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R5 Pixel Shift rumor

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OP Ali Senior Member • Posts: 1,969
Re: R5 Pixel Shift rumor

Karl_Guttag wrote:

Ali wrote:

Haven't seen this mentioned here yet, fresh rumor on top of the "major R5 firmware" rumor from a few days ago.

https://www.canonrumors.com/is-pixel-shift-coming-to-the-canon-eos-r5/

Don't know how possible this even is, but would be pretty amazing if it happened.

It certainly is technically possible. It should be relatively easy if they do the correction off-camera. Some of the questions are:

  1. whether it is true
  2. whether they deal with motion in the scene,
  3. whether they deal with camera motion, or if it requires the camera on a tripod,
  4. whether the compositing is done within the camera or with external software (like the deal with focus stacking), or it is an option.
  5. whether they save RAW or JPEG or if it is an option
  6. how many frames save, or if that is an option. More frames would support dealing with more complex motion (camera or scene).

Good questions. #5 would certainly be a concern for me (I like to have RAW for all cases), and to some degree #3.

It really would be good for Canon to catch up with some of what cell phones have been doing for years. In many ways, I would prefer them to support off-camera processing at least as an option as better and more complex algorithms could be employed.

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