Canon EOS R5 | Full Camera Review 

I appreciate reviewers who actually USE cameras (for more than a few hours) before reviewing them

Enough R5 fake-overexcited reviews,its time for real review Thanks Chris

I wonder why you have avoided Reviewing Cameras till now. Your Lens reviews are the best but this review is up there with the best camera reviews. I think you should start doing this more. AWESOME.

Why don't camera companies send you the review units or you just purposely don't want to? I mean, you're the first guy on RU-vid I would prefer for reviews.

The review we’ve ALLL been waiting for

There's a very good way to thank him for doing all this incredible work: by clicking on every single ad that you see on the channel :) He can't say it, but he gets a ton of money if we do so. Thanks mate! Keep up!

The dream camera, i´m saving money for the R6 it will be a real upgrade for me, canon has something really awesome in this cameras.

I've seen a lot reviews about this camera but this was one of the better ones. Your mastery of photography and tech details is so good that you don't have to try so hard like a lot of other reviewers. Instead, you just pointed out the key features and issues. Nice work! Can't wait to put this camera to the test. One question: do you notice any appreciable difference in the color of images straight out of this camera compared to the EOS R?

Beautiful review! Just thought I should mention that the 4K aps-c crop mode looks really good, and is downsampled from 5,1K. It also never overheats.

I just bought the R5, it rocks!! What blows my mind is that I spent a month or two watching RU-vid videos and researching the camera and this video is just being recommended to me now! WTF RU-vid?!?!?!? My favorite reviewer doing the best review of the R5 and I'm just seeing it now!!?? I watched it twice! Great job as always Chris! You nailed it exactly (and then some)! Best reviews on YT!!

I just love my R5 and RF lenses - Congratulations!

Thank you Chris for the best R5 Review so far, I have watched almost 100+ reviews but found your review much more helpful then other

Nice. You managed to talk about two features i didn’t know were in the camera and i have had mine since august 1 and called myself reading the manual. Interesting to know there is yet another IS problem too with a lens i own, as well! Thanks for the review.

There's no other camera in the world that i want more.

I bought mine 3 weeks ago along with the F4.0 70-200mm and I have to say OMG. OMG what an amazing camera :)

Mr. Frost, you are one of my favorite RU-vid reviewers. Great job as always.

Great review Christopher. You brought some new details to light for me like the softness when using the fully mechanical shutter and the 1/8 stop aperture increments. 👌

I really like this style of reviews where the focus is actually on the product.

This channel and camera conspiracies are the only review channels worth watching on RU-vid.

The old a7rii hold its own in the video department quite well....very surprising. It would be even better in Super35.

Thanks for the amazing review, been following you for many years now, very clear and concise, very pleasing review, your review gave me the confidence to finally sell my 5dmk4 and order the R5, really looking forward to using it for many years to come.

Watching this review i guess CF is a photographer that does video as well which is like 90% of us and that's why we relate to his vids ..its seams 90% of youtubers are Videographers

Hey, Chris. Have I ever mentioned how I love your calm and well balanced reviews? Thanks for that. I am glad got the R5; not because you will be testing RF lenses, but because you are owning such a great camera. Enjoy!

Chris, an excellent review as always. You have a beautiful backyard at 20:00. It reminds me of the good memories of my childhood.

Best reviewer ever in GB

So glad you go the R5, happy to see more rf lens reviews :)

Hi Christopher, as usual a great review which I used to help me make a decision back in the day. I have had the R 5 for 2 years, I wonder if you feel an updated review maybe a good idea now, in view of all the firmware updates that have hopefully addressed many of the issues, particularly as this is still very much a current model?

Are you gonna review the R6? I bet most people here will go for the "budget" version. Love your reviews, keep it up!

Bravo Christopher! Another excellent review. If you had it to do over again - this of the Sony A7R IV?

Just a great review . THANK YOU Christopher. I was buying the NIKON Z 7 2, but a 6 week wait just didn't cut it for me. My Sony 7 R stopped working and needed a new camera. I went to Adorama and was ready to just buy the NIKON , and was browsing around the Canon counter. Picked up the camera just for fun, as the price tag was prohibitive, and fell for it because of the ergonomics. I was trading in a lot of my equipment so it ended up costing me $1400. I must say the pictures are amazing. NOTHING to correct boost or sharpen. WOW. There are a lot of buttons I need to learn and functions but a little patience anything can be done.

Nice review Christopher. And the background music has me feeling like I'm in an old restaurant waiting for my pot of tea. I need to spend more time taking photos, but the EF 50 f1.2 on this camera is amazing. In video, when recording in temps of 65F or lower, I can filled up 328 GB CF cards and not even get an overheat warning.

Hey Chris - your review is actually the first "full" review ive seen so far - the others i watch (Jared Polin and Tony Northrup) all only focussed on the video features so far and are holding back their full review - yet im only interested in the "stills" part of the camera - while owning my 6Dmkii now for 2.5 years i never took a single video with it :D ... The only downside i see with the r5 is that its so prohibitivly expensive, clocking in a 4580$ here in switzerland (thats with the mandatory EF adapter), technically i could afford it but it feels very "wasty" - yet the R6 with its 20mp feels somehow... held back by the 20mp for a landscape photographer like me. I crop often, as in always, at least 20% and thats just format change... I hope that they will lower the price in a year or so to something reasonable. that said, this comment comes from a hobbyist and not someone that earns money with his photography, so my way of rating things is very different and price has a value of its own. Still greate review as always! I just hope one day youll show us how you do your focus char test on those 600mm lenses, or is your garden just so long? :-D

same here. I have the RP and 7D and didn't do much videos at all other than use RP as web cam. It's just much lighter to do video on cell phones. I think R5 or R6 will be my next buy...and the RF 70-200. I just love to have IBIS and it will make all my non stabilized canon fix lens much more useful. The 4K work flow is already time consuming. 8K will be a killer for my computer.

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Its the best camera I have ever used. If you shoot in ambient temps of 65 degrees F or less - you likely will never overheat the camera. Even in 8K. For long form recording I point a small and silent usb powered fan at the ports, and it will record in all modes forever that way. Even in ambient temps up to about 80 degrees F.

canon got to keep you you tubers happy !!!!

Dear Chris, Your reviews are always matter-of-fact and focused. When I want to know more about a particular product I always check your review. Well done!

As I am waiting on my R5 to arrive I have watched a ton of videos on it. In that time I have gone from excited to disappointed to excited. Your review of this camera was what I was hoping for, well done!

THE BEST REVIEW FOR THIS CAMERA. PERIOD.

Hello, Christopher. Delighted to have discovered your videos via this outstanding and intelligent review of the R5, which I'm hoping to make my next EOS purchase. So many nuggets you point out which have added more conviction to that purchase. Among them, so happy to learn that Canon has graciously acknowledged the fact that occasionally we EOS shooters have occasionally chosen to purchase aftermarket lenses such as Sigma ART, by including optimization for such lenses. Also delighted to see demonstrated just how effective the IBIS is on the R5. This is such a USEFUL review, I plan to watch it again (as my birthday - READ: Excuse to purchase sooner rather than later - approaches). It is so welcome to view camera reviews that are reasoned and devoid of noisy hype. Also, I appreciated your good taste in your music background. Needless to say, I have subscribed, and will look forward to viewing more of your work.

I also already have the R5 for a few weeks and I am loving it. It's just an all around amazing photo camera. Are you planning to retest the sharpness of the RF lenses you have already covered on this higher resolution body?

I just ordered this camera cuz I wanted to get into mirrorless but not pay the super high end price of the R3. After I ordered it I went into watching reviews on it and when I came across your channel I remembered I watched a lot of your videos back when I bought my first camera. Especially the weather sealing was one of my points I wasn‘t too sure about from reading it up on the internet. Thanks for talking about it too! So from all I heard in your video I‘m even more excited to get it into my hands and I‘m sure it will be a major upgrade over my 90D I‘ve used for a couple years now. Can‘t wait! Edit: I read the overheating issue in 8K video shooting has been adressed in firmware. Is it a different story now?

Lucky to have had it for five weeks already! I placed an order over six weeks ago and it looks like it will be Oct or Nov at the earliest before I receive mine. Great review, as always.

Great review as usual Christopher. We really need a Sony a9 (II) vs R5/6 AF sports comparison. I would lend you my a9 II however I live in Australia so a little bit far for a loaner.

A review of the R5 for stills? FINALLY!

Thanks for waiting a month to gather your thoughts for your review. I prefer this over straight-out-of-the-box type reviews, where the reviewers always seem overly excited and sometimes insincere. I think I'll be trading in my EOS R and buying an R5 to replace it, I'm so glad they got rid of the stupid multifunction bar and replaced it with a joystick! That was easily my biggest annoyance with the EOS R (I had a 5D MK2 prior to it). I'm mostly a stills shooter so the R5's shortcomings in video mode don't really affect me.

Chris, really nice review. Thank you for your work!

You are one of my most favorite camera tech reviewer. You deserve more subscribers

Here's a thought about stabilization tests. Rather than just testing the maximum shutter speed of the camera, stabilized, and compare that to the reciprocal rule, also test the camera unstabilized. The reason for this is that you are assuming you will get a sharp image with the reciprocal rule shutter speed, which is often untrue on high megapixel cameras. For instance, say you are shooting on a 50mm lens. You find that, with stabilization, you get sharp images at around 1/25, so you conclude the camera has 1 stop of stabilization. However, if you were to test the camera unstabilized, you may find out that you only get sharp images at around 1/200, so you are actually getting 3 stops of stabilization, not just 1. The reciprocal rule is a thing from the film days, and although helpful on 24-megapixel cameras, they are a bit slow for higher megapixel cameras. Using this method also bypasses the idea of having stable hands or not, as your 'base metric' (unstabilized tests) is based on your own hands as well, not some rule. Edit: also, the way you said "Bokeh" at 14:06 is amazing :P

Brilliant review Chris. So much detail in here. Could never justify buying one but it's certainly am amazing camera that I'm interested in learning more about. And great to see Aberporth getting a look in as well as Llangrennog!

Excellent review, especially the way you handled the comparison of video modes.

One of the best reviews of the r5. Well done!

Finally, the best review of EOS R5.

This is the best review I saw of this camera.

Thanks for your detailed review! I have been waiting for your review to judge if I want to consider this as my new camera. You can clearly notice the ammount of work that has been put into the video! The thing I'm missing (even it's topic is maybe better off in a second video) is how the R5 works with older EF (and maybe even EF-S) lenses. As far as I know, both should work for this camera.

Well Christopher I must say, this is some fabulous review work. Really excelled yourself here. Made the R5 look like a better buy than most other big name RU-vid camera reviewers and correctly identified Canon mismarketed this as the 8K video beast when the real draw was actually the quite breathtaking stills performance. Really, you've pointed out some features like the partial F stopping that other reviewers just missed. Seems rather non-biased as well. Bravo. The only problem is I want one now, where I hadn't previously. 🤔🙄😂

Wow thanks for this! I learned more than a lot of more popular reviews especially about the battery! Thanks Christopher!

Really like the moment when the CFexpress card pop out and you see Sony ! reminding me the a7SIII :)

Finaly the best reviewer, reviewing the R5.

Wow! The stabilisation for still photos looks amazing! Which is the biggest reason why I have one on order, so this was a very reassuring video :-)

Finally a proper review of the R5!

Such an INCREDILE review

I have R5 for almost a month now Love it love it 😍

love your videos Chris. i have bought my lenses after watching your videos. i was planning on buying the R6. can you do a video on them as well?

Great review. Thanks Christopher

You've got this review all wrong Christopher. You should start with the overheating issue and then never stop talking about it! I 100% agree with your assessment that Canon marketed the 5R in a frankly bizarre way. This is a stills camera with added bonus of high quality video. As a Canon shooter I think the R5 suits me perfectly apart from the cost, but I am working on that... Thank you for the calm, real world review.

Good camera in the winter months, keep your hands warm!! Canon did not market the R5 wrong they created a camera not fit for purpose. If a device has functionality it should work as described, if it doesn't work as described it clearly has design faults.

Excellent review Christopher , many thanks

With a good LP-E6N battery, you also can achieve the 12 fps! They may not last as long as an NH battery, but in a pinch, they are useful! I hope you find a way to retest those RF lenses you looked at on the R, as there are a few features that are missing in some of them. For example, on the r5, there is that icon for IS that is enhanced on the r5 due to IBIS (I think) and you get the "hand+" icon in the VF rather than just the "hand". I think, IIRC, that this (hand+) means the two are working together. I had assumed this were true for all RF lenses, but apparently not. That feature does not work with the RF 24-105 F/4L or the RF 70-200 F/2.8L but it does work with the new RF 100-500 F/4.5-7.1L lens. So, I guess the combined IS (hand+) only works with RF lenses released recently and after/with the R5/R6.

As always a balanced and fair review Chris - thank you 😎😎😎

Christopher, as always your knowledge of the Canon camera menu systems is second to none.. A brilliant video, indeed...!!! No click bait here. LOL! Hopefully, you will be able to compare the R5 to the R6 in the near future. Thanks again..

Thank you very much for another excellent review.

I hoped it was an A7RIV, but I do understand the choice, now you have a pretty much level playing field for the big full frame players resolution wise going forward!

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Excellent review, bring on more camera reviews.

When Chris can be bothered to make a camera review, you'd already know it's worth buying.

I’m a metro Phoenix area native.. loving the ASU shirt... 👍👍👍 The video review is also good.

Happy to see the face after the voice.

Hi Chris, a great review of the R5. I had Canon gear, 7D II, 5DIV, 500 f4 II etc and had no problem moving to Panasonic G9 some two years ago. However the G9 is not a good wildlife camera that's why I am looking at the R5. One problem you mentioned, image blackout and a knocking sound, well I had this with the G9. It was the sensor/ibis which on the G9 is a combined unit and it was replaced under warranty. Some of the other problems you incurred will hopefully be improved with updated firmware.

Great review! Would love your review on he R6 as that is more the price point and mp size I was looking for.

I so look forward to seeing reviews of the R5 as a stills camera. As always Chris your reviews are thorough and easy to understand. May I also say you remind me of Joaquin Phoenix.... with an English accent

Excellent. This was so helpful!

Welcome back to Canon! I was missing your channel :)

That’s the best looking camera body right now

Always thorough and to the point.

Voice memo/rate button-THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!!

Can't wait till I buy One looks brilliant

Fantastic review as always!

Great review and you covered all the bases as usual. It is funny that whilst some videographers are whining about the overheating (which for most people is really a non-issue), I agree with you that the standard 4K is disappointing in its quality. If Canon can improve that in firmware they really have the complete camera.

R5 dynamic range is 1.3 Stops better than my Eos R,it is also 0.2 better than Z7 and A7r4,R5 is monster,it has very clean shadows...this is not Dynamic test range that you have done in your video ,you have only tested the highligts recovery,shadow recovery is another story with R5,and also R5 and R6 does not have the faulty sensor as R and 5d mark IV which produces pretty bad banding into the long exposure-exposed for the hightligts photos.

Best 👍 Review of this Canon R5 on RU-vid and I've seen them all

Always a methodical and comprehensive review from Mr. Frost. How does he get the menu recorded directly from the camera?

this was a really well done review. I have mine on order and am looking forward to it and converting my 5D Mark IV to a backup camera.

Such a great review. I'm still waiting for my camera. How well do the Sigma lenses do with the camera and adapter for photography? I might have missed it in the video.

Excellent review!!

Great review Christopher, thanks.

Finally.....! Review from Chris ❤️

had an R5 and it overheated in Arizona...... I sold it and still shoot with my Canon 5DSR and my for video I use my 1DX MKiii .......

Great review Chris! I think this will be my next camera when I finally get rid of the A7R2

Just want to thank you for for making this informative videos.. i love watching it again and again evry episode.. its like watching netfilix series..👍