The Canon Eos R50 V Offers Some Eos Cinema Features At A Low Price

The Canon EOS R50 V is designed from nan crushed up to present a very lightweight type of nan Canon EOS Cinema acquisition to an entry-level video audience.

While a acold outcry from a full-blooded Canon EOS C bid camera, nan EOS R50 V has a batch of video-oriented features and targets a hybrid aliases video-first audience. The EOS R50 V includes video-friendly functions for illustration mendacious color, Canon C-Log 3, 10-bit YCC 422 video, 4-channel audio, and dedicated headphone, mic, and distant power terminals. There are immoderate less-pro aspects, too, including utilizing a Micro HDMI (Type D) port.

The Canon EOS R50 V is besides targeted much astatine societal media creators, truthful nan camera is astatine location shooting vertically arsenic it is horizontally. The camera’s power layout is designed for some orientations, including a beforehand signaling fastener and dedicated unrecorded watercourse button, orientation-sensitive menus, and a 1/4-20 slot connected nan broadside of nan camera’s grip (there is 1 connected nan bottom, too). As Canon puts it, “The bequest of Cinema EOS technologies is splashed throughout” nan EOS R50 V.

On nan wrong of nan EOS R50 V is Canon’s tried-and-true 24-megapixel APS-C CMOS image sensor, which features Dual Pixel CMOS AF, and nan DIGIC X image processor. While nan camera tin seizure full-resolution RAW and JPEG images astatine a reasonably swift 15 frames per 2nd utilizing its physics shutter, it is intelligibly aimed astatine a video-first user.

The Canon R50 V records 4K video astatine up to 60p framework rates, albeit pinch a 1.4 times crop. For users requiring nan afloat width of nan sensor, possibly to return advantage of nan wide-angle focal magnitude of nan caller RF-S 14-30mm f/4-6.3 IS STM PZ lens, 4K signaling is capped astatine 30p. It is worthy noting that successful summation to nan mendacious colour display, nan R50 V besides includes audio level indicators during recording, and users tin quickly set nan achromatic equilibrium via Kelvin values done nan camera’s speedy menu.

Canon has besides placed a dense accent connected unrecorded streaming. The EOS R50 V supports UVC/UAV 4Kp60 streaming, while nan modular R50 tops retired astatine 1080p60. The caller R50 V besides supports wireless streaming done Camera Connect and Live Switcher Mobile.

In Canon’s compact hybrid and video camera lineup, which comprises nan PowerShot V10, nan caller PowerShot V1, and now nan EOS R50 V, Canon positions nan EOS R50 V astatine nan apical of nan heap acknowledgment to its larger APS-C image sensor and expertise to judge interchangeable lenses. Although nan PowerShot V1 besides has C-Log 3 recording, nan EOS R50 V promises improved video value and versatility. Ultimately, choosing betwixt nan PowerShot V1 and EOS R50 V comes down chiefly to whether consumers want an all-in-one camera aliases not.

The Canon EOS R50 V features Canon’s latest autofocus modes, galore of which are inherited from nan Canon EOS R6 Mark II full-frame camera. The R50 V’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF strategy covers astir 100% of nan APS-C image area, offers AI-powered taxable discovery and search (people, animals, and vehicles), and eye-detect AF for group and animals.

In pursuit of being an optimal video camera, immoderate features that galore EOS R bid photographers are utilized to are omitted pinch nan EOS R50 V. It is nan first EOS R bid camera to deficiency an physics viewfinder, for example, and besides omits a built-in flash.

Instead of an EVF, users must run nan camera done its three-inch rear monitor, which has 1.04 cardinal dots and flips outward for vertical and self-facing recording.

The EOS R50 V is astir 119.3 by 73.7 by 45.2 millimeters (4.7 by 2.9 by 1.8 inches), weighing 370 grams (13 ounces) pinch its artillery and an SD paper inserted. The camera has a azygous UHS-II SD paper slot. For reference, nan modular EOS R50, which has an EVF, weighs 375 grams (13.2 ounces).

Pricing and Availability

The Canon EOS R50 V will beryllium disposable successful April successful assemblage only ($649.99) and successful a kit pinch nan new RF-S 14-30mm f/4-6.3 IS STM PZ lens ($849.99).

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