Canon EOS R5 Mark II user feedback and discussion

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#183
Bennymiata said:
I was in a real quandary about buying an R52 as I already have an R5.
While I do shoot a few birds, most of my subjects are reasonably static, so while improved af and other features would be nice, I'm still very happy with my R5.
For little more, I decided to buy a Fuji GFX 100S2.
For how I use a camera, 100megapickles are very, very nice.
Using a Fringer adapter I can use all of my old ef lenses, although there is some vignetting on some lenses but even using the Fuji's 35mm crop mode, it still gives you a 60mp file.
And it's fun to learn a new system. Canon's menus are so much better and logical.
I've been shooting Canon since 1964, and I have a large selection of Canon lenses both ef and RF, so please don't call me a turncoat, but for me, it made sense to expand my photography rather than just buying an improved version of what I already have.
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Hey thats awesome, I dig the variety, and if it works for you thats great!
 
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#184
I finally noticed that pre-continuous shooting disables itself when turning the camera off, so I made sure to keep it enabled this morning. The fully charged LP-EP drained itself is slightly less than 2 hours, about 1700 pictures and a 6 second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdzqvpm0qNs

The timing worked out quite well, I was back home in time to prepare lunch :)
 
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#186
Do you guys also notice just how quick the R5 II burns through LP-E6NH batteries? I was at a local museum with my girlfriend yesterday with my TS-E and 10-20, mostly shot in mechanical curtain, nothing blisteringly fast. 200 shots later and the fully charged battery is now on its last legs. Mind you: I almost always exclusively shoot through the viewfinder and I don’t check shots on camera regularly.

Also: didn’t there used to be a battery percentage in the battery menu? I also can not register the NH batteries in camera.

And I still couldn’t find a spare LP-E6P battery here in Germany.
 
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#187
Moritz_RD02 said:
Do you guys also notice just how quick the R5 II burns through LP-E6NH batteries? I was at a local museum with my girlfriend yesterday with my TS-E and 10-20, mostly shot in mechanical curtain, nothing blisteringly fast. 200 shots later and the fully charged battery is now on its last legs. Mind you: I almost always exclusively shoot through the viewfinder and I don’t check shots on camera regularly.

Also: didn’t there used to be a battery percentage in the battery menu? I also can not register the NH batteries in camera.

And I still couldn’t find a spare LP-E6P battery here in Germany.
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EDITED: disregard that post, I went and compared the camera processed jpgs instead of the raw photos I was using and the noise level is very similar for both, which is significant given the number of pixels and the fact the M2's pixels are smaller.

Edit #2: I tried to attach the files but they are too large.
 
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#189
tomislavmoze said:
Got the R5mk2 yesterday. My shop got 10 units so I would say Croatia got 20 units all together.
First impressions:
In video modes heavily dependent on the new battery which are currently hard to get.
The eye control af doesn’t seem to work vertically at all and horizontal not even close as it was working on R3 with my eye. Actually I used it successfully on the R3 even through polarised glasses.
Also it managed to freeze in 4k raw 50 when waking from standby mode. It happens 2 times and I had to turn off the camera to be able to use it. (First image)
8k50 raw with RF 24-70 /2.8 has this aura visible with all the lens corrections turned on in camera. It is not visible in 4K raw modes.
I didn’t notice it until I’ve put it in resolve. (Second image)
also the rubber hot shoe cap does not fit well on the original R5.
Video is nice, much cleaner image and lineskip modes seam a bit better than the one in the R5 (need more testing of that)
4k raw has some moire in some patterns, you can tell it is line skipped but it is nice and sharp. I would say it feels a bit artificially sharpen.
I hope the Biggs are just software problems and they will be fixed with the next firmware.

Did you guys encounter any?
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The same here with the Canon 24-105 2.8 only in *K Raw??? Anyone have any ideas?
 

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#190
I'm growing very fond of the pre-capture feature, I was trying to capture a dragonfly trying to land of a blade of grass, when it suddenly took off. The highlighted picture is when I pressed the shutter, the 15 shots before that are all pre-capture.
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200% crop from shot #4:
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R5m2 + 100-500L
 
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#192
OldDudePhotog said:
This is one of the reasons many of us who think the R1 having a 24mp sensor is insufficient.
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For my use cases, I completely agree. But I have to note that the difference wasn't as big as I thought it was. I sold my R5 last fall and shot with just the R8, which gave me a lot of pictures I was very happy with. The extra 1.4x magnification on the RF100L came in very handy!
I did get an R7 in early spring and that was a big difference! But the faster sensor on the R5II combined with actually reliable AF gives me more and better results.

Also: 662 shots in 22 minutes, I'm starting to find out why people like Jeff Cable talk about culling so much :)
 
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Going through the images where I was dialing down the shutterspeed to see how slow I could go with the EF180L+IBIS, the pre-captured images before I pressed the shutter are less blurry than the 4-5 images after pressing it. Apparently I mash the shutter hard enough to have an effect on IQ!

In hindsight this was to be expected, but I hadn't realized it :)
 
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#195
Brief feedback on the rolling shutter with the electronic shutter. I once tested the R5II at a women's soccer match in our town (regional game). I dragged a radial mask over the ball in Lightroom (with the Shift key held down to draw a perfectly round circle). The ball is not perfectly round. However, it is not noticeable to the naked eye. I didn't have an R5 with me to test this. However, I remember balls that looked more like a rugby ball than a soccer ball. Here are the sections with mask and the respective complete photo (also cropped a little in each case)
Lens used RF 70-200 2.8 at f/2.8, 1/5000s, Iso 400, camera held horizontally.

In the scene in front of the goal, the player in red practically shot right through the picture (into the goalkeeper's face ). That would be a big problem with a slow sensor.

By the way: I'm glad that I never actually take photos on artificial turf pitches at 32 degrees Celsius in the shade in the blazing sun. The R5II has an overheating indicator. Here it fluctuated between 4-5 bars, which is about half of the overheating indicator. If I were to do this more often and for longer (I was only on the pitch for one half), I would actually think about buying the ventilation battery grip. But otherwise I tend to sit in basketball halls or somewhere in the shadow when shooting soccer.
 

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I finally had a chance to take the R52 out to shoot some tennis. The auto-focus is a distinct improvement over the R5. It found faces/eyes much faster and never got distracted by the net or the backs of players on my side of the net. It also found faces/eyes at shorter focal lengths giving me more freedom with how I could frame the shot. I didn't do very well with eye-controlled focus and had to turn it off. Maybe my glasses aren't helping. Prebuffering was fantastic, and in combination with my improved ability to track the action through the view finder I got a lot of shots I would have missed with the R5. I set the camera to capture 15fps, and was not aware of any buffering issues. I should say that I have never had any buffering issues with my R5+CFe at 12fps. I also saw the temperature indicator rising but am not sure how the bar graph relates to the temperature indicator on the R5. I am not convinced the cooling slots have done as much good as I was hoping for. No shooting from the sideline, but no rolling shutter effects were visible to me. I think the R52 is a promising upgrade from R5 for tennis photography.
 
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snapshot said:
I finally had a chance to take the R52 out to shoot some tennis. The auto-focus is a distinct improvement over the R5. It found faces/eyes much faster and never got distracted by the net or the backs of players on my side of the net. It also found faces/eyes at shorter focal lengths giving me more freedom with how I could frame the shot. I didn't do very well with eye-controlled focus and had to turn it off. Maybe my glasses aren't helping. Prebuffering was fantastic, and in combination with my improved ability to track the action through the view finder I got a lot of shots I would have missed with the R5. I set the camera to capture 15fps, and was not aware of any buffering issues. I should say that I have never had any buffering issues with my R5+CFe at 12fps. I also saw the temperature indicator rising but am not sure how the bar graph relates to the temperature indicator on the R5. I am not convinced the cooling slots have done as much good as I was hoping for. No shooting from the sideline, but no rolling shutter effects were visible to me. I think the R52 is a promising upgrade from R5 for tennis photography.
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On overheating, my understanding is that the vents don't help keep the camera cool on their own since the camera does not have an internal fan to actually dispitate the heat. The vents probably only really work when used in conjunction with the cooling grip.
 
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#199
sigh said:
On overheating, my understanding is that the vents don't help keep the camera cool on their own since the camera does not have an internal fan to actually dispitate the heat. The vents probably only really work when used in conjunction with the cooling grip.
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I am sure there is some sort of convection-type heat movement (minus the fluid part) for it. I finally did something I have only done once before yesterday in using my R5M2 to shoot video of runners. I was using the standard battery grip and the camera was sitting in the sun and had the heat bar show up and get all the way to the first red bar before I moved it into the shade. I was shooting 4k and can see how the fan grip would be necessary to shoot lots of video. The standard battery grip actually covers the vent holes on the bottom of the camera and is not useful for video capture IMO.
 
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#200
I used the R5II in a hide yesterday, from 9 in the morning till 3 in the afternoon, with the screen continuously on. I kept a USB-C PD powerbank connected the whole time and the battery in the camera didn't discharge! So I didn't need the spare battery at all.

Using precapture and shooting a few video clips in between, the R5II is a very good nose-cheek-hand heater, no fears for shooting it during winter :)
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One bug I ran into a few times is that during playback it only shows the image for the most recent shot. Scrolling through the shots will update the metadata and show movie controls for movies, but the image itself won't change. It needs a battery pull to fix.

And as you can see in the picture above, shaded woodland at the end of summer requires high ISO values, I really want DxO to add support for the R5II :)
 
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