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Jared Polin froknowsphoto.com and this is a Real World Review of the Canon 5DS R.
Now where did I go and shoot this for the Real World Review?
I went out to the Grand Canyon because where is a better place in this world to test out
a landscape style camera than the Grand Canyon.
Now keep in mind there's two different types of cameras that Canon put out here.
You have the 5DS R which I'm holding here right now which has a low pass cancellation
effect and then the 5 DS which does not.
It's kind of similar to what Nikon did when they put out the D8 100 and the D8 100 E.
I went out and shot this for the Real World Review at the Grand Canyon to put it through
its paces to really put it out there and try to use it to the best of its ability.
Now I didn't shoot portraits but this is a great camera designed for portraits as well
where you have to decide, do you want the R or do you want the S?
Because if you're going to shoot portraits with the R and you have fine patterns in short,
you may get some moire.
But who is this camera for?
One; we said landscape shooters, two; we've got portrait photographers but is it for people
shooting video?
If you're looking to shoot video, this is not the camera for you.
So before we jump into anything else, here's why it's not for video.
It does 1080 at 30 frames a second, it doesn't do 60 frames a second, it doesn't have 4K,
it doesn't have the ability to do clean HDMI out and it doesn't have a headphone jack.
Is that a deal breaker?
No, because you're not buying this camera to shoot video just keep that in mind.
So we all know that this camera has 50.6 megapixels that is a ton of megapixels to squeeze into
a full frame sensor.
Now there are always tradeoffs that come with that and one of those things is this high
I.S.O.
capability but keep in mind this camera is not designed for that.
It's not meant for that, it's meant for the landscapes, it's meant for the portraits and
speaking of portraits if you are a studio shooter, this has built in USB 3, so that
means when you're transferring your files tethered it's going to move a hell of a lot
quicker than USB 2.0.
So that is an awesome function and feature that they added to this camera.
Now what I noticed, when zooming in on the computer to see the resolution at 3 to1, oh
my god was that insane we could make out Todd in the distance, 3 to 1you have it all the
way wide what the picture looks like and then when you go 3 to 1 and you go BAM, look at
that, yes that is a ton of resolution and it still maintains the quality.
So if you are a cropper, if you're somebody who likes to crop and that is your thing though
you shouldn't really need to crop when you're shooting portraits or shooting landscapes,
if you want to do that you have the resolution that you could crop an unbelievably far amount
of really big amount with your cropping and still get fantastic prints when you go ahead
and do that.
The Canon added something new in here a 1.3x Crop Mode and a 1.6 Crop Mode, it’s the
first time they've done that.
Nikon has done that before, I still don't see that as a necessity in a camera like this
when it’s designed for landscapes and it's designed for portraits you really don't need
to worry about the crop factor in the camera.
I rather have the ability to get the full frame and crop later if that's what you want
to do.
So another thing that Canon added here is that the SD slot is UHS 1compatible, whereas
the 5D mark III was not.
Now UHS 2 is out and is extremely blazingly fast.
I don't know why that's not in here but it probably wasn't ready during the development
of this camera.
So we hit some of those specs right now but let's talk about really using this in the
real world.
Now putting it in your hands, it's going to be the same exact camera as the 5D mark III.
The design of it, the buttons, the only thing that is different are some slight changes
inside the camera, you have a picture style that allows you to fine-tune the sharpening
that's if you're shooting Jpeg or if you're doing video that's the only places you're
going to see that effect.
But I only have one issue, when I was shooting I personally had trouble looking through the
viewfinder and seeing the info screen.
Now I don't shoot with glasses so that wasn't the issue, I was looking in and I just had
trouble seeing it and I had trouble seeing it in bright daylight, I had trouble seeing
it almost in the darkness here in the loft that was just something for me.
Now I don't know if that's because this is number 21camera meaning the 21st one that
was built or it's just me not being used to shooting with a camera like this.
I don't know it's not a deal breaker of course because you get used to it and you just go
out there and shoot but I really enjoyed shooting this, it feels great in the hands and one
of the things I was super surprised about was how silent the shutter is.
It's not a silent shutter mode, listen to this, it almost, it's so quiet, and it almost
sounds like the 5D mark III in silent mode which is a pretty silent option.
Five frames a second with a camera like this, pumping 50.6 megapixel files through it, that's
where you need that speed of those UHS-1 cards and everything along those lines.
To get five frames a second is pretty insane especially when you think about this being
a landscape camera or a portrait camera, you don't really need to worry about shooting
that fast but with that being said is this a sports camera?
Can you shoot sports with it?
Sure why not.
During the day you don't want to pump the ISO too far because that is where you're going
to start to run into issues as you get to 800, 1600, 3200.
It's really not meant for low light shooting, but I did use it to shoot the stars the picture.
The picture that I captured all of the meteor showers in unbelievable I shot at 3200 ISO,
it looks fine honestly you can't tell between stars and grain.
I mean you can when you take a look and I have put up DNG files for you guys to look
at, you can download those files and pixel peep all you want.
I am happy with the results that I got.
Now don't look at the nighttime the photo and say oh my God this is horrible, you have
to look at it and say that's not what this is for but you can look at the landscape Photoshop
at 100 ISO and say wow, look at the quality, look at the colors.
I'm not going to sit here and talk about dynamic range because it's just not something that
I sit there and care about, I care about shooting the camera, I care about putting it into the
real world and using it and that's exactly what I did there.
So a lot of these functions and features are awesome and that's one of the things that
I really like.
So here’s some other interesting features you have a Reinforced Tripod Socket, that's
good for landscape photographers with and a big ass glass on the end of it or you're
carrying it around with it on a tripod or big lenses and things like that, anything
that's adding weight they have extra screws here to make sure that that's not going to
ever break.
Now that's a pretty cool thing but they also added some intervalometer into the camera,
some bold features that are different than before and when I mentioned that it has a
silent almost a silent shutter.
The reason that is, is because they got rid of the springs to counter act for the flop.
The mirror of slap, actually called mirror slap, so that's one of the reasons they got
this to be ultra-silent.
Also one of the major specs 150,000 shutter actuations, you're never going to outrun this
thing unless you sit here and just go like this for nonstop all day long.
You're never going to outrun 150,000 shutter actuations.
With a built in intervalometer you have the ability to do time lapse photos but do something
that's pretty cool right in the camera, after your time last photos are done you can have
the camera compress it into a video file for you but you're going to want to make sure
that if you're it well because you're going to be jpegs that you have your picture style
set properly so that the video ends up looking pretty good.
Now if you're a menu tweaker, you like to go into your menu and set your favorites you
now have five menus to set your favorites too, that's pretty much the whole entire menu
system but now you can do that and put them in the order that you want so that you can
get too within five different menus.
So with 50.6 megapixels of goodness on this sensor it's going to be important to use the
best of the best glass with honor sir.
So any of the newer L lenses are going to be better options to use, I use the 16 to
35, 2.8, use the 24 to 72.8.
The brand new 11 to 24 F4 and of course the 70 to 200, 2.0.
How can you forget the 85-12, the 50-12, those are the type of lenses that you would put
on this especially for landscape and especially when you're shooting portraits.
The best glasses or what you want to put on this.
So you know this was a fantastic camera, yes it didn't change very much in terms of the
design of the camera but it's the innards that matter.
The larger megapixel sensor, the ability that you can cancel the low pass filter with the
5DS R version.
The quicker transfer rates that you can do if you're shooting tether for the studio but
in my real world review out at the Grand Canyon, I used it for the landscapes.
I'm very happy with the colors, the sharpness, the quality the feel of the camera.
You know for me the whole point to the real world reviews is to get out into the world
and just use the camera, don't sit here and call out the most miniscule specs and say
that this is the biggest thing in the world because the only thing that matters is that
you come home with fantastic results, fantastic raw files that you can tweak and make to your
liking and share with the rest of the world and this camera is giving you that ability.
So whether you go with the 5DS or the 5DS R you know you're getting a quality camera,
you know you're getting a quality file so just remember that this is not meant for high
ISO, it's not really meant for the action sports but the focusing system is fantastic.
So just keep those things in mind and to pretty much wrap it all up, I'm going to let you
download the raw files, a certain amount of them so that you can pixel peep for yourself,
you can edit them, you can do whatever you would like with them and if you go ahead and
share them or print them or post them please make sure that you give me proper credit at
froknowsphotos wherever it goes so people know that they came from me.
So that is where I'm going to leave it, a big thank you to Canon for sending us this
so that we could take it out to the Grand Canyon and put it through its paces and that
is a Real World Review of the 5DS R. Jared Polin froknowsphotos, see you.
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