panorama stitching for good size prints. Might.

I wonder if Canon would "fix' their printer line up so that they could print a full resolution image from such a camera? 100MP can fill A0 at 300dpi.

Why would I buy a Canon retro camera and not a Nikon retro camera?
Maybe it depends if you've ever owned an FTB, EF, AE-1P, F1, F1n... (like myself). I'd buy a retro F1/F1n in a heartbeat, mainly for nostalgia sake.
 
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