The Canon EOS R3 was the first camera produced by Canon to come with a Canon manufactured stacked image sensor. This was a much needed advancement from Canon to keep up with Sony’s industry leading image sensor business.
We have been told that Canon will be announcing 3 new camera bodies, all with different resolution stacked image sensors. We assume this would be the Canon EOS R1 and Canon EOS R5 Mark II, but the third one is unknown at this time.
Apparently this information appeared on a presentation PowerPoint slide, but no corresponding models went with the information.
The running thought is that Canon has been working diligently to increase sensor readout speed to eliminate the effects of rolling shutter with electronic shutters and for video production. There is no way that professional sports shooters would use an electronic shutter with any sort of rolling shutter present, if Canon does decide to move on from mechanical shutters like Nikon has done with both the Z 8 and Z 9.
As things stand, there are no reliable timelines of when we expect the next EOS R series camera from Canon, and nothing pointing to any Q4 2023 announcements. This can obviously change, but for the moment, it looks like the first half of 2024 will be busy with new camera bodies from Canon.
More to come…
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