Canon EOS R5 Mark II firmware update coming this month
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I dunno. If you’re not pressing the release latch firmly enough, that sounds like a firmware problem.
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I would just love to be able to at least mess with my exposure comp in Pre Capture; as it stands today you're locked in as soon as you half press the shutter button :-(
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I tried it once, about a year ago. Since the subject is supposed to be still, and I am a tried-and-true contrarian, I naturally used it to do a long exposure of a waterfall.
It was pretty ugly and if you zoomed way in, the blurred water had these bizarre herringbone patterns.
That’s been the extent of my usage.
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It'd be nice if Canon could alphabetize the entries in the huge list of features that you can link to a button or within a menu. They must have several hundred of them and they are a PITA to go through to find a particular one. When you create lots of user star menus you need to wade through that morass of semi-random feature entries over and over, and if they were alphabetized then it would be soooooooooo much quicker and less frustrating.
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They really need to adress the mirror falling off problem that I read in a blog a year or so ago. I think that complaint caused the blogger to get a sony*.
*sony may or may not have paid or given free products to that blogger
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I am sure that a new firmware would be scheduled for a month post release just for bug fixes if nothing else. Additional features are just gravy on top.
Strange that the R5ii's advanced user guide doesn't have a firmware version on it. Previously they have the version specified on the first page.
Are they at 1.0.0 for those who have one?
If I read the manual correctly, you can't remap the Rate/voice memo button to anything else.
The R5 could remap to a couple of functions but all useless to me. Ideally, I want it to switch from EVF to rear screen as the face detector is blocked in an underwater housing. Currently I have to use MF-n which isn't an ergonomic location when using gloves when diving. Definitely can't do a voice memo underwater and rating a shot would be a waste of air.
I believe that the R5C can remap all buttons in video mode so it should be possible.
Strange that the R5ii's advanced user guide doesn't have a firmware version on it. Previously they have the version specified on the first page.
Are they at 1.0.0 for those who have one?
If I read the manual correctly, you can't remap the Rate/voice memo button to anything else.
The R5 could remap to a couple of functions but all useless to me. Ideally, I want it to switch from EVF to rear screen as the face detector is blocked in an underwater housing. Currently I have to use MF-n which isn't an ergonomic location when using gloves when diving. Definitely can't do a voice memo underwater and rating a shot would be a waste of air.
I believe that the R5C can remap all buttons in video mode so it should be possible.
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Canon should be more specific. My understanding is that the upres feature is based on genAI using a local LLM. I could be wrong but it seems unlikely that a generic algorithm would be used even if deep learning AI was used.
Frankly, I don't see the point when something like Topaz giga pixel offers a lot of options for those that really need it.
If a pixel shift feature could output a number of raw files that can then be merged in post then that would be more useful. It could upscale any image areas that haven't moved and leave the first image areas for those that have moved with an upres algorithm. It would be a compromise but based on raw data and better than waiting to merge all files in-camera.
Should be "simple" to include both options.
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I’ve noticed several issues with the R5II over the past few weeks, though nothing major, except for the camera freezing while shooting video, which has happened four times. One persistent annoyance is erratic metering behavior when using Auto ISO in aperture or shutter priority modes. The camera seems to fluctuate between adjusting shutter speed and ISO to correct exposure—speeding up, slowing down, and adjusting ISO repeatedly. This issue is most noticeable in backlit situations where the camera recognizes a face.
Overall, I’ve been pleased with the camera’s performance, but the files had issues in Lightroom until this week’s update. Before the update, the files appeared noisy and even ugly. However, after shooting a lot today and yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to find the files no longer look noisy. Was there an R5II update that wasn’t mentioned?
Overall, I’ve been pleased with the camera’s performance, but the files had issues in Lightroom until this week’s update. Before the update, the files appeared noisy and even ugly. However, after shooting a lot today and yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to find the files no longer look noisy. Was there an R5II update that wasn’t mentioned?
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Literally all AI developed by humanity so far is algorithmic. Even the most powerful ChatGPT versions are just programs with a lot of data. The borderline between what is "AI" and what is not "AI" is a little bit fuzzy.
With camera manufacturers, "AI" most likely means the use of artificial neural networks in some form.
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Whatever they implemented in camera, it's not LLM. It's got nothing to do with the language. Also, it's definitely not very large.
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To me it's not a gimmick.
I had one industrial client who wanted some big wooden plates "scanned" to use that specific wooden texture for a large profile print template. So they needed the resolution. Pixel shift worked perfectly. Without it, I couldn't have taken the job.
In some other situations I used it for product shots. It was a large product with lots of chains that I needed to shoot outside. It needed to be cutout. thanks to the pixel shift the cutout was very very clean. I couldn't have reached the quality in the result without pixel shift.
In my opinion it is a great feature and I will miss it in the R5. "AI" upscale is just not the same thing. Pixel shift gives true detail and works excellent. Also, I could upscsle on top of pixel shift - I don't see that upscaling is an replacement for pixel shift.
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Haha. I remember that.
We should bring Turbo and turbocharged back.
R5 IIT, now Turbocharged with AI.
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Clearly we aren't entering prompts but there are localised image generation models that run on phones for instance. The AL processors in the R5ii should be powerful enough to run such a model. The question is whether it is a simple algorithm eg interpolation or actually attempts to create new detail.
I would have said that the latter is more likely but questionable about how good it is. If it is the former then there is no point doing it as post processing would be better.
Pixel shift of raw images and combining in post would be the ideal scenario IMO.
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YES, PLEASE!4K 50/60 Downsampled from 8K
4K-Fine (8K oversampled) at 60fps is possible in the R5C and it looks like Canon simply doesn’t want to give us 8K oversampled 4K60p in the R5 Mark II. Canon wants to keep it as an exclusive feature in the R5C even though the R5 Mark II with the cooling grip should be capable of it as well.
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Totally agree. "AI" is an over-abused term these days.
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woah, what? 4 times it froze in such a short period of usage? Woah, that's intense!!! In a demanding environment, or during event documention with your client in the neck that's certainly a realy realy bad thing to happen. This would be way to much for me... that sounds like a heavy problem to me.
Both my r5 only froze in the very beginning due to overheating (which is bad enough, but once I learned in which modes it happened, I worked around it), but never at random...
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Hmm. I'm aware of the first option you mention, but even the smallest zone is significantly smaller than Spot AF. I am unable to replicate your second suggestion, however. A Canon Prof Services rep told me this was impossible. I'll PM you if you don't mind.
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