Review on 📸 Enhanced Canon EOS R5: Mirrorless Camera with 8K Video, 45MP Full-Frame CMOS Sensor, DIGIC X Image Processor, Dual Memory Card Slots, and 12 fps Mechnical Shutter, Body Only by Sarah Black

This is my first review of the Canon EOS R5 which I have owned for three months now. I currently have a love/hate relationship with the camera comparing it to my EOS 5D IV. For the first 1.5 months the weather here in the North West was very rainy and windy and I didn't get a chance to experience it myself so I missed the Revain return window. I've recently taken about 5,000 photos, mostly with telephoto lenses. I mainly shoot wildlife, with a particular focus on hummingbirds, but also some ducks on the water, herons, eagles etc, both perched and flying. This is a very complex camera, especially when it comes to focus options. My problem is that when using telephoto lenses, the camera just doesn't produce an acceptable number of "guardians". With every shoot I was lucky enough to get 5% really sharp photos. 50% of the time the focus is just bad (not totally blurry, the camera focused on the subject but it looks like the focus point was 4-5 feet in front of or behind the subject) and about 45% of the Cases The photo is sharp, but there is a soft focus that becomes blurry when zoomed to 50%. The 5% savers are really great shots with great colors that are still very sharp even at 100% zoom. So I know that the camera and the two telephoto lenses I use (the EF 100-400 and RF800mm zooms) can take very good photos. I like the options that allow the camera to capture a flying bird and keep tracking it. This tracking feature works quite well. However, photos of birds in flight have about the same number of sharp shots as those of seated subjects. I take photos under sometimes difficult conditions. The water is usually smooth as glass for swimming ducks. The herons are usually found on the bank, with reeds around them and intricate thickets a few feet behind. And of course, hummingbirds are very small and can be surrounded by branches. Lighting was generally not a problem as I could usually shoot at 1/500 shutter speed seated and 1/1000 shutter speed in flight without using ISOs over 2000. Although these conditions can be difficult, my 5D Mk IV has had no problems. and produced 75% to 80% goalies. Late in the evening I took a series of 100 shots of a hummingbird on a small tree. The bird was about 30 meters away. The light was weak but in the past I've had good results in similar light, on the same tree, with my 5D Mk IV and the same lens. I used the EF 100-400mm zoom at f5.6, shutter speed 1/125 and ISO 2500. For all of the photos, I made sure the camera was only focused on the hummingbird, not the eye. None of the 100 shots were useful, although some were better than others depending on the bird's orientation. Based on these results I wouldn't say that the EOS R5 is a good low light camera. My results with the R5 improved slightly with experience, so I started building a database for every photo I took, including lighting conditions, shutter speed, speed, ISO, servo, focus settings, subject, and the number, size, and location of the actual photos you focus on relying on the resulting photo to find trends. What I've seen so far is that when the camera uses only one focus point on the eye, the photo usually comes out sharp. When the camera created multiple focus points both on and off the subject, the photo was usually blurry. By the way, sometimes multiple focus points were created even when I used spot focus. Spot focusing typically creates a single field of focus containing either the subject's head or the entire body. These large fields of focus typically produced soft focus in the resulting photograph. I just took a few test shots with a short lens. I didn't notice any focusing issues with the short lens in those few photos and the photos looked great so I gave the R5 a 3 instead of a 1. I will update this review again in a few months. I want to add another weird focus. Result when using R5 with RF800. I was in the woods when I spotted a squirrel sitting on an open branch extracting seeds from a pine cone about 30 meters away. I had to shoot through a hole in the branches of a nearby tree between us. Several small branches of the tree were in the camera window, but none of them were directly in line or even close to the squirrel's line of sight. I shot with spot focus at 1/500. Reviewing the footage, a single small focal point was found right on the squirrel's body, and the images looked fine on the camera's screen at maximum zoom. However, on a computer at 50%, both the squirrel and the branch it was on were quite blurry in all photos. I returned the next day in the same light, walked around the intermediate tree and focused on the branch where the squirrel was at the same distance. Again I took some photos of the branch using 1/500 spot focus with no branches anywhere in the window between me and the branch in question. On the computer, all photos of the branch in question are still 200% sharp. It was as if the intermediate branches in the window, but close to the camera and not the subject, still had some influence on the last flash's algorithm's focus area selection.