I bet he wasnt clam using that shitty and slow DPP4 or converting images to DNG then going to lightroom with it's crappy profiles when the camera first came out. I sure wasnt. LOL.
LOL, more defeated and lost than angry HA! When I analyzed 1000 images in DPP to make my sports AF video it took 4 hours for all the raw files to load 1:1 so I could check focus. FML
Wow, that was perhaps the most honest and convincing review of the R5 I have seen. Canon *should* pay you to use this for PR! Thank you for this, and I look forward to watching your other videos while I fiddle around with my own R5. :)
Great presentation John, loving your laid back style. I agree with most of what you say but isn’t it terrific that we have so much customisation that each of us can set up the R5/6 to suit our own particular nuances. Keep them coming, thanks. Billy
Thanks Billy! I really appreciate it! Yes those customization options are endless. I ended up adding an option to switch from the EVF and the LCD using the *. That way the back screen wont be on the whole time.
I'm so glad to have watched your review of the R5. You thoroughly covered all the ground that I've been wondering about. I''m now planning to order an R5 for myself.
At last, a balanced review of the R5 with the main attention being photography rather than video. I think you have summed-up the intention of this camera perfectly, continuing the aim of all Canon 5 series cameras I suspect: photography first and foremost but with the option for video if and when needed. I enjoyed this video immensely and thank you for your realistic approach based on real world use. I have the 5D4 and absolutely love it but you your comments have really helped put things into perspective on whether or not I will move to the R5 in future. I suspect I now will at some point.
Thanks Michael! I really appreciate that! I was thinking about you when I was talking about the electronic shutter v. manual shutter. I knew you could understand it and explain it better than I can!
Great review John, coming from a 5DS i'm loving ithe R5 even though the sensor is slightly less. Images are better for sure. Your video spec 'piece' with settings was a real help getting up and running with this camera. Real world work will tell but i'm happy to see Canon stepping up finally. The eye detect is amazing for sure. Take care.
Thank you so much! That is great to hear. I am sure this camera will be a big upgrade for you even through you're losing 5mp. I always assumed the 5DS was just a big 5D3, and the 5D4 was a good upgrade when it came to the flexibility of the file, so you might be finding the R5 RAW to be a yoga master!
Amazing review from a professional standpoint. I have been watching countless reviews of the R5 getting ready for its arrival and this is hands down the best video I have watched. I am a professional fashion & beauty photographer and I just upgraded from my 6D. I no longer have to guess about the crop for Instagram 🙌🏾 thank you
Thank you so much! I still mess up the framing but its nothing like before! Also through a series of comments, I have realized that I thought my modeling lights needed to be brighter for the 5DIV AF system, but now that I have the R5 I know it was just the camera. However, I am still trying to fine tune the screen / EVF brightness - its a process finding the point wher eyou can trust the camera indoors and see outdoors too.
Excellent Review! I’ve both cameras 5D MK IV and R5. You have answered all my question . Yes it’s so true that one camera can not be all thing in 2 Genre, what to prioritize Video, deal with a Video centric machine, deal with photography get a photographer’s camera. You show how to do it right and foolish that most users want a C200 and wouldn’t want to pay for it but think they can own a “hybrid “ and get that performance free.
Amazing review of the camera and thanks for all the information, I’ve seen many videos about this camera and this is by far my favorite. I’m ready to do the switch from my 5D mk4 to the r5
Very informative video, I like how you cover mainly the photography aspects more than the video. Your workaround with Capture One using the EOS utility is good. At first, I was annoyed about not writing to the card when tethered. You soon get over that after you use it more. Plus reviewing the image on a screen is better than on the back of the camera in my opinion. Keep the videos coming.
Thank you very much! I hear you. For exposure I like the tehter but I like the playback in the EVF and LCD for fixing poses or framing in real time. I was worried about only having one copy of my images too.
10:37 - I completely agree with you about the need for an *internal zooming* 70-200mm lens. I will continue using my EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS II lens until Canon makes a better (better for me) 70-200mm lens with *internal zooming*. I don't care about how small it is compared to the EF version, I care about how rugged it will be when I'm out shooting. The other thing I don't like about the new RF 70-200mm lens is that you need to turn the zoom ring further in order to get it from 70mm to 200mm. I like the shorter throw on the EF version and don't want to lose that. I'm loving the EOS R5 for stills and I do a little video on the side as well and it's great for my needs.
Amen! I heard about the throw from someone else too. You often need to zoom from one extreme to the other when shooting sports so I can imagine for many this lens will be a set-back.
@@JohnGress - When I shoot weddings or fashion runway I need to get from one extreme to the other quickly and would rather do that with a single twist of the zoom ring than have to twist it twice.
Great review John. I'm really glad you brought up the issues you've had with camera-matched profiles in Lightroom. This is something I've struggled with on my EOS R as well. They do have pretty good matching profiles now, but the Adobe's rendering of the R raw files wasn't very good when it first came out... then they changed them, breaking previous edits. 😡 Despite the improvements Adobe has made, I still prefer the way Capture One interprets my raw files... unfortunately I really miss some of the Lightroom > Photoshop workflow when I use it. The bottom line is I think Adobe needs to work on their Canon profiles.
Thanks Colin! I was wondering if they ever updated their profiles and of course the problems it would cause. I haven’t gone from C1 to photoshop yet, but I’m sure that’s coming soon. Right now I miss stroking the mouse to change the brush size.
Thanks! I ended up buying one and testing it, but for the most part I found confidence using C1 and now I only use the color checker when I run into problems.
Thanks! I wonder how it would handle finding faces at a basketball game or something like that, but I know it would be great during a portrait session!
Great review by a pro! I really appreciate that as it becomes more usable and more insightful. You can use Capture One´s crop function to get it exactly as you want when tethering. Just do it on one photo then automatically you'll have on the rest till you change it. Smooth and easy. You can save crops as presets. I do it often for getting the right proportion to compose for web images; sometimes its panoramic proportion something crazy like 600x2000 pixels... It's also possible to import a text as an overlay so one can really check for exact composition. Its such an ease of mind seeing it right there on the shoot its going to work out design wise.
Very good and balanced review. Thanks a lot for all those useful information. To add something, to my sense, full electronic shutter is mainly practical in a church for weddings, when you have to portrait people that don't move to much without making any shutter sound.. I won't use it for sports at all or anything moving unless I have to not care about its side effects.
Thanks Pierre! That is a good reason to use the E shutter. People pointed out to me in these comments that the electronic shutter also decreases your not depth to 12-bit which was in the specs and not in the manual. www.canon-europe.com/cameras/eos-r5/specifications/
@@JohnGress Indeed. Though I think 12 bits encoding is a no brainer in those conditions. Depending on lightings, flickering, low light environment, I think management of exposure and high ISOs are probably the most critical abilities for the camera.
Best wishes from Berlin/Germany - and another time thanks for your presentation! Hope, I will realize some of your tips in autumn this year with my EOS R 5 … after using my 5DMk3 for some years
I like your YT contributions as you focus on information and not drama, and your relaxed way of talking supports digesting the information, thank you. I will be highly interested in your C1 workflow. I use it for all my better Sony A7Riii files, but still stay with LRC as I can’t get around missing the DAM library convenience of LRC and the history panel. I rely on the history panel to make the right tasteful image tweaks. Maybe you don’t need it as you are more confident in your editing. Anyway I’m highly interested to hear your way of working till Adobe and Canon settle their alpha male attribute and give us Camera Standard and Faithful profiles.
Ha. Re Adobe v canon. Thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it. Funny you should mention history because I was poking around capture One today looking for it.
Very nice review. You might want to use EFCS as your default, though, to avoid shutter vibrations that can impact images using midrange shutter speeds, and try to remember to switch to full mechanical when using fast shutter speeds and wide apertures. Some cameras can auto switch between the two to ensure the best mode is being used, that would be a nice feature to have. Interesting that the Colour Fidelity profiles do not seem to be the final answer for you - I’m still hopeful that they (or a slightly tweaked form of them) will do the job.
If this camera did auto switch, like you're describing, that would be a very good feature. I think the Colorfidelity profiles are good, but I am sure they will improve. I am excited to try the x-rite checker, which just arrived.
I've enjoyed the R5 in the past few weeks. I've been doing all of my senior photos with the R5 this season. It has been so sharp and I love the eye detection. Coming from the 7D MKii it's a HUGE upgrade. I'll be shooting Formula Drift with it this weekend. We'll see how it does with fast moving objects .
@@Loneandalone Technically It does, but I wouldnt be too concerned. The higher resolution sensors aren't too affected. When you shoot with cameras that dont have a filter, the difference is fairly subtle. So there's my 2 cents worth if you're interested.
11:17 yeah I've always had issues when it comes to cropping for IG but not anymore because I use C.Fn4/Add cropping information/4:5. It probably won't work for you though since you can still see outside of the crop. Although the lines are so much thicker than the thin grid lines and they are dark gray/blue(?) so it is hard to miss. Interesting that your images import cropped in LR. I guess that is a feature of using the Cropping/aspect ratio instead of doing it my way. Great overview of how the camera is working for "you".
@@JohnGress Also for fast action remember you can get 30fps printable stills from 8k and social media worthy 120fps stills from 4k if framed well. 8k 4:5 crop is around 23MP. This ability has been so useful but I haven't really checked if rolling shutter effects video. Still waiting for someone to come out with a video that really touches on this side of things.
Great Video John (again a great video) .. Something about profiles:.. remember the first ones we checked out? they where done with the color checker.. maybe there is nothing wrong using color checker to color balance a shooting situation. I do have serious doubts about creating a profile that way. Not only should a profile get me a color base, based on the specific sensor, but also for well exposed, under or over exposed (slightly of course) files/areas in a picture.. i produce often 'underexposed' studio shots, because i fear nothing more then parts of the skin overexposed (and gone forever). I do hope a decent profile is a multidimensional 'thing' that does work on nonperfect exposure. the ones of color fidelity look so far best to me. Capture one: I always felt it has 'automatic' fantastic color rendering. And i am also considering it (again) (especially after adobe ignoring what their customers need. - not what they want, what they NEED). Not sure to have one more vendor dependence . .because C1does not replace LR/PS (or maybe it does?). I get slowly the impression that 5% of my time i am updating software, firmware, and software again .. (even on the new RF lenses (this morning)). There is hardly a day where not at least one product wants or offers an update . and all has to stay compatible amongst each other and sitting on an OS's.
Thanks Arthur! If I knew the first Colorfidelity profiles were based on the checker, I would have slopped that step! Oops Maybe the secret will be Colorfidelity profiles in C1!
Excellent video! I use the R5 for Wildlife, primarily birds. And this with an adapted Canon 600mm 4.0 III. This combo really rocks. I did not expect the EF performing well on the R5 but holy crap, I was wrong. The Animal Eye Autofocus performs better than on the Sony A9 II, I know it because we use A9 II with a Sony 600mm 4.0 GM. The tracking function is also top, I would say not far behind the A9 II. But what really sucks is the Rolling Shutter with 20fps, I don’t like it and I rarely use it. The sensor of the R5 is at least one generation behind the A9 II. Where the R5 shines is the memory interface, writing back data is so much faster compared to the A9 II. So is the R5 a High MP version of the A9 II? No, not at all. You are right. But it comes for me very close in some aspects.
Thanks! Interesting. I'm not an expert about electronic shutters but I wonder if its possible not to make a huge sensor scan fast enough to avoid rolling shutter. Just FYI people told me in the comments of this video about this info being buried on a Canon spec sheet. It is not in the manual: "RAW: RAW, C-RAW 14 bit (14-bit with Mechanical shutter and Electronic 1st Curtain, 13-bit A/D conversion with H+ mode, 12-bit A/D conversion with Electronic shutter, Canon original RAW 3rd edition)" - www.canon-europe.com/cameras/eos-r5/specifications/ Which makes the E shutter look even worse!
Great review John, love your work I’ve seen on IG / for my work I use a Fuji 50r for portraits and am thinking of getting two r6 bodies for my photojournalism work to replace my R and 1dx2
John Gress totally agree. Just discovered your video about the r5 battery grip. Beautiful filmed, calm and positive. Can’t wait to watch your other videos and tutorials
I have used capture one and Lightroom both. I have shifted from capture one to Lightroom, as Lightroom has lens correction which is not present in capture one now, they use to have in 2002. 2nd and most important point is Lightroom has better shadow details than capture one - I have done side by side comparison test, of course you will have to pixel peep, its not for people who don't look deep in an image detail....
Interesting. I could see lens correction being a deal breaker, but I see it exists in C1 20. People have been telling me about Lightroom causing harm in the background to highlights. 🤷🏼♂️ I just want the skin tone to look right.
Thanks for the updates, John! Very helpful for when mine arrives. Utilizing it as a photography camera is pretty exciting. As for the video capabilities is still very cool (no pun intended? lol), but I think using it in short spurts is a definite possibility.
With regard to the flying saucer football at 1/4000 and yet others report bird photography is fine, YOU don't track the football as it arrives at the receiver's fingertips whereas the bird photographer follows the bird. They also most likely can't tell if the bird is slightly distorted since it is a non-geometric subject. Rolling shutter distortion will appear the greatest on moving objects in the frame, not very much on objects in motion that remain at the same location in the frame. If you track the subject in the frame, as the electronic shutter assembles the frame, it will use newer pixels in subsequent sensor lines. If the subject stays motionless in the frame, its doubtful you will notice the pixels were newer ones if they represent the same area of the moving subject. Rolling shutter can only be fixed if all pixels are sampled for the exact same moment of time.
Thank you for reviewing this wonderful camera for us. I'm not planning to buy this camera at all but I want to see whats out there for me. I'm mostly waiting for the Sony A7R 5 coming next year which Sony is bringing early next year because of this camera 📷. You know your stuff very well.😊
This video was great (audio/image quality/content) and has way too few views IMO. I enjoyed it and can't wait for my R5 to show up! Thanks 👍 I got some nit-picking though: The auto-pan/slide is moving a bit quick, making it too easy for my eyes to pick up. Watching on my 75" TV, it kind of made me a bit nauseous. 3:48 - "using A-L servo"... Ahem, that would be capitalized ai: AI :) 8:01 "Asterik" - it's: AsteriSk.
The solution to your sports problem is to use 1st curtain electronic. It is the best of both worlds. The reason that one does not have rolling shutter problem is that the camera is already open when you are taking the shot and the mechanical shutter is the second curtain closing it. I have never heard of issues on fast lenses using that mode. I guess I better research that as that is the mode I shoot in all the time
As I corrected on screen the manual says "Defocused image areas may be incomplete when shooting near maximum aperture at high shutter speeds, depending on shooting conditions." So practically speaking you cant use the first curtain electronic shutter for sports since you would be using a fast shutter speed and a wide open or close to it aperture. .
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing. I wanted to ask what camera and lens you used for the video image at 12:14 and one more question, do you think the r6 achieves the same image aspect (color, dynamic range) as the r5 with an external recorder? Thanks in advance for the answer and congratulations on your great work.
Great video. I moved to Sony mirrorless in the studio but struggled to focus unless modelling lights were on full - which I can’t always do. What’s your experience focussing with the R5 in the studio - do you need to rely on modelling lights in order to focus?
Thanks Adam. I think it works really well even with just window light or the overhead lights. I found I like shooting with the modeling lights on because the view in the EVF and the in EVF preview after the flash look really similar and while it might sound silly, it brings me joy! LOL
Thanks for this amazing professional video. I am confused between R5 and Sony a7r iv. Can you tell me which sensor is better for quality picture, sharpeness, lowlight.As you know both camera has same size sensor but the size of the pixel in canon bigger than the size of pixel in Sony. In the other hand Sony has 61 pixel. My second question is overall for you as a professional which camera come over the other. Thank you in advance
Thank you so much. I have never used a Sony camera so I don't have an opinion about the camera, but in theory it does seem like the Canon would have less noise, plus it is a lot newer.
I was going to mention after starting to listen that you should try CaptureOne, but it appears you already have. I find the results much better with CaptureOne vs. Lightroom with either the ColorFidelity or Adobe profiles. I also upgraded from the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV to the R5 and love it just as much.
Very informative excellent video, clearly you put a lot of work into it. I appreciate your honesty and truth about this fabulous stills camera which offers video approach as opposed to the continual harping by the videocentric crowd who seems to not grasp their bias. The equivalent bias from a predominately stills photographer would be: Why is my video camera so lousy for stills, the ergonomics are all wrong, the menu sucks, the weight is awful, the tripod is too heavy, the monitor is too big, what the hell are these zebra things they annoy me while I compose, AND it is not weather sealed........
@@JohnGress The zeitgeist on RUclips channels related to photography are videocentric due to the video nature of RUclips, however, this introduces a bias in many cases to their reviews as they are NOT typical users of equipment in many cases, so they harp more when something does not do what they want for their purposes the way they want. Reality and thankfulness for good tools does not seem to enter into it. I have been watching these kinds of channels for years and while they often purport to be about photography they get lost in their own frustrations to stretch the same tool for things for which it is not truly designed. This leads to lauding every "improvement" they perceive in the video realm as wonderful beyond measure. But to me nobody talks about disk space, monitor upgrades, prints and real matters very often. Because it is all about 4K now 8K blah blah. Well even over the air TV here routinely broadcasts far from ideal HD quality and often less, and most people are looking on a smartphone, what really matters there? As for the trolls, I recommend you watch the movie: Troll Hunter. It's a great foreign movie, sub-titles I think, but really worth seeing how a powerful flash can be used outside. Best wishes!
Such astute observations John. That really helps me to put things in, well, focus. I think you’re 100% right. There so mad the product disappoints them they forget the audience.
John, Thanks for this review and since it was two years ago, I checked LightRoom Classic and see they have added the camera matching profiles to it. My question is what "Picture Style" do you have the R5 set to? It's in the Red Menu #3. Someone suggested to use "Faithful" and I've been trying it outdoors and it seems fine, but not sure what is best with studio lights. I have never set a Picture Style on my camera before and that seemed fine too. What do you suggest to set this to on the R5? Thank you.
I have it set to standard. But the picture style only effects jpegs and how the raw file is interpreted and displayed on the back of the camera. The profile “camera matching standard” in lightroom and “film standard” in capture one is how the file in interpreted in the computer.
When I tried Sigma Art lenses with the 5DSR, I had a lot of trouble with the autofocus. I'm assuming from your video that the R5 does much better with the Art series autofocus?
I have heard form others, before I bought the lenses, that when they got Sigma lenses they needed to be calibrated with a Sigma USB Dock. But when I received mine back in December they worked fine out of the box on the 5DIV and then the R5.
The mirrorless R cameras focus directly on the sensor so there is no calibration of lenses required. That’s why old EF lenses and third party lenses that may have caused trouble on DSLRs work great on the new R cameras. But keep in mind that third party lenses usually mimic EF lenses by using their internal ID numbers. So your camera will basically recognize and behave as if the mounted lense is some (usually old EF) lense. This may limit some features like focus area which Witze camera may adapt/limit as it thinks it’s dealing with a specific lense that has this limits.
Hi John, I followed your work around for tethering with LR using EOS Utility and also set up the Auto Import Folder. Is it possible for the images to automatically come into LR while shooting? The only way I can get them into LR is to click on the Import button in LR after each session. Is there a configuration I missed? Thanks so much!
@@JohnGress I would like to tether into LR, but when I go to File>Tethered Capture the tethering bar says No Camera Detected. Do I need to do something in the Preferences tab inside the EOS Utility app (in EOS Utility, I set the Destination Folder as the same Auto Import Folder for LR.
If you have EOS utility open it is going to block LR from seeing the camera. If you're going to use EOS Utility, you set the LR Auto import folder to be the EOS Utility destination, but that folder has to be empty when you set it up.
@@JohnGress Nothing special. When you import from a card and the import dialog comes up, scroll down to Adjustments. From there you can choose to apply a style (Preset), auto adjust, and/or include existing adjustments. I always have the import include the existing adjustments so crop and star ratings are reflected.
when this pandemic is over, it would be nice to see if anyone has ever done low light work with this camera. such as concerts in bars, with really potato lighting, where not even 3000 iso is even noticeable without really really fast f-stop glass. flash needed or it is not able to focus and will hunt, wondering why it's a camera.
Sure thing! Thank you so much! Also the cameras spec sheet and not the manual, says that you only get 12-bit color from the electronic shutter, not 14-bit.
Well yes I see your point. 12fps will work for that but I still think 20 is a dangerous gimmick. Unless it’s not a real sport anyway like lawn bowling 😉.
Great review. There should be way more reviews formatted just like this. Working pro's providing authentic and PRACTICAL insight and not just hype for "Subs" and "Likes". Thanks!
Regarding colour profiles, they are, effectively a type of preset. And theres sharpening applied as well. Adobe for some stupid reason dont make it easy for you to see the actual, unaltered raw file. And even worse, they show the file with the adjustments, tone curve set as zero which they definitely are not! I prefer swap out to an older process version, zero all the sliders and tone curve then re open . Its a method I learned off Andy Astbury, he refers to it as a process version swap. Without doing this ,lightroom will mislead you as to the true nature of your file. It will even show clipping in the highlights that isnt actually there. Its a great file management solution but has a crap raw converter.
Someone mentioned the process version on my LR/DPP video. It is interesting that all of the video editors let you see your footage without any adjustments, I am not sure why the photo apps don't. I keep hearing people say how great Lightroom is at File management, but it seems like C1 20 is very similar.
The battery usage doesn't seem drastically worse. Here is the only thing I have in the way of statistics - Yesterday while tethering with two LP-E6N batteries in the camera, each battery was drawn down 16% while shooting 146 images total. So I guess that would be about 300 images on an old battery, but keep in mind, I shot those images over 25 minutes.
How is capture one for batch editing or weddings, or anything where u take hundreds of photos. also does it have all the same options as lightroom and brushes??????? I hhate how the colors look on lightroom and it is pissing me off. Last thing. is the color fidelity better or more accurate than capture one colors????
Batch processing in C1 is fine. I am going to assume you're asking me if C1 has brushes, which is does and its very similar to LR, but there are not any presets, you have to create them. What you can do in the two programs is very similar. So far I have found some of the hot keys in C1 to be more logical, but I think the fine tuning of Chromatic Aberration is better in LR. LR radial filter seems to be more gradual and I am finding I need to layer two in C1 to get the same outcome. But the C1 color is better than the Adobe color. I don't have an opinion yet about accuracy between colorfidelity or C1.
Sigh. Yeah that is the major drag. At least you get 30 days for free. I found their tutorial videos on RUclips to be helpful. And coming from LR people suggest using migration mode so it looks like LR.
The Bob Ross of photography - so calm and thoughtfully delivered. Dare I say soothing too. Bravo John.
Thanks Sam! Wait until I make a retouching video. ;) Little trees will be living here and there! But seriously, thank you!
I bet he wasnt clam using that shitty and slow DPP4 or converting images to DNG then going to lightroom with it's crappy profiles when the camera first came out. I sure wasnt. LOL.
LOL, more defeated and lost than angry HA! When I analyzed 1000 images in DPP to make my sports AF video it took 4 hours for all the raw files to load 1:1 so I could check focus. FML
Sounds like John Malkovich. Should do voice-overs!
a trick : you can watch series at flixzone. Been using it for watching a lot of movies recently.
When importing to get the right crop try checking "include existing adjusments"
Wow, that was perhaps the most honest and convincing review of the R5 I have seen. Canon *should* pay you to use this for PR! Thank you for this, and I look forward to watching your other videos while I fiddle around with my own R5. :)
Wow, thanks! I am glad it was helpful. Enjoy! I am finding C1 to be quite helful, but just trying to find confidence in my results through experience.
Great presentation John, loving your laid back style. I agree with most of what you say but isn’t it terrific that we have so much customisation that each of us can set up the R5/6 to suit our own particular nuances. Keep them coming, thanks.
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Thanks Billy! I really appreciate it! Yes those customization options are endless. I ended up adding an option to switch from the EVF and the LCD using the *. That way the back screen wont be on the whole time.
I'm so glad to have watched your review of the R5. You thoroughly covered all the ground that I've been wondering about. I''m now planning to order an R5 for myself.
That’s great to hear! Thanks for the message and enjoy!!
At last, a balanced review of the R5 with the main attention being photography rather than video. I think you have summed-up the intention of this camera perfectly, continuing the aim of all Canon 5 series cameras I suspect: photography first and foremost but with the option for video if and when needed. I enjoyed this video immensely and thank you for your realistic approach based on real world use. I have the 5D4 and absolutely love it but you your comments have really helped put things into perspective on whether or not I will move to the R5 in future. I suspect I now will at some point.
Thanks Rob! I really appreciate it. You really made a great point when you said 5 series! It’s not a C series.
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Cool to see an actual pro photographer review a camera instead of all the professional reviewers! Keep up the great work John!
Thanks Michael! I really appreciate that! I was thinking about you when I was talking about the electronic shutter v. manual shutter. I knew you could understand it and explain it better than I can!
You might be the best camera channel on YT! Always great stuff John!
Thanks Stephen! I really appreciate that!!!! Wow!
Great review John, coming from a 5DS i'm loving ithe R5 even though the sensor is slightly less. Images are better for sure. Your video spec 'piece' with settings was a real help getting up and running with this camera. Real world work will tell but i'm happy to see Canon stepping up finally. The eye detect is amazing for sure. Take care.
Thank you so much! That is great to hear. I am sure this camera will be a big upgrade for you even through you're losing 5mp. I always assumed the 5DS was just a big 5D3, and the 5D4 was a good upgrade when it came to the flexibility of the file, so you might be finding the R5 RAW to be a yoga master!
"and If that ball looks crazy, I don't want the picture" LOL - Subscribed!
Why would you cant a misshapen football? ;) Football has enough problems!
Amazing review from a professional standpoint. I have been watching countless reviews of the R5 getting ready for its arrival and this is hands down the best video I have watched. I am a professional fashion & beauty photographer and I just upgraded from my 6D. I no longer have to guess about the crop for Instagram 🙌🏾 thank you
Thank you so much! I still mess up the framing but its nothing like before! Also through a series of comments, I have realized that I thought my modeling lights needed to be brighter for the 5DIV AF system, but now that I have the R5 I know it was just the camera. However, I am still trying to fine tune the screen / EVF brightness - its a process finding the point wher eyou can trust the camera indoors and see outdoors too.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts John. Very useful info. Best of luck with the camera!
Thanks Tim! I really appreciate it!
Excellent Review! I’ve both cameras 5D MK IV and R5. You have answered all my question . Yes it’s so true that one camera can not be all thing in 2 Genre, what to prioritize Video, deal with a Video centric machine, deal with photography get a photographer’s camera. You show how to do it right and foolish that most users want a C200 and wouldn’t want to pay for it but think they can own a “hybrid “ and get that performance free.
Great to hear! 100% The idea that youre going to get C series performance in a sealed little box is a fools errand.
Amazing review of the camera and thanks for all the information, I’ve seen many videos about this camera and this is by far my favorite. I’m ready to do the switch from my 5D mk4 to the r5
Thank you so much Joseph! I really appreciate it! You're going to love the R5. In comparison it's a smart phone and the 5DIV is a Motorola brick.
John Gress I felt the same way going from the R to the R5.
Very informative video, I like how you cover mainly the photography aspects more than the video. Your workaround with Capture One using the EOS utility is good. At first, I was annoyed about not writing to the card when tethered. You soon get over that after you use it more. Plus reviewing the image on a screen is better than on the back of the camera in my opinion. Keep the videos coming.
Thank you very much! I hear you. For exposure I like the tehter but I like the playback in the EVF and LCD for fixing poses or framing in real time. I was worried about only having one copy of my images too.
10:37 - I completely agree with you about the need for an *internal zooming* 70-200mm lens. I will continue using my EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS II lens until Canon makes a better (better for me) 70-200mm lens with *internal zooming*. I don't care about how small it is compared to the EF version, I care about how rugged it will be when I'm out shooting. The other thing I don't like about the new RF 70-200mm lens is that you need to turn the zoom ring further in order to get it from 70mm to 200mm. I like the shorter throw on the EF version and don't want to lose that.
I'm loving the EOS R5 for stills and I do a little video on the side as well and it's great for my needs.
Amen! I heard about the throw from someone else too. You often need to zoom from one extreme to the other when shooting sports so I can imagine for many this lens will be a set-back.
@@JohnGress - When I shoot weddings or fashion runway I need to get from one extreme to the other quickly and would rather do that with a single twist of the zoom ring than have to twist it twice.
A wholly respectable review - thanks John
Thanks Todd! I really appreciate it!
Great review John. I'm really glad you brought up the issues you've had with camera-matched profiles in Lightroom. This is something I've struggled with on my EOS R as well. They do have pretty good matching profiles now, but the Adobe's rendering of the R raw files wasn't very good when it first came out... then they changed them, breaking previous edits. 😡
Despite the improvements Adobe has made, I still prefer the way Capture One interprets my raw files... unfortunately I really miss some of the Lightroom > Photoshop workflow when I use it. The bottom line is I think Adobe needs to work on their Canon profiles.
Thanks Colin! I was wondering if they ever updated their profiles and of course the problems it would cause. I haven’t gone from C1 to photoshop yet, but I’m sure that’s coming soon. Right now I miss stroking the mouse to change the brush size.
Probably one of the best reviret ok RUclips . I see this as the mirrorless 5d and that camera has never been a sports camera or video camera
Thanks Johan! I really appreciate it!😊
Amazing review. Really great video. I would highly recommend the X-Rite color checker passport. I never shoot without it.
Thanks! I ended up buying one and testing it, but for the most part I found confidence using C1 and now I only use the color checker when I run into problems.
.. thanks for the video information about the camera :)
You bet! Thank you so much!
Thanks John. Very informative, moderate and temperate (as usual).
Thanks Daniel! I really appreciate it!!!
Awesome review
Thank you for this review.
I shoot mostly sports and seniors
Been pondering
Thanks! I wonder how it would handle finding faces at a basketball game or something like that, but I know it would be great during a portrait session!
Great review by a pro! I really appreciate that as it becomes more usable and more insightful. You can use Capture One´s crop function to get it exactly as you want when tethering. Just do it on one photo then automatically you'll have on the rest till you change it. Smooth and easy. You can save crops as presets. I do it often for getting the right proportion to compose for web images; sometimes its panoramic proportion something crazy like 600x2000 pixels... It's also possible to import a text as an overlay so one can really check for exact composition. Its such an ease of mind seeing it right there on the shoot its going to work out design wise.
Thank you so much Martin!
Very good and balanced review. Thanks a lot for all those useful information. To add something, to my sense, full electronic shutter is mainly practical in a church for weddings, when you have to portrait people that don't move to much without making any shutter sound.. I won't use it for sports at all or anything moving unless I have to not care about its side effects.
Thanks Pierre! That is a good reason to use the E shutter. People pointed out to me in these comments that the electronic shutter also decreases your not depth to 12-bit which was in the specs and not in the manual. www.canon-europe.com/cameras/eos-r5/specifications/
@@JohnGress Indeed. Though I think 12 bits encoding is a no brainer in those conditions. Depending on lightings, flickering, low light environment, I think management of exposure and high ISOs are probably the most critical abilities for the camera.
Thanks for the Color Fidelity tip! Profiles are way better than the Lr ones for the R5!
That’s great to hear! They really do hold their own!
Best wishes from Berlin/Germany - and another time thanks for your presentation! Hope, I will realize some of your tips in autumn this year with my EOS R 5 … after using my 5DMk3 for some years
Thank you so much! The R5 will be a huge leap forward for you!
I like your YT contributions as you focus on information and not drama, and your relaxed way of talking supports digesting the information, thank you.
I will be highly interested in your C1 workflow. I use it for all my better Sony A7Riii files, but still stay with LRC as I can’t get around missing the DAM library convenience of LRC and the history panel. I rely on the history panel to make the right tasteful image tweaks. Maybe you don’t need it as you are more confident in your editing. Anyway I’m highly interested to hear your way of working till Adobe and Canon settle their alpha male attribute and give us Camera Standard and Faithful profiles.
Ha. Re Adobe v canon. Thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it. Funny you should mention history because I was poking around capture One today looking for it.
Once I’m comfortable with C1 I’ll make a video about it too.
Very nice review. You might want to use EFCS as your default, though, to avoid shutter vibrations that can impact images using midrange shutter speeds, and try to remember to switch to full mechanical when using fast shutter speeds and wide apertures. Some cameras can auto switch between the two to ensure the best mode is being used, that would be a nice feature to have. Interesting that the Colour Fidelity profiles do not seem to be the final answer for you - I’m still hopeful that they (or a slightly tweaked form of them) will do the job.
If this camera did auto switch, like you're describing, that would be a very good feature. I think the Colorfidelity profiles are good, but I am sure they will improve. I am excited to try the x-rite checker, which just arrived.
I've enjoyed the R5 in the past few weeks. I've been doing all of my senior photos with the R5 this season. It has been so sharp and I love the eye detection. Coming from the 7D MKii it's a HUGE upgrade. I'll be shooting Formula Drift with it this weekend. We'll see how it does with fast moving objects .
Does the anti Aliasing filter reduces the sharpness of the image ?Please do reply .
That’s great to hear! The AF is just a huge upgrade for everyone. It’s so cool seeing 85 1.4 headshots where basically every frame is right!
@@Loneandalone Technically It does, but I wouldnt be too concerned. The higher resolution sensors aren't too affected. When you shoot with cameras that dont have a filter, the difference is fairly subtle. So there's my 2 cents worth if you're interested.
mark rigg thanks for replying. Does every photos comes sharp or at some point it’s smooth ?
11:17 yeah I've always had issues when it comes to cropping for IG but not anymore because I use C.Fn4/Add cropping information/4:5. It probably won't work for you though since you can still see outside of the crop. Although the lines are so much thicker than the thin grid lines and they are dark gray/blue(?) so it is hard to miss. Interesting that your images import cropped in LR. I guess that is a feature of using the Cropping/aspect ratio instead of doing it my way. Great overview of how the camera is working for "you".
Oh thank you so much for your kind words and this tip! I’m going to try that out!
@@JohnGress Also for fast action remember you can get 30fps printable stills from 8k and social media worthy 120fps stills from 4k if framed well. 8k 4:5 crop is around 23MP. This ability has been so useful but I haven't really checked if rolling shutter effects video. Still waiting for someone to come out with a video that really touches on this side of things.
Thank you that's a great tip! This is exactly what I needed, knowing the crop but still being able to see the whole frame.
Great review John.
Thank you so much!🙌🏼
Great Video John (again a great video) .. Something about profiles:.. remember the first ones we checked out? they where done with the color checker.. maybe there is nothing wrong using color checker to color balance a shooting situation. I do have serious doubts about creating a profile that way. Not only should a profile get me a color base, based on the specific sensor, but also for well exposed, under or over exposed (slightly of course) files/areas in a picture.. i produce often 'underexposed' studio shots, because i fear nothing more then parts of the skin overexposed (and gone forever). I do hope a decent profile is a multidimensional 'thing' that does work on nonperfect exposure. the ones of color fidelity look so far best to me. Capture one: I always felt it has 'automatic' fantastic color rendering. And i am also considering it (again) (especially after adobe ignoring what their customers need. - not what they want, what they NEED). Not sure to have one more vendor dependence . .because C1does not replace LR/PS (or maybe it does?). I get slowly the impression that 5% of my time i am updating software, firmware, and software again .. (even on the new RF lenses (this morning)). There is hardly a day where not at least one product wants or offers an update . and all has to stay compatible amongst each other and sitting on an OS's.
Thanks Arthur! If I knew the first Colorfidelity profiles were based on the checker, I would have slopped that step! Oops Maybe the secret will be Colorfidelity profiles in C1!
Great video! Officially made the upgrade and awaiting shipment!
That’s great to hear! Thank you so much!
Super excited about the 4:3 masking in the viewfinder! I used to do the same kind of guess-work-- lovely that is now a thing of the past!
Ok great! I was worried I might be he only one who is excited about this feature. 😀
Excellent video! I use the R5 for Wildlife, primarily birds. And this with an adapted Canon 600mm 4.0 III. This combo really rocks. I did not expect the EF performing well on the R5 but holy crap, I was wrong. The Animal Eye Autofocus performs better than on the Sony A9 II, I know it because we use A9 II with a Sony 600mm 4.0 GM. The tracking function is also top, I would say not far behind the A9 II. But what really sucks is the Rolling Shutter with 20fps, I don’t like it and I rarely use it. The sensor of the R5 is at least one generation behind the A9 II. Where the R5 shines is the memory interface, writing back data is so much faster compared to the A9 II. So is the R5 a High MP version of the A9 II? No, not at all. You are right. But it comes for me very close in some aspects.
Thanks! Interesting. I'm not an expert about electronic shutters but I wonder if its possible not to make a huge sensor scan fast enough to avoid rolling shutter.
Just FYI people told me in the comments of this video about this info being buried on a Canon spec sheet. It is not in the manual: "RAW: RAW, C-RAW 14 bit (14-bit with Mechanical shutter and Electronic 1st Curtain, 13-bit A/D conversion with H+ mode, 12-bit A/D conversion with Electronic shutter, Canon original RAW 3rd edition)" - www.canon-europe.com/cameras/eos-r5/specifications/
Which makes the E shutter look even worse!
great work!! this is a real review
Thank you so much Nasser!
We shoot about 45K in sports photos, i can't wait!
Track and field would e another
Great review John, love your work I’ve seen on IG / for my work I use a Fuji 50r for portraits and am thinking of getting two r6 bodies for my photojournalism work to replace my R and 1dx2
Thanks! That doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
John, you have big future!
Thank you so much! It took me forever to get over my camera shyness. I guess well see how the youtube thing goes!
John Gress totally agree. Just discovered your video about the r5 battery grip. Beautiful filmed, calm and positive. Can’t wait to watch your other videos and tutorials
I have used capture one and Lightroom both.
I have shifted from capture one to Lightroom, as Lightroom has lens correction which is not present in capture one now, they use to have in 2002.
2nd and most important point is Lightroom has better shadow details than capture one - I have done side by side comparison test, of course you will have to pixel peep, its not for people who don't look deep in an image detail....
Interesting. I could see lens correction being a deal breaker, but I see it exists in C1 20. People have been telling me about Lightroom causing harm in the background to highlights. 🤷🏼♂️ I just want the skin tone to look right.
Fantastic review!!
Thank you so much!
Stay with Capture One and learn it, its worth it! I love it.
Working on it!
Thanks for the updates, John! Very helpful for when mine arrives. Utilizing it as a photography camera is pretty exciting. As for the video capabilities is still very cool (no pun intended? lol), but I think using it in short spurts is a definite possibility.
That is great to hear! I 100% agree with you. It seems the cool firmware update will solve a lot of the overheating problems. ;)
Mechanical shutter in in high speed also “scan” the surface of sensor, it’s just much faster. 1/250 vs 1/60 approx in r5 case
Oh! That is the difference. A video rate verses a still rate. Thanks!
makes sense now
Someone else just said you get less bit depth out of the Electronic raw too. First I heard of that.
John Gress Heard that also.
John Gress yeah, in fast shutter speeds (1/2000-1/8000) DOF on fast lenses is becoming larger, and bokeh choppier
With regard to the flying saucer football at 1/4000 and yet others report bird photography is fine, YOU don't track the football as it arrives at the receiver's fingertips whereas the bird photographer follows the bird. They also most likely can't tell if the bird is slightly distorted since it is a non-geometric subject. Rolling shutter distortion will appear the greatest on moving objects in the frame, not very much on objects in motion that remain at the same location in the frame.
If you track the subject in the frame, as the electronic shutter assembles the frame, it will use newer pixels in subsequent sensor lines. If the subject stays motionless in the frame, its doubtful you will notice the pixels were newer ones if they represent the same area of the moving subject.
Rolling shutter can only be fixed if all pixels are sampled for the exact same moment of time.
Yes, this is why you need a global electronic shutter or a mechanical shutter for fast moving elements.
Jhon woke up and chose to highly saturate the blues.
Great video! Super helpful. Thank you!
No problem! Thank you.
Excellent Video.... Thanks
You are welcome! Thank you so much!
Thank you for reviewing this wonderful camera for us. I'm not planning to buy this camera at all but I want to see whats out there for me. I'm mostly waiting for the Sony A7R 5 coming next year which Sony is bringing early next year because of this camera 📷. You know your stuff very well.😊
Thank you so much David! I am sure these two companies will keep one-upping each other!
This video was great (audio/image quality/content) and has way too few views IMO. I enjoyed it and can't wait for my R5 to show up! Thanks 👍
I got some nit-picking though:
The auto-pan/slide is moving a bit quick, making it too easy for my eyes to pick up. Watching on my 75" TV, it kind of made me a bit nauseous.
3:48 - "using A-L servo"... Ahem, that would be capitalized ai: AI :)
8:01 "Asterik" - it's: AsteriSk.
Thank you so much! I I’ll slow it down next time. I really appreciate it!
The solution to your sports problem is to use 1st curtain electronic. It is the best of both worlds. The reason that one does not have rolling shutter problem is that the camera is already open when you are taking the shot and the mechanical shutter is the second curtain closing it. I have never heard of issues on fast lenses using that mode. I guess I better research that as that is the mode I shoot in all the time
As I corrected on screen the manual says "Defocused image areas may be incomplete when shooting near maximum aperture at high shutter speeds, depending on shooting conditions." So practically speaking you cant use the first curtain electronic shutter for sports since you would be using a fast shutter speed and a wide open or close to it aperture. .
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing. I wanted to ask what camera and lens you used for the video image at 12:14 and one more question, do you think the r6 achieves the same image aspect (color, dynamic range) as the r5 with an external recorder?
Thanks in advance for the answer and congratulations on your great work.
Thank you so much! Sorry, but I dont have any information about how the two models compare. The lens was a Sigma 50mm F1.4 Art DG HSM amzn.to/36qmzE5
Great video. I moved to Sony mirrorless in the studio but struggled to focus unless modelling lights were on full - which I can’t always do.
What’s your experience focussing with the R5 in the studio - do you need to rely on modelling lights in order to focus?
Thanks Adam. I think it works really well even with just window light or the overhead lights. I found I like shooting with the modeling lights on because the view in the EVF and the in EVF preview after the flash look really similar and while it might sound silly, it brings me joy! LOL
90% of the people who are vocal about the over heating issue are not Canon shooter.
Lol. Preach!
Thanks for this amazing professional video. I am confused between R5 and Sony a7r iv. Can you tell me which sensor is better for quality picture, sharpeness, lowlight.As you know both camera has same size sensor but the size of the pixel in canon bigger than the size of pixel in Sony. In the other hand Sony has 61 pixel. My second question is overall for you as a professional which camera come over the other. Thank you in advance
Thank you so much. I have never used a Sony camera so I don't have an opinion about the camera, but in theory it does seem like the Canon would have less noise, plus it is a lot newer.
I was going to mention after starting to listen that you should try CaptureOne, but it appears you already have. I find the results much better with CaptureOne vs. Lightroom with either the ColorFidelity or Adobe profiles. I also upgraded from the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV to the R5 and love it just as much.
Thank you so much Steven! I'm working on emptying my LR retouch queue as I write this and looking forward to being comfortable with C1.
Great review!
Thank you so much!
Very informative excellent video, clearly you put a lot of work into it. I appreciate your honesty and truth about this fabulous stills camera which offers video approach as opposed to the continual harping by the videocentric crowd who seems to not grasp their bias. The equivalent bias from a predominately stills photographer would be: Why is my video camera so lousy for stills, the ergonomics are all wrong, the menu sucks, the weight is awful, the tripod is too heavy, the monitor is too big, what the hell are these zebra things they annoy me while I compose, AND it is not weather sealed........
Ha! Thank you so much! I’m surprised they aren’t trolling this video! 😛
@@JohnGress The zeitgeist on RUclips channels related to photography are videocentric due to the video nature of RUclips, however, this introduces a bias in many cases to their reviews as they are NOT typical users of equipment in many cases, so they harp more when something does not do what they want for their purposes the way they want. Reality and thankfulness for good tools does not seem to enter into it. I have been watching these kinds of channels for years and while they often purport to be about photography they get lost in their own frustrations to stretch the same tool for things for which it is not truly designed. This leads to lauding every "improvement" they perceive in the video realm as wonderful beyond measure. But to me nobody talks about disk space, monitor upgrades, prints and real matters very often. Because it is all about 4K now 8K blah blah. Well even over the air TV here routinely broadcasts far from ideal HD quality and often less, and most people are looking on a smartphone, what really matters there? As for the trolls, I recommend you watch the movie: Troll Hunter. It's a great foreign movie, sub-titles I think, but really worth seeing how a powerful flash can be used outside. Best wishes!
Such astute observations John. That really helps me to put things in, well, focus. I think you’re 100% right. There so mad the product disappoints them they forget the audience.
@@JohnGress Watch Troll Hunter if you would like a kick.
John, Thanks for this review and since it was two years ago, I checked LightRoom Classic and see they have added the camera matching profiles to it. My question is what "Picture Style" do you have the R5 set to? It's in the Red Menu #3. Someone suggested to use "Faithful" and I've been trying it outdoors and it seems fine, but not sure what is best with studio lights. I have never set a Picture Style on my camera before and that seemed fine too. What do you suggest to set this to on the R5? Thank you.
I have it set to standard. But the picture style only effects jpegs and how the raw file is interpreted and displayed on the back of the camera. The profile “camera matching standard” in lightroom and “film standard” in capture one is how the file in interpreted in the computer.
@@JohnGress 👍🏼 thanks 🙏🏼 I didn’t understand that.
The profiles in LR and C1 affect the RAW files. Camera jpegs always have the picture style baked in.
When I tried Sigma Art lenses with the 5DSR, I had a lot of trouble with the autofocus. I'm assuming from your video that the R5 does much better with the Art series autofocus?
I have heard form others, before I bought the lenses, that when they got Sigma lenses they needed to be calibrated with a Sigma USB Dock. But when I received mine back in December they worked fine out of the box on the 5DIV and then the R5.
The mirrorless R cameras focus directly on the sensor so there is no calibration of lenses required. That’s why old EF lenses and third party lenses that may have caused trouble on DSLRs work great on the new R cameras. But keep in mind that third party lenses usually mimic EF lenses by using their internal ID numbers. So your camera will basically recognize and behave as if the mounted lense is some (usually old EF) lense. This may limit some features like focus area which Witze camera may adapt/limit as it thinks it’s dealing with a specific lense that has this limits.
Hi John, I followed your work around for tethering with LR using EOS Utility and also set up the Auto Import Folder. Is it possible for the images to automatically come into LR while shooting? The only way I can get them into LR is to click on the Import button in LR after each session. Is there a configuration I missed? Thanks so much!
In LR there are two methods. 1. If you will be using EOS utility go to File>Auto Import. 2. If you want to tether in LR, go to File>Tethered Capture.
@@JohnGress I would like to tether into LR, but when I go to File>Tethered Capture the tethering bar says No Camera Detected. Do I need to do something in the Preferences tab inside the EOS Utility app (in EOS Utility, I set the Destination Folder as the same Auto Import Folder for LR.
If you have EOS utility open it is going to block LR from seeing the camera. If you're going to use EOS Utility, you set the LR Auto import folder to be the EOS Utility destination, but that folder has to be empty when you set it up.
@@JohnGress Thanks so much John!
Hi John, what's the link, if is available to get the Canon R5 profile for Lightroom?
www.colorfidelity.com/
Hello, have somebody tested the wifi speed with Ipad capture? Is the live view preview still low res in pads?
With Capture One, did you select the option to include existing adjustments when importing?
See, I knew I was doing something wrong. Do I need to set that up in an import style?
@@JohnGress Nothing special. When you import from a card and the import dialog comes up, scroll down to Adjustments. From there you can choose to apply a style (Preset), auto adjust, and/or include existing adjustments. I always have the import include the existing adjustments so crop and star ratings are reflected.
Hmm I will see the next time when I am importing from a card if I can set up a preset to apply to the hot folder imports.
when this pandemic is over, it would be nice to see if anyone has ever done low light work with this camera. such as concerts in bars, with really potato lighting, where not even 3000 iso is even noticeable without really really fast f-stop glass. flash needed or it is not able to focus and will hunt, wondering why it's a camera.
I don't think you need to be in a bar or concert to test this capability.
It does outperform my 1dx mark 3 for sport.
I don't know.
@@JohnGress I wish it didnt haha Anyhow the 25 extra mpx and the rf is also making it hard for me not to use the r5 now.
Thank you for the video, was able to setup EOS utility to tether wirelessly. Subbed. Keep up the good content :)
I did get some weird volley ball shape. So you are definitly right for the rolling shutter. I tough it looked cool tho.
Sure thing! Thank you so much! Also the cameras spec sheet and not the manual, says that you only get 12-bit color from the electronic shutter, not 14-bit.
you're breaking youtube compression with that constant moving camera
Let’s hope😉
its a sports camera 12-20fps u cant beat that especially with 45mp
Well yes I see your point. 12fps will work for that but I still think 20 is a dangerous gimmick. Unless it’s not a real sport anyway like lawn bowling 😉.
Curling! Oh wait I forgot about the broom speed! 🤣
Great review. There should be way more reviews formatted just like this. Working pro's providing authentic and PRACTICAL insight and not just hype for "Subs" and "Likes". Thanks!
Thank you so much David! I really appreciate it. I just wanted to answer all of my own questions and provide the results.
is direct tethering available in capture one 20 with canon R5
Yes. But as I hope I stated, it only writes the images to the computer disabling the in EVF image review.
Asa commercial photographer, what do you think of the R6 ?
I haven't used it, but coming from the 5DIV I wasn't interested in another 30MP camera.
Regarding colour profiles, they are, effectively a type of preset. And theres sharpening applied as well. Adobe for some stupid reason dont make it easy for you to see the actual, unaltered raw file. And even worse, they show the file with the adjustments, tone curve set as zero which they definitely are not! I prefer swap out to an older process version, zero all the sliders and tone curve then re open . Its a method I learned off Andy Astbury, he refers to it as a process version swap. Without doing this ,lightroom will mislead you as to the true nature of your file. It will even show clipping in the highlights that isnt actually there. Its a great file management solution but has a crap raw converter.
Someone mentioned the process version on my LR/DPP video. It is interesting that all of the video editors let you see your footage without any adjustments, I am not sure why the photo apps don't. I keep hearing people say how great Lightroom is at File management, but it seems like C1 20 is very similar.
How many shots it taken on full charge with new bettery plz plz reply
The battery usage doesn't seem drastically worse. Here is the only thing I have in the way of statistics - Yesterday while tethering with two LP-E6N batteries in the camera, each battery was drawn down 16% while shooting 146 images total. So I guess that would be about 300 images on an old battery, but keep in mind, I shot those images over 25 minutes.
@@JohnGress that's helpful for me thanks bro
How is capture one for batch editing or weddings, or anything where u take hundreds of photos. also does it have all the same options as lightroom and brushes??????? I hhate how the colors look on lightroom and it is pissing me off. Last thing. is the color fidelity better or more accurate than capture one colors????
Batch processing in C1 is fine. I am going to assume you're asking me if C1 has brushes, which is does and its very similar to LR, but there are not any presets, you have to create them. What you can do in the two programs is very similar. So far I have found some of the hot keys in C1 to be more logical, but I think the fine tuning of Chromatic Aberration is better in LR. LR radial filter seems to be more gradual and I am finding I need to layer two in C1 to get the same outcome. But the C1 color is better than the Adobe color. I don't have an opinion yet about accuracy between colorfidelity or C1.
@@JohnGress i am going to try it out this week. i been doing shoots and all my colors suck now
Sigh. Yeah that is the major drag. At least you get 30 days for free. I found their tutorial videos on RUclips to be helpful. And coming from LR people suggest using migration mode so it looks like LR.
@@JohnGress i have it. the interface ughhhhh!
i cant stand the slow panning of the background from side to side.. annoying!
Ok, let me go fix it and record again.
what the terrible face color in this video ?
I accidentally shot it in the 1DC log color space and couldn't get it to look right.