Sure. I haven't drawn any conclusions either. I'd say my interest is piqued. This is both about the R3 specifically, but generally what Canon can do with a stacked BSI sensor as this is their first. I was always curious, but I am beginning to think there is a bit more there than faster readouts.

At this stage, when you are hearing impressions, people often focus on what Canon is pushing, and here it is the 30 fps, vehicle AF, eye-control AF, etc. But you begin to hear things that caught their attention, or users outside the target market that begin to adapt the camera and why. Another example, Canon Asia released this brochure, originally seen on CR, but on page 8 they have an image taken at ISO 51,200. Often time when hyping a camera's high ISO abilities, they say it can natively do ISO 10,000,000,000, but show an image taken at ISO 12,800. Here Canon is showing an image taken at ISO 51,200 and, while you can obviously see some noise, it looks better than any ISO 51,200 image I have seen.

We won't know anything more definitive until late November/December once production bodies are in peoples hands, and groups like photos to photos are doing their assessments. It'll also be interesting, if there is an increase in high ISO performance, did they do this by decreasing read noise (), or, has a sensor finally moved up from the ~55% quantum efficiency Canon/Sony/others have been at for ~5 years.

So, my interest in the abilities of the sensor is piqued.