Canon EOS R5 Camera Review | 4K

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Hi, I'm Dustin Abbott and I'm here today to give you my standard review of the new Canon EOS R5
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mirrorless camera. This in many ways is probably Canon's most exciting release in a very long time
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And while some have pointed out, perhaps accurately, that Canon only does something really innovative when they have to, this certainly was one of those moments
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As you probably are aware, Canon did come to the full-frame mirrorless market a little bit late and also came initially with EOS R, a camera that really drew a lot of mixed reviews and that there are some things that were really good on it
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And then other aspects where it was just clearly generations behind where Sony was with, at that point, their third generation of, you know, A7 cameras
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And on top of that, you know, Sony had the A9 by that point
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And so just a clear advantage on a whole lot of metrics, everything from video to resolution, but then also to things like, you know, IAF, autofocus, tracking
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all of these technologies where Sony was really well established. And so, ironically, in this current generation, moving to the A7R IV and the A9 Mark II
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Sony actually made what I would call fairly conservative steps on many levels
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While they did dramatically increase the resolution on the A7R Mark IV
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in many ways it was not significantly changed from the A7R Mark III and, of course, the A9 Mark II
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was just kind of an incremental improvement on a lot of the existing tech in the A9
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And so here you have Canon actually releasing what is much more of a typical Sony type release
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to where the list of potential specs on the camera almost seemed
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when they were initially rumored and came out, they seemed almost unrealistic
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because it seemed very uncannon for so much technology to be packed into one camera
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but clearly the EOS R5 is Canon's very concerted push into the mirrorless space
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and I think it's encouraging at the very least it shows that they have very seriousness of tint
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and the EOS R6 also shows that they're in it to win it
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and so we'll see how this materializes as we move ahead. Now the EOS R5 has been crippled and it's released by a couple of things
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First of those being that the worldwide pandemic delayed the actual release and has continued to delay production to where it lags far behind demand at this point
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And so unfortunately some of you who ordered an EOS R5 a month or even months ago still don't have your camera
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And so obviously that's a frustration. And the second thing being of course is that it was discovered that the EOS R5 does have some fairly critical issues with overheating
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when you're using some of the unfortunately highly touted video features that Canon push with this
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including shooting at 8K30, which was unheard of in this space, and then up to 4K120
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and probably more likely shooting in 4K60. Most people that use 4K120 are using it for smaller action clips, and so less of an issue there
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But those that are wanting to shoot longer format or shoot a lot of various clips have run into overheating issues
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And so I have taken some heat in my definitive review that I didn't, you know, really hammer cannon over that
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But the truth of the matter is, is that I haven't personally experienced that issue. I live in Canada. I'm filming on an EOS R5
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I've shot, you know, extended clips. I typically shoot at 4K 30 where there's not really an issue
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and you know in the other formats that I've shot in I've shot I in a way I think most average
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photographers at the very least are going to do and that is shooting clips and so I've never seen
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the overheating issue myself and so I can't rant and rave over it because I haven't experienced it
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and furthermore the feedback from a lot of people who actually own the OSR5 they're delighted with
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it and so you know you're going to have to make a determination for yourself the way that you would
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use it for video purposes. And if you feel like you would be encountering those overheating issues
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you probably should go another route. For myself, I am a photographer first and I do video very much
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secondarily. So for me, I'm delighted. I've got a lot of video options here. I have more tools at
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my disposal than I've previously had, even with any of my Sony cameras. And so I have no complaints
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Your mileage may vary of course but I can only report on what I actually seen myself now if you want much more detail and a lot of my test and testing process I recommend that you check out the Definitive Review It a much
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longer format, but it'll give you all the nitty-gritty that you may be looking for
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As far as looking at the build and design, we have an ever so slightly larger camera compared
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to the OSR and a little bit heavier. But for that, we've got a deeper yet grip, which frankly
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feels great in my hand. Some people may find the camera a little bit large and heavy. And of course
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I've heard even a few complaints, those come from DSLRs, that it's not big and heavy enough
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So of course, it really comes down to your personal preference. But a couple of things
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stand out here. Canon has gone full on with their articulating touchscreens. This is a great
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implementation. It's high resolution, 2.1 million dot inch of resolution. The touchscreen is very
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very responsive. It works great for navigating menus. This is an area where Canon has a clear
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advantage over any of the camera systems that I test. And so kudos to them on that front
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Also worth noting is the viewfinder here, which is fantastic. It is 5.76 million dots of resolution
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And so we're getting very, very close to the resolution, the, you know, just the clearness
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of an optical viewfinder, but with all the advantages that come with an electronic viewfinder
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all the information that can be displayed, their ability to magnify an image, have overlays
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all of those intrinsic advantages. And on top of that, for tracking action, we've actually got an option to go into a high refresh
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rate of 120. And so that really allows you to track action between that and having no blackout in the
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viewfinder in between frames, this is a joy to visualize images through and track action with
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Now, it does suck a little bit more battery if you're using that high refresh rate. And so you
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may, as I'm doing, only use that when you actually need it for tracking action. But even for everyday
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shooting, the viewfinder is a real joy. It's the nicest that I've yet personally used on any kind
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of camera like this. There's a few extra buttons here. They've replaced the touch bar with a
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joystick, huge upgrade. They've replaced the D-pad of the EOS R with a 5 series wheel back here
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which is great. You now have three different control wheels, not to mention the control ring
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on the lens itself. And so you've got, ergonomically, this is maybe my favorite camera
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that I've ever used. I like the positioning of things. I like the responsiveness of things
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between that and having a great touchscreen. This is a great camera to control, very easy to get to
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what you want on a very quick basis. And of course, you have the ability to program buttons
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Canon has gotten better on customization. We've even gotten a new button here on the front that
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you can program to various functions. And so, you know, a lot of great things there. But of course
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the headline feature here is the addition of in-body image stabilization. And Canon has done
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a great job with this. I've been shooting Sony alongside Canon, but shooting Sony mirrorless
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cameras for a number of years now. And so I'm very familiar with, and of course I've tested
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even those that I haven't owned. So I'm very familiar with Sony's IBIS system, which has
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gotten a little bit better with the R4 and the A9 Mark II. But Canon is definitely a cut above
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in their implementation here. First of all, your rating is higher. And depending upon the lens
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there's some lenses including some that have no lens stabilization like the 85 millimeter f1.2
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where canon claims up to eight stops of hand holding stabilization with lenses like that and
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of course others with you know within with that actually do have a stabilizer built in but you
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know the lowest rating that we're seeing is around six stops and so i mean that's that's really really
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impressive figures. And there's no question, this system works really well. I think maybe my standout
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for that was, I actually, I own the IREX 150 millimeter f2.8. It's a great lens on a tripod
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but really hard to use handheld. No image stabilization. It's manual focus only. And so
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on other cameras, you could forget hand holding it. But I find on the EOS R5 that I can actually
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have a great stability in the viewfinder. It makes manually focusing much easier
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and I've been able to handhold surprisingly low shutter speeds with that combination
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And so that just tells me how great a job it's doing. For example, here, if I put on the EF 35mm f1.4 L Mark II
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no image stabilization in the lens itself. But you can see a dramatic difference in these shots if I have the IBIS on or off And so it does a great job And when paired with lenses that do have stabilization you know like for example this 15 to 35 millimeter f2 LIS you can see that while
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this footage is not quite gimbal smooth, it's pretty good for walking with a camera, which
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typically does not give you very pleasing footage. And so I really do think the Canon's done a great
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job in the implementation of the IS here, the in-body image stabilization. Now do recognize
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that there are some third-party lenses that are going to require a firmware update to be compatible
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Whenever Canon does a major change like this to the focus properties and the architecture of the
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camera, it sometimes does cause a few glitches with third-party lenses. Fortunately, these days
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most of them have a system in place for getting out firmware updates, and so I don't suspect this
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is going to be a long-term problem. It will be a fixable problem, but it may require a little bit
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of elbow grease on your part to get that done. But overall, I think ergonomics, we've got a great
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camera here. The IBIS works great. Also really, really incredible is the autofocus system here
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I actually think that the autofocus may be the most impressive aspect of this camera
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The autofocus system is nearly 6,000 different focus points, but a little over a thousand
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different focus zones. And so you've basically got the whole frame covered. You've got tracking
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across the whole frame. You've got amazing sensitivity down to minus six EV up to a plus
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20 EV. So 26 stops of lighting situations you can shoot in. And minus six EV is the amount of light
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equivalent to a half moon, almost like a crescent moon. And so if you think about being outside in
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that kind of lighting conditions, that's the kind of light you can shoot in. Case in point is last
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night I was shooting, testing a rear filter system for the Samyang 14 millimeter F2.8, you know, RF
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mount. And so I actually had a 10 stop ND filter. I was shooting at twilight. And so just to give
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you an idea to get to proper exposure value, I needed about a minute of exposure. And yet I was
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able actually to autofocus without hesitation under that circumstance. And so it tells me just
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how sensitive this autofocus system is. Beyond that, you have the capability of focusing with a
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maximum aperture as small as f22. And so, I mean, that just means that under almost any circumstance
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this camera is going to be able to autofocus, which obviously is incredibly useful if you're
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an event, a wedding, a portrait photographer, a wildlife photographer, even when you're operating
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on the margins, this autofocus system is going to work for you. On top of that, you now have
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full-time tracking with a mechanical shutter of up to 12 frames per second. And you can see what
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that looks like firing off here. And then, you know, and I found my tracking was really impressive
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I use the 70 to 200 millimeter F2.8 RF lens. And with that mechanical shutter, I had basically
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flawless tracking throughout. On top of that, you can go up to an electronic shutter and get 20
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frames per second and you basically won't hear anything. This is what it sounds like
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It's completely silent, but what is happening is just frame after frame is being fired off
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And then you could see from this tracking sequence, I just got a lot of extra images
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over that brief run of the dog coming towards me. I had about 140 frames in that sequence. And so it
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just really fires them off one after another. All of this without blackout in the viewfinder
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and just great tracking as your subject moves across the frame. I found it really effortless
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for shooting birds around my backyard feeder. The autofocus system is a joy to use. It's
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a joy to use for portraits. IAF works extremely well. Pet IAF works well. This is a portrait
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photographer, a wildlife or sports photographer's dream in terms of the autofocus system. Really
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really great. And Canon has managed to give us deep buffers that while aren't quite as deep as
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what Sony gives on the A9 Mark II, they're more in that range than competing cameras. And so
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I mean, you're able to get a lot, a lot of frames. And if you shoot with Canon's C-Raw
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for example, you can actually get somewhere around 260, 270 compressed RAW files when
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tracking that action, and you can get 350 JPEG images. And so, I mean, that's a deep enough buffer, I think, for most people under most circumstances
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And so, really, really impressive on that front. As far as the image quality the sensor quality we got a 45 megapixel sensor here a brand new sensor from Canon that basically manages to improve in a number of metrics And so first of all obviously
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that's a tremendous amount of resolution. And while you don't have medium raw and S raw like
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you used to, what Canon has given you is a compressed raw option. So a little bit more like
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Sony actually on that. It's still 45 megapixels, but you're on average saving a little over 40
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in file size. And so it means that file size is not an issue. And as you can see from these shots
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I tried to find a difference between the quality and I just wasn't able to find it. And so I think
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most people under most circumstances can shoot in compressed raw and frankly never know the
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difference. Maybe pull out the full raw on your most critical of shots where, you know, there might
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be some extreme that you might get a little bit of extra information. But overall, these are really
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highly detailed images. And as you can see, you have the ability to deeply crop and basically
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create a still high resolution photograph from within a photograph. And so it's, I find that
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resolution very, very useful, particularly when you consider the fact that you aren't actually
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sacrificing much of anything to get that resolution. When it comes to the ISO performance
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the EOS R5 actually has a broader natural ISO range than what the EOS R does, all the way up to
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51,200. And I found that if I standardized at 25,600, ISO 25,600, and I down sampled the A7R
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Mark III, the EOS R5 down to the resolution of the EOS R, what I found is that the EOS R5 actually
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produced the cleanest high ISO result with less noise, retaining better contrast. And so it did a
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really great job at high ISO settings. And so kudos to them on that. As far as the dynamic range
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Canon claims improved dynamic range. I saw it more in improved shadow recovery than what I did on
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highlight recovery. And so I found that the EOS R and the EOS R5 were roughly similar when it came
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to recovering highlights. And I felt like the a7R III, not so much better at recovering lost
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information, but better at retaining the yellow color, as you can see in this. And so I would give
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Sony still the advantage of highlight recovery. But I did feel that out of the three cameras
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that I tested side by side. The R5 actually gave me the best shadow recovery in terms of giving
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everything retained really nice contrast, not hardly any additional noise being introduced
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And so byproduct is that you've got a lot of flexibility with the files to basically get the
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image that you want out of it. And so a great job to them on the sensor as well. And so of course
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video is going to remain somewhat controversial, but what isn't controversial is that you've got
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tons of file formats, bit rates available to you. You've got a lot of tools at your disposal
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but if you're a serious filmmaker that's going to be shooting a lot of footage back to back
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the overheating issue may in fact be an issue for you. But if you're not kind of operating at those
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extremes, the good news is that the footage is beautiful out of the camera. You've got some
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great options for getting slow motion and other things, time lapses all the way up to 8K in camera
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And so a lot of great options there, but you do have to recognize there is a severe limitation
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that may affect certain shooters and you need to take that into consideration. Outside of that, however, I have very, very little to criticize this
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It's not a cheap camera at around $3,900 US dollars. And of course, the price point is going to vary depending on what market you're at around
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the world. And so it's not a cheap camera. However, this is a camera that, you know, I don't think any of us would have been surprised
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if Canon had wanted to charge five grand for it with their typical pricing scheme
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And so all things considered, I think it's actually a pretty fair value for how much tech and capability is packed into this camera
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This is easily the most versatile, I think fully featured camera that Canon has ever produced
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And frankly, I'm finding it a joy to use. And so at the end of the day
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I have a lot to praise, little to criticize. And I hope that this review has helped you
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to make a little bit more informed decision. If you want more information, you can look in the description down below and you can find
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linkage to my full text review. Also linkage to an image gallery if you want to look at some photos
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