From the tests I have seen, there doesn't seem to be an affordable (or even expensive) computer that can handle the highest quality modes of R5 video for editing.

Apparently the latest iPad pro has a new generation processor that can handle the files better than a desktop machine?

When will these new generation of processors be available in a desktop system?

How is everyone else planning to spec their machines for R5 video editing duties?

Since I'm confident I'll get RF body soon-ish, and sounds like the EF-RF adapters are sold out due to R5 popularity.

So I thought maybe I should already buy one. There's several options though, which one should I buy?

Basic one for $99
With ring $199
Filter w/ CPL $299
Filter w/ variable ND $399

I'm kinda thinking about the ring version. But is it really useful? Or would the filter versions be better future proofing?

so i got my R5 from B&H thur by 1030am here in nyc/nj area it was in packed up well no signs of damage or being used or etc
so today saturday from 4pm too 6pm i was out testing the SERVO AF at bk bridge park here in nyc on street bball
camera worked great no problems or etc yet here's the strange part
I FEEL/HEAR SOMETHING SHAKING OR MOVING IN THE CAMERA WITH AND WITHOUT THE BATTERY IN IT AND ONLY THE CPS STRAP ON IT MAKING NOISES
(camera wasnt NEVER WAS dropped or banged since i got only sitting on my laptop desk and only out too test it with my ADAPTOR with my old 24-70 and 50mm stm lens
again the camera works correctly yet i feel shaking or slight movement inside of it i rate it on a scale 3.5 out of 10 (u can feel a slight shake or something inside moving) is it the IBIS?
or shutter mechanism or etc? I HAVE EMAILED CANON AND B&H (would i have too send it in or will that exchange it for me?
and im waiting too see what they say DID I GET LEMON HAS ANYBODY NOTICED THERE UNIT FEELING AND HEARING SOMETHING MOVING INSIDE? please try for yourselves if possible and let me know

I've had a couple days with the 600, and only a few minutes with the 800, but here are some observations:

1) They do actually make sense. I was a little skeptical, but having used them, I'm quite taken by them. I just came back from a 4-hour walk with kids, dog, wife in the woods, and I never would have taken a 600 with me. It was light and easier to use than I anticipated. I got the motion down for extending the barrel, and then things just got easy. It's as handleable as my wife's Sigma 100-400. I wore it on a hip holster attached to an R5, and it was never too bulky that it caused any issues.
2) The image quality in good light is strikingly good. It is likely on par with the bare 400 f/5.6 L in terms of quality. But if you were to take a 2x teleconverter and stick it on the 500 f/5.6, you'd also find yourself with an 800 f/11, but it would be very far behind the quality of the actual 800mm f/11 DO. In other words, you get the 800 focal length, but the 400 equivalent quality.
3) Only the center third of the viewfinder is active for autofocus, and that makes shooting moving targets harder. The tracking is just as good on it as with the other lenses, though. I think this is the biggest downside to the lens. See note below, though, for a counter-point....*
4) Putting a 1.4x RF teleconverter on the 600 f/11 (makes it f/16 840mm) works beautifully. Was very surprised how well this kept up with AF and tracking.
5) In bad light, the f/11 is mostly working well, as the R5's low light performance is at least a stop better than my R or my old 5d4. It's like f/11 is the new f/8.
6) It's very weird not to have aperture control. You get used to it, but it's weird. The lens is at the fixed aperture.
7) As a cheap DO lens, I expected bokeh to be fair to poor. It's actually pretty nice. See image below with a quite busy background.
8) I'd convinced myself they came with hoods. They don't. Ugh.
9) I received the 800 f/11 only this afternoon after the big walk. Shot some stuff outside just for kicks. I suspect this has higher image quality than the 600. The IQ/price ratio is something quite new.
10) Minimum focus distance isn't terrible, like the 800mm f/5.6, but it's not useful for small stuff. 0.14x reproduction ratio.

Will be adding to this post via editing, so stay tuned.

* I was doing some direct comparisons between the 600 f/4 II with 1.4x tc versus the 600mm f/11 DO with 1.4 tc, and I found myself hearing a crashing noise in the brush behind me. A fawn was running down the hill on the game path on which I was standing. It was clueless that I was there, facing the same direction it was facing, just ahead of it. I wanted to haul the 600 f/4 around slowly to try to capture this, but I knew it would never work. I'd have to dismount it form the tripod and swing this tree-branch-sized lens around. Instead, I raised the 600 f/11 up on the other R5 and snapped 3 pictures immediately. It was a stark lesson in the utility of a smaller lens with wildlife shooting.

Here's that fawn with the 600mm f/11 quickdraw shot at f/16 due to the 1.4 RF teleconverter with effective focal length of 840mm. Any closer, nothing would be in focus.

I'm wondering why no one would to use a pyrometer to measure the temperature inside the camera with the lens removed during overheating, the temperature of the sensor itself, of the strapping, is there such a high temperature inside for real or is it a software limitation? pyrometer - its price about $20 - not a big question to solve

The Canon USA store has a small amount of Canon EOS R5 bodies in stock and ready to ship. ACT FAST!
Canon EOS R5 at Canon USA Store

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I shoot very little video, but on the R the video button would use the C3 Custom Shooting settings. I thought I'd be able to set up my new R5 the same way, but when I tried it, C3 is now a photo setup. Does anyone know how to set the parameters used by the video button on the R5? I just want to be able to press one button and know that my basic settings are going to work. Thanks in advance!

Are we still getting an EOS R Mk II or is Canon just going to release a higher resolution EOS R6 in the future? I watched a couple R6 video reviews- the lower megapixel count and soft 1080p 120 fps video are disappointing, yet I'm not sure I want to spend more for the R5. An EOS R Mk II slotting between the R5 and R6 would make a lot of sense.

Would love to get a 30MP RII with no 8k, 4k 120/60/30/24 with no crop, IBIS, 12 fps shooting, which seems to fit in with CR's RII rumor in January.

CanonRumors EOS RII specs

Jump to 11:41 here to see soft 1080p 120fps test on the R6:

Hi Seniors

Any thoughts on sending lens for Service during Covid situation in US! Do you think it will be stuck with them for long long time or chance of loosing it etc!

Do I need to take any type of insurnace etc! {Sending for first time}

Why am I sending it: My 24-70mkii is on 7th year, rubber grip is very loose and i just want an overall cleaning service just so that it runs longer

Thanks
Maru

Gerald Undone, one of the premier camera tech YouTubers has completed an exhaustive record time test on the Canon EOS R5 and Canon EOS R6.
He hopes to have the full video up on Monday or Tuesday for your viewing pleasure, but for now, he has provided us with a handy chart detailing his methodology, record times in all modes both internally and externally.
All of these tests were done indoors in a climate-controlled environment.
As for recovery time, Gerald has this to say:
It should also be noted that these times are from a 2 hour cooldown period. You will only get these durations once, then they’re significantly cut down. Takes about 1 hour for 60% recovery and 2 hours for full recovery.

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Dynamic range and other results are up for the R5 over at Photons to Photos. Nice bump in sensor performance compared to Canon's previous sensors, on par with the a7Riv.

I noticed that you can choose to have the R5's IBIS enabled at all times when shooting, or only during the exposure itself. The manual doesn't say anything about how these two modes may differ from one another in performance or battery life. I know that with some lenses the number of stops the IS can provide actually increases if you set the lens to only do stabilization during the exposure. I'm curious to see how this works with the IBIS on the R5. I think I'm going to leave it set to "only during the exposure" and see how it goes. I'll report back on this, but it may take me a while to get a good feel for how the two modes differ from each other in performance and battery life. It's interesting that Canon allows us to choose though.

I suppose having IBIS on all the time would help with framing when you're using a super telephoto, but I don't know how much it really matters to have it enabled at all times when using more normal focal lengths.

my optics knowledge is almost zero but it seems to me that there would be a market for a wide fast lens that focuses only at infinity and Is corrected for coma. It would need a small focus adjustment to correct for temperature. The limited focus movement should make the lens cheaper to manufacture.

i think a 3rd party company that made it for various mounts could sell enough to make a profit. Someone should get right on this and have it ready for the next new moon.

The R5 video review from DPR is up:


For the stills side, I did not get much news out of this. At 3:00 IBIS gets some praise as the best one found in any FF cameras. At 3:30 we also get some positive impressions about IBIS on EF lenses, especially coupled with IS EF lenses. That's good to hear.

Nothing too interesting on the EVF. I didn't hear anything about lag or perceived blur, but the tone was very positive.

Picture quality is on par with competitors in terms of DR and noise. Colors are still great.

At 8:50 the AA filter actually seemed to get a compliment as having only very little effect on sharpness while effectively combating moire. An in the sentence after, the electronic shutter read out (rolling shutter) get's called the best we've seen from any high res FF sensor. I guess that wording includes everything but the A 9 bodies?

At 15:23 the camera gets a recommendation for mainly stills people and it is said that stills shooting was never impacted by heating issues.

The second halve of the video is about video. The point their making is that the 8K, 4K HQ and 4K 120 mode of the camera are really great in terms of quality and are the main attractions for video folks. Unfortunately, these are exactly the mode that will build up internal temperature and therefore require making changes to your work flow and restrict how long it can be used. So the frustration comes from wanting to use these features, but having to compromise on shooting style in order to do so. Which is an understandable frustration I think.

Overall: Not the kind of insights I would want from a review. I think more valuable Info can be found reading the threads around here from people who were lucky enough to get one already.

Well i didn't notice that there is another thread about this, how do i delete a thread?

Bill Claff at Photons to photos published the first measurements regarding the R5 sensor. It looks like it has a second gain stage starting at iso 400, like the sensors made by Sony.
Looks like there is some noise reduction going on in raw, but it doesn't seem to affect image quality if you compare the R5 with the Z7 or A7RIII on Dpreview compare tool.

Just wanted to post that the ProGrade 128 Gold CFexpress card cannot handle 8K RAW and 4K 120

Canon USA has made an official statement and it has been published on PetaPixel about rumored shipping delays for the Canon EOS R5, they do not touch on concerns about the performance of the EOS R5.
From Canon USA:
Orders of the EOS R5 are scheduled to be delivered as initially stated at launch. The first set of cameras shipped from our warehouses this week. We eagerly await the content that will be produced by talented creatives using this camera to be shared with the world.
That’s it, that’s all.
I think it’s best if I just let each individual translate this official statement from Canon USA for themselves.

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Here's the link:

R5 it's actually a hair better than A7r4 AT ISO 100, R5 11,69 and A7R4 11,62.

There have been a lot of visceral posts from a couple of web sites that have either taken things out of context or clearly just want to appear relevant.
Yesterday I wrote about a lot of reports of long delays in the second allocation of the Canon EOS R5.
I also wrote:
New firmware is definitely coming, but will there be a hardware solution/recall too? It’s starting to feel that way. But let’s wait and see what Canon has to say about the issue and get further confirmation about the second allocation being delayed until November.
I regret using the word “recall”, but I did write it in a responsible way, as in we should wait for confirmation from Canon Inc. themselves.
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Got my r5 yesterday and played around with it a little bit. With the rf24-105 the stabilization is nearly tripod steady. I also tried with a few EF lenses (mainly the Tamron 35 1.4) and the IBIS didnt seem to be on. I can see the micro jitters in the view finder and video. The option to control stabilization is not in the menu when EF glass is attached. Am I missing something here?

Just got my R5 last night and did some quick field testing today.

There wasn't much info about the AF speed for EF lens. So I have taken out my EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6l is ii usm and the 2x extender iii to try some bird in flight. The combo yield 800mm f/11 in aperture. However, it work very well for the bird eye tracking in continuous AF. And thanks to the IBIS, i can shoot at 1/500s and yield very stable result.

That's really a big improvement from previous EOS R. And that's not even possible with my 1DX.
Besides, the image detail is awesome with the latest sensor. The image quality with 2x extender and wide open aperture usually not impressive in previous models. I can tell you now it's greatly improved.

I am just another happy owner now

TL;DR: Will there be an RF to Sony E mount adaptor?

I've always shot stills with Canon cameras (From my FTb to current 7D) and for the last 25 years video with Sony Cameras. I have ordered an R5 body. I have a Sony FS5, and use my EF-S 17-55, EF-S10-22, and 100mm EF f2.8L glass on that with a Metabones adaptor.
I am wondering which lenses to get for the R5... it's an opportunity to upgrade my glass to L series. But if I get the RF lenses, would I ever be able to use them with my Sony E mount video camera? Or should I get EF lenses for the R5, suffer the inconvenience of using the adaptor, but enjoy the versatility?
Or do I hope for an Cinema EOS camera with RF mount and switch completely from Sony to Canon?!
Help! I am stuck in my decision making!

Optical limits published review of RF 85mm ff1.2 lens giving it highly recommended.

Apparently, if you have an image stabilized lens on the R5, and you're in any mode besides A-inside-the-square (hereafter [A]), you cannot go into the menu and turn IBIS on or off. It does appear if you have a non-image-stabilized lens, even in the other modes.

So is it on or off? I am *guessing* it's on if the lens IS is on, and it's off if it's not. If that's the case, there's no way to disable it while keeping the lens IS, or vice versa. (So basically, the IS menu item under Shoot7 (or shoot 4 in [A] mode) is simply a menu driven switch to turn all possible IS on for the lens, which for non IS lenses would be IBIS only.) The fact that the menu item isn't "IBIS" but just "Image stabilization" leads me to believe that's basically it. You get all or nothing on image stabilization, and this menu item is there to let you turn it on or off for lenses that don't have a switch on them.

The other alternative, which would be far clunkier, would be to have it track the lens IS as above--but only if you've turned it on in either [A] mode or with an unstabilized lens. Yuck. But that would at least allow you to have lens IS without IBIS if you want that for some reason (power consumption, heating). But there'd still be no way to turn IBIS on and the lens IS off.