One of the big questions about the upcoming Canon EOS R5, is what two card slots the camera will have. We have been told by a very good source that the Canon EOS R5 will have the following slots.
- CFExpress
- SD UHS-II
I think this is what most people thought was going to happen, and a lot of people will likely appreciate the SD slot.
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I think there is a great chance that Canon will produce a grip for the R5. They make grips for most of their larger body lineup.
why is a UHS-II SD slot suddenly useless?
I would suspect that it would be backwards compatible with UHS-I SD cards as well, albeit at a more reduced buffer clearing speed.
Buying resistance lowered.
Technological war machine. The R5 surely is.
Aye, I can imagine the camera runs heavily crippled on a 300 MB/s card vs the 1200MB/s write of the slowest CFExpress card. It’ll likely reduce a lot of the video modes and greatly reduce the frame rate.
Also, in stills buffer will be more limited with the UHS-II cards. If that is going to be an issue...don´t know...But it won´t be fast recording 45mp files without filling the buffer...If Canon can give us 100 raw files buffer without filling that buffer, then i guess its ok having an sd slot...
A CFE card would nicely work like a backup then...