DigitalAmnesia wrote:
RLight wrote:
There is often, but not always, something one wishes they had more of. Curious to hear other R owners (all of them) thoughts on the following:
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What is the the most important thing you could use more of?
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I'll followup with another poll in a minute though for ownership so there is context. If a bunch of RP people respond for example, it's going to sound like the higher end R's have no FPS, battery life and dynamic range, for example
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The polls don't permit multiple answers; feel free to also respond below with comments as I'm sure many will.
The R5 meets my needs 99% of the way. It is hard for me to imagine how it could be better, not saying it couldn't, just saying I don't know what that would look like in normal conditions. I really didn't know how the R could be improved upon either, but when I got the R5 every shot got more "atmospheric". It's easy to point and say "more ISO", or whatever, but I get along pretty well with what the R5 can do. Yesterday however I took pictures of a black cat in a poorly lit home and the ISO was up at 25600 and the images were I hate to say, cellphone quality. You might be laughing about the black cat in a dark room scenario but it happened. So, that is one case where maybe the R5 isn't a perfect camera.
Not laughing at all. My R breaks down at 25600 too.
This is one area the R6 excels; really low light. I know DPR just got done saying R5 > R6, but my research shows when you start punching ISOs above 12800, the R6 looks better. Now how wise it is to shoot above 12800 to begin with is another story.
Part of this poll is curiosity, the other is to address where I think things will go and whether or not that “plugs the holes” so to speak. Things like the R5 are a modern technological wonder, however, it’s still an FSI sensor. The R1 will clearly be stacked CMOS and thus BSI. The difference is about 1/3-2/3 stops, in other words ISO 25600 on an R1 should look like ISO20000 or 16000 on and R5. Those are much more workable ISOs.
The R6 sensor will get BSI first in the form of the R3. That one has my attention.
Canon will probably do another DIGIC iteration with the R1; curious if it’ll improve both throughput and power efficiency. Depends how fancy they get with its design.
My bet? Dual DIGICX. DIGICX2/Y might be a split or hybrid design. The R1 needs sheer power. Other non demanding sensors need efficiency where I can see high speed and low speed cores.