Canon is gearing up to finally release a high megapixel camera with 100+ megapixels [CR3]
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LOL Maybe we will receive one in 2025! Guess got to discuss something.
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They announced a 120 MP APS-H sensor in 2010, IIRC. They announced its commercial development in a DSLR in 2015, although they never brought it to production. Rather, they simply showed off a prototype at trade shows. It was a 5Ds body with a 120 MP APS-H sensor (maybe the same one eventually put into production for industrial use), shot only at ISO 100 and generated RAW files >200 MB in size. They also developed a 250 MP APS-H sensor.
I doubt we'll ever see another APS-H ILC. But the reason APS-H existed in the first place was that it was the largest sensor that could be made with a single lithography pass (FF sensors need three passes), so using APS-H for sensor technology development makes sense.
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Even at 120mp, 120 would mean a crop mode of 45 megapixels.. That would be one serious camera for wildlife and birding depending on the frame rates available.
I said it in the R7 post, but I think Canon is in a position to give professionals more options for reach/cropping in the form of the R5s for wildlife photographers who need pro features, a fully pro build, and lots of reach.
A 120mp full frame camera that could crop to 45mp at 20 fps could definitely make a lot of people happy. Especially when you consider the need to save on as much space as possible for air travel, you'd have both a super-high-res landscape/full frame camera, and a super-high-res crop camera both in the same body.
It's one of my favorite features of my R5--I'm not personally ever in the market for a crop camera, but the 17mp 1.6x crop mode is more than adequate for my uses when I can't get close to a subject and need to turn the crop mode on. 45mp in the crop mode would be a whole different story.
I said it in the R7 post, but I think Canon is in a position to give professionals more options for reach/cropping in the form of the R5s for wildlife photographers who need pro features, a fully pro build, and lots of reach.
A 120mp full frame camera that could crop to 45mp at 20 fps could definitely make a lot of people happy. Especially when you consider the need to save on as much space as possible for air travel, you'd have both a super-high-res landscape/full frame camera, and a super-high-res crop camera both in the same body.
It's one of my favorite features of my R5--I'm not personally ever in the market for a crop camera, but the 17mp 1.6x crop mode is more than adequate for my uses when I can't get close to a subject and need to turn the crop mode on. 45mp in the crop mode would be a whole different story.
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My initial guess is it could be a dual announcement with the R1 and this High MP body. A new flagship ground breaking with QPAF, 60mp at full speed/30fps, etc, along side a ground breaking 5 series type body with 100+ MP. Would be a huge marketing moment for Canon.
Brian
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I don’t agree. Canon creates enough buzz and things to talk about with one camera. As with the R3, add hundreds of development announcements (at least it feels like it) and teaser, and they’re the talk of the town for months…
Why should they take the publics focus of one camera by introducing two at one time? Canons marketing would not let that happen.
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I don’t understand the need to crop in camera? Wouldn’t cropping in post have the same result plus the ability to choose a variety of post capture compositions? I’d rather do it in post. I have the R5 and forgot it has the ability to crop in camera because I’ve never thought to use it. I’m primarily a portrait photographer though.
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