Comment on the forum UPDATED. On Friday, I received a message from the A1ex, developer at Magic Lantern to point me to an interesting theory suggested by one of their contributors, which he believed could defeat the so-called overheat timer on the Canon EOS R5. Initially I was skeptical as to whether it would work, especially because my first real-world test using the method did not seem to reset the timer.…
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Comment on the forum Something must be done about the ethical standards of this planet and there’s no better place to start than in some small way, on YouTube. For years I’ve had my articles and forum posts co-opted by people like Tony Northrup with 1.42 million subscribers, without any credit or acknowledgement. A lot of hard work goes into writing this blog, the understanding of the technical side of…
Comment on the forum “Math Class” on Baidu now has detailed infrared thermometer readings of the camera’s mainboard with the back off, showing they correspond closely to the temperature reported in the EXIF data and don’t rise above 64C. He also found that if you remove the internal battery it resets the so-called overheating limitations. So who is telling the truth now, Canon?
Comment on the forum Whatever Sony have up their sleeve, it better be good because I know what full frame camera is coming next from Panasonic and it’s mightily impressive, more than you expect. I am at the moment shooting with one. For now it has to stay under wraps but stay tuned for the full review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IgM8Rhn5co Comment on the forum One of my favourite guys on YouTube is Theoria Apophasis. Theo here is the antidote to the gurning frowny face / amazed face shill. I think his source is utterly convincing about the odd U-turn in the middle of the night involving 65 units of the EOS R5.
Comment on the forum Canon really threw the kitchen sink at the EOS R5 specs sheet. What about the kitchen fridge?
Comment on the forum In this test, we will probe my Canon EOS R5’s actual internal temperature in Celsius, as reported by the firmware. Is overheating real or fake?
Comment on the forum A Chinese user/engineer disassembled the Canon EOS R5 with the aim of studying overheating. The hardware is laid out in such a way to trap heat around the CPU.