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7 hours ago, Video Hummus said:

We are only a few weeks away from “5 AWESOME WAYS to KEEP YOUR R5 from OVERHEATING 🔥🔥 🚫” and “My TOP 10 TIPS for Shooting 8K RAW on the EOS R5!”.

With tips like:

1. Buy a $400-800 external recorder for your $4,000 mirrorless photo camera.
2. Take your battery out.
3. Take your CFexpress card out. MAke sure to leave your SD card door OPEN!
4. After shooting take off your lens and expose your sensor
5. Avoid hot weather
6. Don’t take photos before video
7. Bring a second body, $2,600 R6 or another $4,000 R5 and swap them.
8. Realize you paid $4,000 for another EOS R...again. LOL!

But its Canon...if any other company released a camera like this they would be out of business fast and all the Canon apologist would be saying the same thing: “Unreliable piece of junk!, Not professional gear!, I wouldn’t dare shoot a a job where I was getting paid with that camera”.

See my list above for 7 AWESOME WAYS to KEEP your R5 from OVERHEATING!!!

I gotta pull you up on this, just check out Sony years back and even this week people are still posting about Sony overheating workarounds, there's loads of videos on this recently:

What's up with the overly myopic agenda against Canon on here with some of you guys? It's like Canon broke up with you or something. It's just gear.

46 minutes ago, ajay said:

These workarounds don't work for all modes. What about 4k 120p? Can't do that currently with an external recorder and even if you could, you've now lost compactness which makes it difficult or impossible to use in the field for wildlife videography.  It defeats the purpose of the camera for how I would use it.

Even if you primarily shoot stills, the damn camera heats up and makes it nearly unusable when you do want to take video.

I fail to understand why anyone would use these workarounds for a camera with bad engineering design. Why promote this garbage? Why spend thousands of dollars on a camera that works half-assed at best and requires you to spend another thousand to use it for some of it's video modes but not all?

If you want to stop Canon from making shit cameras stop buying them.

 

The R5 as a video camera as it is now is still not feasible for all video creators. But then is there a camera other than the A7S3 that's 'perfect'? Sony used to overheat and still has (imho) greeny yellow colour science and didn't have a flip screen. Panasonic S1H and their G5 range has shocking autofocus performance etc. Canon has poor dynamic range and would leave out features etc. Does any camera tick every box.

No camera is perfect, all have some issue that you have to work around.  What's the workaround for 12mp stills on the A7S3? I would need to get the A73 or A7R4, a £2k workaround.

29 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

So yes, some workarounds may exist in certain scenarios for anyone determined to make the system work in certain ways, but it is not THE answer.

Agreed. For my user case, I need maybe a 80/20 split photos and videos, and I need the best of both. So a hybrid camera is my preferred option. I simply cannot afford an A7S3 and A7R4 together; I'm not confident about using other brands either. So that leaves the A73, as an alternative answer, and that doesn't excite me. I'm happy to try the workarounds with the R5 until they can figure it out.... or the mark 2 comes out!

Considering a Ninja V would be cheaper than a few CFExpress cards and you get ProRes, this seems like hopeful conclusion to the heating debate. Now I just have to wait and start creating 🙏🏼

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2YDycrYZg8

Another test with the Ninja V but this time with the battery still in, no dummy battery. Lasted 1hr 30. So NoLife's video looks like it wasn't an isolated result. While this is encouraging in terms of being a usable camera, a £600 workaround or however much a Ninja V costs is a bit shocking.

Although, with the price of CFExpress cards, a Ninja V might be a bit of a money saver?

I would have thought once you get the 1DX2 you'll never look back. The only thing holding it back us surely just the absence of C-log.

You are in the exact same position as me with almost the exact same camera requirements and same needs for what the camera will be used for, except I need it for Time lapses also. So I will be interested to know your final decision. I also suspect like me you also want to pick 1DX2 but see the superiority of the A7R3, which is probably what is stopping you or making you hesitate pulling the trigger on purchasing the 1DX2

I personally have decided I will almost certainly be purchasing the 1DX2 with some L zooms, 16-35 2.8, 70-200 and 24-70. I'm sure you know as you have stated a few of the Sony advantages over the Canon, so I will list the ones that have swayed me towards Canon.

1. Better Colour Science. Less colour processing in post. I do find the look of Canon so much better.

2. Better, buttery 120p. Correct if I'm wrong but the Sony 120p is of poorer IQ and not as smooth. Also I think Sony is  down sampled?

3. Cheaper lens, the L is still just as good to my eye, despite what DXOmarks rate the Sony at.

4. Weather sealed. There are tests showing the A7R3 and Nikon(D5 or 850, I forget) failing compared to the 1DX2. i.e. its a tank

5. it's a tank

6. More FPS

7. Better menu system

Cost wise, the 1DX2 is more expensive, but the Sony G master lens negate any financial gains. And you will be buying more lens later. I will also note that it is incredibly hard to find anyone selling their 1DX2 second hand. I'd have to conclude anyone who buys one just doesn't look back.