Canon R5 Mark II - speculated in Q2/2023, specs

Bigger wrote:

Quarkcharmed wrote:

Canon_Guy wrote:

Quarkcharmed wrote:

This is not a video camera. Why an LCD screen 'optimised for video'?

It can be a very good video camera in the right hands. So why not if it does not compromise stills shooting?

61Mp, if true, are vastly excessive for video. Landscape, architecture, product photography - yes, but with this many megapixels, the native resolution isn't a good fit for video. If it does 8K, it'll be in the crop mode. Sony A7RV does 8K and 4K in the crop mode.

Anyway I think these little discrepancies suggest the rumour is fake. I'll be very happy if it's not.

I think 8K standard video would probably be oversampled, since the R5ii is also supposedly getting focus breathing correction. Maybe that's why it needs dual digic processors.

I don't think oversampling is related to focus breathing correction. For corrections you need some small additional margins around the image to get some room for distortions. With oversampling you also capture more than you need but you use that to render a smaller scale image (e.g. you capture 6K but render 4K). Or you capture all 61Mp and then downsample to 8K (39Mp).

If it gets 8K raw video, that would have to be cropped.

If "BSI sensor" is true that means Canon is concerned about the image quality/noise dynamic range, not speed, which I assume would require a stacked sensor. Unless it's both BSI and stacked, which is highly unlikely.

So if those specs are any close to reality, then Canon doesn't target videographers with this camera.