Update – Canon EOS R5 Mark II Specifications

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We are updating our previous Canon EOS R5 Mark II specifications. Some of those things were slightly incorrect, and we can add some context, but have to be a bit vague and not divulge exact claimed numbers.

Canon EOS R5 Mark II Specifications (Rumored)

  • 45mp BSI Stacked Sensor (Long standing rumor)
    • Expect about a 30% improvement in rolling shutter over the EOS R3, which makes it a massive improvement over the EOS R5.
  • A preburst feature superior to that found in the EOS R6 Mark II.
  • Both Mechanical and Electronic Shutter
    • 12fps Mechanical & 30fps Electronic
  • Certain ergonomic design features from the Canon EOS R6 Mark II are expected to be incorporated into the EOS R5 Mark II, with the video/stills toggle being a notable and obvious inclusion.
  • No Smart Controller (updated, our bad)
  • There will be Eye Controlled AF (Slight correction from the previous post)
  • Advancements in heat dissipation technology have led to enhanced performance in video recording and high-frame-rate photography.
  • We hope you like right angles

We have talked many times about July events planned for people at Canon in New York City. That's still a go and will remain as such.

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  1. The number I can find on the interwebs is that the R5 has 15.5ms readout time, the R3 has a 5.5ms readout time, that would put the R5II around 4.3ms. The R3 number matches the flash sync speed of 1/180, 30% improvement gets that up (down?) to 1/235.

    The 30fps is a slight let down, I really hoped it would beat the 40fps my R8 can do. But 30fps at 14-bit would still be a massive improvement over the R5!
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  2. As always it'll be in the details.. and the details are the last things to come. Crazy readout improvement.

    Claimed readout can differ a bit from real world. I do see at CineD they sometimes have different numbers than other places.... but whatever... It's a lot faster.
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  4. Eye controlled AF is a surprise. I thought that will be reserved for the R3/R1. I guess R3 won\'t have much over the R5II, apart from the ergonomics and bigger battery.
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  6. Eye controlled AF is a surprise. I thought that will be reserved for the R3/R1. I guess R3 won\'t have much over the R5II, apart from the ergonomics and bigger battery.
    Keep in mind that the R3 was announced in Q3 2021, so it's relatively old already.
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  7. The number I can find on the interwebs is that the R5 has 15.5ms readout time, the R3 has a 5.5ms readout time, that would put the R5II around 4.3ms. The R3 number matches the flash sync speed of 1/180, 30% improvement gets that up (down?) to 1/235.

    The 30fps is a slight let down, I really hoped it would beat the 40fps my R8 can do. But 30fps at 14-bit would still be a massive improvement over the R5!
    I’d say it’s very likely it will write 14 bit RAW files on electronic shutter, and I hope it does.

    While I was wishing they would remove the mechanical shutter, the “traditional” 12fps shutter from the previous R5 sounds realistic to me. Like I said before, it didn’t make sense to me that Canon would invest in further developing the mechanical shutter in this day and age.

    Sounds like a very solid camera, similar to the Sony a1, but certainly with improvements.
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  9. Glad the readout speed is improved, but I was hoping for a faster ES flash sync speed (at least 1/500).
    At least it\'ll have the new hotshoe and the EL5 should have the cycle time to handle use as fill flash with high speed sync.

    Guessing that right angle tease has something to do with the EVF?
    Either that or Canon is going retro-blocky style.
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  10. The lack of a smart controller is sad, and eye-control AF is cool, but I would prefer the other way around. Perhaps Canon may have chosen this route to better segment their cameras. Eye-control AF sounds cooler and is harder for competition to reproduce than the smart controller.
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  12. If R5 mkii would be faster than R3, it may be faster than Z8 & Z9. Whu does Canon keep mechanical shutter?
    Can they add 16 bit this time?
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  13. As always it'll be in the details.. and the details are the last things to come. Crazy readout improvement.

    Claimed readout can differ a bit from real world. I do see at CineD they sometimes have different numbers than other places.... but whatever... It's a lot faster.

    CineD measures it in video, for photography the situation is different. For example, the R6 can do around 19 ms in photography (with the full 3:2 readout), while only 30 ms (with a 16:9 crop) in video. We have examples like that with stacked cameras too, as both the Z9 and a1 have under 5 ms in photo, but around 15 ms in video, R3 around 5.5 ms in photo and around 10 ms in video if my memory serves me right. I would believe (but that's total guess) that they "underclock" the sensor in video mode due to heat dissipation because the sensor has to run a much longer time than while doing short photo bursts.
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  14. Still only 12 FPS MS while the R10 and R7 can do 15 FPS,
    R10 and R7 have a smaller mechanical shutter, so cheaper to produce and easier to make it faster. We cannot compare speeds among different sensor sizes, the game is vastly different.
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    • No Smart Controller (updated, our bad)
    • There will be Eye Controlled AF(Slight correction from the previous post)
    Personally, I’d pick the Smart Controller over Eye Controlled AF in the blink of an eye.
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  17. Eye controlled AF is a surprise. I thought that will be reserved for the R3/R1. I guess R3 won\'t have much over the R5II, apart from the ergonomics and bigger battery.
    I wonder if the release of the R5 II with such specs at a $4K retail price point will translate into a massive price drop of the R3, maybe $3K for brand new and 2.7K for lightly used, a hair above the current original R5 prices .

    Otherwise what's the point of the R3 beyond massive battery size and ergonomics?

    The R5 II will probably do to the R3 what the A9 III did to the previous gen of A9 II.
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  18. Personally, I’d pick the Smart Controller over Eye Controlled AF in the blink of an eye.
    They need to leave something for the R3 crowd, otherwise who will buy the R3 now
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  19. R10 and R7 have a smaller mechanical shutter, so cheaper to produce and easier to make it faster. We cannot compare speeds among different sensor sizes, the game is vastly different.
    The 1DX III is faster.
    It is not impossible.
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