Canon R5 Announced with 8k

puredrifting said:
Based upon past experience, in the near future, the studio HE departments will just skip it. BTS/EPK is always cut first, it's definitely not considered a MUST anymore. When we were in the era of selling consumers pieces of plastic, DVDs and Blurays, it was a revenue center. Now, BTS/EPK and bonus features are considered an optional cost of doing business unfortunately.
All they do is put it on YouTube, EPK.tv or make a half hour TV special with it. But all of those are marketing expenses, not revenue generators. I used to produce a ton of classic title DVDs and box sets for all of the studios, I did Wizard of Oz, King Kong, The Searchers, stuff like that. I used to see the revenue numbers a year later on our box sets and we used
to be a good revenue source for the studios. Those days are over and this Pandemic, I fear is just hammering the biggest nail into the coffin.

Time to reinvent our businesses. I certainly am. No use pining for what used to pay the bills, find the next thing that will pay the bills.

Interesting you mention shooting outside, the shoot I have Friday that was going to be at the talent's home has re-located to shooting outside. I don't mind it, our live stream starts at 6:00 PM so we won't in the heat of the day and the sun will be setting behind talent.
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Dan, you are right on here. I have been thinking a lot about how I am going to have to turn the Titanic so to speak with my business. It may be permanent for all we know now. I am still excited about the R5 release but the shifting sands of employment are raining on the parade.
 
Bassman2003 said:
Dan, you are right on here. I have been thinking a lot about how I am going to have to turn the Titanic so to speak with my business. It may be permanent for all we know now. I am still excited about the R5 release but the shifting sands of employment are raining on the parade.
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Hope that works out for you. It can be tough but there does seem to be a lot of opportunity out there if you know where to look. Just hope I can make a living at it.
 
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puredrifting said:
Based upon past experience, in the near future, the studio HE departments will just skip it. BTS/EPK is always cut first, it's definitely not considered a MUST anymore. When we were in the era of selling consumers pieces of plastic, DVDs and Blurays, it was a revenue center. Now, BTS/EPK and bonus features are considered an optional cost of doing business unfortunately.
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With the coronavirus wreaking such havoc, I expect that a lot of ancillaries will get cut in order to get production back underway.



Time to reinvent our businesses. I certainly am. No use pining for what used to pay the bills, find the next thing that will pay the bills.
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Yeah, a lot of businesses will have to do a lot of adapting. Change is inevitable, but this one was rather abrupt.

Interesting you mention shooting outside, the shoot I have Friday that was going to be at the talent's home has re-located to shooting outside. I don't mind it, our live stream starts at 6:00 PM so we won't in the heat of the day and the sun will be setting behind talent.
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Yeah, shooting outdoors seems like it ought to make a lot of the precautions for preventing the covid spread easier to put into practice.
 
Sounds right to me. Maybe it's wrong, but I just think there is no way this 8K camera would be much lower with the 1DX Mark III at $6500.
 
I've have a 5D2(actually 2x), 5D3 and 5D4. This is the mirrorless successor to the 5D series and, if true, probably the first "5" introduced in over a decade that I won't buy. $6K+ for a Canon Stills camera that is not a 1 series? Nah, I'm good. But of course, let's wait for an actual announcement from Canon.
 
The price info is not on Canon Rumors, which is, as far as the unsubstantiated hearsay goes, usually in a better ballpark.
 
As of late 2019, the 5D Mark V was still on track but anything and everything could have changed at this point.
 
DLD said:
The price info is not on Canon Rumors, which is, as far as the unsubstantiated hearsay goes, usually in a better ballpark.
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Look at the link. It's not a traditional rumor, but a report on what an Australian retailer is showing.
 
if it does turn out to be $6K or higher, that alone will separate the working pros from the fanboy/hobbyists. At that price, there is nothing about this
camera I would personally find compelling. FF, 8K, high frame rates? At $3,999.00, possibly. At a third higher? Nah. It'll be really interesting to see
if this is the real price or just a rumor/slip up/conjecture.
 
Ken1212 said:
Price is now being rumored around $6k on canonwatch. For someone like me who shoots mostly for the web, I would prefer the canon c200b for $4k if that price is correct.
https://www.canonwatch.com/
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https://www.newsshooter.com/2020/05/15/canon-r5-price-listed
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NorBro said:
Look at the link. It's not a traditional rumor, but a report on what an Australian retailer is showing.
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I saw it and I know what a "placeholder' is. And it still makes no sense. Because R6 is in a 6D slot, a likely replacement for EOS R at ~ $1,750. R5 is in the old 5D slot at ~ $3,500. $6,500 slot will likely go to a long rumored high MPX count (~ 75 or so) flagship model. If R5 is $6,500, then Canon will have nothing in that range and two cameras (1DX MKIII being another) selling for the same price and cannibalizing both lines. Furthermore, it will then leave no space for a photocentric R1 (an assumed model name) or, upon its release, having three cameras occupying the same price slot.

Tomorrow, there is a supposed to be some sort of a streamer from Europe, where more details should be revealed.
 
NorBro said:
I'll come back here and quote you when we find out the price.
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I saw it and I know what a "placeholder' is. And it still makes no sense. Because R6 is in a 6D slot, a likely replacement for EOS R at ~ $1,750. R5 is in the old 5D slot at ~ $3,500. $6,500 slot will likely go to a long rumored high MPX count (~ 75 or so) flagship model. If R5 is $6,500, then Canon will have nothing in that range and two cameras (1DX MKIII being another) selling for the same price and cannibalizing both lines. Furthermore, it will then leave no space for a photocentric R1 (an assumed model name) or, upon its release, having three cameras occupying the same price slot.
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Proszę.
 
It would be great if the price was around $6500—if we pretend for a second that the price is a linear expression of the level of camera that it is.

So, rather a $6500 R5 that lives up to is paper specs as well as it possibly can, than a $3500 version that you, after having used it for two months, realise "yeah, on spec this was a $8495 camera, but I get it now why they sell if for $3495".

Let's hope it's the best small body camera that Canon could build. And it's OK if the price reflects that.
 
It's about the same price as the best guess price for Red's Komodo, which at least makes it competitive at that price.
 
Tamerlin said:
It's about the same price as the best guess price for Red's Komodo, which at least makes it competitive at that price.
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At that rate, Komodo seems like the better buy to me unless you need continuous AF or matching another Canon. But the Canon is probably going to be very limited in codec options.
 
ahalpert said:
At that rate, Komodo seems like the better buy to me unless you need continuous AF or matching another Canon. But the Canon is probably going to be very limited in codec options.
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Yeah... I've been considering the possibility of getting a Komodo, selling my Sigma fp, and getting an R camera to pair with it for stills. But the R5 if that's the price range is more than I'm willing to spend on a hybrid.
 
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