Canon EOS R6 Mark III Review: 32.5MP and Internal 7K Raw Push Canon's Hybrid Upmarket
The R6 Mark II’s one real weakness was resolution. Twenty-four megapixels is plenty for most jobs, but it left little room to crop. The Canon EOS R6 Mark III, announced in November 2025 at $2,799 for the body, fixes that with a new 32.5MP back-side illuminated sensor. Then it adds something no R6 has had before: internal raw video.
That makes it a different kind of camera. The Mark II was the do-everything bargain. The Mark III is closer to a small R5, at a price to match.
It’s not a stacked sensor. Canon kept those for the R5 Mark II and R1. But readout is fast enough for a 40 fps electronic burst and well-controlled rolling shutter in most situations.
Video review: Dustin Abbott
Stills: more pixels, same speed
You get 12 fps with the mechanical shutter and 40 fps electronic, with a 20-frame pre-capture buffer so you can catch the moment before you pressed the button. The buffer holds around 150 full raw files, which is generous.
Autofocus builds on the Mark II’s excellent Dual Pixel system. New tricks include “Register People Priority”, which lets you save the faces of the bride and groom, or your own kids, and have the camera prefer them in a crowd. Subject detection adds horses, trains and planes to people, animals and vehicles.
In-body stabilization is rated up to 8.5 stops with coordinated lenses.
Video: the big jump
Internal 7K raw at up to 60p, recorded in Canon’s 12-bit RAW Light format. 7K open gate at 30p for reframing vertical and horizontal versions from one shot. Oversampled 4K at 60p, plus 4K at 120p and Full HD at 180p. Canon Log 2 is on board, and Canon lists more than 15 stops of dynamic range. There’s no 30-minute limit, and you get pre-record and waveform monitoring.
To feed all that, Canon moved to one CFexpress Type B slot plus one SD UHS-II slot, and to the newer LP-E6P battery, rated at about 620 shots.
For one-person productions, this is a real cinema-style workflow in a stills-camera body.
What you give up
Price. At $2,799, it’s $300 more than the Mark II’s launch price, and the Mark II now sells for far less. If you shoot 24MP-friendly work like events and kids’ sports, the older camera is still excellent.
The viewfinder is a 3.69-million-dot panel and the 3-inch rear screen is unchanged from the Mark II. Both are fine, neither is a highlight.
CFexpress cards and raw video files cost money and storage space. Plan for both.
There’s no support for Canon’s add-on cooling fan grip, so very long raw takes in hot conditions could be a limit.
Who should buy it
Wedding filmmakers and hybrid shooters who want raw video without an external recorder. Photographers who wanted the R6 Mark II’s handling with more resolution. Anyone weighing an R5 Mark II who doesn’t need 45MP.
The Sony A7 V matches the resolution and has the bigger lens system but no internal raw. The Nikon Z6III has internal raw at a lower price but only 24MP. The R6 III splits the difference, with Canon’s comfortable handling on top.
For a single camera that covers paid stills and paid video, it’s one of the strongest choices of 2025 and 2026.