Richard CanonNews / Wednesday, September 18, 2019 / Categories: Rumors, Canon Mirrorless This post may contain affiliate links(s). An affiliate link means I may earn advertising/referral fees if you make a purchase through my link, without any additional cost to you. It helps to keep this site afloat. Thank you in advance for your support. If you like what we do here, maybe buy me a coffee. Canon to create an EOS Ra (dedicated Astrophotography camera?) - UPDATE IT'S OFFICIAL A new rumor has surfaced that Canon will create an EOS-Ra in 2020. It has appeared on internal roadmaps for 2020. Canon Rumors goes by the assumption that an EOS-Ra would be an astrophotography based EOS R. What is would an astrophtoography EOS R or Ra be like? It would basically be the same thing as an EOS R but with simply a different IR/UV cut filter to allow more hAlpha spectrum light to be picked up by the sensor. As Kolari Vision notes with their EOS R analysis, the EOS R has a huge amount of IR light leak, so I would assume that the Ra version would have this fixed, as an hAlpha bandpass filter, would also allow more IR light to hit the sensor, and with how sensitive photographing stars is, any IR light leak could potentially be a problem. Normally for cameras that don't have a serious IR light leak problem, converting a camera for astrophotography is almost best served by having your camera converted by someone such as Kolari Vision. A full spectrum or dual spectrum (color/IR) is far more flexible for astrophotography and also terrestrial photography than simply an h-Alpha band pass based filter. This would certainly be low hanging fruit for Canon to exploit. Canon because of it's historical nature of EOS Utility available to remotely control it's DSLR's for ages, has a large backing in the more serious astrophotography discipline. Update Seems some smart forum users found out that Canon UK has already released a leaflet about the EOS Ra. So for certain, it's an astrophotography version of the EOS R. You can download the leaflet here, or from our website below. From the leaflet we see that it has as we discussed, a specially modified filter in front of the sensor, which allows for 2 stops (or 4 times) the amount of h-alpha light to reach the sensor. Richard CanonNewsRichard CanonNews Richard has been using Canon cameras since the 1990s, with his first being the now legendary EOS-3. Since then, Richard has continued to use Canon cameras and now focuses mostly on infrared photography. Richard is the founder and editor of CanonNews since 2017, and has worked as a writer on CanonRumors and other websites in the past. Other posts by Richard CanonNews Contact author Facebook page Related articles Canon Strategy Conference 2024 Canon EOS R50 V Review New Rumors Rundown: Lenses and the EOS R7 Mark II USA Tariffs May affect Canon Cameras and Japanese Camera Equipment Canon RF 20mm F1.4L VCM MTF Analysis and Comparisions Previous Article Interview: Canon will make cameras above and below EOS R / EOS RP Next Article DPReviewTV: The return of Canon's eye-controlled focus Print Tags: CanonEOS REOS Ra Documents to download EOS_Ra_Instuction_Leaflet_ML(.pdf, 401.28 KB) - 1262 download(s) Please login or register to post comments.