EOS Rr6 Mark ii precapture
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He has a point, and to further expand on that point. Companies do not typically add features to existing equipment with the intent to drive sales of newer equipment. They could (possibly) add it to the R3, but it is better in their interests to add it to the R1/R5m2 to incentivize people to upgrade, and it seems to be working. I could see them adding it to the R6m3 but not adding it to anything existing.
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I never understood why they didn't add the pre-capture implementation from R6ii/R8 to the R3. When the R6ii/R8 came out the R3 was still Canon's premium sports camera. It didn't make sense to me that they would not add this to their premium camera. I had and R3 and an R8 and would have to use the R8 for sport scenarios that pre-capture would assist (like baseball batters, where you can't tell if they hit the ball until after they swing). This annoyed me because the R3's stacked sensor was much faster. I wanted pre-capture on the R3 so badly!!!
HAHA, then I used the useless pre-capture implementation on the R8 with the RAW rolls instead of images. It is so stupid. It is such a PITA to go through the rolls and extract the image/images you want before you can use them. I stopped using it, and stopped wishing the R3 would get this. :-D
Now I have the R5 Mark ii...I keep pre-capture on ALL THE TIME.
But to answer the OP, I do not think Canon will add the good pre-capture to current models. New versions high-end will get it. It will not be added via firmware whether possible or not.
HAHA, then I used the useless pre-capture implementation on the R8 with the RAW rolls instead of images. It is so stupid. It is such a PITA to go through the rolls and extract the image/images you want before you can use them. I stopped using it, and stopped wishing the R3 would get this. :-D
Now I have the R5 Mark ii...I keep pre-capture on ALL THE TIME.
But to answer the OP, I do not think Canon will add the good pre-capture to current models. New versions high-end will get it. It will not be added via firmware whether possible or not.
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I have not used this on my R5M2 or R1 (yet) but the reason they did not add it to the R3 is that it would (or could) have eaten into the R1 sales IMO.
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For certain sports and wildlife shooting pre capture is a game changer. You get shots you would not have been able to get otherwise without shooting non stop trying to anticipate something is about to happen.
As I said in my post, when the R6ii was released there was no R1 or R52 close to being released. The R3 was the premier sports camera in the canon lineup. It would have made sense to release the crappy precapture implementation of the R6 as a firmware update to the R3. It would have made good marketing sense. People who were in the market for the R3 and really needed pre-capture my opt for the cheaper R62 just to get the feature. It turns out that the feature was garbage anyway, as implemented, but you wouldn't know that until you used it a bunch of times.
As I said in my post, when the R6ii was released there was no R1 or R52 close to being released. The R3 was the premier sports camera in the canon lineup. It would have made sense to release the crappy precapture implementation of the R6 as a firmware update to the R3. It would have made good marketing sense. People who were in the market for the R3 and really needed pre-capture my opt for the cheaper R62 just to get the feature. It turns out that the feature was garbage anyway, as implemented, but you wouldn't know that until you used it a bunch of times.
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Perhaps, but companies usually do not add new features to existing hardware, especially when new products are on the roadmap, as it gives an incentive to upgrade and give the company more money.
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