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Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

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p.29 #1 · p.29 #1 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

arbitrage wrote:
AF is one thing, and an important one, but you pay the premium for a lot of other things the A1 has that the R5/R5II don't. First thing that stuck out to me holding the R5II last night was the dinky back buttons that are an ergonomic nightmare. Look and feel like something from my Rebel Xsi I still have from 2008.

Dinky buttons? What about dinky bodies?

I think you're just getting a false sense that the R5II buttons are smaller because your holding a MUCH better ergonomically balanced body. So proportionally they would seem smaller.

Aug 23, 2024 at 08:13 AM

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p.29 #2 · p.29 #2 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

For Pre-capture I did configure C3 for that, and can go in and out of that with the M-fn button. Limited the frames, and it seems to still shoot .5sec pre, but post frames are limited. So AF button, half press, full press and don't get a zillion frames after push cause I am old and slow.

Aug 23, 2024 at 08:21 AM

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p.29 #3 · p.29 #3 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

lighthound wrote:
Dinky buttons? What about dinky bodies?

I think you're just getting a false sense that the R5II buttons are smaller because your holding a MUCH better ergonomically balanced body. So proportionally they would seem smaller.

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Having them both in the hand just an hour ago I can say the A1 is better in the hand and has better buttons, placed better and way more to control the camera with. R5 has better grip material and the nice top LCD. Otherwise every other metric I could I could compare the outside of the camera I'd give to the A1. The A9III is even better than the A1.

Aug 23, 2024 at 11:45 AM

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p.29 #4 · p.29 #4 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

I hate Canon's AF-On button on every Canon body except the R3 and later 1DX's. Its absolutely silly to have a button that will require more and more force the longer you hold it (the pad of your thumb will slowly conform to the button because its so small, requiring more force to keep it pressed). As a workaround you can use more of the tip of your thumb, but ergos are supposed to be good on a body that approaches $5,000, all said and done.

That said, I'm not a fan of Sony's bodies (A1 included, but haven't touched an A9III). Their AF ON button is miles better, but I don't feel the same about the ergos otherwise. IMO, they've always been a little awkward. Nikons feel good in hand and have no standout ergo issues other than weight, but I'll defer to someone with more time on one.

Aug 23, 2024 at 01:22 PM

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p.29 #5 · p.29 #5 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

Well apparently I fudged. So during recapture I couldn’t change it, but during actually shooting I could. I hadn’t tried to change the exposure during precapture, but I did as I was shooting. By default it was set to not be able to change it so that’s what the custom function did.

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Turns out it was a custom setting. AE LOCK after focus. I turned it off and things are good now.

Aug 23, 2024 at 06:04 PM

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Aug 23, 2024 at 06:47 PM

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p.29 #7 · p.29 #7 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

Mike Jacks0n wrote:
I hate Canon's AF-On button on every Canon body except the R3 and later 1DX's. Its absolutely silly to have a button that will require more and more force the longer you hold it (the pad of your thumb will slowly conform to the button because its so small, requiring more force to keep it pressed). As a workaround you can use more of the tip of your thumb, but ergos are supposed to be good on a body that approaches $5,000, all said and done.

That said, I'm not a fan of Sony's bodies (A1 included, but haven't...Show more →

I have used 'dome bumpers' in the past on cameras where I had problems with flush buttons. For example these from Lee Valley. The problem with this solution is that when it gets warmer/hot outside, the adhesive weakens and allows the bumper to slide off.

I do think the button design, while supposedly some of the back buttons on the R5II are less flush than the R5/6/6II, is a letdown compared to the 1DX/R3 series. For the R5's price point and position in the market, this could have been done better. Sony's early a7 bodies were pretty bad, IMO, for camera control, but starting with the a9 things got a lot better.

Aug 23, 2024 at 10:14 PM

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p.29 #8 · p.29 #8 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

JaimitoFrog wrote:

Had to laugh at Ron a few times when he looked at his new toy with such excitement. Just like a kid on Christmas morning.

He answered all the questions I had. Sounds like the R5II is in fact the new high mp R3 that everyone wanted.

Aug 24, 2024 at 07:08 AM

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p.29 #9 · p.29 #9 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

lighthound wrote:
Had to laugh at Ron a few times when he looked at his new toy with such excitement. Just like a kid on Christmas morning.

He answered all the questions I had. Sounds like the R5II is in fact the new high mp R3 that everyone wanted.

If only they had put it in that perfect sized/shaped R3 body and upsized to 1 series buttons then it would be "French kiss".

Aug 24, 2024 at 07:21 AM

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p.29 #10 · p.29 #10 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

You know what they say about the best laid plans....
I was supposed to have the morning yesterday to shoot my friends R5II. I was hoping for some Barn Swallows. There were some Barn Swallows but there also was cloudy, intermittent showers and the swallows disappeared when the light actually improved for a brief time.
Therefore my full BIF conclusions will have to wait till hopefully next weekend where my friend may lend me the camera for a full day and forecast is much better.

But what I did solidify my thoughts on is that Canon for non-BIF, bird detection (body, head, eye) is well beyond the other two systems now. Caveat that with I already felt the original R5 and the R3 (I haven't shot the other newer Canon bodies) had the best subject detect for static subjects. But the R5II was simply shocking what it could pick out and at crazy distances with no good contrast or obvious shape. A couple examples....there was a female mallard in the water, nibbling at some shoreline grass. The grass and her just sort of merged into one shape. R5II in just full frame Eye AF (no directed single pt) found her right away and put a rectangle on her. That was with f/7.1 glass in terrible light at condsiderable distance (she may have taken up 5% of the frame). Then just to compare I pulled out the A1 with f/2.8 glass for over 4x the light gathering and it didn't identify her as a subject. I aimed the R5II at a beaver way out on the lake just the head slowly swimming by and immediately it put a rectangle over the head....cloudy, dreary light...just a mix of grey water and brown head with little contrast. Then a spotted sandpiper on a log, way to far away for a good shot...bam...right on it.

None of those thoughts should have any weight towards whether the R5II has improved enough to match or beat the A1 for BIF against complicated backgrounds. That will have to wait. But for perched or swimming birds it is hands down the leader IMHO right now.

Aug 24, 2024 at 07:38 AM

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p.29 #11 · p.29 #11 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

I'm working on adapting from my R5 to my new Mark II. Has anyone seen a good tutorial (maybe Youtube video?) on how to best set up the EyeAF? I've never used the R3 so I've never set it up. Is the setup the same, maybe I can find a setup video for it on the R3 and work off of that. Thanks!

Aug 24, 2024 at 05:11 PM

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Aug 25, 2024 at 09:19 AM

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p.29 #13 · p.29 #13 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

Cduff406 wrote:
I'm working on adapting from my R5 to my new Mark II. Has anyone seen a good tutorial (maybe Youtube video?) on how to best set up the EyeAF? I've never used the R3 so I've never set it up. Is the setup the same, maybe I can find a setup video for it on the R3 and work off of that. Thanks!

Just follow the in-camera directions to set it up? And repeat it multiple times and in varying lighting conditions so that the camera builds a more comprehensive profile.

At least from my brief experience setting this up with eye control capable cameras, the in-camera directions were straightforward and resulted in properly functional eye control AF after the first calibration round. But apparently this can vary depending on your eyes.

If you sometimes wear glasses or contacts, probably would be good to make a separate profile for those.

Aug 25, 2024 at 10:03 AM

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p.29 #14 · p.29 #14 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

Does anyone know how the eye controlled AF interacts with the registered person priority? I was testing the registration out today and I could not reliably get the AF to switch from the registered subject to another subject in the frame when standing side by side. Sometimes I could, sometimes I couldn't, after a while of staring like Matilda or some sort of novice Jedi taking force 101 I went back to eye AF biased to the active AF area.

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Just follow the in-camera directions to set it up? And repeat it multiple times and in varying lighting conditions so that the camera builds a more comprehensive profile.

At least from my brief experience setting this up with eye control capable cameras, the in-camera directions were straightforward and resulted in properly functional eye control AF after the first calibration round. But apparently this can vary depending on your eyes.

If you sometimes wear glasses or contacts, probably would be good to make a separate profile for those.

What I would be super grateful for is some sort of more granular guide about what sort of lighting conditions I should look to train the eye control in and also how best to do it with glasses. I'm starting to suspect that those of us with higher prescriptions (and maybe customised lenses exacerbate this) won't have much joy at the edges of the frame although the central areas seem to track better judging by the pointer.

Aug 25, 2024 at 01:59 PM

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p.29 #15 · p.29 #15 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

Jeff Cable said R5II AF is better than R3.

Aug 29, 2024 at 11:43 PM

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Aug 30, 2024 at 05:36 PM

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Sep 03, 2024 at 09:25 AM

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p.29 #18 · p.29 #18 · Official Canon EOS R5 Mark II Images & Specifications

Good Afternoon Guys,

I took my R5II to the Ranger's game last night, I have very little interest in baseball but thought it might provide an opportunity to get more familiar with it. Please forgive the faint impression of the protective net, these were really good seats. I enabled digital shutter and auto iso for this experiment. The camera performed flawlessly, it is everything I had hoped and a little more. Never lost focus, tracked unbelievably well.

I have come to realize, with just a bit of experimentation, that I am not going to want to pick up my R5 and shoot aviation subjects now that I know what the II can do, Luckily my second II is waiting for me.