Avenger 2.0

Since every chip costs additional money, I'm 100% sure it's in the main processor as a software algorithm.

They should have been honest about that upfront. Give the 8k and hq recordings a 5 or 10 min limit and not some fake overheating timer.

Maybe Canon will sell one time overheating timer reset voucher codes in the future 😂

Don't forget they will recycle this processor and sensor until at least 2030. So over the course of 10 years they will slightly uncripple it 🤣

Indeed, they will never acknowledge the overheating timer. They will release a firmware update with will give us like 15% longer recording time and 30% quicker heat recovery and call it a day.

Now all needed to do is install a micro reset switch on the side of the R5 you can push with a paper clip to interrupt the backup battery. 🤣

They did that before. On the C100/C300/etc the backup battery is welded in place on the most inaccessible location you could imagine (requires complete disassembly) . Took me like half a day to change that one.

Will certainly be my last Canon purchase. Limiting features or record time was one thing, but crippling with fake overheating is borderline criminal!

At least those DSLRs didn't overheat and were reliable for professionals. Why did Canon not just release the R5 with canon like video specs (like 4k line skipping) and no 4khq and 8k? This overheating thing will damage their mirrorless brand because Canon always stood for reliability before.

If you want good AF and full frame, you really only have Canon, Nikon and Sony.

Maybe electronic design was outsourced to China and software to India 🤣

Indeed they will ignore it and just push out more RF products. The R5 resale value will not tank anytime soon. Just look at the 5DIV, it was released at a high price with unusable crop 4k MJPEG. Maybe it was not as successful as the 5DII and 5DIII, but still sold a lot and they never fixed the video side.

I think that the EXIF data is indeed the temperature of the sensor and not the CPU. I guess they didn't add a heatsink or thermal pads to the CPU because they know they can limit heat by software design (overheating protection). The real question is, why does it take 2 hours to cool down (and doesn't ambient temperature play a role) and why can you do 4 hours while recording external without the overheating protection triggering. To me it looks like they deliberately designed the camera hardware (no heatsink) and software wise (overheating timers) to limit the 4k and 8k recordings.

Would be fun to see the exact same overheat limit in a 200°C oven as a 4°C fridge 🤣

🤣 Who knows, and the fan is just there for show 😋

What a mess Canon made. If they wanted to protect their cinema line, they should have just put a 5-min time limit on the 8k and 4khq modes instead of an overheat timer. That way it was at least usable as a b-cam. Now you have an unreliable piece of expensive junk you cannot trust at all.

To make sure the R5 can only be used as a crash cam on set. The R5 has pretty good specs for a crash cam. Use only once to record 15-min RAW video in compact form factor. No cooldown recovery needed as it will crash anyway.

How is the R6 1080p? Line skipping or oversampled?

Will not do any upgrades at the moment, only downgrades 😁 Since all weddings and events are cancelled anyway, those new investments are laying gathering dust at least another year. Sold already a lot of gear, only keeping what I really need. But got myself a GH2 dirt cheap, just to experiment a bit with this old beast.

If they keep crippling their new camera's with overheating timers, the RF mount might even die before the EF does 😬

I thought I saw something like H264 is 8-bit 4:2:0 and H265 is 10-bit 4:2:2.

Still waiting for Magic Lantern on 5DIV and EOS R. Don't get your hopes up too high.

Indeed, they kind of killed their 5D & R5 series for a lot of professionals. I know a lot of wedding photographers that will not buy it because it overheats and is not reliable enough. A lot of them do photo and video and are going/staying with Sony or Panasonic. They will certainly not buy the Cxxx series or RF lenses now.

If they would just have limited the 8k and 4k hq recording to a fixed max time like say even 2 minutes instead of an overheating timer, it would have been usable as a b-cam.

The PCB has a rechargeable backup battery, so if there are any timers (which I'm not sure of at the moment), removing the battery will not make any difference as the backup battery keeps the date/time and any other timers counting. A good way to test is remove that backup battery first!