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Canon’s 6Kpro mirrorless

A fter months of teasing, Canon has finally unveiled the full details of its first truly pro-spec, full-frame mirrorless camera: the EOS R3. And, although focused towards sport and wildlife stills, it is also packed with filmmaking tech, meaning it’s the best in the range for making movies – as long as you don’t need 8K. It does shoot 6K/60p, though. The £5879/$5999 EOS R3 uses a fully pro-style body, with dual card slots and an integrated vertical grip, like the EOS-1 pro DSLR series. It has a brand-new, 24.1-megapixel, back-side illuminated stacked sensor for blackout-free shooting. And it’s the first camera manufacturer to follow Sony’s lead by using stacked technology. This gives a superfast sensor readout, enabling zero viewfinder blackout, fast frame rates in stills and video, and virtually no rolling shutter artefacts – along with quick autofocus and autoexposure. For stills, this new tech gives a shutter speed of up to 1/64,000sec, continuous shooting at up to 30fps, with AE and The long-awaited EOS R3 is finally revealed – and doesn’t disappoint Canon has revealed a pair of affordable lenses: the RF 16mm f/2.8 STM and RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS USM. The £320/$299 RF 16mm f/2.8 STM is not a fisheye, but a very wide-angle prime – ideal for architecture, interiors or landscapes. It also has a 13cm/5.1in minimum focusing distance. A Stepper Motor (STM) ensures smooth focusing, and the control ring can be assigned to adjust focus manually, or adjust a variety of shooting settings. The £700/$649 RF 100-400mm f/5.6-8 IS USM long-range zoom features a modest maximum aperture range, to keep weight down.

as a new Flexible Zone. This allows users to select the size and shape of the Zone AF area – and it can focus in light as low as -7.5 EV. The camera offers not only two manual control joypads to select the AF point, but all-new Eye Control AF, too. This moves the focus point to where the photographer is looking in the viewfinder. However, it seems this does not work for video – which is a real shame. It also has five-axis in-body image stabilisation, which can combine with optical stabilisation in selected RF lenses, to offer shake resistance up to eight stops. For video use, the new camera does not have 8K shooting like the EOS R5, but does not have its overheating problems, either. The EOS R3 captures 6K/60p footage in Raw only, allowing exposure and white balance corrections post-capture. Two Raw settings are available: uncompressed

AF tracking – even when shooting Raw files. It also offers compatibility with both Canon and third-party flashes. Canon has introduced flicker detection and a high- frequency anti-flicker shooting mode, to correct unstable light and prevent banding, colour or exposure issues. Canon claims the EOS R3 is its fastest mirrorless for focusing, which takes just 0.03sec. It uses the latest version of Dual Pixel CMOS AF II with an improved deep learning algorithm, offering AF tracking for human and animal eye, body and face detection – as well as human head detection in both stills and videos. Designed with motor-sport shooters in mind, Canon has introduced a vehicle tracking function for motorbikes, open cockpit, GT and rally cars – with the ability to prioritise the vehicle or the driver’s helmet. Eye, face, head and body detection are now available in all AF modes, as well It has an updated Nano USM focusing motor. The image stabiliser works with coordinated IS for EOS R series bodies, up to six stops of correction. The lens features an ultra-low dispersion element to reduce colour fringing and chromatic aberrations. And an aspherical element helps boost sharpness and minimise distortion. It has an 88cm/33in minimum focusing distance at the 200mm position, and 0.41x maximummagnification at the 400mm end. It is also compatible with

TWO MORE LENSES JOIN RF LINE

the Extender RF 1.4x and RF 2x teleconverters for greater reach. canon.co.uk

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