As a photographic journalist, once in a while I’ve the privilege of visiting Canon‘s headquarters in London. It is all the time a chance to see the most recent gear, discuss to the Canon group and see what’s taking place with the corporate’s digicam lineup.
I’d been underneath the impression that Canon’s modern Motion Precedence (a predictive autofocus function for photographing sport) may presumably trickle all the way down to cameras beneath the EOS R5 Mark II, so my eyes had been firmly mounted on the Canon EOS R6 Mark III when it launched not too long ago.
I don’t suppose there’s any query that Canon’s newest full-frame prosumer digicam could possibly be one of many finest hybrid cameras by way of sheer worth for cash. Nevertheless, we now know that Digic Accelerator – the intelligent tech that powers superior AF capabilities – has been left on the reducing room ground. However does it even matter?
To reply that, let’s first check out what Digic Accelerator truly is. In a nutshell, it’s a secondary processor that dedicates further bandwidth to a spread of AI algorithms that Canon’s commonplace Digic X processor alone would wrestle to take care of.
These duties embrace Motion Precedence (for enhanced autofocus monitoring for soccer, basketball and volleyball) but additionally assists with AI noise discount and in-camera picture upscaling. It may additionally assist with information switch to scale back rolling shutter, too.
All that being mentioned, the R6 Mark III is a formidable digicam and doesn’t appear to be too hamstrung by omitting that second processor – which might have inevitably pushed the value up. So I truly suppose Canon has made a intelligent enterprise determination to omit this function and preserve the value down.
What’s exceptional is that Canon has discovered a solution to make the identical Digic X processor discovered within the Mark II extra environment friendly. The brand new Mark III mannequin shifts its 35% bigger recordsdata not solely quicker, however with the choice for pre-capture – so you can begin to seize pictures earlier than you’ve even pressed the shutter.
Nevertheless, a lot of that is seemingly due to its new, quicker CFexpress Kind B reminiscence card slot (above).
So general, I don’t really feel disenchanted that the Canon EOS R6 Mark III doesn’t function the Digic Accelerator or Motion Precedence – these are fairly area of interest sports activities options that pair higher with the Canon EOS R1 and Canon EOS R5 Mark II, being two of the finest sports activities cameras.
Except Canon brings out a brand new line between the R6 and R5, I don’t suppose we’ll be seeing a brand new digicam sporting these options any time quickly. And with the EOS R1 now on retailer cabinets, there’s little motive for Canon to replace its EOS R3, both.
May we see it in a flagship APS-C mannequin? Maybe, although we cannot have to attend lengthy to seek out out; I might anticipate 2022’s EOS R7 and EOS R10 to be up to date within the subsequent 12 months or so, and the digicam rumors actually counsel that the R7 goes to be one thing very particular…
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