Gerald Undone, one of the premier camera tech YouTubers has completed an exhaustive record time test on the Canon EOS R5 and Canon EOS R6.
He hopes to have the full video up on Monday or Tuesday for your viewing pleasure, but for now, he has provided us with a handy chart detailing his methodology, record times in all modes both internally and externally.
All of these tests were done indoors in a climate-controlled environment.
As for recovery time, Gerald has this to say:
It should also be noted that these times are from a 2 hour cooldown period. You will only get these durations once, then they're significantly cut down. Takes about 1 hour for 60% recovery and 2 hours for full recovery.
It should also be noted that these times are from a 2 hour cooldown period. You will only get these durations once, then they're significantly cut down. Takes about 1 hour for 60% recovery and 2 hours for full recovery.
— Gerald Undone (@GeraldUndone) August 1, 2020
It's great that people like Gerald Undone do things like this and I'm sure people looking to decide to buy may find it useful. However, in the real world where most people don't use these camera's in temperature controlled environments, only your own experience matters.
I suppose the headline stats along with those provided by Canon give you an initial idea to base a decision on but when all said and done, only you and you alone know what kind of shooting you do, stills, video, stills and video, video at normal or 8k etc etc. so maybe it's time we stop hanging on everyone's review and make our own minds up??
That's certainly what I did and now I have the R5, I'll decide on my own experience. :)
2h cooldown really seems excessive.... and can likely be improved..
this also conclude that canon is very conservative in term of their camera operation temparature .
It is the cooldown period, which is the real problem, maybe they can make tweak that a little bit with software.
If that Tilta cooling kit or something like that actually works in practise (even though it looks quite ridiculous and probably quite loud when it works) they might sell quite a few of those.
We might not see another 8K camera with a great IBIS, etc. like this any time soon, it is a unique product, no matter how flawed it is being presumed, people expected it to cost a lot more initially (and I expected the rolling shutter to be much worse than it is, although curious to see the measurements).
I wonder if the camera lay flat on a table with no convection from underneath or if it was mounted "free" on a tripod. Also, Canon recommends an external fan during recording, that might also greatly improve cooling.
I last night finished my binge watching the Netflix series “DARK”, which is amazing btw, and I sat there through 3 seasons completely amazed by how ridiculously sharp and detailed the video quality is. It’s not “pretty decent for an old tv” or “fine for 1080”, it’s amazingly detailed and sharp.
I always drop by the stores to see what’s new in 4K and 8K and the only amazing new thing is how detailed the 8K is at a viewing distance of 10 cm. I can’t see the need for 4K and 8K. Yes cropping bla bla, but output? I rather have superb 1080 than iPhone 4K.
The processor, on the other hand, could use part of the magnesium housing as a heat sink if designed as such, even if the heat transfer is through a conductive heat sink type of thing. If the heat is adequately transferred to the back or bottom of the camera body, then some type of external cooling would be effective.
There's a difference between data and information. Gerald, etc., have a habit of tweeting realtime observations, thereby stimulating all sorts of speculation about what it may or may not mean. I guess that's how he makes money (?), but all this unprocessed data simply serves as noise around these releases.
Doesn't anyone wait until all the information is in, and THEN publish a comprehensive review?
I don't wanna see Adam's skin in 8k.