We haven’t forgotten about the Canon EOS R1, and you probably haven’t either [CR2]
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You mentioned sports. I mostly shot C-raw on the R-3 for sports this year. No loss of quality and hardly ever filled the buffer. The buffer could be a problem shooting Raw because it would fill at inopportune times (like the middle of a play). Download times were much faster which was important when trying to get photos processed quickly after a game.
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Nice idea but it won't fit because the RF lens mount blocks part of the image circle, however a circular sensor is possible for aps-c or super 35
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There have been some comparisons online for raw vs cRaw on the R5 at least. The differences look to be in the shadows but there isn't much difference. The R1 should have the highest quality though and have a bigger buffer.
Are you shooting dual raw/cRaw to CFe and SD? There have been measurement for the R5 showing longer burst if recording just to CFe both for cRaw and raw. I assume that the R1 will be dual CFe so any bandwidth limitations of SD cards shouldn't be there.
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One thing I would be very happy with: Give us the option to switch back from CR3 RAW images to CR2! Then we could import the lens profiles form Adobe Camera RAW to Lightroom 5.7, which I still use today because I absolutely hate subscriptions of any kind. I do not care if CR2 has larger files and therefore I get less fps. It is very annoying if I am forced into a monthly Lightroom subscription just because of Canon changing the RAW format. Of course I could convert all CR3s into DNGs and than use with Lightroom, but that would be an annoying extra step that would slow down my workflow a lot and double the amount of storage, as I of course would not delete the original RAWs.
Also Canon should give us the option to disable all in camera lens corrections. A RAW should really be raw. You can still correct distortion later if you want.
And perhaps the biggest flaw of the R3: The SD card slot. Please give ud dual CFexpress slots! SD cards are for amateur cameras and as an SD card is much smaller than a CFepress card, there are adapters from SD to CFexpress if you still want to use an SD card. Those adapter cost acout $12. So the argument for having an SD slot for cheaper cards is gone. Just use an adapter.
Also Canon should give us the option to disable all in camera lens corrections. A RAW should really be raw. You can still correct distortion later if you want.
And perhaps the biggest flaw of the R3: The SD card slot. Please give ud dual CFexpress slots! SD cards are for amateur cameras and as an SD card is much smaller than a CFepress card, there are adapters from SD to CFexpress if you still want to use an SD card. Those adapter cost acout $12. So the argument for having an SD slot for cheaper cards is gone. Just use an adapter.
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davidcl0nel
Canon R5, 17 TSE, RF35+85 IS, RF70-200 4 IS, EF135
Hi to me - thats exactly my point.
I did this for R5 for more than one year. Convert the CR3.images to DNG and use the Canon RF profiles.
I use Windows, installed the most recent Adobe Camera Raw and then copied the RF profiles from
c:\Users\All Users\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\Canon\
to
c:\Users\david\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\LensProfiles\1.0\Canon\
(my Username is of course david..)
And then I could use the profiles in LR5.7. Really.
But after one year this sucks, and I bought a one year subscription for a discount (often for about 90€ per year, instead of per month. yeah yeah, my LR5 was much cheaper back than and I used that for years)
And i converted my LR11 database with all these DNG and edits later via an SQL statement to CR3, so the edits are now for the CR3 I can directly use, and could delete the DNG files.
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That's not really how they see it though. The wafer itself may seem cheap, but with all the prep, lithography, deposition, wasted sensors due to the imperfect nature of the deposition steps, etc....they have a (relatively) high cost of getting a good sensor off a chip. So if a wafer that used to produce 100 chips can now only produce 60, they need to make 40% more wafers for the same total number of chips....its a big cost bump that they aren't just going to eat.
Articles in the past have said an APSc sensor may cost $250. And a FF sensor $500-1000. I'm sure a BSI stacked one could be more. Add 40% to those prices, its a big bump.
-Brian
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Quoting tray prices isn't helpful here since they are relatively unrelated to wafer yield. If they wanted to do it they easily could, and we've seen that many times in the past. It's a premium device with premium components and features. The M1 Ultra is twice the size of the regular M1 but somehow Apple make it work.
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It's interesting how opinions can differ on subscription models. For me its the best thing ever Adobe did ie: the subscription model. Photoshop used to be so expensive as a one off and quite expensive to upgrade. I get very annoyed with the purchase model that Luminar use. They just keep bringing out new programs and abandon older versions. I find Adobe have been consistent and surprisingly have improved Photoshop and LIghtroom (I had felt incentive was low for them to do that). The consistency of Photoshop has allowed me to learn it over a long period of time and I get great value out of my monthly subscription. It's the cheapest part of my photography and one I get great enjoyment out of long after I've taken the shots. I'm always learning something new. Adobe are very quick bringing out the updates to handle new raw file formats. I assume Canon can't stand still with CR2, they are always trying to improve. The flaw you mention on the R3 (which I also find on the R5 ) is the SD Slot. They should have bit the bullet and went all CF Express in both cameras. SD just can't keep up. I clicked your Skyscraper database. Very good I thought. I never ran across it before. I love tall buildings and modern architecture (well some of it anyway). Your database will be in use by me for any city I will visit. Thanks for that.
As for the R1 - It's a camera I've waited long for. I think it needs now to be high MP to compete with the best out there. I have a 1DXIII which is a great camera but 20MP was way too small, it should have been at least 30MP. The R3 size format is a good one. I'm sure the R1 will be similar in size. It makes sense to me it will be a 50+ MP camera, I sure it will be high frame rate , 8K (which I've no use for). It took me a long time to bite the bullet but I bought the R5 and its a really good camera. Near perfect in my mind - focus tracking could be better but impressive compared to other cameras. We've lived through a great era of progress in cameras, I fear its reaching the end, it's reached a limit of near perfection. I've enjoyed the ride.
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I do believe that wafers have become significantly more expensive recently. Nvidia just released an announcement complaining about that themselves, saying Moore's law is dead and that GPU prices will no longer drop.
With relation to the "circular sensors", a complicating factor there is the fact that you can't get the same efficiency of circular sensors out of an area of wafer as you can get with rectangles - because there's wasted area in between the circles. All in all there are several reasons why it'd make sensors significantly more expensive compared to their current ones. Sure, it's probably doable (for those kind of prices, anyways), but it's not a simple / cheap thing.
With relation to the "circular sensors", a complicating factor there is the fact that you can't get the same efficiency of circular sensors out of an area of wafer as you can get with rectangles - because there's wasted area in between the circles. All in all there are several reasons why it'd make sensors significantly more expensive compared to their current ones. Sure, it's probably doable (for those kind of prices, anyways), but it's not a simple / cheap thing.
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If only you could make a cogent argument. But when you fail at basic math, that's a tall order.
Yes, how about a sensor larger than the image circle of most full frame lenses? That was a wonderfully cogent argument for progress.
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And it's €1200 or so more expensive for the customer. But it is nice to do DeepPrime + Optics on an R5 image in 6 seconds
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My main problem with the subscription model is that if you end sour subscription, you lose access to the software after having spend hundreds of dollars over the years. A fair deal would be if you could keep the current version (without any new updates) after two or three years of subscription. Or at least that you then get the option to keep the software for a one time fee of $50 or so. The same odel that is used for leasing a car. You lease a car for some time and in the end you can buy the car for a small sum. Then it is your car forever.
Adobe may come with a lot of useful updates, but firstly I do not like updates anyway unless I really need them and secondly the incentive for Adobe would be much higher if they always had to come with new features to make you keep your subscription. At the current model you have to keep your subscription even without any update. Otherwise you lose access to the software.
The only reason I want a Lightroom update is the support for new cameras and for that the monthly price seems quite excessive. I still use Photoshop CS2 for photo editing. That is a software that came out in 2005 and it still does everything I need. The only thing I miss is the straighten tool with four lines instead of one. Straightening a photo with Photoshop CS2 is a lot of work. Maybe there is a third party plugin that might be able to do that.
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For Lightroom specifically, the situation is a bit worse: you have to login to Adobe servers every 2 weeks, or your software will stop working. It's not funny to discover that on day 2 of your vacation with no internet in your room. Thankfully, a few minutes with my phone in hotspot mode and roaming fixed it in that case, but I can imagine situations where you have zero internet, but loads of pictures.
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Remember when we used to refer to the 1 series as the "sports/wildlife" leader instead of the "sports leader?" Back then, sports people weren't offended that all those extraneous megapixels (12!) that the wildlife people desired. It's a sign of the times in Canon world. Not so much among the other makers.
The wildlife people looking for hi-res (admittedly not all of them) get to wait until Canon opts to come out with something that competes with the A1 or Z1. Many seem to think that will be the R1, but I doubt it. It sounds a bit to me like wishy rumors, based on knowing that Canon has a hole in its line-up, and assuming the next new body will fill it. Canon seldom fills its line-up holes in an order that forum dwellers find rational.
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