Canon’s $6,000 EOS R3 Is Its ‘Most Advanced’ Full-Frame Mirrorless Cam

Last yr, Canon pushed the boundaries of full-frame mirrorless cameras with the EOS R5. Now the corporate is releasing one other pro-grade digital camera designed particularly for high-end sports activities and wildlife photographers: the brand new EOS R3.

Canon claims the $6,ooo (physique solely) ROS R3 is the corporate’s “most technologically advanced full-frame mirrorless camera” but. And although it doesn’t include assist for 8K video such as you get on the EOS R5, the R3 options quite a few upgraded options, particularly for shooters who demand responsive efficiency in fast-paced settings.

Improvements begin with the EOS R3’s model new 24.1-MP BSI stacked CMOS sensor, which Canon says is so good it delivers higher decision efficiency than the 30.4-MP sensor on the EOS 5D Mark IV. Combined with its Digic X processor, the R3 can seize bursts of 150 14-bit RAW pictures at as much as 30 fps with its digital shutter (or 12 fps with the mechanical shutter), with the choice to allow full silent taking pictures (no AF help mild, flash, or shutter sounds) with the contact of a single button.

The EOS R3 additionally boasts a formidable ISO vary from ISO 100 to 102,400 (expandable as much as ISO 204,800 for stills), together with the flexibility to assist autofocus and monitoring changes whereas taking pictures at as much as 60 fps. Canon says the R3 even comes with improved auto white steadiness, together with a brand new file and register white steadiness mode that makes it quicker and simpler to set a customized white steadiness primarily based in your surroundings.

The EOS R3’s AF efficiency has additionally gotten a giant enhance with 1,050 AF factors scatted throughout the sensor and assist for improved monitoring, together with a brand new car monitoring mode (together with upgraded eye, face, and physique detection) to raised seize skilled autosports like F1, rally, and motocross.

But maybe essentially the most engaging change is that Canon is bringing over a newly up to date model of its eye management (Eye enter AF) that permits you to choose a spotlight topic just by taking a look at it utilizing the R3’s EVF. While Canon has included eye management AF on earlier cameras going way back to 1992, that is the primary time Canon has included the characteristic on the EOS R line, which means that the characteristic may lastly be prepared for even essentially the most demanding professional photogs.

Inside the R3’s EVF, there’s a devoted sensor that tracks the place your eye is wanting, and whereas Canon does admit that its eye AF characteristic won’t work for all eyes and varieties of contact lenses, the corporate does present a fairly in-depth calibration system that helps work with or with out glasses.

The R3’s 5.76-million dot EVF now options an OLED panel with assist for 60HZ or 120Hz refresh charges, and the flexibility to change between a basic stay publicity view or an enhanced OVF simulation mode that helps a wider dynamic vary. And as one other useful bonus, Canon has included an upgraded anti-flicker suppression characteristic that permits you to modify the digital camera to keep away from banding from close by lights, with the flexibility to customise the anti-flicker discount from 50Hz to 8192Hz.

As for video, whereas the EOS R5 will nonetheless be individuals’s digital camera of selection if they need 8K recording, the R3 nonetheless provides a variety of seize modes together with a 6K 60fps RAW mode, an uncropped 4K 10-bit 120fps setting, and extra. And like different high-end EOS R cameras, the R3 provides 5-axis in-body picture stabilization that helps as much as eight stops of shake discount (relying on the lens), much like what you get on the EOS R5/R6.

Finally, as you’d anticipate from a pro-grade digital camera, the EOS R3 incorporates a weatherproof magnesium alloy physique with a built-in vertical grip. And regardless of being related in measurement to the Canon 1DX Mark III, the EOS R3 is round 70% lighter, weighing in at simply 1.81 kilos (physique solely).

So while the EOS R3 definitely ain’t low-cost, it seems just like the full-frame mirrorless alternative for the getting old 1DX Mark III that numerous high-end photographers have been ready for. The R3 goes on sale someday in November.