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It’s like they trying to wipe the M6ii off the earth Locked

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nnowak Veteran Member • Posts: 9,074
Re: Yes, they are wiping the M6ii off the face of the earth

OpticsEngineer wrote:

I think the only reason they put a 32 MP sensor in an M body was they had made a bunch of sensors but were behind on developing the APS-C R bodies R7 and R10.

Three year behind??? Sensor fab time is far too precious and far too expensive.  You don't fab up a whole bunch of sensor without a clearly defined camera to make use of said sensors.  Don't forget, the 90D that launched the same time as the M6 II also received the same sensor.

Canon did not bother to upgrade the processor to keep up with the extra data off the 32MP sensor so I always thought it was kind of clear Canon planned on it being a dead end. But a dang good one so I bought an M6II and I am glad I did.

Canon used the best processor they had available when they launched the M6 II.  DIGIC X did not appear until several months later with the launch of the 1D X III.  The original R and subsequent RP both use DIGIC 8.

But I think the plan was always that as soon the R7 got released, it was going to be goodbye to the M6II.

Close.  As soon as crop RF got released it was going to be goodbye M system.  Crop RF was not going to be released until the far more lucrative full frame lineup was relatively well defined.

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