I am glad that I do not need video or a lot of frames per second. That saves me a lot of money. Even with RAW+JPEG I never managed to fill a 32 GB card on a single day so far. If cameras can do 8K or even 12K, I wonder how many consumers, who do not make any money from their videos, will really be able to afford and manage the storage necessary for those files.
If you really fill a 1 TB card, that means you also need at least 3 TB of storage for those files and at least two backups. We might sooner or later need storage solutions with hundreds of Terabytes. Even the files of my Insta360 camera are about 1 GB per minute. That forces me to delete the original files once I have converted them.
At night I use R5 as a camera trap to catch the toads living near our garden. I'm using electronic shutter at 20fps and I've filled up a 128G card multiple times already. Especially if a snail crawls into the IR trigger and stays there for the night
I'm now looking at having the R5 record video instead of stills and a 128G is looking mighty small. This is mainly due to Canon limiting the ways you can configure the shutter button in movie mode. For capturing it only supports "start+stop recording", while I'd like the following options:
1) Record only when it's fully pressed, the IR trigger will hold it down for the duration of motion, plus 5 seconds
2) Only start recording when pressing the shutter, don't stop. If the trigger sees movement, it will start the recording, but if it detects another movement while the camera is still recording, it will actually stop the recording.
Unlimited recording times would also get around that, but then I'd need an automated process to remove the non-interesting bits from the 10 hours of footage each night
I've very, very jealous of the Nikon Z 9 'autocapture' mode they added in the most recent firmware. With that and a big USB-C power bank I wouldn't even need the triggers!
An example from last week, the R5 had trouble focussing, so I could stack 4 frames to get slightly more DoF
