We have been talking about the inevitable Canon EOS R1 for as long as the EOS R system has existed. The talk peaked once the Canon EOS R3 was announced and released.
The Chris Niccolls at Petapixel have chimed in on what he’d like to see in the Canon EOS R1 when it comes in 2024.
All of this seems to come down to the new stacked sensor from Canon. PetaPixel’s sources say this area has been the biggest challenge in the EOS R1 development cycle.
Canon EOS R1 Desired Specifications
- A 50-60mp stacked sensor with tons of speed
- A body with similar ergonomics as the EOS R3
- We haven’t heard too many complaints about the EOS R3 ergonomics, but this tends to be a very personal thing for shooters.
- Dual CFExpress Type B card slots
- It’s time to have two of the same card slots. We’d be shocked if the EOS R1 didn’t have 2 type B CFe slots. While prototype Type C cards exist, very few would be happy to see their Type B cards become deprecated already.
- No more mechanical shutter?
- This would be a big departure for Canon, and there are technical challenges to solve. We’re not sure how the professionals that would use this camera feel about this idea. Nikon has done it in the Z8 and Z9.
- More computation software tricks such as slow shutter speed emulation to remove the need for ND filters. Perhaps things like enhanced low-light performance and astro-photography capabilities for easy and seamless stacking of images.
- Any features like this would be great, but they have to be implemented a lot better than the 400mp image trickery now available in the EOS R5.
- Lots of 8K video recording features. Perhaps adding 14-bit video and adding C-Log2 for compressed 10-bit video.
- As mentioned by Chris, all of this will depend on Canon’s new stacked sensor capabilities. We don’t think Canon would release an EOS R1 without these sorts of abilities.
- Optional external cooling accessory
- We hope Canon solves the cooling challenges in both the EOS R5 Mark II and EOS R1. While an official external cooling accessory would be a nice thing if necessary, we think it would be much preferred not to need such an add on.
We would like to see a larger OLED rear panel, and advancement in the top down information panel and the rumored larger and brighter EVF. These are important features in our opinion that don’t seem to move ahead as fast as other camera advancements.
We’d also like to see the EOS R1 ready for WiFi 7 (802.11be).
We’re sure everyone is going to have a lot of opinions of what they’d like to see. While the EOS R1 won’t sell anywhere near the numbers we’d see from an EOS R5 Mark II, it really does have to be the “flagships of flagships” to put Canon’s capabilities on everyone’s mind.
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