Canon has introduced an up to date model of its EOS R50 with improved video capabilities, a smaller physique, and a less expensive price ticket — thanks partly to shedding an digital viewfinder. The unique, which launched in 2023, was an entry-level mirrorless digicam with 4K video capabilities that maxed out at 30fps. The brand new EOS R50 V bumps that to 4K at 60fps and borrows some options from the video-focused PowerShot V1 point-and-shoot Canon introduced in February.
The Canon EOS R50 V might be obtainable someday in April at $649.99 (the unique debuted at $680) for the digicam physique alone. It is going to even be bought in an $849.99 bundle that features Canon’s new RF-S14-30mm F4-6.3 lens that includes optical picture stabilization and powered zoom capabilities managed by a hoop as a substitute of a button or a lever. Canon says using a hoop makes it simpler to easily management the lens’s zoom, whether or not utilizing the digicam in portrait or panorama modes or whereas capturing selfie movies.
The digicam options the identical 24.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor as the unique EOS R50 and makes use of Canon’s Twin Pixel AF II system with focus respiration compensation that can be discovered on the EOS R6 Mark II and the PowerShot V1. New video recording modes embrace choices for gradual or quick shutters relying on the kind of motion being captured. There’s additionally a video mode with digital stabilization to clean out footage captured whereas the digicam is transferring, however there’s nonetheless no in-body picture stabilization.
The place the EOS R50 V differs from its predecessor is an entire lack of a built-in flash and no digital viewfinder. Framing pictures is all completed both on an exterior display screen or utilizing the three-inch articulated touchscreen on the again of the digicam. The EOS R50 V can also be a lot simpler to make use of in both vertical or panorama modes due to a redesigned grip, an extra tripod screw mount on the facet of the digicam, and a second video document button on the entrance.
4 totally different livestreaming modes are supported, accessible by means of a devoted button, together with HDMI and assist for Canon’s Digicam Join and Switcher Cell apps. Though the EOS R50 V might look like an inexpensive cinema digicam resolution for filmmakers, its considerably restricted capabilities make it higher suited to video content material creators in search of an improve to the PowerShot V1 that may allow them to swap lenses.
Alongside right this moment’s EOS R50 V information, Canon has additionally introduced international availability for the PowerShot V1. The purpose-and-shoot was initially introduced in February 2025 with a late April launch for a restricted variety of nations together with Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Canon says that very same delivery timeline will now embrace the US, with the digicam priced at $899.99.