CANON EOS R5
Canon’s new flagship EOS R camera!
The EOS R5 has a spec sheet to drool over, starting with a 45-megapixel full-frame sensor – that Canon says is its highest resolving sensor due to its new low-pass filter design – even better even than the EOS 5DS/R DSLRS. It’s called the R5 and will handle like an EOS 5-series camera, so gets a top-plate LCD, however it does not replace the EOS 5D Mark IV – it sits alongside it – nor does it replace the EOS R, it will sit above it on top of the family tree.
Both the R5 and R6 can capture images at 20fps with the electronic shutter, and still shoot at 12fps via the mechanical shutter – impressive for the 45Mp R5. Both cameras also have a new Dual Pixel CMOS AF II, with the same deep learning AF programming as the EOS-1D X Mk III, plus new Animal AF tracking. This is very clever tech and gives you Eye, Face and Body tracking and the Animal AF has been designed specifically to recognize dogs, cats and birds in flight. “I managed to focus on my black labrador’s eye, even when it was coming towards me,” reveals David Parry, Canon UK’S product intelligence specialist.
The R5 and R6 also come equipped with the much-desired IBIS, which will offer up to 8-stops of image stabilization, depending on which RF lenses you use. To put this power in real terms, Canon showed us a low-light interior image shot hand-held at four seconds – and the image was still acceptably sharp!
In fact, the R5 will be a real specialist in low light, with a native ISO range of 100-51200 (up to 102,400 expanded) and an AF working range of EV-6, which basically means you can focus indoors in rooms in near darkness.
It will also be a video beast, with 8K video up to 30p in either DCI or UHD, which is uncropped and captured internally in 10-bit Raw. Not only is 8K video four times the resolution of 4K, the R5 enables you to capture ‘frame grabs’ from video footage at a whopping 35Mp! The R5 has dual card slots; one Cfexpress (so you can’t use old CF cards), and one SD card slot. Sales start: 30 July 2020. £4199 RRP body only.
Canon’s DIGIC X processor is at the core of the R5 and R6 – the same technology in the coveted Canon EOS-1D X Mark III