Well if you buy it for stills only, your lashing out two grand or more on video specs that you don't want. Which is precisely why I'm not overly enamoured with it.
I’m buying mine for stills, and maybe I’ll shoot a little video with it if the mood strikes. I actually used my EOS-R to shoot a little video today just because of all the discussion about video around here the last couple of days.
Meh.
If it’s true that you can get 35MP stills out of an 8K clip that are decent then maybe I’ll do it a little more on the R5. Certainly I’ll never come anywhere near the well-published “OH MY GOD SHE’S MELTING DOWN” limit and if for some reason I do it’s not like I haven’t been warned.
If you adjust for inflation the R5 costs about the same as the 5D4 did at launch. For that you get a fantastic stills camera that destroys the 5D4 in every single category PLUS you get a video camera that can do a whole bunch of other things most of us won’t use much at all.
You say ‘lashing out two grand or more’ on video specs you don’t want - pardon me, but I have to toss the BS flag on that. Show me another stills camera from any other manufacturer that you can get for less money than the R5 that does what the R5 can - much less for ’two grand or more’ less..
That camera doesn’t exist.
Think about what the 5D4 could do and what it cost at launch. Now adjust for inflation and look at the price of the R5. My 5D4 cost me $3586 including tax In 2016. My R5 preorder cost me just $114 more out the door.
That’s not a bargain, that’s a steal. Even if it did no video AT ALL it’s a steal.