The Do-It-All Camera for Multimedia Professionals
Boasting enough horsepower to allow Canon‘s highest resolution mirrorless sensor to shoot a speedy 30 fps and capture 8K60p raw video, the EOS R5 Mark II Mirrorless Camera is the multimedia professional’s solution for versatility, image quality, and intelligence. An all-new 45MP sensor’s stacked, back-illuminated design joins a brand new processor to provide upgrades in nearly every category, creating a do-it-all camera that gets the job done.
A Stacked Sensor-Processor Combo
The R5 Mark II’s new sensor maintains the high resolution of its predecessor while introducing a stacked, back-illuminated design that makes room for Canon’s latest image processor, the DIGIC Accelerator. Operating alongside the stalwart DIGIC X, the camera combines the raw image data with high-volume, deep-learning datasets to produce gains in subject tracking and recognition, pre-continuous capture, blackout-free shooting, video resolution, maximum recording time, and more – making the R5 Mark II a powerful and comprehensive professional creator’s toolkit.
High Speed, High-Quality Stills Performance
Electronic Shutter
Chief among the benefits of the new sensor-processor combination is the ability to shoot high-quality, high-resolution images at blazing speed, unlocking mural-sized moments of athletic brilliance, breaking news, or even history. The R5 Mark II has the power to record the ephemeral and commit it to memory on the biggest scale and in astounding detail.
- Continuous shooting speeds of up to 30 fps full-frame raw with reduced shutter distortion, with up to 12 fps when using the mechanical shutter
- Supports always-on blackout-free display when using the electronic shutter
- For indoor sports shooters, the camera effectively suppresses flicker in LED lighting environments by detecting refresh frequencies
- Electronic shutter allows flash sync speeds of up to 1/250s
Autofocus and Deep Learning
The improved processing speeds benefit the EOS R series’ already-robust autofocus, incorporating deep learning datasets in its Dual Pixel Intelligence AF to produce advancements in subject recognition and tracking while also improving on the Eye Control Focus feature introduced in the EOS R3.
- The processor’s high-level analyses keep the intended subject locked when similar subjects cross one another
- Head, eyes, upper body, and joint structures are all tracked, as well as persons other than the main subject and the ball
- Action Priority Menu setting for still photos identifies sport-specific events, actions, and ball positions for soccer, basketball, and volleyball
- Photograph or upload a person’s image to register and prioritize up to 10 subjects
Action priority
Thanks again to the increased camera processing power of the DIGIC Accelerator chip, Canon has developed a new AF mode called Action priority. This new focusing technology selects subjects according to movement and other factors so you always get a great action shot. This feature works with three sports at the moment, soccer, volleyball, and basketball.
With Action priority the camera can recognize and track specific people, and takes into account ball tracking, movement tracking, eye-control AF and more to help ensure you get the action shot you want when everything is moving so fast.
Noise Reduction and In-Camera Upscaling
First and foremost, the R5 Mark II is a camera built for image-makers looking to maximize quality and flexibility. As such, the broad native ISO 100-51200 range suits working in a variety of lighting conditions and the DIGIC Accelerator enables the use of Neural Network Noise Reduction for cleaner images, especially at higher sensitivities.
This same processing power also enables the creation of even higher resolution stills-up to 179MP-via In-Camera Upscaling. This deep learning-based tool doubles the number of pixels horizontally and vertically to produce a larger, more detailed image with maintained sharpness and clarity.
Bright and clear EVF
A new Electronic viewfinder is now the same 0.5-inch 5.76 million dot OLED EVF you would find in the EOS R3 with approx. 100% coverage, 0.76x magnification, and an eyepoint of approx. 24mm. Some of the EVF lenses inside the body are sealed in an airtight structure making it difficult for the viewfinder to fog up.
A Cinema EOS-Integrated 8K Powerhouse
The R5 Mark II inherits many of innovations that made its other relative, the R5 C, a favorite among combination video-stills shooters, and carries over much of its Cinema EOS cousin’s features and workflow. Like its predecessors, the 45MP full-frame sensor enables impressively high-resolution DCI 8K raw video recording internally, now up to 60 fps, along with 4K SRAW also at the full sensor width.
- Reads out signals for all effective pixels from its full-frame 8K sensor, enabling 4:2:2 10-bit high-definition recording through oversampling during 4K and 2K video recording
- Record High Frame Rate (HFR) movies with sound at up to 120p at DCI/UHD 4K resolutions (4096 x 2160/3840 x 2160) in 4:2:2 10-bit without cropping the sensor
- Supports MXF-based XF-AVC, which offers 10-bit 4:2:2 files, as well as the highly versatile MP4 for lightweight proxy files in various professional workflows
- External raw recording is supported for compatible recorders with a full size, HDMI Type-A port
- Split saving is possible with raw and proxy video saved to separate memory cards
- Supports Canon Log3, a gamma designed for simple grading, such as tightening dark areas and adjusting tones, as well as integration with other Cinema EOS system footage
- The following time code settings are supported: start time setting, movie recording count, movie play count, HDMI time code on/off, HDMI rec. command on/off, drop frame enable/disable)
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