Canon EOS R1 Spotted in the wild at the Monaco GP

We've had it said by Kym Illman (F1 photographer that took photo of R1). He has talked to the photographer with the R1. Obviously didn't get any information from him but other Pros in the paddock have said that the autofocus is nothing seen before, and leaps beyond other cameras. He also said he heard the camera shoot big files for blowing them up big. He said maybe 100mp?????? So maybe these rumors are wrong (very not likely)
 
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We've had it said by Kym Illman (F1 photographer that took photo of R1). He has talked to the photographer with the R1. Obviously didn't get any information from him but other Pros in the paddock have said that the autofocus is nothing seen before, and leaps beyond other cameras. He also said he heard the camera shoot big files for blowing them up big. He said maybe 100mp?????? So maybe these rumors are wrong (very not likely)
It couldn’t be. This camera was designed in conjunction with the top sports photographers in the world and none of them wanted more than 24MP. Canon asked them were they sure. They could do 30MP, 45MP or 50MP but they all said no. 24MP or they won’t use it. So no possibility of a high MP camera. Why would anyone possibly need a camera capable of greater than 24MP.
 
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We've had it said by Kym Illman (F1 photographer that took photo of R1). He has talked to the photographer with the R1. Obviously didn't get any information from him but other Pros in the paddock have said that the autofocus is nothing seen before, and leaps beyond other cameras. He also said he heard the camera shoot big files for blowing them up big. He said maybe 100mp?????? So maybe these rumors are wrong (very not likely)
This is great to hear and state-of-the-art AF is what I want in my next camera.
 
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We've had it said by Kym Illman (F1 photographer that took photo of R1). He has talked to the photographer with the R1. Obviously didn't get any information from him but other Pros in the paddock have said that the autofocus is nothing seen before, and leaps beyond other cameras. He also said he heard the camera shoot big files for blowing them up big. He said maybe 100mp?????? So maybe these rumors are wrong (very not likely)
The only way that both rumours could be right is if the sensor is high res and the R1 allows downsampling on the fly to 24mp "raw" with zero buffer issues. Would be the best of both worlds and set the internet on fire :cool:
 
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The only way that both rumours could be right is if the sensor is high res and the R1 allows downsampling on the fly to 24mp "raw" with zero buffer issues. Would be the best of both worlds and set the internet on fire :cool:
Or, could the R1 have improved the IBIS high-resolution mode from the R5 and allows RAW, not just jpeg? So, still a 24mpix sensor, but with IBIS high-res mode.
 
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We've had it said by Kym Illman (F1 photographer that took photo of R1). He has talked to the photographer with the R1. Obviously didn't get any information from him but other Pros in the paddock have said that the autofocus is nothing seen before, and leaps beyond other cameras. He also said he heard the camera shoot big files for blowing them up big. He said maybe 100mp?????? So maybe these rumors are wrong (very not likely)
Kinda curious if that photographer has captured Checo-KMag crash... It will be interesting to see how fast the R1 captured the moment
The only way that both rumours could be right is if the sensor is high res and the R1 allows downsampling on the fly to 24mp "raw" with zero buffer issues. Would be the best of both worlds and set the internet on fire :cool:
Yea, I'm quite annoyed a7r5 didn't have that. As 61MP isn't needed all the time.
 
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We've had it said by Kym Illman (F1 photographer that took photo of R1). He has talked to the photographer with the R1. Obviously didn't get any information from him but other Pros in the paddock have said that the autofocus is nothing seen before, and leaps beyond other cameras. He also said he heard the camera shoot big files for blowing them up big. He said maybe 100mp?????? So maybe these rumors are wrong (very not likely)
It could be a quad-pixel thing. DPRAW with dual pixel produces files twice as large. That would put a 24 MP quad file RAW at about 100 MB (instead of 24 MB), that is a lot of info.

The technology so far has not been used for definition, but if the quad pixel is indeed a 4 division (and not a mix of 2 vertical and 2 horizontal splits), and they made progress in the treatment, I could imagine getting more advantages from the quad technology than the current one for definition. Going from 2 to 4 is like adding a dimension, so there is potential.

In any case, I expect Canon to pursue along their DPRAW path and offer the option for those bloated files on quad-pixel cameras such as the R1. Will it stay a gimmick or not remains to be seen, but I trust the engineers have been pushing this way (since the 5D4) for a reason.

By the way this is why I always shoot DPRAW unless I need the fps/buffer. Yes the current use of the double data is not significant, but many years down the line there might be ways to leverage the data, in the same way old RAWs are now developed much better than they used to be. Note that I shoot a very long term project (decades) so this is relevant for me, but of course not for most.
 
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Is ES on R3 better than on R5? I tried it for football (soccer) when I first got R5 and found it wasn’t great as the ball was odd-shaped. Didn’t have that issue with mechanical shutter.
Faster readout speed means less rolling shutter artifact. The readout speed of the R3’s stacked sensor is about 1/3 that of the R5, a bit over 5 ms vs. a bit over 16 ms.

For comparison, a mechanical shutter readout is about 4 ms. The R1 is rumored to be faster than that.
 
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This camera was designed in conjunction with the top sports photographers in the world and none of them wanted more than 24MP. Canon asked them were they sure. They could do 30MP, 45MP or 50MP but they all said no.
How do you know that? Was there a statement or an interview with a Canon representative? I'm surprised Canon divulges results from their internal R&D polls.
 
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It could be a quad-pixel thing. DPRAW with dual pixel produces files twice as large. That would put a 24 MP quad file RAW at about 100 MB (instead of 24 MB), that is a lot of info.
It produces larger files only if you enable dual pixel raw in camera. Even if the R1 has quad pixel sensor and Canon adds a corresponding option to enable large files, this mode is unlikely to be used when field-testing the camera at sport events.
 
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It produces larger files only if you enable dual pixel raw in camera. Even if the R1 has quad pixel sensor and Canon adds a corresponding option to enable large files, this mode is unlikely to be used when field-testing the camera at sport events.
Used ? Probably no when high fps is needed, as I do myself.

(That said some pictures don't require high fps, even ata sport event. A camera that can process 25MP 30fps can do 100MP at 7fps, still very fast for environment shots.)

But discussed between photogs testing the camera ? It certainly would imho. I think it is a valid theory for the rumored '100MP' or 'big print' talk.

And yes, that would mean a quad pixel 45MP R5-2 would produce 200MB QRAW files, that is quite a lot of data. Maybe this is where the R5s is ...
 
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It could be a quad-pixel thing. DPRAW with dual pixel produces files twice as large. That would put a 24 MP quad file RAW at about 100 MB (instead of 24 MB), that is a lot of info.
That would be my thought. Maybe it is set up like the sony a7sIII, which is a 48mp sensor binned to 12mp. so in this case a 96 mp sensor binned to 24mp.

(That said some pictures don't require high fps, even ata sport event. A camera that can process 25MP 30fps can do 100MP at 7fps, still very fast for environment shots.)
If 60 fps is rumored then 15fps 96mp can be achieved. 40-15fps, 60-20fps, 120-30fps those numbers become more usable for more sport situations then too.
 
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We've had it said by Kym Illman (F1 photographer that took photo of R1). He has talked to the photographer with the R1. Obviously didn't get any information from him but other Pros in the paddock have said that the autofocus is nothing seen before, and leaps beyond other cameras. He also said he heard the camera shoot big files for blowing them up big. He said maybe 100mp?????? So maybe these rumors are wrong (very not likely)
100+ MP sounds like pixel shift to me.
 
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