DIGIC 8 'PowerShot' development (M50, SX70, SX740)

[far.in.out]

Okay, thanks for the info.
Can you please tell how you know if a sensor in a particular camera is good or crap?
Do you look at the specs or watch sample photos videos?
And what is the criteria for bad or good sensor?
Is it something subjective or you have some metrics?

[kitor]

Sensor seems to be recycled again from 1300D/2000D - 24MPx, 4k only cropped and with contrast detection.

Camera looks like 1300D/2000D with Digic 8 and RF mount.

[Walter Schulz]

Nah, they are different.
It got M50II's sensor.
DPAF in 1080p. Contrast detection in 4k.
M50, M50II have no AF in 4k.

[ArcziPL]

M50, M50II have no AF in 4k.

M50 has contrast AF in 4k.

[far.in.out]

As for me I'm very happy about the fact that there is cropped 4K - this should be a relatively clean image as compared to full sensor width image scaled without pixel binning, right? For many folks this could be usable even in stock H264 flavor. R100 even has 4K All-I for timelapse. If we can make it All-I for regular 4K then it would already be a good boost.

[Walter Schulz]

List the cams that got ALL-I with the help of ML ...

[far.in.out]

It is already in the cam, it's just limited to timelapse mode.

[kitor]

Well, there's a surprise. M50 mkII is not cbasic/uart locked, even though it runs latest DryOS version. I guess PowerShot team didn't get the memo.

Also there's 1.0.4 firmware in the wild, by google results it seems to be shipped since December last year. However there's no firmware update available (latest on the site is 1.0.3).
Even though firmware downgrade is locked (and we have no 1.0.4 file to use card swap method), Names found a way to downgrade any downgrade-locked camera without a real "same version as installed" file.