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innards will already start to heat

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how much time you can actually

record for. Again, none of this

applies to 4K 30p – and we happily

spent hours on end shooting both

8K 30p and 4K 60p clips

in-between stills without a single

issue. However, if your primary

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second, we highly recommend

taking the R5 for a test drive to

make your own determination.

Are there any other stings in

the tail, though? In short, no

• everything else here behaves
  exactly as we all hoped and
  expected it would. The 45Mp
  photographs are stunning, with
  crisp detail that may or may not
  match the 5DS/R in pure lab tests,
  but taken side-by-side they
  certainly pass the eyeball test and
  look every bit as good.
  Almost as impressive are the
  35Mp Frame Grabs that you can
  extract from 8K video. This is
  technology that has been seen in
  other cameras before, but never
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  seen here. Simply scrub through

your 8K footage on the back of the

camera, pinpoint the frame you

want as a still, and simply push a

button to produce a 35P JPG – and

it isn’t the kind of blurry, low-res

still you get when you screenshot a

YouTube video; it’s a pristine

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was natively taken as a photograph

on a camera with a very, very good

35Mp sensor.

Of course, being that it is a JPG

taken from a video, you get

virtually zero dynamic range to

play with. The exposure is baked in

when the video is captured, so you

can’t recover anything from

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is still some data to recover in the

shadows areas). Still, provided that

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place, yes – you can literally now

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video, and simply pull the still

frames that you want from it

afterwards. Whether it’s cheating

or not, it works and it’s brilliant.

Amazing autofocus

Speaking of cheating, that’s exactly

what the new Animal autofocus is:

it’s literally a cheat code for wildlife

photography. Canon’s new Deep

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y ou h ave to do i s p oi nt y ou r c a me r a

in the direction of an animal and the

R5 will recognize, track it and even

f o c u s on it s e ye s. No ne e d to f a f f w it h

any focus points, no need to move the

j oy s t ic k at a l l; ju s t s et t he c a me r a to

‘Subject: Animals’, stick it in

c ont i nuou s A F mo de a nd a i m it

towards an animal. Canon only

More compact

than a pro DSLR,

but still with a

magnesium alloy

body and

weather sealing,

you can be

confident using

the R5 in any

weather

conditions

The IBIS inside

the EOS R5

enabled Canon

pro Ulla Lohman

to take this slow

shutter speed

shot handheld

The new Animal

autofocus is literally

a cheat code for

shooting wildlife

photography

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