Canon Middle East has sent me R5, R6,
and they also sent the new STM lens RF F11,
to try them and tell you my honest opinion.
I made this video for the R5 camera.
Tune in to this experience.
I'd like to tell you something before we start.
I've been using the 1dx camera for the last 5 years
in many different types of photography.
When this camera was released in 2016, it was very special.
The specifications of this camera were distinguished from other cameras.
What was most special about this camera is the shutter speed,
the focus speed, and the 4k 60fps capturing which you can slow it down.
This is what makes Canon special.
When they release a camera technology, it would stay ahead for at least 3 to 5 years.
There's also the pleasure of use.
You may not hear this phrase from reviewers or YouTubers.
We hear it from the photographers who are using Canon cameras.
You feel like the camera understands the photographer and it is easy to use.
This is a thing that makes Canon unique.
I'm using a screen recorder in this review experience in order to
show you my experience with the viewfinder,
how I am working with the focus, the speed of this system
and how I can change the settings through recording the viewfinder
so you can see the experience with me.
I talked about R5 and R6 Canon cameras in a previous video when they were released.
In short, the R5 is a new innovative technology provided by Canon,
they raised the standards with affordable prices.
This is all benefits the consumer who is the photographer.
This is a very important feature that we should mention in this review.
This is a full-frame camera with high ability to read the view or the scene.
High-speed sensor readout, a better dynamic range and lower rolling shutter.
45 megapixels.
Up to 12fps with mechanical shutter; 20fps with silent/electronic shutter
without blackout, without seeing the shutter going down.
This feature is available in the viewfinder and also on the screen.
What I like is when I took an electrical shoot, the shutter was silent
I didn't feel that I took a picture of something
I suddenly found that I have around 80 or 90 picture without hearing the shutter.
As for the Focus system, it's so overwhelming.
Canon's AI-powered auto-focus.
It's very smart and precise. It's also approx. 100% frame coverage,
We are not used to dealing with this technology.
We see the 2 brackets that show in the frame,
now there are no brackets, the sensor is full 100% coverage.
You can use the focus in all the sensor's area,
without clicking on the focus. The camera detects the subject that you would like to picture,
and it puts the focus in white color precisely,
and when you click the focus, it would show in blue color,
and the focus starts to detect the subject precisely.
The screen is a touchscreen that you can control wherever you would.
We were not having this feature in the previous flagship cameras.
You can change the setting entirely from the screen.
Not only this. It also has a touch shutter,
you can click on the screen so you can take a picture by touching it.
Omar, does it have a time-lapse function?
What is nice in this camera is that it has a built-in Time lapse,
you don't use a remote control or anything.
It has two systems. The first is Interval where you can select the number of images
and duration. You also shoot a Time lapse video 8k UHD, 4K UHD, and full HD.
It has Dual Card Slots. The first one is CF express
to shoot the high frames, high quality 8K and 4K videos.
And you can also insert a UHS-II SD.
When you turn off the camera, the protective shutter goes down.
This is very useful when we use the camera outdoors.
It protects the sensor from dirt, so you don't clean the sensor every once in a while.
This is the first time for Canon to use a built-in image stabilizer.
It works with the lenses that have image stabilizer and the ones that don't have it.
Of course, with 5 access 8 stops stabilization,
It means that it's one of the best camera built-in stabilization across the world.
As for the battery, I fully charged one battery and I used it for almost 4 hours
in a row. I took high frame rate video clips,
I took more than 2000 pictures, and there was still a one mark in the battery icon.
As for video, it's honestly shocking.
This camera has very high specifications,
8K DCI is offered in RAW, ALL-I and IPB modes at up to 30fps,
up to 30 frames per second.
Full frame 12-bit rate.
What is the meaning of 12-bit?
Most cameras shoot with 8-bit, and that means 16 million color-depth,
Which is the RGB. Red, green and blue.
10-bit means that you get 1 billion and 73 thousand possible colors in the video.
12-bit means that you can get 68 billion colors in this camera.
You can make color correction and color grading
so it makes the footage like it's something from Hollywood cinema or Netflix.
You can capture 4K DCI Full-frame and cropped up to 60fps.
The second surprise is that it can capture 4K DCI high frame rate up to 120 fps,
We have never thought that a camera in this size can capture 4K 120p slow motion.
Canon also provided the oversample 4K DCI feature in this camera.
You can film 8K and it gives you an oversampled 4K with high quality.
With all these video features, the auto focus is on
whether you are using Full-frame or crop,
or 8K or 4K high frame rate.
As for the temperature, we will talk about it at the end of this video.
This camera has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and you can connect it to your phone
to download the pictures that you took.
You can also use battery grip to lengthen the battery life.
I tried the R5 camera for taking photos and videos.
I used it in a studio and I used it for wildlife photography
I used it in commercial photography, for foods and products.
I almost used it with all the features that Canon announced.
At first, the wildlife photography. It is one of the hardest photography.
There is always a challenge in terms of the focus.
We can't control the lights with an animal, or make an animal stop
in order to take a picture of it.
The Wildlife photography is one of the hardest photography.
The hardest thing is birds footage.
They move fast so it's hard for you to make a focus.
Canon announced that this camera can even focus on a bird's eye.
I focused on that point to see the focus accuracy.
Let's watch some of the results.
To be honest, I didn’t believe that mirrorless cameras can be good for
wildlife photography.
And the reason is the viewfinder.
The optical viewfinder is always better than the electrical viewfinder.
But with the R5, you can say that what you see is very close to the optical viewfinder.
Canon developed this system so you don't notice a big difference
between optical and electrical viewfinder.
I was with some guys when we tried the R5, and we used it in a few hard situations.
Faisal Noumas suggested to try it against the light with a high highlight,
and with a very low shadow. In such situations, it becomes very hard for
a camera to get a good focus.
But honestly, we had very good results.
The camera was able to take fast and accurate focus, so we had great results.
We reached a very important point here.
Wildlife photographers are always confused between choosing
a camera with high megapixels, slow frames and good ISO sensitivity,
or a camera with fast frames, lower megapixels and excellent ISO sensitivity.
But the R5 combined the 3 things together.
I noticed that the R5 can shoot with high megapixels. You can crop as you like.
It has fast frames, up to 20fps or 12 mechanical.
It performs very well with the high ISO.
In addition, the AI focus is very excellent and the coverage is 100%,
even when recording a video, the AI focus performs and detects the subjects very well.
The resolution is always important when shooting foods and products
Whether it's a video or a photo.
I used this camera to photo-shoot foods and products,
and I worked as if I am making an advertisement to see how the camera performs
in videos and photos to see the results that I would get.
In products footage, you will need slow motion and high bit rate
I tried this camera. I took photos, videos, slow motion, 8K, 4K, high quality
I tried to create as much footage as I can, I discovered that the footage is clean.
I can count on it for and advertisement, for Instagram and online work.
The footage is very clean and I saw it on TV to find out that the camera
is really good for advertisement and you can count on it.
I get also the same thing when I used it for portraits,
45 megapixels is so great in portraits,
I got very nice results when I took pictures of people.
I used it indoors and outdoors, and I found out that the footage is nice and clean.
I tried it with higher ISO and tried it with flash.
Canon is well-known for portraits, it performs very well especially with skin tones.
There's a wide range of new RF lenses that you can use
to take footage for people and you can get great results.
If you have EF lenses, you will need to use the adapter with Canon R5
and you won't lose any resolution. This will not affect the focus either.
Omar, what are your notes on this camera?
What are the things that you would like Canon to improve in this camera
by updates or other upcoming cameras.
This first thing is the overheating.
There are many reviews telling that the temperature of the camera gets high.
Actually, yes it does.
It overheated when I wanted it to overheat.
During my real experience with this camera, it didn't overheat,
and I didn't need to turn it off and wait until it gets normal to turn it on again.
When I took 8k footage for 27 minutes, the camera was overheating.
I actually don't need to shoot 8K for 27 minutes, and I don't need
to shoot 4K HQ for half an hour.
I need to make clips and I use this camera for clips.
The camera won't overheat if you shoot clips,
Except when I used it for more than 2 hours.
The weather was very hot and the humidity was high.
I took pictures. I took 120 4K videos,
I took 8K videos and then the camera overheated while being outside in such weather.
This is normal in most of Hybrid full-frame cameras
that when you use the camera in a high temperature, it will overheat after a while
and you'll see an alarm that the weather is hot
and the camera is starting to overheat.
The second point that I would like Canon to do on the next update is
that this camera has stabilization working with 8K, 4K and Full HD. Except 8K raw,
there's no stabilization for it.
I'd like them to make the option available for the user
to turn on or turn off the stabilization option for 8K raw.
The third point is time-lapse video.
When you shoot a time lapse video, the settings show you that
if you want to shoot 300 picture, you will get, for example, 15 minutes time lapse.
When you start shooting, a countdown show up on images but it doesn't show
how many seconds in the time lapse.
I would like them to add this feature in the new update.
The fourth point is that I would like them to fix wobbling
when the horizontal line shakes with the stabilizer.
It's better than other cameras, but I still
wish that Canon fix this with the new update.
I also want them to add Full HD 120 in the new update.
They gave us 4K 120p,
we should have an option for Full HD 120p so it is easier for us to use it online and edit it.
The last thing that I would like to talk about in this review is
who can use this camera.
Canon made a breakthrough about 10 years ago in 5D mark 2 and 5D mark 3.
It was a breakthrough in both photographs and videos.
I think this will be a second breakthrough in camera technology.
You will remember this, you will see young freelancers
producing short world-class movies with cinematic level.
You will also see young people being creative in commercial advertisements.
You'll see young people making ads that match and compete advertising companies.
This camera is suitable for landscapers and wildlife photographers.
It is also for street and portraits photographers.
You can say that this camera is comprehensive
and one of the best Hybrid cameras
for those who search for high resolution, high megapixels, and high video resolution.
By using this camera, I think it is really a breakthrough in cameras' world.
Especially Hybrid cameras. Hybrid means you can shoot photos and videos
with this size, and get very high specifications with an affordable price.
Not because I am a Canon user, it is a result of a real experience of this camera.
See you again in the next review.
I will be talking about R6 camera and the new lens RF600 F11.
See you again soon, bye!