Photography News 118 - Web

Big test

PERFORMANCE: PRE-CAPTURE BURST SHOOTING Canon has been slow to embrace pre- capture shooting and some models have a clumsy implementation of the feature, but the EOS R5 Mark II’s ‘Pre- cont.’ shooting is more like it. It can shoot up to 30fps with a pre-capture period of 0.5sec, which means you get up to 15 individual Raws/JPEGs of prior action. The pre-capture period can’t be modified. Using an online clock for timing, I consistently got 13-14 pre-capture frames, and keeping my finger on the shutter button I got another 50-odd

With pre-capture shooting and focus stacking, it is best to use the camera loaded solely with the CFexpress card to prevent any issues of buffering or waiting for your files to be written to the much slower SD card.

shots. The post-capture number of shots can be limited. While not especially exotic, the sequence of starlings taking to the air shows the feature’s potential and I am sure it will be warmly welcomed and used by action and nature photographers.

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