R5 Mark II | The SETTINGS YOU NEED To KNOW!

Struggling to get the best out of your Canon R5 Mark II? Here're the settings you should change!
R5 II Set Up Guide & Cam Settings

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Not an Easy One!
1:04 Red Menu
8:56 Pink Autofocus Menu
15:06 Quick Tip!
16:02 Blue Menu
16:41 Purple Menu
16:44 Yellow Menu
21:09 NEW Green Menu (Eye Control AF & More)
29:27 Orange Menu
31:24 My Menu Tips
33:20 Video Menu (Important Custom Functions!)
35:27 Red Menu Video
38:59 Pink Autofocus Menu
40:01 Yellow Menu Video
41:32 Green Menu Video

[bidconapa]

Spent 4 days playing and resetting "things" on my R5ii... In one video and set-up guide you have answered every question I have had!! THANK YOU!!!

[rogermilstein]

Jan - I have watched this video several times and really appreciate your detailed views on each step of the set-up process. On two occasions I have called Canon tech support for help on settings and found that even they are still learning about menus, and sub menus, etc. It is a process. Very helpful. Thank you.

[mobelue]

Jan I believe Canon owes you a debt of gratitude. Yours is the best r5 mkii setup vid I’ve seen. In fact with only a slight variance here and there I used your settings.

You do not use Canon DPP4. I do. In post I click on Digital Lens Optimizer, Auto Light Optimizer, and I bump clarity. Setting these in camera saves me steps in post. I also use fine picture style even though I shoot in raw. For wildlife better details as a starting point. Saves me click time. Those settings are not just for jpegs.

I wish you’d do more in the video setup. I think most R5 users are pic shooters. But now with all these pro enhancements, those shooters will pay more attention to video. And we’re not as versed in terms like codex, lutz, color grading video.

I use Davinci Reolve. So I’m busy searching for “how tos” in doing these things. Things like downloading color profiles would be of interest. And of particular interest would be working from CLOG2.

I believe this could be a good subject for you with your teaching style and skills.

Please mention using the quick or slow autofocusing transition in video.

Anyway take care.

[jeffgh]

I also just got my R5mk2 and thank God I found this video. I downloaded your pdf and am going to save days of fiddling about and frustration. Thank you - well worth the cash.

[Orexll]

Thanks! This is well worth the $20. I've spent hours setting up my R5 mk ii since last week and you're shooting style is exactly what I desire so this will save me a lot of time

[robingreen]

Jumping from the R6 to the R5M2 - this video was a life saver for me. Getting ready for an African photo safari and this helped me so much!

[hippodackl]

Jan, that video is a heaven's gift. Coming from an original R6 the whole AF stuff differs substantially. The documentation from Canon is completely inadequate, but your video nails it perfectly. Thank you!!!

[disphoto]

Thanks. A couple of things you didn't cover could be important.

1) If you set up for "Backout Free Display, " then (unlike any other Canon camera I have used) the aperture on the lens will stop down according to the aperture. This makes tweaking manual focus much less effective to impossible if the aperture is set to a high number. Also new (to me) is that you can set the view to be either with or without DOF/aperture stopped down with the other shutter modes (but it always stops down with Blackout Free, and the options are grayed out).

2) You didn't go into the new "submenus" enabled by the INFO button when you set up back button AF. Syler P.R. goes into them a bit in "Supercharge your Canon R5 II for Wildlife Photo & Video (Complete Setup Guide)." There are vastly more options than on the R5. It also means that with BBF, what AF focusing mode you pick with the RED menu seems meaningless. As you set up with the Mf button (to pick the focus mode) and the Orange menu to limit focusing modes).

A whole video just on the R5m2's focusing modes with their many sub-menus with BBF is warranted.

[davpawest]

As always, your in depth dive into settings is the best resource available. I'm giving many of your settings a try. I especially like your set up for Eye control. One thing you didn't mention is the 'AE for Priority Subjects During AF' on the red 2 menu. If I understand it correctly, we finally have metering on the AF point which makes Auto ISO a more practical option than ever before. In my testing over the past few days I'm finding it pretty well. Thanks for the great content. I purchased your set up guide.

[Psiho]

This is gold, thank you Jan! Tommorow i am going on vacation and this will help BIG TIME!

[DikoJelev]

Since I am jumping from 5Dm4 to R5m2 -> The 3 back Focus buttons were an amazing idea for me. Thanks a lot :-)

[bonefixer]

One of the best video I have seen on the r5m2. Will play with the custom buttons a bit until it makes sense to me. Thanks much for your education!

[howardholtzman]

Best video for setting up the R5 II. Thank you!

[ericvaughan]

Thx for tips. I use m-fn button to cycle through my custom modes. I then have my C3 with pre shooting enabled. Then in less than a second, I’m in pre shooting mode

[JohnDrummondPhoto]

I found the R5 II's menu rather daunting, much more so than compared to previous Canon cameras. Thanks for taking the time to explain some of these new options.

[daemon]

Settings are good and all, but that palm cocky doing his drumming is brilliant Jan; I can see why he's made an encore appearance :)

[alastairwatson]

I've just bought your settings PDF. Thank you. Now all I need is my new R5 MII to arrive! I remember when I bought my R is took weeks for me to fully understand the menus so your video and PDF will avoid lots of frustration trying to figure out the menus and settings.

[normangrafaviationphotogra]

Another excellent video Jan! Thank you very much for taking the time not only to decipher and test these settings, but also to present them in such a clear manner.

A note of warning to those who wish to take 8k video: If you set the movie record options to "Auto switch card" in the first yellow menu, as Jan does at 16:56, 8k recording will no longer be an option in the first red menu (not even grayed out). That is simply because you can only record 8k video to the CFexpress card. Jan mentions that some settings have repercussions by affecting the availability of others, but this wasn't explicitly called out and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.

Bottom line, if you want to be able to select 8k video recording size, leave the movie record options set to "Standard" or "1 Main 2 Proxy."

[riccohn]

Excellent video, thank you! Get the R5 II last week and found setting it up even more complex than the R5. So many options, and some very weird Canon defaults. I used the info in your first video (amazing pictures BTW!) and spent two long days shooting with it. Your first R5 II video really helped, but I could tell there were settings I needed to change. This new video helped me understand and refine a number of settings. 

What I'd like now is a video dedicated to eye control. I wear glasses, and so far eye control for me seems too crude in selecting a subject. However, I'm not sure what to expect from it and how it looks when it is working well for someone. Having more details on setting it up, what it can and can't do, how to override it when it doesn't work, and potential pitfalls would be a huge helpful!

[deekelly]

Thank you very much, Jan. I was very happy to see you got your Palm Cockatoo. There is much to learn with this new camera, but it will be infinitely easier now thanks to you. Like many others, I'll need to view it more than once, but what a fabulously comprehensive video. You're an absolute master. 👌