The Canon EOS R3 represented a major step forward for the company, bringing with it the first stacked sensor in a Canon camera, helping them to get back into competition with the likes of Sony. It looks like the company intends to bring that technology to more cameras soon.
Canon Rumors is reporting that Canon is readying three new camera bodies with different stacked sensors. The EOS R3 was the first Canon camera with such a sensor, and it stands to reason that future high-level bodies will also employ such sensors. The advantages of a stacked sensor are numerous, including:
- Increased readout speeds for reduced rolling shutter when producing video or photographing fast action
- Higher resolutions without reduced video performance
- Faster burst rates
- Improved dynamic range
- The possibility of eliminating the physical shutter entirely, as Nikon has done with the Z8 and Z9
It is a good bet that the eventual flagship, the EOS R1, will have a stacked sensor. I suspect the EOS R5 Mark II and a Cinema line camera will be the other two to initially get the option. Whether that means Canon plans to eliminate the physical shutter remains to be seen, but the move has been well received in the Nikon Z8 and Z9. Either way, it's nice to see the company moving forward with improved sensor technology. Hopefully, we'll see more cameras with the technology soon.
Alex Cooke wrote:
"..... helping them to get back into competition with the likes of Sony"
Does anyone know why Canon typically follows behind when it comes to innovation and new technology, instead of being the leader and being the first to do new things that help us photographers?
Following Apples/iPhone lead. Wait for everyone else to try new things, see what people like, then come with your "refined" version. Apple has been doing this for a very long time and it allows them to save $$$ by not taking risks, and they know their fans will buy anything they put out.
When will high end cameras bring back internal storage with good memory being as cheap as 300 or less for 4TB?
Bring back internal storage? I never knew of any high end cameras that ever had internal storage. At least not interchangeable lens cameras.
I'd love to have back the GPS in the cameras.
Did they do away with GPS in new models or something? And does GPS have something to do with internal storage?
When I think of internal storage in a camera I think that means the ability to hold images without the need for a separate memory card. Is this an incorrect idea of what "internal storage" means in the context that Mike Chilinski used it in his comment above?
Hasselblad has cameras with internal storage. Their X2D 100C comes with 1TB of built in storage.