Canon has announced a new vlogging camera. Called the Canon EOS R6 V, it basically takes last year’s R6 Mark III and streamlines it down to all the filmmaking essentials, giving content creators a vlogging-centric variant for one of last year’s best mirrorless camera releases.
The first full-frame EOS camera to use the V moniker, it’s designed to signify that the model is built primarily for video. And it’s quite the powerful filmmaking tool, boasting capabilities like 7K RAW footage, open-gate 3:2 filming, and a whole lot more that you just don’t typically from more hybrid designs.
The Canon EOS R6 V is equipped with a 32.5-MP full-frame CMOS sensor that’s paired with the outfit’s DIGIC X processor. It has a native photo ISO of 100 to 64,000, expandable to 50 to 102,400, with a dynamic range of more than 15 stops in Canon Log 2 gamma curve. For video specifically, though, the native ISO is 100 to 25,600, with the base shifting depending on your selected color space. It records 7K open-gate 3:2 RAW at up to 30 fps, 7K DCI RAW at up to 60 fps, oversampled 4K at up to 60 fps, uncropped 4K at 120 fps, and 2K at up to 180 fps, so you can get really good slow-motion footage using this thing. The full-size HDMI slot can output 4:2:2 or ProRes RAW to compatible recorders at 7K. There’s a dedicated color button for switching between profiles, by the way, with 14 programmable slots.
There’s in-body image stabilization that’s rated at up to 7.5 stops of correction, while a five-axis Movie Digital image stabilization function is also available for handheld work. It runs Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF II system, which is inherited from the R6 Mark III, so it should deliver some powerful autofocus functions, including being able to register up to 10 people for prioritization in crowded scenes.
The Canon EOS R6 V ditches the viewfinder entirely. Instead, you can do your framing using the 3-inch vari-angle touchscreen LCD, which can rotate 90 degrees for vertical shooting. Speaking of vertical video, this camera comes with two tripod mounts, one for landscape and one for portrait orientations. Storage is done through one CFExpress Type B slot and one UHS-II slot, so you can store backups on the fly to ensure you don’t lose any footage. Since high-res video shoots can really heat up a camera, it’s fitted with an internal cooling fan that should help extended the length of your recording sessions. For a general idea on cooling performance, the outfit claims it should be able to shoot in 7K Light RAW with a 2K proxy for over two hours with the fan running, which would be great since the 2,130 mAh battery can only last for approximately 70 minutes in those same settings.
Other features include 40 fps continuous shooting with the electronic shutter, an integrated power zoom lever, a tally lamp, Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.1, UVC/UAC streaming up to 4K 60 fps, and four-channel 24-bit LPCM or two-channel 16-bit AAC audio. The body is cut in a mix of aluminum, magnesium, and polycarbonate.
The Canon EOS R6 V comes out late June, priced at $2,499.