We continue to receive bits and pieces of information regarding the Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of contradicting information, so we are sitting on a lot of it for the moment.
We have repeatedly been told that the Canon EOS R5 Mark II will get a resolution bump up to 60mp. Which isn’t ideal for 8K video, unless Canon plans to implement some kind of pixel binning to create raw 8K footage that uses the entire sensor. We don’t think many people would want to see a crop return outside of the super fast frame rates. This is definitely possible, as Magic Lantern has made such a thing work on a Canon camera in the past.
Now for RAW stills shooters, this would likely be a welcomed feature.
We have been told by a couple of people that the Canon EOS R5 Mark II will offer some kind of pixel-binning to offer various resolutions for RAW stills shooting. This is something that we have seen recently in some Leica cameras. Their latest cameras offer 60mp, 36mp or 18mp RAW stills shooting using the entire sensor. If you don’t want to shoot at 60mp, you don’t have to.
This is different than the RAW and CRAW options in the current Canon EOS R5.
We hope to hear more about this and other information in regards to what will surely be the biggest Canon camera launch in 2024 (apologies to the EOS R1).
We do not have [CR3] level confirmation on the 60mp rumors, so please keep that in mind.
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