8K compatible mirrorless first, Canon "EOS R5" ability

Let's start with the body. The body itself is thin and has a deep grip, and the button and dial configuration is very similar to the EOS R two years ago, but the curve from the Canon logo to the viewfinder is different, and if anything, it is smooth with little unevenness. style.

The R5

, which features a smooth form as a whole, has a rotating switch on the left shoulder, inherited from the EOS R. It's a bit uncomfortable, but it's a reasonable place to enhance the operation system on the right side. It's also confusing that the frequently used menu buttons are on the left. Normally, I hold the camera body with my left hand, so I either push across the LCD screen with my right hand, or hold the camera with just my right hand grip and push with my left hand.

The power supply is a rotary switch on the left shoulder

The main difference is that the "multi-function bar" that was installed in the EOS R has disappeared, and it has been returned to a normal joystick. Was it not very popular?

Instead of a multi-function bar, it's changed to a normal joystick

There are two dials on the right shoulder and a ring dial on the back. For menu operation, horizontal movement is the main dial at the index finger, and vertical movement is the rear dial. The joystick can be used up, down, left, or right, so it's faster to use the joystick for menu operations.

Two dials on the right hand side. The index finger is the main dial

The display panel on the warship can display the shooting mode, battery level, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO sensitivity. Even if the power is turned off, only the mode display remains, so you can check which mode it is in before turning on the power.

Equipped with a newly developed full-size CMOS sensor with approximately 45 million effective pixels, and the focus method is "Dual Pixel CMOS AF II". The range-measurable area is 100% both vertically and horizontally, and AF will capture any subject at the edge. However, this is only when the AF mode is "Face + Tracking Priority AF", and in other modes it is 90% only on the side. Also, when using the single focus telephoto lenses "RF600mm F11 IS STM" and "RF800mm F11 IS STM" released at that time, the width is about 40% and the height is about 60%.

Dual Pixel CMOS AF II

with 100% measurable area In addition to the "EOS iTR AF X", not only the face and eyes but also the head can be detected. In addition, it can detect the whole body, face, and eyes of animals such as dogs, cats, and birds.

In addition, the R5 is equipped with the first in-body image stabilization for EOS. Combined with the optical correction on the lens side, a maximum correction effect of 8 steps can be obtained. We'll test the effect on video later.

The vari-angle monitor on the back is a 3.2-inch 2.1-million-dot TFT color LCD. It is a capacitive touch panel. The viewfinder is a 0.5-inch 5.76 million-dot OLED with a field of view of 100%.

The 3.2-inch vari-angle LCD is equipped with a touch sensor, and the viewfinder is a 0.5-inch 5.76 million-dot OLED

The memory card slots are dual, with slot 1 for CFexpress cards and slot 2 for SD cards. All modes can shoot ALL-I and IPB, and only 8K DCI can shoot RAW. For 8K video shooting, a CFexpress card is recommended. Only 8K IPB can be shot with an SD card. Even in that case, video speed class 90 or higher is required when shooting at 10bit. The video modes are as follows.

The card slot is a CFexpress card and SD card dual video recording size selection screen

Also, the memory card specifications for video shooting are only posted for 8K shooting.

HDMI is finally equipped with a Micro type

I have a SanDisk 64GB CFexpress card at hand, which has a writing speed of 800MB/s. Even 8K RAW should be able to shoot at 400MB/s or more, but it actually stopped after a few seconds due to lack of speed. It seems difficult to shoot 8K RAW unless the card has specs that consistently exceed 400MB/s. Even with the same SanDisk, the 512GB card was able to shoot in RAW without any problems. It has a write speed of 1,400MB/s.