It is the compilation date,... then the test it with canon ambassadors, and then they put it online. ;-)
Well, we'll have to see when the next round of software updates comes around (~ November) if the photo side gets some love as well. I sure hope so.
This sounds VERY promising. Thank you for the report!Okay, so first post, but I'm pretty excited about the new firmwareI took the plunge and made the update for my R5 with the file from the Italian site.
I'm especially curious about the new heat power off setting - it could be a game changer. I just set the camera to 8k raw and the timer displayed the usual 15:00 minutes you get in that setting. After changing the heat power off to "High", the timer jumped to 29:59 and for now, it's been running for 25 minutes without even displaying a heat warning.
Edit: 35 Minutes, still no overheating warningAnd this is 8k raw we're talking about. Awesome.
Edit 2: Had to format my card after 40 Minutes. Afterwards, the timer was right back to 29:59. Ladies and gentlemen, I think overheating on the R5 is a thing of the past. But holy hell, the body gets hot to the touch.
Edit 3: Threw in 5 Minutes of 4k120 (after 45 Minutes of 8k raw!), still no warning, I can still record in all modes. However, they are not joking about the heat. I almost burnt my fingers on the CFexpress card. Not sure if I am really comfortable with this.
This sounds like a great result for a lot of users shooting 8k. But you're right, the temperature of the body (and, worryingly, the card) sounds significant. I wonder if Canon have just bitten the bullet and given people the option (via the new setting) to effectively just turn off warnings and forced shut-downs? The initial time periods on release may have been the Canon engineers exercising 'an abundance of caution' in not wanting that heat to damage any hardware, but maybe they've had enough data of actual results in the field to be able to extend it?Okay, so first post, but I'm pretty excited about the new firmware
I'm especially curious about the new heat power off setting - it could be a game changer. I just set the camera to 8k raw and the timer displayed the usual 15:00 minutes you get in that setting. After changing the heat power off to "High", the timer jumped to 29:59 and for now, it's been running for 25 minutes without even displaying a heat warning.
Edit: 35 Minutes, still no overheating warning
Edit 2: Had to format my card after 40 Minutes. Afterwards, the timer was right back to 29:59. Ladies and gentlemen, I think overheating on the R5 is a thing of the past. But holy hell, the body gets hot to the touch.
Edit 3: Threw in 5 Minutes of 4k120 (after 45 Minutes of 8k raw!), still no warning, I can still record in all modes. However, they are not joking about the heat. I almost burnt my fingers on the CFexpress card. Not sure if I am really comfortable with this.
Does it write the 195 FPS into those weird RAW roll files?
Good news, NOPE!! It stores regular complete RAW files that open normally. I think what we’re seeing here is just Canon exploiting the buffer size and allowing it to be completely filled up rapidly while not even attempting to write to the card. Then you sit and wait for it to offload all the information from the buffer to your card. The file folder system unfortunately required DPP to work and it’s done so in a really poor way, IMO. But it also kept everything organized. And, as someone who rates all their images in camera and adds a star to the best shot of each car, I didn’t find it that cumbersome other than having to extract the RAW file in camera in a separate step. I believe it could have been better managed. I don’t know if this is necessarily better? But it does allow me to dump my cards and import without any issues seen on the RAW Burst Mode. It does mean that you are adding 50 images into your card sequence on playback and that seems more annoying than organized folders of each individual sequence that I could open and unpack, so to speak.
It's complicated. Took me a year to get it. You have to setup a button for EyeAF start (icon is AF with eye just next to it) in Custom button setup. Then you can be in any AF mode, but if you did set it up to start from other focus modes it will start from that area.
I mean, the overheating is still there as you describe, it's just they're no longer preventing you disregarding it. Customisation is generally a good thing, but I wonder if it will mean more bodies or memory cards failing (or shortening their lifespan at least), and what that might mean with regard to warranties.
You could of course be correct. But I also can't imagine Canon would allow users to enable a potentially harmful option without even giving note that it might be the case. I mean the promt says that the body and card will get hot to the touch, but nothing else. I suspect that it is a way for Canon to circumvent certain regulations for maximum temperatures in a lot of regions. If I remember correctly, there's a threshold for things like cameras to not get too hot in your hands. Sony has been doing this for quite a while now in similar fashion. Of course, I could be wrong.
I'm thinking this is a precursor to the pre-capture. I'm thinking it was not ready to push out just yet, but is coming, at least to the R3.
