EOS R1 - The Flagship
Speed, precision, and reliability, the
Canon EOS R1 [bhphotovideo.com] is built for photojournalists, sports photographers, wildlife shooters, and other image-makers who can't afford to miss the shot. The flagship of the EOS R line, this mirrorless camera sports a full-frame 24MP BSI stacked sensor, DIGIC Accelerator processing, next-gen Dual Pixel Intelligent AF, and the robust design expected from a professional workhorse.
Key Features
24MP Full-Frame Stacked BSI CMOS Sensor
DIGIC Accelerator + DIGIC X Processing
Dual Pixel AF with Action Priority
Improved Eye Control AF
6K 60 Raw & 4K 120 10-Bit Internal Video
Up to 40 fps, Pre-Continuous Shoot Mode
9.44m-Dot 0.9x EVF, OVF Sim. View Assist
3.0" 2.1m-Dot Vari-Angle Touchscreen LCD
Vertical Grip, 2x CFexpress Type B Slots
Wi-Fi 6E, 2.5G Base-T Wired Ethernet
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Its predecessor, the Canon EOS-1D X Mark III, was released over 5 years ago in February 2020 for $6,499.
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Tofu Vic
That's including the price of the 2 extra batteries. This is a good deal for those looking to buy the camera.
AI will only replace what people allow it to. Not many people are going use AI for their wedding day, sports, family photos, or news
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It's like handing expensive boutique-sourced ingredients to an amateur home cook and inexpensive big-box store ingredients to a professional chef. One of them is going to make a better result, and it's going to be whoever has the most experience....not the best tools.
But with AI and computational photography, it flips that analogy on its head. You're leveling the playing field between the inexperienced and so-called "professionals".
You're dropping $6.6k....AND a high end lens (roughly $2-3k for something like a 28-70 f/2 or a 85mm f/1.2). I'd absolutely HOPE that you could get a "better" image out of that hardware at that steep price. Or I can take a photo with my ~$1,000 phone + video camera + photo camera + pocket computer + video game console + everything else....and need to spend $0 on training, $0 on extra hardware, and 0 hours of experience to get genuinely excellent results.
And it fits in my pocket.
And what's "better" anyways? Higher megapixels? 12mp is MORE than good enough for web use and prints up to 8x10. The average person isn't printing billboards.
If AI takes over and I lose it all, oh well, that's life. I'm not going to give up on enjoying a hobby and learning a craft because it'll eventually be taken over by technology. If it gets to that point with AI, nobody is going to have a livelihood and we might as well just jump off a bridge because life will be meaningless
There are no cheap hobbies. You're making life out to be some clinical experience. If you got the money to buy something you want, do it and enjoy it.
Dropping nearly $19k in gear alone -- glad you can do that. Especially in an era where it devalues so quickly (a 2007 $8k Canon 1ds mk III is now sub $400 in 2025) and where AI is replacing amateurs and professionals alike.
But for everyone else, they'll be using their phones and getting "just as good" or "good enough" results.
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Also, I get it. You dropped $19k on something that's quickly losing value AND being replaced by zero-experience amateurs. I get where that regret and buyer's remorse is coming from.
Yes, because journalists are getting paid the big dollars nowadays. Clark Kent and Lois Lane are pushing up the salaries of the Daily Planet.
"Or for dedicated hobbyists, it allows them to create at a higher level."
A $6.6k camera for a hobbyist? Sorry, that's not a "hobbyist" -- it's a "rich person". There's a blurry line of demarcation between hobby and insanity, but this is very clearly on one side of it.
"6000 dollars isn't even that much money by today's standards"
Then by all means, prove me wrong and buy me two of them. I'll give them a solid go and let you know my results!
"It's true you can get the same looking images with far cheaper cameras"
Indeed. It's not like photos from older cameras spontaneously combust when a new model comes out! If it was good enough back then, it's good enough today.
"the 1DX I came out in 2012 and it was 6799 at launch lol"
The only part of that I agree with is the LAUGHING part. It's tech. You want to go back in time and say "such and such cost SO MUCH back then", go ahead. It's disingenuous to what's on the market today.
"AI will only replace what people allow it to. Not many people are going use AI for their wedding day, sports, family photos, or news"
Everyone is using AI right now. It's built into my phone. A device which by the way, costs WAY less than $6.6k. It actually COMES WITH A LENS, unlike this monster. I can fit it in my pocket. It recharges wirelessly, not via a AC brick circa 1992. So no need for "extra batteries".
No need for extra memory cards....as soon as I take a photo, it's automatically uploaded to the cloud for backup. It looks AMAZING out of the camera due to computational photography -- and with a few button presses, AI editing makes it pop even more by doing things that would normally cost a "professional photographer" several billable hours of labor. Another button press, and it's uploaded to the site or printing service of my choice. If I wanted to, I could "automate" this entire process with zero programming experience.
Yes, because journalists are getting paid the big dollars nowadays. Clark Kent and Lois Lane are pushing up the salaries of the Daily Planet.
"Or for dedicated hobbyists, it allows them to create at a higher level."
A $6.6k camera for a hobbyist? Sorry, that's not a "hobbyist" -- it's a "rich person". There's a blurry line of demarcation between hobby and insanity, but this is very clearly on one side of it.
"6000 dollars isn't even that much money by today's standards"
Then by all means, prove me wrong and buy me two of them. I'll give them a solid go and let you know my results!
"It's true you can get the same looking images with far cheaper cameras"
Indeed. It's not like photos from older cameras spontaneously combust when a new model comes out! If it was good enough back then, it's good enough today.
"the 1DX I came out in 2012 and it was 6799 at launch lol"
The only part of that I agree with is the LAUGHING part. It's tech. You want to go back in time and say "such and such cost SO MUCH back then", go ahead. It's disingenuous to what's on the market today.
"AI will only replace what people allow it to. Not many people are going use AI for their wedding day, sports, family photos, or news"
Everyone is using AI right now. It's built into my phone. A device which by the way, costs WAY less than $6.6k. It actually COMES WITH A LENS, unlike this monster. I can fit it in my pocket. It recharges wirelessly, not via a AC brick circa 1992. So no need for "extra batteries".
No need for extra memory cards....as soon as I take a photo, it's automatically uploaded to the cloud for backup. It looks AMAZING out of the camera due to computational photography -- and with a few button presses, AI editing makes it pop even more by doing things that would normally cost a "professional photographer" several billable hours of labor. Another button press, and it's uploaded to the site or printing service of my choice. If I wanted to, I could "automate" this entire process with zero programming experience.
There's a wall somewhere for you to continue your rant with.
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I upgraded from the R to the R5.