Canon EOS R5 Review (8K video, 45MP, overheating issues)

The Canon EOS R5 captures 8K video and 45MP photos. But what about those overheating issues you've heard about? And how good is the image quality on the EOS R5? We cover all this and more in our hands-on review.

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[kian]

What would you have done differently?
Canon: "We should've released it in winter."

[TheRealMarxz]

as an Australian I need a sweater for something as cold as 27c

[johnbrown]

Thanks guys, good to hear your comments, as a photo shooter I am hyped to get my R5, for the most part the video issues won't be an issue for me.

[utsavratti]

Would love a stills-only side by side comparison of the R5 and R6 where you go into more depth about the practical differences with regards to dynamic range, noise, low light AF performance, EVFs, and less often talked about aspects such as external cable release, intervalometer, GPS and accessories.

[dris]

What I don't get is that up until about 2 weeks ago, there was basically no such thing as 4K 60p (let alone 120P) on a full frame mirrorless camera. All the Sonys overheated in 4k at only 30 fps (A7III would overheat after about 20 mins according to Daniel Schiffer), and even the cropped Xt4 would overheat after about 14 mins in 4K 60p. Your only real option was the 1D Mark II/III or cinema cameras. Also, up until a couple weeks ago, these same Youtubers were saying that they didn't like shooting 4K because of large file sizes, slow editing and encoding. We also heard complaints about the fact that the EOS-R had a cropped 4K and people wanted full width 4K.

So now, the R5 comes out with 45 of the sharpest MP around (beating the A7RIV in Tony Northrups tests), some of the best lowlight of any camera for photography (again Tony said it was the best, better than the previous champ A7RIV), the best full frame IBIS, the best eye-AF, pushing 12 FPS, AND you can shoot 4K FULL FRAME 24/30p with no heat problems at all no matter how long you shoot.  It's been proven you can't see a difference between 720p - 4K (check Matti Happooja's video on this) let alone between the normal 4K and HQ 4K when viewed normally (not zoomed in 300%) even on a 5k monitor (I've tried).

BUT, in addition to all this, you have the option of 4K 120 (never before found on a mirrorless camera), the sharpest 4K ever on a mirrorless (HQ mode, shown better than the R6 or A7SIII), or 8K Raw.... internal... something no camera outside of a super expensive cinema camera can offer. 

Yet, for some reason, people are now saying that the camera may not be good for video because of record limitations due to heat in these specialty modes that nobody had up until 2 weeks ago... and are comparing this camera to a crippled 12 MP, video-centric camera... that doesn't even shoot 8K or any internal raw at all.

Weird.

[donif]

27 degrees Celsius “hottest day”.

laughs in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, thailand, vietnam, india, uae, qatar, saudi arabia, iran, Iraq, mesir, Mexico in American movies..

[stalman]

It’s nice to hear about the stills features for a while because this camera looks like it’s pretty my much perfect for photographers.

[Peter_Cetera]

If you really need long 4k HQ or 8k videos, it's the wrong camera. For all others (about 95%) it's just PERFECT.

[anony_meows]

as a dude situated along the equator line, 27c is what i set my air conditioning unit to

[nicolask.]

"Today is the hottest day of the year at 27°c" holy shit, I've never heard a better argument for straight up moving to Canada. I haaaate the heat, and we had 34°c here in Germany recently.

[DhruvManoj]

The fetal position pic of Jordan is totally worth it

[eliasefty]

27 degrees...a hot winter day in Greece!!!

[gabmilitao]

If this was a Peter McKinnon video there would lots of slowmo super carefully treated colors. But here we have Chris's coming down a rock wall on flip flops hahahahahahahahá I love it

[cmiller]

The normal 4k (non-overheating) quality is actually pretty great...miles ahead of any previous Canon DSLR/mirrorless footage. The chart example vs the "HQ" mode must've been at 200%? Very few could notice the difference without a zoomed in side by side. I'm also surprised there was no mention of the 5.1k oversampled 4k you get in crop mode (at 24p, again no overheating). You guys are pretty great most of the time, but this review seems guilty of the youtuber trend of "let's put this into the mode that overheats THEN say it can't be used for serious video work." It's nonsense. I'm glad Canon gave us these modes with limitation instead of not at all.

[xmlthegreat]

Chris, this is your mom! Get back in the house and take off those ridiculous flip flops, young man!

[plrpilot]

Got my R5 today. I’m mostly a photographer who does documentary video work. I shot 4k24 HD and 4k24 and there really wasn’t enough of a difference to justify leaving it in HD mode. With that, there are no record limits. If I do slow mo, it’s mostly 30-60 second clips that will expand in the final video. I shot for four hours on a single battery (off/on photo and video) and never got an overheat warning and ended up with beautiful footage. The photos are out of this world. Low light is crazy good. It’ll be a few days before I can try some astrophotography shots, but I’m super excited about that, too. I’m very pleased with my purchase.

[KeithCarmichaelInFL]

I used to hear people complain that Canon artificially limited it's camera video. They finally listen, and everyone complains they overheat. It's a camera with video capabilities that have some competition for the other cameras in it's league. It is not a RED video camera, it's a replacement for the 5D series DSLR camera. Everybody knew that heat was going to be an issue, we have been hearing that since the day the video capabilities were first discussed. I really was hoping for a video talking about how it worked as a camera, you normally talk about how the camera photo resolution is. And when I finally get your review it's "great", and everyone will be pleased, but it overheats! I need to know if it's going to be soft in details like other Canon mirrorless cameras!

[ItzSi]

The Canon R5

Brilliant photo camera
Limited high spec Video camera

a great heating device for campers ...heat the room and cooks some eggs 🍳 😅

[drbeardo]

DPR: 27°C hottest day🤭
Me: LMFAO, 40-45°C on an average while summer in India...!🤷🏻‍♂️
And 27° we call it winter here😂

[yreyez]

The 4K 24p HQ looks gorgeous... Cant wait to shoot..