Sorry, Sony: Canon EOS R5 II is AMAZING! But...

Listen. I just want Steam on it. I wanna play Elden Ring between shots. I'm not asking a lot, here. This is a computer and it has buttons and a joystick.

I use the face registry thing on Sony. I don't think it works, BUT it does blow the bride and groom away every. single. time. They get so much relief by the simple act of being registered with the camera. Sony and R5II users, try it. I swear by it. Not because it works, but because it FEELS like it COULD work to the average person.

A camera’s job is to capture images. Don’t waste AI on making it a PC. Use the AI to better capture focus and process shadows.

They need to add anti theft tech

If someone wants the focus on his kids, playing with other kids, then registering the faces from your kids makes a big difference.

about time someone called out the A1 for being grossly overpriced!

And here i am watching something i cannot ever afford🥲

There is no doubt that the R5 mkII, is probably the best all round camera there is on the market, and for those who need some of its features and can afford it, it is a no brainer. But I agree with Tony, that for most people, the original R5 will do most of what the R5 mkII does, with the same resolution. In other words, even for a top photographer, with demanding needs, in most case scenarios, the output of the original R5, will be near identical to the R5 mkII. Yes, if you push your cameras to the limit, the mkII will be better, but most of the time, the original R5 will produce the same output, at nearly half the cost. This is no criticism of the R5 mkII, just an observation on it, as a photographic tool. I agree with Tony, that we's at a point, where we're not going to see quantum leaps, like say the original R5 over the 5D mkIV. I think cameras will still improve a lot, and over several generations, we'll see even better cameras, but not from one generation to the next, as cameras are reaching that good enough level, without serious limitations.

Face recognition could be nice with a custom button to activate it. You save the face of the groom and bride in the morning of the wedding and if they are in a crowd with friends at the party you hit the custom button to lock on to their faces in the crowd. I see some use cases for it.

The Z8 manual says that the flash sync speed is 1/200th, not 1/160th. The Canon R5 MII is 1/200 mechanical, 1/250 electronic 1st curtain shutter according to the spec sheet. Both cameras can do HSS.

The electronic shutter now shoots in full 14 bit raw.

Did the Custom White Balance on video mode improve? Or I still need to go tho photo mode, take a picture, go back to video mode and use the photo as a reference?

3:48 This is false. CineD measured the rolling shutter of the Nikon Z9 at 14.5ms in both 7680×4320 25p and 4k ProRes HQ, and at 4.9ms in full-frame 4k 120.

I think ai features in cameras gonna be the new "my camera has more mp than yours".

As a canon R6 II user here I’m not tempted at all with these new cameras except for the 45mp on the R5 II. But to be perfectly honest I don’t need 45mp! The files are too large, I’m waiting for Canon to release a 35mp full frame… god damn is that ever going to happen??!! Anyone else wanting this?

I kinda like the idea of registering the person's face, especially for sports videos when I am assigned one player to follow in a video.

Seems like a very compelling all-rounder. Sony needs a competitor in this price point that combines high resolution and speed.

I have the R5 MK1 and will keep it. Over the past two years I have concentrated on moving to the best glass rather than worrying about an alternate camera body.

3:55 imagine still having mech shutter in 2024 :P

As primarily a studio shooter, I could never give up my 60mp goodness of the A7Rv. Even with on location shoots, being able to crop way in is so helpful. I could care less about frame rate, I am never in a situation where I would need more than 10 frames per second, especially when the files are 60 megapixels and I have to go through and cull them when I edit. Spray and pray photography is for amateurs. Finally having two type A card slots on the a7rv is freaking amazing, the pictures load on double cards immediately. That is a huge deal.