Poll Time! Will you buy the R Locked

RubberDials wrote:

Don Lacy wrote:

samhain wrote:

Keith Z Leonard wrote:

None of the above. Not worried too much about the competition, but I suspect there will be a higher end version coming.

Not enough here to change from 5d4

What do you hope or expect it to offer? What will it take to buy?

I ask because it seems to me the ‘pro’ features we all want/expect can be fount in Sony’s entry level a7III.

the AF is not pro level or on par with my 5DMKIV which is every bit as good as the 1DXMKII you need to go to the A9 to get pro AF.

Don, I'm not sure where you got this idea from but the A7III AF is definitely 'pro level' and is better than the 5Dmk4's AF.

In the field shooting next to photographers I respect who have many years experience with Canon and now shoot  Sony where do you get yours.

"the fact that you could literally swap a Canon 1DX II for an a7 III and still get a similar or better hit-rate at an action event is unprecedented."

So you have no first hand experience with a 1DXMKII or 5DMKIV or for that matter an A7  nor have you shot in the field with these cameras nor know or talk to other photographers who have years of experience shooting action especially BIF.

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-a7-iii-review/11

How much more will Canon charge for a 2nd card slot and pro video features? Will the pro model have ibis? What will the A74 have(that will be out by then)?

Canon has made it clear they feel IBIS is inferior to in lens stabilization so I doubt you will see it.

In lens can only give you two axes of stabilisation - pitch and yaw. To get 5 axes you need IBIS which gives you compensation on the X an Y axis plus roll.

There's no real defence for Canon's position as the trend is to combine in-lens with in-body - all Sony lenses above 85mm have in-lens stabilisation that works in concert with the in-body stabilisation.

I would imagine there was a technical issue why they left it off - perhaps to do with processing power as it does involve computation.

I’m curious as to how Canon is going to charge more for features found in Sony’s $2k entry level camera with a straight face. And will people actually buy it?

Because they are better built cameras maybe that does not matter to you but I have had to chip ice off my 1D to use it how much is that quality worth.

Interesting times.

Yes interesting especially when Canon takes full advantage of the mount to design lenses that Sony can’t match due to the restrictions of their mount size.

This is marketing BS, sorry. Don, surely you're old enough to remember that lenses like the 85/1.2 and the 50/1.2 appeared originally on FD mount which has a much smaller throat diameter and crucially a very long flange distance.

If the bazooka-sized Canon 28-70/2 is a big seller Sony will make an equivalent straight away.

Based that statement off of the head of Sigma's interview on the issues for designing high end glass for the E mount maybe he actually knows more then you.

I am not bashing Sony but only trying to point out that as good as they are they also have issues.

Totally correct, just not these ones.

So what experience do you actually have shooting these cameras the A9 is a very good action camera as good as the D5 and 1DXMKII not better but as good. The A7 series very good cameras but they are not as good as the A9 for action including AF.