Canon EOS R5 Unite and Discuss!

WarriorPoet wrote in post #19129100
Do I want to be converting to DNG when I import and edit? It's been a while but I'd rather edit the CR3 directly no?

People were using DNG to import into LR before it was able to support CR3 but now you don’t have to as long as you have LrC. LR 6.14 and earlier versions do not support CR3 files.

I put off renting theR5 twice so far, changed the reservation since the contractors are still here, now I have it for next week.

BUT looking at the 10 day forecast it looks like showers ALL WEEK LONG! We have been in a drought for weeks (months) and now that I am going to rent the R5, rain…

Since it is starting to get cold over the next few weeks I want to get out sooner. It is supposed to be weather sealed I may test that ROFL

Even if it doesn't rain, it will probably be really gray out with cloud cover

now the forecast is for rain ALL week, cancelling...

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19129248
I put off renting theR5 twice so far, changed the reservation since the contractors are still here, now I have it for next week.

BUT looking at the 10 day forecast it looks like showers ALL WEEK LONG! We have been in a drought for weeks (months) and now that I am going to rent the R5, rain…

Since it is starting to get cold over the next few weeks I want to get out sooner. It is supposed to be weather sealed I may test that ROFL

Even if it doesn't rain, it will probably be really gray out with cloud cover

now the forecast is for rain ALL week, cancelling...

If you rent one before they are available to buy you'll be annoyed because you can't buy one ( I sure am). If you rent one after they are available you're wasting your money, because you're going to buy one. But if you rent you definitely want to shoot anything and everything you can, 'cause it's a really fun.

Received my grip and RF lens. Still waiting for the body, extra battery and EF adapter.

kd_reno wrote in post #19129506
If you rent one before they are available to buy you'll be annoyed because you can't buy one ( I sure am). If you rent one after they are available you're wasting your money, because you're going to buy one. But if you rent you definitely want to shoot anything and everything you can, 'cause it's a really fun.

I am thinking of buying but not before next spring anyway, I want to see two things, one does the 45 mp allow for much more in the way of cropping, from where I have to shoot the birds are often about the size of the single focus point and I crop down towards it also I want to see how the Animal AF stacks up against my 5DIV AF

I do find I can crop more on my 5D IV vs my 7DII, so "know" the R5 will have more ability to crop

I think the main thing is will the Animal Eye AF on the R5 give me more hits against a cluttered crowded background of trees when the birds are 100-200 yards away

If the birds are the size of an AF point, then eye AF isn't going to be of any help. In that case it sounds like you need more reach than you need resolution.

The only way the R5 is going to be helpful will be in the use of a teleconverter, for example if you had the sigma 150-600, you could use a 1.4x on it and the R5 would be able to focus.

For eye AF to be helpful, objects should be larger in view first and foremost in my own humble opinion.

Jeff USN Photog 72-76 wrote in post #19129658
I do find I can crop more on my 5D IV vs my 7DII, so "know" the R5 will have more ability to crop

What does that mean? Practical cropping needs a situational, focal-length-limited context. The real need is to get a quality image with whatever sensor area winds up getting used for the final displayed image. The two main sensor qualities in that regard are pixel density and noise per unit of sensor area. The 7D2 is only inferior to the 5D4 in one regard there; deep shadow noise at low ISOs, because the 5D4 has the on-sensor column ADCs, and the 7D2 does not, but has the old off-sensor ADC scheme. The high ISO noise per unit of sensor area is almost identical (actually superior in the 7D2 in incandescent white balance conditions), but the 7D2 has 1.7x the pixel density, or "pixels-on-subject".

It seems like you are talking about either using a percentage of the entire frame, or 100% pixel views, in which case the 5D4 will always give better-looking results if you ignore subject scale, but there is no practical reason to approach things that way, because "cropping" implies focal-length limitations, in which case starting with a larger sensor area is moot. If you can get closer with the 5D4, then yes, your crops will be better, if you keep the aperture wide open, with the same lens, but that is not a cropping context.

It should do a better job just telling what is standing out from the background, period, even with animal AF turned off. DSLRs have a lot of blind AF area in the frame, unless a high-res metering sensor is used for auxilliary AF, as is done with the 1Dx3. Even the 90D (which many consider a BIF dissapointment) starts hitting small things in the foreground consistently in Live View, where the sensor is used for AF.

Ohhh nooooooo. My R5 needs a repair already. I have NEVER broken something on a camera like this before

I was out shooting and had my R5 with 500 mm lens hanging in the lens strap and I had to open a gate and the camera swung into the door and something hit the viewfinder so the front glas broke. Fortunately the lcd screen is working fine and the broken glass does not hinder me from using the camera but the glass need to be replaced just don't know how long it will take or how much it will cost

tommykjensen wrote in post #19130145
Ohhh nooooooo. My R5 needs a repair already. I have NEVER broken something on a camera like this before

I was out shooting and had my R5 with 500 mm lens hanging in the lens strap and I had to open a gate and the camera swung into the door and something hit the viewfinder so the front glas broke. Fortunately the lcd screen is working fine and the broken glass does not hinder me from using the camera but the glass need to be replaced just don't know how long it will take or how much it will cost

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Ugg. Sorry to hear/see that.

That's no good.

I'd bet that's not as hard of a self repair as it may look like on the surface (no pun intended).

WilsonFlyer wrote in post #19130195
I'd bet that's not as hard of a self repair as it may look like on the surface (no pun intended).

Getting the part will be the problem.

WilsonFlyer wrote in post #19130195
I'd bet that's not as hard of a self repair as it may look like on the surface (no pun intended).

Well I do see two very tiny screw that seam to release the front frame of the viewfinder. But 1 I don't any of my small screwdrivers are small enough. And 2 I prefer to have it done at an authorized service center.

tommykjensen wrote in post #19130219
Well I do see two very tiny screw that seam to release the front frame of the viewfinder. But 1 I don't any of my small screwdrivers are small enough. And 2 I prefer to have it done at an authorized service center.

I was just making an observation. If it was me, I'd probably try that one, but Kirk is right, sourcing that part/piece of glass and seal is likely going to be a nightmare if it's even possible at all.

get a kit and try it yourself! I bet it is an easy part of the camera to do this, and likely won't involve the evf screen.

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