A Canon Global Shutter Sensor – Would the next 3 series camera be the place to introduce one?

justaCanonuser said:

Same here, despite the R7's sometimes very distorted outputs caused by i'ts slow read-out speed. I mostly shoot 30 fps (wildlife), and there are nearly always keepers in these massive bursts. I only switch to MS when I know I will shoot e.g. smaller birds in flight with fast wing flaps, and the quite loud machine gun like noise of the R7 will not so much disturb. So, if one can use even an R7 frequently with ES for action in the field, this shows that a camera with faster sensor read-out and no global shutter could be in real life a better choice than one with GS and visible losses in IQ. I personally would always prefer better IQ. So I appreciate that Canon is slower with GS than others, but maybe the R3 is a good testbed to introduce new stacked sensor generations.

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justaCanonuser said:

Same here, despite the R7's sometimes very distorted outputs caused by i'ts slow read-out speed. I mostly shoot 30 fps (wildlife), and there are nearly always keepers in these massive bursts. I only switch to MS when I know I will shoot e.g. smaller birds in flight with fast wing flaps, and the quite loud machine gun like noise of the R7 will not so much disturb. So, if one can use even an R7 frequently with ES for action in the field, this shows that a camera with faster sensor read-out and no global shutter could be in real life a better choice than one with GS and visible losses in IQ. I personally would always prefer better IQ.

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David - Sydney said:

As far as I know, the Z9/Z8 have a protective shutter but not a mechanical shutter for shooting.

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GMCPhotographics said:

Canon have created this camera linage confusion and only have themselves to blame and the only obvious thing they can do with the R3 linage is to totally re-invent it. Has Canon done this before? Yes...the 5D series was a camera linage that moved from consumer / semi pro to serious pro in a few generations.

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vladk said:

I do not see a confusion here.
R3 line, if it stays, may become an "experimental" one IMO, where Canon would test new breakthrough technologies before offering them in R1 series. These technologies can be cost prohibitive to put them in lower range cameras.

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Dragon said:

DXO weights color reproduction very heavily as you can see in the ranking of the Z9. Funny thing is that color "accuracy" as defined by DXO doesn't always result in the most pleasing colors.

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