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I'm in for the R50... Rationale?

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koenkooi Contributing Member • Posts: 919
Re: The Big Picture
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thunder storm wrote:

[…]Another thing not so great for customers is the selectively cr*ppling of AF with the f/11 primes. If you own a top of the line R5 body you won't get 80%*80% AF coverage with those primes. At the release of those f/11 primes it seemed it was a spec of these primes. But with the release of the R6mkII and even relatively low end R8 it becomes clear it's technically perfectly possible give that full 80%*80% AF coverage on that R5 as well, but we don't get a firmware update for this. […]

You are implying that a sensor that is 3 years newer cannot have any hardware improvements over the older one and all the improvements are just firmware. I’m not cynical enough yet to believe that.

I strongly suspect that Canon did the same thing they did last time when they expanded the AF area: tweak the microlens array.
The R and RP didn’t have full AF coverage, the R5 and R6 did.

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