Canon EOS R7 Mark II to Drop The Mechanical Shutter?

The stuff that hits our inbox about the Canon EOS R7 Mark II and/or EOS R7 V are all over the place. It’s been a while since we’ve had a hard time parsing wishlists with what might actually be true.

A couple of days ago we received information from a retailer that we know, but they have had some overzealous employees in the past.

No Mechanical Shutter?

One of the most interesting and fairly consistent claims is that the EOS R7 Mark II won’t come with a mechanical shutter.

Eventually, there won’t be an RF mount camera with a mechanical shutter, it’s just the way things are going to evolve. Nikon made the choice years ago with their professional Z8 and Z9 cameras.

Canon chose to keep the mechanical shutter in what they consider their professional cameras in the EOS R5 Mark II and EOS R1.A decision we’re happy they made for this generation of pro cameras. It’s almost guaranteed that the next iterations won’t have one anymore.

The EOS R7 Mark II is a great place to start.

We think the prosumer 7-series would be a great place to start removing the mechanical shutter from the RF line-up. The sensor in the EOS R7 Mark II is going to have the readout speed to handle what is rumored to be a 40fps eletronic shutter.

The mechanical shutter mechanism is probably one of the pricier parts of a camera body outside of the image sensor and DIGIC processors. It’s also a moving part that will die eventually if used enough.

I’ll always love the sound of a mechanical shutters and it was fun to blind guess what camera made the sound.

I do hope Canon doesn’t spend any time on coming up with a a fake mechanical shutter sound. Car companies didn’t get the memo!

Rumored Canon EOS R7 Mark II Specifications

• 32.2mp APS-C Sensor
• No mechanical shutter
• 40fps in electronic shutter
• 6K RAW Video
• Active cooling
• EOS R5 Mark II body size and layout

Summary

We don’t know the source, but the way the information was presented and that it wasn’t sent anonymously we think made it worth posting. There is no historical blueprint to go off of here.

We hope to hear more soon from this source to be able to raise the confidence level.

Just a random thought, what if the EOS R6 Mark III is the first to drop the mechanical shutter?

Go to discussion…