Canon officially introduces the Canon EOS R1 flagship mirrorless king

[bbasiaga]

Any guesses from the picture on if that's the same size as the R3?

 

[David - Sydney]

there could be alot of different reasons why it makes sense to do it separately.
one is the economies of scale. DiGiC X is in quite a few cameras
two is thermals. If it's in one SoC the heat is more concentrated in an absolutely sealed air space. Seperate processors means they have some more wiggle room on heat dissipation during the design

DiGiC X2 or DiGiC One or DiGiC AI is just a name that means nothing little anymore. I don't think it carries the same marketing weight as it once did.

Also I'm not sure it's cheaper this way - it's most likely more expensive.

There is precedent for dual processors which spread heat generation/hot spots as well as reuse of existing inventory and known performance. Custom SoC for R1 would be very low volume and probably have a very expensive unit cost.

 

[koenkooi]

Any guesses from the picture on if that's the same size as the R3?

Asobinet has a side-by-side mockup, the R1 seems just slightly bigger.

Canon announces development of new mirrorless camera "EOS R1" equipped with DIGIC Accelerator

 

[Richard CN]

 

[JustUs7]

R1 or R1 mark II if some R3 conspiracies are to be believed.

 

[David - Sydney]

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Any thoughts from the current R3 /1DX users about the size change? I believe that the R3 was smaller then the 1DXiii

 

[josephandrews222]

From the release:

Canon implements the image noise reduction function, which has been previously developed and improved as part of the software for PCs, as a camera function to further improve image quality and contribute to user creativity.

I will have to see this for myself...hard to imagine making these transformations in-camera (instead of with the aid of a beautiful expansive monitor).

 

[neuroanatomist]

Any thoughts from the current R3 /1DX users about the size change? I believe that the R3 was smaller then the 1DXiii

The R3 is smaller than my 1D X, but for me, the most noticeable difference was the lighter weight. I wonder where the R1 will fall on that metric.

 

[Roo]

Any thoughts from the current R3 /1DX users about the size change? I believe that the R3 was smaller then the 1DXiii

The R3 was smaller and lighter than the 1DxIII. It looks like the R1 will be similar to the 1DxIII size for width and height but it will be interesting to see how much it weighs in at.

 

[YuengLinger]

I wonder how many of the AF improvements will trickle down to the R5II.

 

[DhlcadR6]

Give us a break, Canon. An announcement from Canon that the R1 is "being developed". Canon is just trying to keep market share from jumping ship. 2025 before any orders are filled?

So you jumped ship? And why would you still atay here.

I jumped back from the Sony ship, I'm not gonna waste amymore time with a company that treats their flagship like shit.

Slight disappointment that Canon is still using the venerable Digic X from all the way back in 2020 in their new top of the line mirrorless. That is a dslr processor. They should have combined the digic accelerator chip and an updated digic x2 into one soc die at a more advanced node. Save power, heat, space, and increase performance.

Yea, I would say R3 R6ii's DIGIC X is at least a gen 1.5.

sounds like an AI co-processor for image analysis and an in-camera denoise algorithm (for jpeg??)
Topaz AID denoise is a good algorithm for batch processing of images (eg startrails) so maybe the co-processor will be used to enable no buffer limit jpegs/HEIF
Otherwise not much detail except for the photo :-(

Better SOCC image is the way, not wasting time in post-processing is great for anyone, regardless is newbie or veteran.

 

[docsmith]

Have to admit....a bit anticlimactic of an announcement.

"Something is coming that everyone already knows is coming!"

 

[john1970]

Slight disappointment that Canon is still using the venerable Digic X from all the way back in 2020 in their new top of the line mirrorless. That is a dslr processor. They should have combined the digic accelerator chip and an updated digic x2 into one soc die at a more advanced node. Save power, heat, space, and increase performance.

It could be a new version of the Digic X with faster clock speeds and more cores, but Canon would never let us know such info nor should they.

 

[john1970]

If someone could compare the exact difference in height of the R3 and R1 it would be greatly appreciated. I find the R3 compact size and low weight a huge advantage. R1 appears a bit taller.

 

[JustUs7]

From the release:

Canon implements the image noise reduction function, which has been previously developed and improved as part of the software for PCs, as a camera function to further improve image quality and contribute to user creativity.

I will have to see this for myself...hard to imagine making these transformations in-camera (instead of with the aid of a beautiful expansive monitor).

Makes sense though, if you’re targeting the Olympics and other sporting and news events when there is no post processing time. The images are on the website while the final results are being tabulated.

 

[GuillaumeB]

Is it me or do the red animated triangles that hover & jump over the big EOS R1 letters in the announcement teaser hint at QPAF?

 

[EOS 4 Life]

Slight disappointment that Canon is still using the venerable Digic X from all the way back in 2020 in their new top of the line mirrorless.

Digic X is a platform.
Canon dropped the strategy of renaming it with every iteration.
X is a letter.
It is not a Roman numeral 10.

 

[Richard CN]

If someone could compare the exact difference in height of the R3 and R1 it would be greatly appreciated. I find the R3 compact size and low weight a huge advantage. R1 appears a bit taller.

The Canon EOS R1, a flagship re-invented. Lots of subtle differences compared to the EOS R3

The details are scant right now but between the rumors and what seems to have been confirmed and what we can see from the EOS R1 objectively, we can probably ma

www.canonrumors.com

yes it's taller and wider. If I had to guess 15mm taller and 10mm wider.

but I haven't scaled up the images to 1:1 and actually measured them. I may do that tomorrow in the linked document. it's a ongoing live document and there's more I'm going to add to it tomorrow and over the weekend including a comparison against the 1DX.

 

[Ozarker]

Slight disappointment that Canon is still using the venerable Digic X from all the way back in 2020 in their new top of the line mirrorless. That is a dslr processor. They should have combined the digic accelerator chip and an updated digic x2 into one soc die at a more advanced node. Save power, heat, space, and increase performance.

If only you were in charge. *Sigh*

 

[DrMathochist]

[DIGIC X] is a dslr processor.

I am clearly not the expert on camera hardware you are. What, exactly, is the difference between images produced by a DSLR and a MILC at the point in the pipeline where the DIGIC-whatever processor sits?