Canon pronounces the EOS R5, an 8K-shooting professional mirrorless digital camera

Canon has introduced the EOS R5, by far the highest-end mirrorless digital camera it’s ever made. Following Canon’s strong entry into full-frame mirrorless with 2018’s EOS R and final 12 months’s cheaper EOS RP, the R5 is a severe pro-level flagship with a price ticket to match. At $3,899 and not using a lens, that is now Canon’s second most costly digital camera behind the brand new 1D X Mark III DSLR.

The R5 is constructed round a 45-megapixel sensor with a local ISO vary of 100-51,200. The headline function is that it could document uncropped 8K RAW video at 29.97 fps in 4:2:2 10-bit coloration, in addition to uncropped 4K DCI at 59.94 fps, representing a serious improve on the restricted video capabilities of earlier EOS R fashions. Canon says the R5 can shoot constantly at 8K for round 20 minutes at room temperature.

When taking pictures nonetheless photographs, the R5 operates at as much as 12 fps with the mechanical shutter and 20 fps with the digital shutter. It has in-body picture stabilization that Canon claims can present as much as 8 stops of correction in tandem with OIS lenses. Canon can be touting the R5’s autofocus system, with dual-pixel protection throughout virtually 100% of the AF space and 1,053 zones, plus the potential for eye-tracking with canines, cats, and birds in addition to people.

The R5 is visually near-indistinguishable from a typical Canon full-frame DSLR. Canon confirmed a willingness to experiment with options just like the touch-sensitive strip on the unique EOS R, but it surely’s clear from the R5’s design that it’s supposed to be a drop-in alternative for professional photographers and videographers who’re used to DSLRs just like the 5D sequence. The largest distinction for them would be the digital viewfinder, although the 120 fps refresh charge and 5.76-million dot decision ought to assist ease that transition. There’s additionally a 3.2-inch 2.1-million dot vari-angle touchscreen.

If the R5 is a little bit out of attain or 8K isn’t a precedence, Canon can be releasing the same digital camera referred to as the R6 at a lower cost. It has roughly the identical design because the R5 however makes use of the 20.1-megapixel sensor from the 1D X Mark III, that means its video capabilities prime out at 4K/60 or 1080p/120. The viewfinder decision drops to a still-solid 3.69 million dots, whereas the touchscreen is barely smaller and lower-res at 3 inches and 1.62 million dots. The R6 will value $2,499 body-only.

Canon has 4 extra native RF-mount lenses rolling out this 12 months, together with a 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1, a 600mm f/11, an 800mm f/11, and an 85mm f/2. The corporate can be introducing 1.4x and 2x teleconverters for RF lenses.

The R5 is ready to be obtainable on the finish of July, and there’s a $4,999 equipment possibility that comes with a 24-105mm f/4 lens. The R6, in the meantime, will ship towards the tip of August with a $3,599 possibility that features that very same lens or a $2,899 equipment with a 24-105mm f/4-7.1.