Well, Canon has officially announced the R3! I know I kinda threw it under the bus. But I'm still excited to see it.

There was several things that caught my attention, not least of which was the sensor was DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED by Canon. So this is a time for Canon to shine and one thing that Canon does well is their noise performance, among a lot of things. And while technically a little behind Sony with their current older sensor style. I'm EXTREMELY excited to see the noise performance of the R3! I fully expect to be impressed. I was already blown away with the 1Dx III sensor how well it managed noise. If It can beat that, I'll be stoked.

I guess one thing it doesn't have as high a max expanded ISO. So on paper it leaves room for the 1Dx III to win out. But the native ISO is the same and that is more important to me anyway. ISO 800,000 was really getting noisy anyway, to say the least.

Other cool thing I noticed was the 6k video. That is very interesting to see, I thought it be 4K.

24mp still better than 20mp.

I'm still wanting my high resolution pro body. But I have to say, the R3 is looking pretty dang slick as a whole package. Really really slick.

One thing I see the 1Dx III being better at is the mechanical shutter rate. The R3 has 12FPS with the mechanical shutter the 1Dx III has 16FPS mechanical in the viewfinder and 20FPS mechanical through live view. So I can see where their are a few features that might actually make the 1Dx III relevant for some photographers. Especially if the jello affect is something that affects your images in select scenarios. And since those probably be sports photographers they are not loosing out so much on the lens department. Or they might have legacy glass anyway. So it definitely can make sense for some.

But over all, the R3 is looking really awesome and I am curious to see how the reviews fair out.