Canon R5 Announced with 8k

Google it? (Random rumor sites will provide random information.)

It's no doubt eventually going to come because people love pancakes.
 
Liam Hall said:
I've been told by my camera dealer I can pick one up on Friday. Hmm...
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me too!
the dealer said only one for every dealer and I'm number one on the list.

I'm just transforming a transporter to a production camper.
Two 180W solar panels on the roof, 200W Lithium battery, 3000W inverter
48l fridge. Maybe I will just get a 2nd R5 for cooling.
 
NorBro said:
https://www.canonrumors.com/nifty-50-and-or-a-pancake-lens-are-coming-to-the-rf-mount-in-2020-cr3/

[CR3] ...albeit I guess second half of this year.

(I think a few more lenses are supposed to be announced next month.)

Would be perfect for a gimbal, walking around.

Some 8K here, some 8K there, some 8K everywhere...for a few minutes. ha
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Meh. Pancakes are overkill and I think it's not bad to have a bit more mass on the gimbal. I like the size of a lot of these f/1.8 and 2.8 lenses. Those seem like a fine size/weight and usually have better optics than a pancake
 
The 40mm EF pancake actually makes all lists of Canon's top 10-20 most sharpest EF lenses.

It makes the top 10 with anything below $5,000 (where the big zooms aren't part of the list).

It's a beautiful $179 anomaly.
 
NorBro said:
When I preordered the R5 in the first 18 seconds preorders went live, I had the a7SIII in the back of my mind knowing well I could cancel it at anytime.

After the first week went by...and the second week went by...I pretty much was 99% sure I was going to keep the Canon.

Into the third week and after an official announcement, I am 100% sure.
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I had a feeling this was the case because it sounded like you had a vested interest in the R5. It's fine we all have are own bias opinions, I'm curious what type of jobs you will be using the R5 and in what capacity? I know some have said oh it's only my b-camera so over heating doesn't matter. Seems like a very expensive b camera. In the current environment I'd be very cautious of major purchases unless it was to land paying gig that I needed it for.
 
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ha, no jobs...nothing for a single penny in the foreseeable future.

Also, I know you've just started posting here and probably see that all of my posts have been about the R5 in July, but I love all cameras and know a thing or two about a lot of them.
 
Some people are saying the mirrorless 1D (R1?) will be that star performer. I feel there the issue is price. R5 was $400 more than 5Mkiv at launch. So R1 would be 6500-7000. At that point it is getting close to C300iii territory. One would really need to have a small/gimbal cam without concern for price at that point.
 
mico said:
That makes me smile. (the reason for buying the camera)
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I didn't really know how to respond. I'm guessing he must be feeling rich because of the unemployment or has a spouse income. Myself I put all the unemployment in the bank for living expenses. I've got $1,500/month mortgage plus living expenses. If this last for another year with little to no income that easily $20,000 for me just keep my house.
 
Not everybody here earns their living as a videographer. Personally I'm in the "amateur that spends way too much time and money on their hobby" category. My day job doesn't require me to leave the home and is still paying the bills.

(and still I'm trying very hard to avoid buying a new camera -in my case I think it would be the a7S3 or a couple of XT3, depending on the DR tests with the a7S3- because I can't shoot without getting together with other people and right now that just scares me: I'll try to keep my GAS in check until there are feasible projects in the horizon, and use the time now for eding stuff that I still have pending and do pre-production work on ideas for the future)
 
Peter C. said:
I didn't really know how to respond. I'm guessing he must be feeling rich because of the unemployment or has a spouse income. Myself I put all the unemployment in the bank for living expenses. I've got $1,500/month mortgage plus living expenses. If this last for another year with little to no income that easily $20,000 for me just keep my house.
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Why does unemployment compensation or a spouse have to be the reason?

What about selling tons of equipment to pay for it?
What about using credit services where you don't have to pay any interest for 6,12 months?
What about previously working and having the money saved to pay for it?
What about just being rich? (for those that are)

$3900 is a lot of money. But people are purchasing cameras twice and even 3-4x as expensive, plus tons of other production equipment.
 
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