Canon Announcement Delays Possible, Including The Canon EOS R6 Mark III

So sad… feels not good!
Was hoping for a new wedding camera ;p.
Could be on the market for 6 months by rumors :/… the constantly „delay“ annoyes me!
I think sadly the game will continue with the R7ii - which I hardly want to be the highend APS-C it already could! :S

Sorry to say that, but I m very unhappy with the last and current heavily less innovative “policy” of Canon!
Left and right there are nice lenses and cameras…. The new Sony 50-150 2.0, Nikon 800mm 6,3 etc etc
 
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So sad… feels not good!
Was hoping for a new wedding camera ;p.
Could be on the market for 6 months by rumors :/… the constantly „delay“ annoyes me!
I think sadly the game will continue with the R7ii - which I hardly want to be the highend APS-C it already could! :S

Sorry to say that, but I m very unhappy with the last and current heavily less innovative “policy” of Canon!
Left and right there are nice lenses and cameras…. The new Sony 50-150 2.0, Nikon 800mm 6,3 etc etc
We are indeed waiting for some exciting announcements.
14mm TSE, 200-500, 300-600, 24-70 f/2, 180mm macro, 70-135 f/2 etc...
Be patient, we'll get them some day. (I hope soon!) ;)
PS: I forgot, an improved LP-E6P...
 
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So sad… feels not good!
Was hoping for a new wedding camera ;p.
Could be on the market for 6 months by rumors :/… the constantly „delay“ annoyes me!
I think sadly the game will continue with the R7ii - which I hardly want to be the highend APS-C it already could! :S
Comments like this always puzzle me. Are people confused about the definition of a rumor? It’s not like Canon announced a launch date, then pushed it back.

The only game being played is the one in your own head. If you’re losing and want to blame someone, find a mirror.

Sorry to say that, but I m very unhappy with the last and current heavily less innovative “policy” of Canon!
Left and right there are nice lenses and cameras…. The new Sony 50-150 2.0, Nikon 800mm 6,3 etc etc
And by implication, Canon is not announcing any nice cameras or lenses. Lol, mmmmkay. Who else has a 24-105/2.8? A 10-20/4? A camera with cross-type AF across the entire sensor or eye-controlled AF?

If the grass on the left or the right is so much greener, then why are you here? I guess there are two types of people in the world, those who like to complain and do nothing, and those who do something. Evidently, you are in the former category.
 
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Comments like this always puzzle me. Are people confused about the definition of a rumor? It’s not like Canon announced a launch date, then pushed it back.

The only game being played is the one in your own head. If you’re losing and want to blame someone, find a mirror.


And by implication, Canon is not announcing any nice cameras or lenses. Lol, mmmmkay. Who else has a 24-105/2.8? A 10-20/4? A camera with cross-type AF across the entire sensor or eye-controlled AF?

If the grass on the left or the right is so much greener, then why are you here? I guess there are two types of people in the world, those who like to complain and do nothing, and those who do something. Evidently, you are in the former category.
Less than 650g, 100-400mm for below $650
fullframe less than 175g autofocus 16mm for below $300
 
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The most annoying thing about Canon mirrorless cameras is the focus point. With DSLRs, it was exactly one point. Now, even when selecting just one point, it's actually an area, which means it often doesn't focus where it should. It's much more imprecise than before, and this isn't an opinion, it's a fact.
 
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The most annoying thing about Canon mirrorless cameras is the focus point. With DSLRs, it was exactly one point. Now, even when selecting just one point, it's actually an area, which means it often doesn't focus where it should. It's much more imprecise than before, and this isn't an opinion, it's a fact.
With DSLRs it was either one or multiple lines, not a 1D point either.
 
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The most annoying thing about Canon mirrorless cameras is the focus point. With DSLRs, it was exactly one point. Now, even when selecting just one point, it's actually an area, which means it often doesn't focus where it should. It's much more imprecise than before, and this isn't an opinion, it's a fact.
What's annoying is when people claim their incorrect opinions are facts. I guess people don't realize how foolish that makes them look, or they don't care.

You may think it was a discrete point on DSLRs because the areas used for focus determination were few in number and had 'space' between them, but that was not the case. A DSLR focus point is still an area. I won't bother with the deeper technical details, but put simply a DSLR AF point was a pair of lines spaced at a distance determined by the aperture baseline (f/2.8 points further apart than f/5.6 points). Those lines sample a small area of the field, not a specific point.

Think about it...if an AF point was really a point, how could that point be made smaller by switching from 1-point AF to Spot AF?
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The difference with Canon's mirrorless (with DPAF) is that there is no longer any separation between AF points because instead of a limited number of line pairs on a dedicated AF sensor, all of the pixels on the image sensor are used dynamically to form line pairs. That's also the reason focus can be achieved with narrower apertures like f/11 (or even f/22, since the 800/11 + 2x TC will still AF) – the spacing of the line pairs on the image sensor can be matched to the aperture of the lens.

Edit: @Toni looking back it's apparent that stating your incorrect opinions as facts is habitual with you and that you're one of those people who's perfectly willing to make asinine statements that make you look foolish. For example, "Canon have lost a lot of mirrorless full-frame market." Lol.
 
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The most annoying thing about Canon mirrorless cameras is the focus point. With DSLRs, it was exactly one point. Now, even when selecting just one point, it's actually an area, which means it often doesn't focus where it should. It's much more imprecise than before, and this isn't an opinion, it's a fact.
You don't know how to crop?
 
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I just don't see how cameras get any better at this point. Until something has 100% white balance I'll never upgrade. A client would never see a difference between a few pixels and the autofocus is already insane in the base models. Unless there is features I'm overlooking I feel anyone who buys any new camera is just misinformed or maybe starting out with the new technology. Why would anyone with an R6 or R5 even upgrade at this point in time?
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I just don't see how cameras get any better at this point. Until something has 100% white balance I'll never upgrade. A client would never see a difference between a few pixels and the autofocus is already insane in the base models. Unless there is features I'm overlooking I feel anyone who buys any new camera is just misinformed or maybe starting out with the new technology. Why would anyone with an R6 or R5 even upgrade at this point in time?
IMO, it's mainly feature-driven. Going from the R3 to the R1 didn't make any real difference in the IQ of my 'keepers' but the combination of better AF (cross-type makes a difference!) and pre-capture means I get more keepers from a session (though with pre-capture and 40 fps, the keeper rate goes, way, way down).
 
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I just don't see how cameras get any better at this point. Until something has 100% white balance I'll never upgrade. A client would never see a difference between a few pixels and the autofocus is already insane in the base models. Unless there is features I'm overlooking I feel anyone who buys any new camera is just misinformed or maybe starting out with the new technology. Why would anyone with an R6 or R5 even upgrade at this point in time?
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You might never need them, but some people will want:
Global shutter
increased dynamic range and bit depth
more efficient power use / heat dispersion / less noise
improvement with eye control
Improvements in decision making with subject detection.
some way to ensure fewer dead or hot pixels
 
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The only fact here is that minimum mirrorless AF area is a lot bigger than minimum DSLR AF point.
Which, again, is not a point, but either a collection of parallel lines or a collection of cross lines. Or in the case of late model 1Dx bodies, it's an actual image sensor to be able to track colours, which also means it tracks an area.

1DxII AF sensor:
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The issue I have with R-series AF, is not the size, but the tolerances and algorithm. The MF guides turn green in a pretty wide band, wider than I would say is "acceptably in focus". And for larger areas it doesn't focus on the object it detects, it focuses on the frontmost item in the bounding box, e.g. a blade of grass in front of the bird. The camera will still proudly draw a box around the eye it detected, but did not actually focus on!
 
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I've seen this post today:

Don't know if it can be true or not, but we are in the rumors section here anyway.

However, I didn't want to wait and ordered an R6 II a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I had to send it back because of a fault. I had a bit of a rough start with Canon because I had to send back the lens too. But tomorrow I should get a new one. :)
 
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