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by sudosysgen 1616 days ago
>Canon will choose to make an insufficiently sized heatsink on its DSLR so that in video mode it has to shut down after 20 minutes so it can be classified as a camera and not a video recorder.

The camera will record indefinitely in 4K line-skipping mode, so that's not actually the reason they didn't put the heatsink on.

That reason is either incompetence or market segmentation.

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> That reason is either incompetence or market segmentation.

Yes

Or simply because most people don't record longer videos. Or because that heat has to go somewhere and a bigger heatsink might heat some areas (or the user).

Or the current heatsink is an existing part and it was "good enough"

The average person isn't recording 8K RAW videos and doesn't have a computer capable of handling that either. And the EOS R5 at 3900$ is unarguably a professional camera.

It's almost 100% using unique parts, too.