Canon R1 vs Canon R5 Mark II: The Ultimate Battle

So the big question is: Canon R1 or Canon R5 Mark 2 camera – which camera will arrive early?

First, let’s discuss the available set of technology that Canon has right now. The Canon R5 has a 45-megapixel front-side illuminated dual pixel CMOS sensor. It is one of the highest resolution sensors known to us being used inside a Canon camera body. Unfortunately, the sensor is an FSI sensor, not a BSI.

The 24-megapixel stacked CMOS sensor of the Canon R3 professional flagship full-frame mirrorless camera is the most advanced sensor we have seen to date inside a Canon that uses stacked CMOS sensor technology.

If you look at the rumors in the past, it has been said that the upcoming Canon R1 camera may have a hybrid sensor that uses the resolution of the Canon R5 and the technology of the Canon R3 camera sensor.

So why is Canon so late? Nikon and Sony both announced their flagship cameras back in 2021. Nikon announced their Z9 and Sony announced their Sony Alpha A1 professional full-frame camera.

Now in 2023, we have the Nikon Z8 camera which features almost the same core specification as the Nikon Z9 at an affordable price tag. Similarly, Sony is preparing to announce the Sony A93 camera which will inherit almost the same core specification that we have seen in the Sony Alpha A1 flagship camera.

Now the big question arises: will Canon put its 45-megapixel CMOS sensor inside an R5 Mark 2 camera body and prepare to compete against the upcoming Sony A93 or the existing Nikon Z8 camera?

The second option for Canon is that they will move at their own pace and announce the Canon R1 camera before the 2024 Olympics. After a year of announcing the Canon R1, sometime in late 2025, we may have a Canon R5 Mark 2 camera with almost similar core specifications that we have seen in Canon R1.

The major issue among all these things is Canon’s slow speed of development and announcement of cameras.  They are not able to compete against market competitors Nikon and Sony. They are very late with their products, specifically their full-frame flagship cameras. Since they are late, they are lagging behind in competition and losing their consumer base who are attracted towards Sony and specifically Nikon for their products like Nikon Z8.

Based on the technical limits that we have discussed earlier and Canon’s development speed, we may expect the arrival of a Canon R1 camera with a redesigned and redeveloped 45-megapixel full-frame stacked CMOS sensor with dual DIGIC X image processors before the Olympics. Even if they wish to update the R5 Mark 2 camera between now and the Olympics, they may put subtle upgrades just to fill the gap with a new camera body.

So, at the end before we wrap up this article, it looks more reasonable to have a Canon R5 Mark II camera at the end of 2023, with a stacked CMOS sensor. And Canon R1 as expected will officially arrive sometime in Feb/March 2024.

Canon R5 Mark II Expected Core Specs

• 45MP Full-Frame Stacked BSI CMOS Sensor
• Dual Pixel CMOS AF II, Eye Control AF
• Sensor-Shift 5-Axis Image Stabilization
• 40 fps E. Shutter, 12 fps Mech. Shutter
• 8K 60 Raw and 4K120 10-Bit Internal Video
• 2″ 4.2m-Dot Vari-Angle Touchscreen LCD
• 76m-Dot EVF with 120 fps Refresh Rate
• Wired LAN and 5 GHz Wi-Fi Support
• Multi-Function Shoe, Built-In Vert. Grip

These are the possible set of core specifications that we are expecting from the upcoming  Canon R5 camera.

Also see – Confirmed: Canon R1 Has Canon R3 Eye Control AF System and more…

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