Canon EOS R5 Mark II Specifications

I absolutely agree. 30 FPS on the R7 was a bit to much for me when photographing BIF or dogs in action. There are just so many pics that look identical. For me, 20 is more than sufficient and enough. If there should 60 FPS available, I´d for a possibility to customize the FPS, e.g. have setting of 10/ 20/ 30/ 40 etc FPS.
For me, when the cheetah chases the gazelle: It happens after spending many many hours in the bush and then it is over in 6 seconds. At that point, 60 fps matters a LOT. But yes, 60 fps is for very select moments. My photography revolves around those moments.
 
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Ok, what the rumor was missing was added after I posted this..."(We believe it'll be a stacked design)." A stacked sensor would represent a significant upgrade.

As I've said before, I don't believe updates are primarily aimed at owners of the immediate prior model, but rather at owners 2-3 cycles back or down the lineup. So, an R5II would be primarily targeted at 5DIII/IV users, 6DII users, and R6 users. No doubt there will be some R5 owners who upgrade, but I doubt Canon is counting on those sales. Always good to keep that in mind when the YouTube crowd complains about few/marginal improvements (and also why cameras generally go on to sell quite well after being internet-bashed for it).
Obviously true, but no doubt will not sink in to the majority of influencers nor unfortunately forum dwellers either. And as camera tech matures even more, will become even more true. What is somewhat mind-boggling to me is the anger a "minor" upgrade produces among so many. What it means is that the camera you have is essentially as good as it gets, and you just saved lots of money. That wouldn't make me angry.
 
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The GS sensor is not a starting signal for Canon to produce new sensors. They develop new sensors all the time
I guess I don't know what you were trying to say, then, because you refer to Canon "letting" Sony get hype with their new GS sensor without an upgrade to one of its own. That phrasing suggests some sort of intentional response.

Further, I didn't state Canon should put a GS sensor in the R5mkii (I don't think they should)
Likewise, I didn't say you did, I'm just commenting on the timeline of semiconductor fab and design.
 
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I have anxiety of banding errors on pictures at events.... I don't want a e-shutter only camera..... :X
You already have it. With digital, it's always e-shutter, only in most cameras it's slow so there's a physical curtain on top.

If Canon makes the speed of the e-shutter comparable or faster than a physical shutter, it'll be much better, including less banding at events with strobe light.
 
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You already have it. With digital, it's always e-shutter, only in most cameras it's slow so there's a physical curtain on top.

If Canon makes the speed of the e-shutter comparable or faster than a physical shutter, it'll be much better, including less banding at events with strobe light.
Digital is not always e-shutter.... ?!
 
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No mechanical shutter in 2024 indicates Canon has introduced it's R5s new stacked sensor with readout speed at least faster than 2ms. The Nikon's Z9 has the fastest readout of aprox 3.7ms as tested by Jim Kasson. Faster than 2ms nearing zero one can leave out mechanical and global shutters. They become basically irrelevant.
 
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If the sensor is BSI only without mechanical shutter, it is meaningless to release mark ii.
The sensor must be stacked sensor or global shutter but I guess 0.01% to use global shutter.
May be Red sell their 8K global sensor to Canon? haha.

sensor speed should be faster than Z8 if Canon doesn't want to loss their face!
The Z8 and Z9 sensor readouts are 3.7ms. In 2024 those should no longer be the fastest. I reacon Canon has surpassed that speed by a lot. Since they say emphatically they are not going with a global shutter. In other words, they've reached readout speeds nearing zero ms.
 
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It's not as if Sony launching the A9III is the first time Canon has heard about Global Shutter sensors. They had a global shutter sensor in the C700 GS.
I'm not commenting on global shutter or not, merely the timeline required to "let" or "not let" a competitor get hype from a given product. No sensor product imminent from anyone will be a response to something announced 17 weeks ago.
 
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OLED for the flippy screen will be interesting for battery life. LCD was one of the reasons shooting in live view gave longer battery life than the OLED EVF’s. So either there will be a penalty, or they’ve improved battery life enough where it won’t matter.
 
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I have anxiety of banding errors on pictures at events.... I don't want a e-shutter only camera..... :X
Have you used an R6II or R3? They have a setting called, “High Frequency Anti Flicker”. It detects the flicker rate of the lights and sets a shutter speed accordingly. Any shutter speed. One person had it set a shutter speed of 1/53.8 because of multiple light sources with different flicker rates. It found a speed that would work without banding from either source.

Further, if you need to change speed due to subject motion, it’ll change in multiples of that speed so as to avoid flicker. So it could be 1/538th and avoid banding.

Pretty incredible stuff they already have.
 
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The reason for the 30 minute limit is that exceeding 30 minutes subjects the camera to a worldwide, WTO-mandated added 5.4% tax. However, this tax has been progressively dropping, and soon will have no impact on price.
Canon has already dropped the 30 minute recording limit for the R6 II, so I don't see why they would not do that for the R5 II
 
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Digital is not always e-shutter.... ?!
Digital sensors use electronic shutter every time you shoot in any shutter mode. E-shutter is just the normal readout process. If it's slow (which is the case for most of the modern sensors except a few very recent ones), then there's a physical curtain that works on top.
 
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