Pius Sullivan wrote: arbitrage wrote:
Had two lockups yesterday with EF 600 f/4 IS III on the R5. Card in camera was Sandisk 512GB CFexpress card. IS was ON and in Mode 1.
They happened within a minute of each other. Both times all I was doing was looking through the EVF with Eye-AF engaged on a perched KF waiting to start firing if he dove. EVF image froze, after maybe 20-30s camera did the "clunk" and reset itself. Didn't have to pull the battery, just wait long enough. Weird that for the rest of the day it never happened again and it never happened the first day. We shall see what Day 3 brings.
The lock ups still happen every other shoot for me, mostly with IS on the lens. The choice of lens didn't really matter but found the 400 DO II to be the worst of the bunch.
I sure wish Canon could get to the bottom of these lockout issues and actually FIX it! Is Canon the new Windows 98? Still waiting to pull the trigger on an R5. I keep hoping the firmware releases address the lock ups, but it doesn’t appear that way.
Are the last couple of posters reporting lock ups using FW 1.4.0 that was just released this past week?
Don't be to hard on Canon I have had the Sony a1 lock up twice now, the only difference is the the R5 gives you a photo to look at most of the time With respect to the a1, you just look through the viewfinder nothing happens. Will not focus and no focus points active. several other photographers were using the a1 and reported similar lockups today also. While the grass is greener in some areas... somethings don't change.. I just wanted t to add everything with respect to my a1 is Sony, battery-grip, Sony batteries, Sony lens and Sony CFe cards and the only thing not canon about my R5 was Sandisk CFe Card 512GB.
Aug 22, 2021 at 03:34 PM
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With respect to the a1, you just look through the viewfinder nothing happens. Will not focus and no focus points active. several other photographers were using the a1 and reported similar lockups today also. While the grass is greener in some areas... somethings don't change..