Andrew - EOSHD

Ahem. "The camera was turned on for 10 minutes to light, frame, expose, format, etc. Then switched off for 10 minutes." Bit of a strange way to shoot. Light, frame, expose, compose... then do what for 10 mins? Turn camera off and have a cuppa? "The camera was turned on again and I shot for 2 minutes, with a 2-minute break thereafter. Camera is turned off for all breaks. Repeat for three takes." So 3 takes of 2 minutes = 6 mins... With leisurely 2 min break in-between each clip! Very light usage. "The third break is 5 minutes, not 2 minutes." So we're now 3 short takes in after the 10 minute break followed by 2 breaks of 2 minutes and another one of 5 mins. That is more downtime than a French air traffic controller. "Camera completed Master and MS1. At the end of MS1, the estimated time dropped to 5 minutes. The 5 minute break didn’t help. During the second take in MS2, the camera overheat warning started to flash." Master and MS1... Apparently these are his made up dialogue scenes. How long were these? "I was able to finish the second take and shut the camera for two minutes. When I switched on again, the estimated time was 1:00, which is less than the roll time. So I had to stop the test." Shoot over. "Overall, the camera was able to shoot for exactly one hour before being on the verge of overheating." 1 hour of on-off short takes and it's dead! NOBODY can work like this... Not even the French.

Neither can the R5 6K is perfectly fine for green screen. Going to 8K brings only marginal benefits and is more taxing in post.

The sound of squealing breaks and a u-turn faster than you can say "no more 4K crop"!

Nope, been a bit of a nightmare. First quarterly lost since they started reporting (2001). Image service down the drain. EOS R5 & R6 defective. Coronavirus. What next? If it isn't a wakeup call for them I don't know what is 🙂

Canon web stores are down I hear the server has overheated... or maybe they are just editing out the EOS R5 pages 😂

Probably the grade from SLOG

Sod the recall. Canon can sell the EOS R5 to Icelandic elves and eskimos.

Lame AF is showstopper for Alexa then too.

Stranger things have happened.

Note 10+ and S10 camera does have nice colours and dynamic range. But it's nowhere near the P40 Pro in low light or if you pixel peep it. The S20 Ultra is also pretty far behind too with most shots.

Ah so that's the solution then. Move to New Zealand where it is currently winter?

It could have been a last moment marketing push to add the features. And engineering didn't have the time to implement it properly. Funny thing is, Richard Butler read all the press releases for the cameras and still wrote this. The question is why? What did Canon tell him? Probably because they originally intended it to be a 4K pixel binning 30p 8bit cripple camera. Then marketing looked at the Sony sales chart and A7S III rumours and wet the bed. Then Japanese senior management approved the u-turn. And the engineers went... Erm... ok! A cock up all round!

https://www.eoshd.com/news/canon-said-eos-r5-shoots-comfortably-on-high-end-production-sets-ideal-partner-to-c300-mark-iii-why-overheating-is-not-on-purpose/ My latest opinion, it's not a cripple hammer moment. They genuinely wanted this thing to be used by pros on same high-end productions as a Cinema EOS C300 Mark III. Well that's how it was sold to us in April anyway. What changed at the last minute? Were the overheating results expected and a surprise to Canon? Yep, I think so.

B-Cam to C300 III anyone? https://www.eoshd.com/news/canon-said-eos-r5-shoots-comfortably-on-high-end-production-sets-ideal-partner-to-c300-mark-iii-why-overheating-is-not-on-purpose/

It is going to go far. Phone apps already mimic the bokeh of specific old lenses. Sensor size is has gone up to nearly 1" in the thinnest handsets and dynamic range has surpassed many full frame DSLRs. But when you need manual controls, the lack of physical buttons and dials let a smartphone down and I can't see that changing much.

I would take Vitaliy with a pinch of Black Sea salt with his "rumours from a dealer" on technical matters. I am not sure why any dealer would be in the loop over internal Canon Japan engineering issues, it's not exactly as if the Japanese communicate with them on a deep level. As we have seen over shipping dates!

Oops.

Does this mean you are going to back to being a Sony fanboy instead now? Tilta seemed to get the fan out suspiciously early! Who knows what they may have heard from insiders early on? Firmware is not usually grounds for a recall though. Hardware adjustments are.

The RAWs are useful in some situations, where you want a finer grain, or to bypass image processing, over sharpening, but yeah its a softer and much noisier image with less dynamic range in RAW than in the JPEGs in most cases! Crazy!

100% agree

The 3-4 cam arrays on smartphones show the strength of the future for camera arrays. As long as they don't take it a step too far!...

Haha that's the big irony on that forum isn't it... Full of people who don't care about video and a dead video section, but woe betide anyone who upsets them with video comments! The 8K overheating... Well your £500 card will fill up before it gets to 20 mins so that's not the only issue 👍😆

I reckon the camera industry will see erosion into the enthusiast market The P40 Pro and S20 Ultra are simply too good not to use them for street photos. I can get stealthy shots with these that are simply not possible with a dedicated camera. Would take one of these over GR III or X100 any day. Everybody thinks I am taking a selfie. Nobody thinks people take photos with the rear facing camera any more 😂 In fact these highly detailed telephoto cameras like on the P40 Pro+ (10x!) are a bit of a privacy concern! The video is coming along a long way as well and live shallow DOF will improve in the future along with low light.

Yes it absolutely was marketed at professionals for video. So does that make it a professional video tool? In my view, yes! It doesn't have to be a C500 Mark II with SDI and XLR jacks to be marketed at professionals for cinematography, as Canon is doing with the R5. And you expect it to do what it says on the tin as well. Not everybody will research the overheating problems before buying one. Yes well they could be in for a surprise as well because in stills mode, live-view = video. It is continuously doing a video feed to the LCD and EVF in stills mode. So let's see how it lasts in that mode over the duration of say, a wedding.

With 28 pages to get through, it's tricky enough for people to get the required good info that is nested in this thread. Please refrain from further argumentative chatting that takes up so much room. No disrespect to any one person but we now have PAGES of it! Not good. If we are going to continue to fill page after page with opinion soup, the good info is going to get buried and missed by those coming in from Google. And there's a lot of traffic to this post at the moment. Please can we concentrate on informing those people who come to us for help. Thank you. A new test has come out, which seems to have been written with one eye on the Canon marketing department. Nevertheless it is useful to see more results come in. https://www.eoshd.com/news/opinion-on-dpreviews-canon-eos-r5-overheating-test-in-4k/ The problem with DPReview's test though is that nobody actually shoots like this, and same goes for Canon's official test. You are not usually straight into a 30 minute take from cold at start of the day without so much as a few mins in live-view for composition. And you do not take 30 minute breaks in-between 30 min interview takes. So I would like to see a proper real-world test that lasts for a day's shoot 3-7 hours. The camera is turned on in live-view for the duration, with shorter 30 second to 2 min takes recorded throughout that 3-7 hour shooting day. With no 30 min or 1 hour resting periods. Let's see how it performs in the REAL world. For those of us in cooler climates I would like to see a test on a cloudy day, 20c as well. If anyone actually has a camera and can contribute to this thread in a positive way I'm all for it!