CANONEOS R5
SPECIFICATIONS Price: £4199/$3899 body only Sensor: 45-megapixel CMOS full-frame Recording format: 8K 30/24/23.98p 1300Mbps, 4K 120/ 100/60/50/30/25/24/23.98p 1880-470Mbps. FHD 120/100/ 60/590/30/25p/24p 5-axis in-body Shutter speeds: 30secs to 1/8000sec LCD: 3.2in articulating touchscreen, 2.1million dots, approx 100%coverage Viewfinder: 5.76million dot EVF Auto focus: 4500 points for video, on-sensor phase detect Connectivity: USB 3.2, Micro HDMI, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Storage: 1xCFexpress, 1xSD/ ISO range: 100-51,200, expandable 50-102,400 Lensmount: Canon RF Image stabiliser: especially for large projects that might need hours of footage? Very, very few clients need or want it – if any. What 8K, high-quality 4K/60p and 4K/ 120p is useful for are special shots rather than leaving the camera to record for hours. Shoot in 8K and you can crop in a lot on a 4K timeline, but watch out for rolling shutter artefacts. Or you can crop in ridiculously if you are working on a project in HD. Super-slow motion 4K/120p is also a relatively special-use setting, where you might want the flexibility to punch in if you use it in an HD project. If you use these settings as special-occasion, special-project settings, then you have some cool tricks up your sleeves. And for the rest of the time, the camera is a capable 4K full-frame mirrorless machine that is the best of the R series Canon has made. A big step on from the SDHC/SDXC UHS-II slot Dimensions (WxHxD): 138.5x97.5x88mm/ 5.43x3.84x3.46in Weight: 738g/1.63lb
IMAGES The R5 has an excellent articulating touchscreen monitor and boasts a CFexpress and an SD card slot
filming for half an hour to let the camera cool down. You can’t even leave the camera turned on to help you frame up the next shot as it has to be off to cool down properly. If that isn’t problem enough, you will definitely need some major computing firepower to plough through these huge files. Especially if you go for the 8K Raw setting. Editing with proxies is slow on all but the latest superfast computers, and that’s after you have waited for a significant amount of time for your PC to create the proxy files from 8K originals. The data you chew through is huge, especially 8K Raw, which at 25p spits out data at 2600Mbps to the CFexpress card. Change to the All-I settings and that’s down to 1300Mbps, while the compressed IPB setting is around 470Mbps. Although why you would opt for 8K recording then compress it hugely to get smaller file sizes is a bit of an odd decision, but the option is there. In 4K, there is no Raw option, but All-I records at 470Mbps and IPB at 120Mbps. But the real question is who needs to be shooting in 8K anyway,
a serious limit on how long you can record for. As the R5 doesn’t have a fan like the Panasonic S1H or low resolution like the Sony A7S III – both of which have no limit on recording time – the R5 can only record for a set time before it overheats and the camera closes down. In 8K/30p or slower - there are no faster frame rates at that high resolution - that comes at around 20 minutes, then the camera shuts off for some considerable time to cool down. Up to 40 minutes is not unheard of, although 20 minutes is more normal. If you shoot in the frankly more useful 4K/120p setting, then shutdown comes at under 15 minutes. In high-quality 4K/24p, it’s around half an hour. But unlike its full-frame mirrorless rivals that have no recording time limit, the Canon still has the 30-minute maximum recording time limit on all files. It’s fair to say this camera is not ideal to be used as a day-long on-set workhorse in an 8K or even super-high quality 4K production, especially if you need 4K/120p for some super-slow motion. If you output recording to an Atomos monitor, the recording times before heat exhaustion kick in are extended by around half. But that’s still not ideal. Imagine explaining to a client that you have to stop
“Its ludicrously large 8192x5464 pixel resolutionwill give you bragging rights over all your peers’ cameras”
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