According to the latest rumors from the rumor mill, the Canon R1 will have a 7 million pixel electronic viewfinder with a 120 Hz refresh rate. More details about the specification are below.
Right now, the set of information provided by the rumor mill is unconfirmed and coming from a new source, possibly.
We do have confirmations that the upcoming Canon R1 camera will have enhanced eye or iris tracking capability (Confirmed: Canon R1 Has Canon R3 Eye Control AF System and more… published on June 2023). Currently, the Canon R3 camera uses a 5.76 million pixel electronic viewfinder with 120 frames per second refresh rate.
If we talk about the industry’s best electronic viewfinder in cameras, then we have the flagship Sony A7R5 camera with a 9.44 million pixel electronic viewfinder and 120 frames per second refresh rate.
We have to think very clearly that Canon R1’s electronic viewfinder technical specs are not as easy as that of the Sony A7R5 since Canon has to integrate the eye-tracking capability to enable the Eye AF system, just like we have in the Canon R3 camera. It’s fascinating to see how much upscaling in resolution Canon can do in their upcoming Canon R1 camera’s electronic viewfinder while enhancing the 3D Eye AF.
According to the latest rumors from the ordinary filmmaker youtube channel, the Canon R5 Mark II camera is already in the hands of selected photographers and is expected to arrive in Q4 of 2023. So, the Canon R5 Mark II camera will be announced before the Canon R1 flagship camera, which is scheduled to come before the Olympics of 2024.
According to the latest rumors surfacing on the web, Canon is about to expand its V series of Vlogging cameras. Right now we have only the Canon V10 in front of us, but in the near future, we will have a Canon V100 camera dedicated to content creators. It will compete against Sony’s ultra-popular ZV-E10 content creator compact APS-C mirrorless camera. Based on initial hands-on reports, the camera is expected to arrive at the end of 2023 or at the beginning of 2024.
Take a look at the rumored specifications of the upcoming Canon V100 camera.
Canon V100 Rumored Specification
24.2MP APS-C CMOS Sensor
DIGIC X Image Processor
Dual Pixel CMOS AF II
4K30 Video, 4K60 with Crop;
HDR-PQ
IBIS (Enhanced EIS+ IBIS + OIS for Video)
Background Defocus
Face Priority AE
Movie for Close-Up Demos Mode
Vertical Movie Mode
Directional Capsule Mic and Windscreen
15 fps E. Shutter
No EVF
1.04m-Dot Vari-Angle Touchscreen LCD
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Announcement timeline on Q4 of 2023 – Q1 of 2024
Stay tuned more updates are coming – This rumor was first published at thenewcamera.com.
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.
According to the latest rumors from the rumor mill, Sigma will announce two new RF-mount lenses. Source of the rumor mill says Sigma’s RF-mount lenses may become available in the next 6 to 8 months. The source also claims there will be a mid-range large-aperture prime lens and a zoom lens. And So, the rumor mill speculates we may see a 50mm f/1.4 and a zoom lens and a 17-50mm F2.8 OS D (RF Version).
So this is not the first time. A few months ago, the rumor mill published that Meike was the first to make Canon RF mount autofocus lenses. This news first broke out in April 2023. But since April, we are still waiting and Meike has made no lens announcement. And even if Sigma announces RF-S Lens, then undoubtedly they will have, 18-50mm F2.8 and not 17-50 for sure.
After the recent rumor of the Canon R1, we tried to double-check it with Nomen Nescio. The only thing he confirmed about the working prototypes of the Canon R1 camera is the use of a more advanced and precise Canon R3 iris tracking system.
The other thing he denied is the use of Canon Quadpixel CMOS AF sensors in Canon R1, the QPAF sensors are still in the lab. We do have prototypes that use QPAF sensors, but they’re not coming inside the Canon R1 body.
In the end, he just told us that the working prototypes of the Canon R1 camera he used were a fusion of the Canon R3 and Canon R5 cameras.
You can achieve 40 fps @ 45-50 megapixels. What more do you need from a flagship camera?
Stay tuned, we will bring more updates as soon as they become available to us
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