Canon redesigned its entry-level EOS R50 with improved video capabilities

The Canon EOS R50 V is simply a redesigned mentation of the EOS R50 with a stronger absorption connected video capabilities. | Image: Canon

Canon has announced an updated mentation of its EOS R50 with improved video capabilities, a smaller body, and a cheaper terms tag — acknowledgment successful portion to losing an physics viewfinder. The original, which launched successful 2023, was an entry-level mirrorless camera with 4K video capabilities that maxed retired astatine 30fps. The caller EOS R50 V bumps that to 4K astatine 60fps and borrows immoderate features from the video-focused PowerShot V1 point-and-shoot Canon announced successful February.

The Canon EOS R50 V volition beryllium disposable sometime successful April astatine $649.99 (the archetypal debuted astatine $680) for the camera assemblage alone. It volition besides beryllium sold successful an $849.99 bundle that includes Canon’s caller RF-S14-30mm F4-6.3 lens featuring optical representation stabilization and powered zoom capabilities controlled by a ringing alternatively of a fastener oregon a lever. Canon says the usage of a ringing makes it easier to smoothly power the lens’s zoom, whether utilizing the camera successful representation oregon scenery modes oregon portion shooting selfie videos.

The camera features the aforesaid 24.2-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor arsenic the archetypal EOS R50 and uses Canon’s Dual Pixel AF II strategy with absorption breathing compensation that tin besides beryllium recovered connected the EOS R6 Mark II and the PowerShot V1. New video signaling modes see options for dilatory oregon accelerated shutters depending connected the benignant of enactment being captured. There’s besides a video mode with physics stabilization to creaseless retired footage captured portion the camera is moving, but there’s inactive nary in-body representation stabilization.

Where the EOS R50 V differs from its predecessor is simply a implicit deficiency of a built-in flash and nary physics viewfinder. Framing shots is each done either connected an outer surface oregon utilizing the three-inch articulated touchscreen connected the backmost of the camera. The EOS R50 V is besides overmuch easier to usage successful either vertical oregon scenery modes acknowledgment to a redesigned grip, an further tripod screw equine connected the broadside of the camera, and a 2nd video grounds fastener connected the front.

Four antithetic livestreaming modes are supported, accessible done a dedicated button, including HDMI and enactment for Canon’s Camera Connect and Switcher Mobile apps. Although the EOS R50 V whitethorn look similar an affordable cinema camera solution for filmmakers, its somewhat constricted capabilities marque it amended suited for video contented creators looking for an upgrade to the PowerShot V1 that volition fto them swap lenses.

Alongside today’s EOS R50 V news, Canon has besides announced planetary availability for the PowerShot V1. The point-and-shoot was initially announced successful February 2025 with a precocious April motorboat for a constricted fig of countries including Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Canon says that aforesaid shipping timeline volition present see the US, with the camera priced astatine $899.99.