I never ever use lock switch or button at all. I don’t like when the off/on switch exchange to photo/video. I customized a button that near the shutter to be photo/video.
Thanks for putting this together, I know you spent a lot of your time on critically addressing the R5 mark ii. There’s a lot of R5 owners, myself included who are having the same questions. I’ll wait to see your hands on experience before I make a purchase decision. For me at the moment: I am not pre-ordering. I’ll stick with my R5 and R3.
I think Canon crippled R5 mk. II on purpose softwarewise. They know they have 4 years of competition ahead. At the same time, I am eager how the new BSI sensor will behave in low light. As a wildlife and landscape photographer I am not yet decided to upgrade. No need to be honest despite faster AF would be great.
I’m disappointed there is no oversampled 4k 60p option. It was in the R5 C and it was in the Nikon Z8. Both of those cameras have been around for awhile now. It seems like if they can do 8k 60 then they could have added it for an option at least. As it the 4k 60 will be softer than many of their other cheaper cameras. That’s my biggest complaint, but hopefully they add it later or the line skipped version turns out better than expected.
Short answer, I have no clue. Long answer, it's raw data, so it's presumably Bayer patter data, which means there's a lot of options without That said, Canon has had some oddball "raw" formats in the past with stills, but they also weren't on cameras that could easily bin down the desired resolution like the R5-2 can. The sensor is fast enough to support doing a lot of things. It could be lazy and line and do line an column skipping. They could also bin the 4 4-pixel groups in a 4x4 block to get a super RGGB bayer output. We won't know until someone with a camera tests that, and like I said in the video I won't get my R5-2 until everyone else does so...
I like deep plush eye cups and had to turn towards third party providers to get one. It replaces the stock Canon cup and installs via two small screws.
Before I even watch your video, I'd like to say I'm glad you wasted your time. I've been waiting for your opinion before I make my final decision to make the purchase or not.
No downsampled 4k50/60 is a big dealbreaker for me. My R5C can do it, but the R5II can't? Doesn't make sense to me. I'm sure for those shooting mostly up to 30p they'll be happy, but even with the cooling grip it will overheat.
The problem with the R5C's 50/60p is rolling shutter performance. One of my biggest complaints with the R5C is that I can't switch to line skipping in any of the normal frame rates, when I need a faster rolling shutter. That said, I'm really hoping that Canon release a R5C-2, that would likely be a bigger must have upgrade for me than the R5-2. I want my shutter angles. That said, I also barely care about 50/60p, as anything other than a S&F motion thing.
I want to see how the frame rates and recording options change/align. i.e. 4k 102 non crop but only Long GOP? Or is that ANY of the settings like All-I? The whole "Light RAW" has me scratching my head. Clearly this is a data reduction tactic at the cost of quality.... so data limit is there and they are jumping through a LOT of hoops to get there. Sony with A7S3 and FX3? Easy... use a 12mp sensor and boom everything works. (mostly lol)
My guess, is that the raw stuff is the same as it is on the R5 now. Everything is done using "Canon's Cinema Raw Lite" codec, standard and lite reflect the amount of compression that the codec is run at. Actually, if anything the bigger question is why, given that they're supposed to be using the Cinema EOS nomenclature now, is it raw and raw lite, and not RAW SQ and RAW LQ in the specs? As for the higher frame rates, no clue. There's at least one table in the manual that implies that you can shoot 4k120 in both standard intra and standard LGOP. HFR on the R5 is only intra, though S&F on the R5C can be done in both intra and LGOP, and all 3 of these cameras share the same Digic X CPU so.....
I never ever use lock switch or button at all. I don’t like when the off/on switch exchange to photo/video. I customized a button that near the shutter to be photo/video.
You are THE AUTHORITY on modern Canon camera reviews!!
Thanks for putting this together, I know you spent a lot of your time on critically addressing the R5 mark ii. There’s a lot of R5 owners, myself included who are having the same questions. I’ll wait to see your hands on experience before I make a purchase decision.
For me at the moment: I am not pre-ordering. I’ll stick with my R5 and R3.
I think Canon crippled R5 mk. II on purpose softwarewise. They know they have 4 years of competition ahead. At the same time, I am eager how the new BSI sensor will behave in low light. As a wildlife and landscape photographer I am not yet decided to upgrade. No need to be honest despite faster AF would be great.
I’m disappointed there is no oversampled 4k 60p option. It was in the R5 C and it was in the Nikon Z8. Both of those cameras have been around for awhile now. It seems like if they can do 8k 60 then they could have added it for an option at least. As it the 4k 60 will be softer than many of their other cheaper cameras. That’s my biggest complaint, but hopefully they add it later or the line skipped version turns out better than expected.
huge bummer for me also
I have no clue just how big the files will end up being, bigger than HEVC surely, but if you really need the quality at 4K60, there's always SRAW.
@@PointsInFocusso Sraw is oversampled at 50fps?
Short answer, I have no clue.
Long answer, it's raw data, so it's presumably Bayer patter data, which means there's a lot of options without
That said, Canon has had some oddball "raw" formats in the past with stills, but they also weren't on cameras that could easily bin down the desired resolution like the R5-2 can. The sensor is fast enough to support doing a lot of things. It could be lazy and line and do line an column skipping. They could also bin the 4 4-pixel groups in a 4x4 block to get a super RGGB bayer output.
We won't know until someone with a camera tests that, and like I said in the video I won't get my R5-2 until everyone else does so...
I believe the Nikon oversampled 4K is 4:2:0 compression so it isn’t as sexy as you might think.
I like deep plush eye cups and had to turn towards third party providers to get one. It replaces the stock Canon cup and installs via two small screws.
Now it feels like everyone has put their two cents in…
There is a PD-E2 available for pre-order for the R1/R5 MK II. Canon USA SKU: 6871C002
Thanks for the heads up...
Before I even watch your video, I'd like to say I'm glad you wasted your time. I've been waiting for your opinion before I make my final decision to make the purchase or not.
I like the power switch move since it now matches the R6mkII and I have that camera and will make it the B-cam to my R5mkII.
So should I buy the R5 ii or the R5…I do not care about video but I shoot wildlife so I’m wondering how much better is the R5 ii with autofocus??
Good question. I won't have a good answer for that until I get my R5-2, hopefully in a couple of weeks. And the AF is one thing I want to dig into.
No downsampled 4k50/60 is a big dealbreaker for me. My R5C can do it, but the R5II can't? Doesn't make sense to me. I'm sure for those shooting mostly up to 30p they'll be happy, but even with the cooling grip it will overheat.
The problem with the R5C's 50/60p is rolling shutter performance. One of my biggest complaints with the R5C is that I can't switch to line skipping in any of the normal frame rates, when I need a faster rolling shutter.
That said, I'm really hoping that Canon release a R5C-2, that would likely be a bigger must have upgrade for me than the R5-2. I want my shutter angles.
That said, I also barely care about 50/60p, as anything other than a S&F motion thing.
I want to see how the frame rates and recording options change/align. i.e. 4k 102 non crop but only Long GOP? Or is that ANY of the settings like All-I? The whole "Light RAW" has me scratching my head. Clearly this is a data reduction tactic at the cost of quality.... so data limit is there and they are jumping through a LOT of hoops to get there. Sony with A7S3 and FX3? Easy... use a 12mp sensor and boom everything works. (mostly lol)
My guess, is that the raw stuff is the same as it is on the R5 now. Everything is done using "Canon's Cinema Raw Lite" codec, standard and lite reflect the amount of compression that the codec is run at.
Actually, if anything the bigger question is why, given that they're supposed to be using the Cinema EOS nomenclature now, is it raw and raw lite, and not RAW SQ and RAW LQ in the specs?
As for the higher frame rates, no clue. There's at least one table in the manual that implies that you can shoot 4k120 in both standard intra and standard LGOP. HFR on the R5 is only intra, though S&F on the R5C can be done in both intra and LGOP, and all 3 of these cameras share the same Digic X CPU so.....
WHAT THE HECK ???? YOU CANT EVEN START PROPERLY .....😂😂😂😂
He’s just being real man
Dont worry this is a genuine channel. So very rare..
You need to buy a Sony or Nikon. An hour of complaining about a camera you don't even have tells me you'll hate it if you own it.
🤣Thanks for the laugh... I really needed that.