Canon to release “EOS R5” camera with 45-megapixel IBIS sensor and 8K video
Jan 29, 2020
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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Well, this has been an interesting one. Rumours have been flying all day about an upcoming Canon mirrorless camera. That camera, according to Canon Rumors now appears to essentially be a mirrorless update to the 5D Mark IV. The EOS R5 will have a 45-megapixel sensor, shoot up to 20fps and insanely high resolution 8K 30fps video.
According to the report, these are the expected specifications – and they rate the ones in bold at having a highly likely chance of being true.
- Named the Canon EOS R5
- 45mp full-frame CMOS sensor
- IBIS (Confirmed by Canon)
- 5 stops with IBIS alone
- 7-8 stops of correction when used with in-lens stabilization
- 12fps mechanical, 20fps electronic (Confirmed by Canon)
- Scroll wheel added to the back
- No touch bar
- Liveview/Movie toggle like previous EOS DSLRs
- Larger capacity battery, but looks like the LP-E6
- 8K @ 30fps RAW (Confirmed by Canon)
- 4K @ 120fps
- 4K @ 60fps
- Built-in 5GHz WiFi
- New battery, but the same shape and compatibility as the EOS 5D Mark IV
- Announcement ahead of CP+ next month
- Launching (shipping?) in July 2020
It certainly would be a nice upgrade for 5D Mark IV users, but with Mark V rumours on the way, may we see both DSLR and mirrorless 5D Mark IV successors along similar lines to the Nikon Z6 & D780 (well, except for the whole dual card slot thing).
Speaking of card slots, it doesn’t mention what slots we may expect to be able to see or how many. I would think that a camera of this spec would almost certainly be dual card slot, but will it be 2x UHS-II SD? Or one SD card slot and one CFexpress? 8K 30fps video is going to have some pretty intense storage speed demands, especially if it’s raw video, that UHS-II SD alone may not be able to keep up with.
There’s nothing official yet, obviously, but with CP+ in Japan at the tail end of next month, we might find out something within the next few weeks.
Update: As a reminder, Canon did confirm a year ago that they’re working on an 8K EOS R camera
[via Canon Rumors]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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9 responses to “Canon to release “EOS R5” camera with 45-megapixel IBIS sensor and 8K video”
120fps at 4k should mean 480fps at 1080 is possible…. :D
Can’t wait for those “too little too late”, “switched to other brand and never looked back” and “it’s already an outdated camera” fanboys complaining about whatever, but going mad…internally of course.
but come one, you know is true though, I went to sony but if this camera can help my workflow ill move again, I was a canon fanboy for a decade but learned my lesson when changed brands, these are just tools, if I an afford them great, if not oh well, the main take is, if is helping your workflow shoot with a potato
Probably still cropped 4k and only one card slot.
Elvar Jens Hafsteinsson you haters are terrible….?
Don’t care about video stuff. I care about image quality. Will this camera provide that?
8k is overrated. ?
It all started with One Rumored post with anonymous source… everyone is writing about it. Blogging is so pro.