Canon R1 has been announced

[Fast Glass]

Reading the whole review, and trying not to be hasty. But I am baffled Canon had the audacity to call this an R1.

It's 99% the same as an R3 with some minor incremental improvements. IQ is basically the same as the R3, AF is basically the same hardware wise. Just more firmware stuff, but it's minor incremental stuff.

The dual slots are nice, the faster read out is nice, bit more proccessing speed. But that's it for any significant hardware differences. Rest is all software which will get trickled down to lower models eventually.

It's really a R3 II. If you look at it like that, it's whatever. If you don't have the R3, get the "R1", it's priced according at least. But I wanted a real R1. Not an R3 II, and a really minor upgraded R3 at that.

The R5 II is much closer to what an R1 should actually be. If they tossed that camera in an R1 form factor with all that proccessing power and features. That would be the buissness and a real competitor Nikon and Sony. An all around flagship for every situation and every photographer with no compromises.