It’s been a long wait for the new R5 – four years to be exact. In this time the competition hasn’t stood still. Nikon have since acquired RED and upped their game significantly in RAW video on the Z6 III, Z8 and Z9. The Canon EOS R5 Mark II improves on the old camera, but is it enough to stop Canon being thought of as a second best option? To justify the price of £4499 despite a weak yen and relatively strong British pound, Canon is talking up the groundbreaking nature of the R5 Mark II but don’t be taken in – this is very much an evolutionary update. I know on good authority in fact that quite a few Canon reps are unhappy about the price, and had been expecting a bigger update. The Ai autofocus for example, is being touted as the next big thing. Ai has been part of autofocus for years. It absolutely isn’t a “groundbreaking” new thing. The 8K 60p 12bit RAW internal recording is the other headline feature, and it produces some unmanageably large file sizes. The maximum time you can expect in this mode before overheating is just 20 minutes with the internal fan engaged and temperature limits set to high. Everything else is pretty much as you were with the 4 year old camera. The same megapixel count, similar dynamic range, 10bit H.265 but no ProRes, no internal ND filter and a limited lens mount that doesn’t have the wider ecosystem...
Published By: EOSHD.com blog - Wednesday, 17 July