Canon EOS R5 firmware update coming soon, RAW light to be added? [CR2]
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it's certainly a big step up from the EOS R. I've just finished off a zoom 1 to 1 with a Canon rep arranged for me by the retailer I purchased the camera from. it was really good to be able to ask questions about things like card management, what the different case settings do, registering settings etc and the different settings for video which from using the R I never really used that much.Im currently waiting for my RF 70-200 to turn up.
Its gonna be great going by what you and others have said!
it's simple things like this that make you want to go back to a retailer.
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Yeah! I was lucky that I got my R5 in the first batch so I've been enjoying using it!it's certainly a big step up from the EOS R. I've just finished off a zoom 1 to 1 with a Canon rep arranged for me by the retailer I purchased the camera from. it was really good to be able to ask questions about things like card management, what the different case settings do, registering settings etc and the different settings for video which from using the R I never really used that much.
it's simple things like this that make you want to go back to a retailer.
I think its lost on some people that the EOS R has fantastic image quality, like really really good. Its problem is that it's a bit sluggish to use, not as snappy as I'd have liked.
The R5 on the other hand has taken that image quality up a notch and it's really snappy to boot (kinda pun kinda intended! )
Cant wait to get that 70-200 in front of it!
You have your hands on the camera too so?
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The humorous part of all the U-Tubers bitching about the 8k record time is that not one has made a single comment about the 8k video quality. I suspect that is because not one of them has any means to view 8k video. They are not happy with how long the camera will record in a format they can't use. Pretty funny when you think about it.
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Yup, I had no issues with the image quality of the R, great for landscapes and subjects that don't move a lot but really wasn't ideal for fast moving subjects which is where the R5 really steps up.
I purchased the RF70-200mm in April and to be honest it's hardly been off the R and R5. The RF 24-105 F4 has been consigned to the camera bag for a little while until I can do more city visits where the extra width and flexibility will come into it's own.
to make it even better, I just submitted a claim to Canon for a lens reward that I found out was available with the R5 and the 70-200MM & they've just confirmed £255 will be winging its way to my account in the next week or so. Happy days lol.
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Unfortunately the recovery times are pretty much fixed based on the mechanical layout. The only possibility is that if Canon is really working on the cooling adapter and if the have actually built in heat pipes to where the cooling adapter is supposed to connect to. This would help in both reducing heat build up and cooling time.
On the other hand, if I am correct, the heat generation might be reduced with more efficient coding.
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HMM...i understand that thing but still its really bad that company like Canon taking so long to fix it
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But in a cruel irony, I noticed last night that other buttons CAN be assigned to the Rate function, in case you need TWO rate buttons.
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Go watch the tear down video. Notice that the CFE card slot is very close to the CPU and on the same board. The CPU is transmitting heat to the CFE card. So if you run a cooler recording mode, less heat is generated and the card stays cooler. Most CPUs have a thermostat built in, which is likely where the temperature is being measured from. Putting in a cooler card does not matter.
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Thanks, I do agree. What I don't know (sorry if I didn't explain well), is how well hardware encoding works in terms of compute required and therefore heat etc?H265 was designed to achieve about half the data rate of H264 with similar apparent quality.
Real-time SW encoding of 8K30 or 4K120 is currently not feasible for anything but the most powerful CPUs (with 225W+ power envelope)
Hence, it is safe to assume that microprocessors such as DIGIC X (estimated 5-10W power envelope based on battery run-time) need and have HW encoding.
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As you rightly post, 8K real time in sw? Yep if you have stupid hardware. But a tiny Digic chip can do x265 8k30 in realtime. I'm just curious as to how much power the x265 and x264 takes and whether they are the same or not (in terms of HW compute effort), or if they mirror software where x264 is quicker (and thus could be a possible trade off - quicker encode effort - less heat vs more i/o and additional heat)...
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Their data has been encrypted by the hackers, and they are being held to ransom to either pay or to lose that data. What isn't known, is when the files were encrypted, and what backups of that data Canon has, aside from the fact the hackers I believe have their data....
Not quite straight forward...
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"You should go out and find yourself a girlfriend mate". Quote, Captain Jack Sparrow
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The HQ modes sample from a higher resolution, but output at 4K - that downsampling requires Digic processing.
Non HQ modes - no sampling, less data (vs 60FPS or higher modes). Hence your 4k30p is ok - you're taxing Digic less and the I/O less.
Essentially when we go to the higher processing - be that FPS, Resolution (8k), Downsampling, some combinations are pushing parts (multiple parts) collectively to go over whatever thermal limit has been defined and you get the problem.
We expect Digic to have a temp sensor (most processors of some shape or form do), not sure about the (image) sensor - probably does, then there's CFE Cards (Delkin does, assume others do also). And then there's the PCIe bus which CFE uses. So we maybe have 3 or 4 temp sensors, and the higher processing could trigger any of those into hitting their thermal limit and you get the warning....
How the menu / screen / switch on operation fairs in all this - no clue - best guess is that is a bug and can be fixed. The rest of the system, tweaked sure to give a bit more headroom. Then other modes e.g. Raw Lite, will have less i/o, and hopefully less processing - that may be an option for some. I'd like to see them do 4K Raw and 120fps in HD as others have suggested as at least it will give options....
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So again, exactly what do they need to do to bring it back up? And how long does that take to happen?
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I'm not sure there is a straightforward answer to that. I read that it was a ransomware attack, so it would all depend on how that was done, what was being demanded, etc.
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