With those plans, you definitely need a top notch GPU.
Don’t forget, gaming can lead to the slippery slope of requiring an £800 chair and ignoring your wife when she tells you to come downstairs, your dinners ready. 
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I suspect that won’t actually be my direction of travel…!
Canon has just announced the release of the R5 Mk2 and the R1. They look like interesting cameras and for someone already in the Canon ecosystem with a fair bit of spare cash very tempting. I think though that if/when I do make the move mirrorless I would still be going for the R6 Mk2 or the replacement, the R7 is not to my mind a worthy successor to the 7D Mk2. So I will be sticking with my 7D2 and 5D4 for a bit longer I think.
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Hmm, the R5 mkii looks like a very complete bit of kit in terms of usability. You don’t ‘need’ them but eye control focus and the stacked sensor arrangement particularly, will likely make life a lot easier for taking pics of things moving about quite quickly!
Four and a half grand in the UK at launch now though. You can get and R5 and an R7 for £3,000 for the pair just now! An R6ii + and R7 Pair for just £2.5k…
It is a lot more expensive than the Z8 though, which I gues is its main competition and which can now be had for £2,750…
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This is the model that appeals most to me too. A Canon guest rep at my local branch of London Camera Exchange recently suggested to me at a Canon open day, that it offers a great deal of what is in the R3 for a lot less.
C.
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I just returned from a visit to Svalbard, to see (what remains of) the glaciers and wildlife up close. The ripboats bouncing on the waves would have ruined the rangefinder alignment of my M, but I had my Canon R5 with me - it did a fantastic job in rough conditions. Will definitely add the Mark II when available, for the higher speed electronic shutter primarily.
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Aha. Had it long enough to compare and form a conclusion?
No - it was released this morning, battery still charging!
Ah, let us know when your (Canon only!) battery is charged and you’ve had a go 
I am house sitting for a week up on the North Norfolk Coast and will be shooting 4 rolls of film on my Hasselblad. When I get the results back I shall make a decision whether or not to sell all my camera gear and get the new Hasselblad 2DX and 38mm lens. Difficult decisions ahead.
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Lovely camera, can you not add a digital Hasselblad back to the 501?
Great camera, wish I had not sold mine ?
A lot of people seemed to dislike the 2 1/4 square format (waste when printing landscape & portrait) - I really liked it
Good luck with your decision!
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I like the R5 and first impression is the mark II is just as likeable. It feels like the mark I but more responsive, with a very useful electronic shutter (with simulated shutter sound), and useful tweaks across the board. The AF system will take time to learn but a positive is that Canon felt confident enough to set it to tracking out of the box.
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Hi Oxfordian. I did look into doing just that but with the new lenses and the cost of the digital back it did not make economical sense.
Cheers, Steve2
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As an ex film hasselblad user - 2 bodies 4 lenses I think the new digital look amazing and will no doubt be beautifully made- I think the chrome on the old ones were polished with horse tail hair as the final finishing stage(?) I’m guessing the old film lenses don’t work with the digital and I hate to think how much a set would all cost… Would you earn enough from the transition to cover the cost would be my question to myself
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I believe you can use the lenses for the old Hasselblad with the digital back on the 501.
The problem is you can’t buy the Hasselblad digital back by itself. I think you have to buy the 907x which costs about £7k.
Of course once you have it you can use the 907x with digital lenses and then put the digital back on the 501 and use that with the original lenses.
I also think - but I may be wrong - you might be able to get an adapter for the 907x which would allow you to use the 501 lenses on it. However, I don’t think you can use digital lenses on the 501.
Pardon my total ignorance of Hassels ( other than unrequited lust - for monetary reasons I am obliged to “slum it” with lesser cameras, in my case a 5D4) but what do you mean by a “digital” lens in this context?
Lens works only on a digital camera and cannot be retro fitted to an older body, in my case my Nikon Z mount lenses cannot go on my Nikon F mount film cameras but my film camera lenses can be used on my Z cameras with an adapter.
They’re not digital lenses per se but just lenses that are built and designed to work on a digital body.
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OK, that’s what I assumed.