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FEATURES 9/10
BUILD & HANDLING 10/10
METERING 10/10
AUTOFOCUS 8/10
AWB & COLOUR 10/10
DYNAMIC RANGE 9/10
IMAGE QUALITY 10/10
VIEWFINDER/LCD 10/10Noise
The various crops shown below are
taken from an area of our diorama
outlined above in red.
A key strength of the EOS R5 is the way it handles noise in its
raw les at high sensitivity settings. You can expect clean,
noise-free images between ISO 50 and ISO 800. Luminance
noise does start to appear at ISO 1600, however it’s only
apparent when you examine images critically at 100%
magni cation. Noise is superbly controlled at ISO 3200 and
ISO 6400 too, though both settings do bene t from a little
noise reduction in post processing. The detail the EOS R5
resolves at even higher settings is mightily impressive and I
wouldn’t be reluctant to shoot as high as ISO 12,800 or ISO
25,600 when presented by extremely challenging lighting
conditions. Fine detail is affected more noticeably at ISO
51,200 and ISO 102,400. What with there also being a slight
green tinge and reduction in colour saturation at these highest
two settings, we’d recommend to steer clear of them.RAW ISO 100 RAW ISO 1600 RAW ISO 6400
RAW ISO 25,600 RAW ISO 51,200 RAW ISO 102,400
CANON’S rst premium full-frame
mirrorless camera has been a long time in
the making. What with it arriving two years
late, Canon had to pull out all the stops if it
was going to be successful at delivering
what serious photographers and loyal
users have been patiently waiting for.
Users will nd it overheats when shooting
lengthy 8K and 4K 120p video clips, but
Canon openly admits this and hasn’t tried
to sweep it under the rug. It’s something
that we hope might be improved in the
future with a mount adapter that features a
silent fan, which has been rumored.
As a stills camera, it’s phenomenally
impressive. The sensor and highly effective
IBIS system deliver images of exquisite
quality. It is terribly expensive, but you get a
dependable, hardwearing and wonderfully
intuitive camera in return that overcomes
the criticisms associated with the EOS R.
Photographers who buy the EOS R5 will
be smitten with it. It gets through its
battery power quickly, but it’s incredibly
versatile, as capable of churning out
superb high-resolution landscape shots as
it is capturing high-speed action sequences
at a blistering 20fps with continuous AF. It’s
an ideal candidate for portrait, wedding and
documentary photographers too with its
improved face/eye detection, and anyone
who insists on a higher resolution output
than the more affordable EOS R6.
I fell in love with using the EOS R5, but
dropping over £4k on a camera that’s not
drastically lighter or smaller than a Canon
5D-series DSLR is very hard to justify. It’s a
remarkably accomplished stills camera, but
the fact that it’s susceptible to overheating
when shooting high-resolution video, along
with its high price at launch, means that it
just misses out picking up a 5-star rating.Verdict
Recommended