Really? I’d question the use of the word ‘valid’ for several of her ‘points’. Is ‘pretty it up’ really valid?
Has anybody had card issues with Sandisk cards In the R5, I know they are much more reliable in other cameras and Tony and Chelsea have a reputation for using crap cards looking for issues.
Batteries are batteries, she knows they run out but doesn’t want to carry another one, or remember to take an in car charging cable, really, that’s an issue?
Not recording video to two cards, again really? If I was doing a mission critical video shoot anywhere, let alone the other side of the world, would I really be using an R5? At minimum I’d use an Atomos to remove the time limit and give me all the video tools I’d want to shoot reliably and with redundancy if I felt it was needed.
don't particularly agree with her comments, though I think she really likes the camera overall.
I use Sandisk for my SDCard (used from my 80D) and prograde cobalt for cfexpress... never had issues, but I also tend to format frequently vs leave a lot there over time. If it's the case, Canon should try to figure out what is going on, as standards should be standards and work for the majority.
agree with you and not her on the batteries, but it sounds like she took it out partially charged and got over 700 images? seems like a pretty decent amount, but maybe that's me.
The AF... I would expect it to try to match things it thinks is a person, the ai possibly could be trained better, but it's damned good and feel its a weird complaint. There are ways to compensate via the touch screen, joystick, always returning to centre (which I use).. I know that from time to time I do run into similar autofocus when there is a lot of clutter near the subject, but you learn to work with your tools
the video, I have to agree with her, but only a little bit (I wouldn't use it so not that interested).. it should be able to write to the SD card at same time as the CFexpress via software and the other brands do. I get the super high res stuff can't, but maybe make it clear and limit it to what the SDCard can write. It may have been done to secure performance, hard to say. Still if shooting 1080p should really be do-able.
and regarding camera bodies, yeah it's a bit of a brick. likely black and similar design because of ergonomics over time.. black is less obtrusive when you're taking photos too. but hehe it'd have been nice to have a bit of variation too.
its a bit of a fluff piece, but good to know it's still holding its own.. again I'm pretty stoked with mine, just wish I had more interesting subjects / time

but don't think that can be fixed via firmware