Canon EOS R50V Teardown and Disassembly | Infrared Conversion
Written by Phillip Andrew Iglesias
The Canon EOS R50V mirrorless camera is the company’s most recent camera release (as of its release in April 2025). It is a highly compact and affordable option for cinematographers and content creators, starting at $649.99 for the body at the time of this article publication. The R50V is positioned as a possible contender to Sony’s FX30 and FX3 since it is branded as a video-focused mirrorless camera. The R50V is capable of being converted for infrared shooting through our full-spectrum conversion service.
As with all of our teardowns, we targeted the baseplate first. It seems that most smaller cameras don’t have a dedicated baseplate—they opt to sandwich a front and back panel together to comprise the entire camera’s body, and the Canon R50V is no different. That said, we still removed three screws from the bottom of the camera’s frame to start.
The camera’s port side contained three screws beneath the covers. The port side is one of the easiest spots to uncover screws as they are easily accessible beneath the input jack covers.
There are two screws on the right side of the camera.
Since the Canon EOS R50V is small, there weren’t many screws to uncover. The remaining external screws included one behind the LCD screen, one within the battery compartment, and another hidden under the right thumb grip cover.
Removing all the aforementioned screws allowed us to split the front and back panels of the camera body frame. One large ribbon cable needed to be disconnected to fully split a part the body frames.
The port side cover of the camera clips right off. This exposes the left side of the camera, showing the internal layers.
Once we reached the camera’s interior, the next part to remove was the bracket frame. Seven screws held this part down.
Here is the frame bracket removed from the camera. Removing this part allowed us to access the circuitboard.
Interestingly, only one screw was attached to the circuitboard. Typically, there are several screws the follow the perimeter of the PCB, but not in this case. This is most definitely due to the camera’s small body.
The circuitboard has ten ribbon cable connections surrounding the perimeter of the PCB. A few connections were covered by another ribbon cable. Yet another example of saving space within the camera itself.
Here is the circuitboard disconnected from the camera.
Removing the circuitboard led us deeper into the camera’s layers, and so we reached the camera sensor bracket. Only one screw held down this piece. It seemed that there are other slots for other screws that were presumably removed previously at prior layers of the camera.
The camera sensor is only fastened with six screws.
Here is the sensor of the Canon EOS R50V detached from the interior. The camera houses an APS-C sensor.
The Canon EOS R50V was among the quickest and easiest mirrorless cameras we have ever disassembled due to its compact build and simple layout of its internal components. In the image above, you can see that the main layers of the camera include the front and back panels, two brackets, circuitboard, and sensor.
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