[Music] sunlight dearest sunlight I am calling you across the old room sunlight dearest sunlight I would like to come out of the WB something in me feels like all of me and we dance all alone come on in open my heart to this world Open My Heart to this hey there I got the brand new Canon R5 Mark II it just shipped out and I got it in this morning I quickly set it up and I'm out here trying to get some test footage so I can share with all of you also give my first impressions and thoughts on the camera of course I will be doing my deep dive testing but I just I wanted to see what the camera was capable of and get some images with the camera it's been 4 years since the R5 mark1 came out and I think a lot of you out there and my myself included have been really anticipating the release of the R5 Mark II so like I said I'm just out here trying to get a little bit of test footage so I can see what this camera was capable of and the weather hasn't really been cooperating that much it's been pretty cloudy but I'll do my best and try to share some footage with [Music] you my heart to this one [Music] open my heart to this [Music] world I see is in light [Music] all I see is [Music] in something in me feels like all of me all I see is in [Applause] life something in feels like all of [Music] me open my heart to this one [Music] so hopefully enjoyed the footage and the opening sequence I had a lot of fun outshooting that now a couple of disclaimers right off the bat here first of all this is a first impressions video this is not a review whatsoever at the time of recording this I've only had the camera for 24 hours I also want to mention that this video is not sponsored whatsoever I don't have a relationship with Canon I paid for the r52 with my own money so obviously the opinion about the camera and everything about to say is completely my own now if you are new to the channel welcome my name is Josh and on this channel I do review a lot of camera stuff I do deep Dives I also do tutorials and user guides I focus specifically on video so if you're into that kind of stuff then you're in the right place and like I said before this video does not have a sponsor so if you'd like to support the channel there are affiliate links in the description for the r52 especially but all the gear that I use on a regular basis so I would really appreciate if you check that out now all the footage that you saw at the beginning of this video was all shot in the 4K 24 fine mode that's the oversampled 8K to 4K I shot everything in clog 2 which is new for the R5 Mark II the in the XF EVC which is the h.265 codec in Long op and all at the base ISO of 800 now there are a lot of recording modes in this camera and I will definitely be covering those in depth in future videos but when I had to make the decision to go out and shoot I think that this is probably the most common codec and style that people are going to be shooting in so that's why I decided to shoot with and like I said I will be testing out all our stuff in later videos in terms of the gear that I used I shot it on two different lenses the 24 to 70 RF lens and the RF 100 to 500 these are some of my favorite lenses if you're wondering why this lens is black it's usually what it's cuz I have a skin on it from a company called Alpha guard so um I just to protect it also in terms of ND filters uh I use the niss true color 1 to5 Stop variable ND filter I use this filter all the time and a lot of people are asking me for recommendations for variable NDS this one is my favorite and of course this will be linked down in the description if you want to try to pick one up okay first thing of course is to talk about the image quality the colors uh in my opinion are just amazing and it's exactly what you expect from Canon the oversampled image is crispy with a lot of details but overall the way I would describe it is that the image looks accurate clean very pleasant and Punchy with a lot of life I know some of this can definitely be uh credited to the lenses of course the rf24 4 to 70 and 100 to 500 are fantastic lenses but overall I just don't have any complaints about the image quality it just looks really nice right out of camera with very little grading it produces a really nice image okay let's talk about log and dynamic range C log 2 C log 2 clog 2 this is probably the biggest upgrade and thing that I was most excited about with the R5 Mark II now having tested pretty much every Canon camera in the last few years the R3 the R5 the R6 Mark II the R seven and so on C70 r5c all those cameras it's just really cool for me to see clog 2 in a mirrorless camera even the r5c which is labeled as a cinema camera does not have Cog 2 so very very cool and so the biggest question I've had when I heard the announcement of the R5 Mark II and probably a lot of you are wondering as well is dynamic range now there has been a lot of discussion online about the dynamic range for photo and personally like I said earlier I don't do any photography I just mainly focus on video so I'm going to be talking about video in this because that's what I do and that's what's important to me so what just keep that in mind that there's other people testing out photography and I I recommend you check out that stuff but I really just I'm going to comment on the uh dynamic range from what I saw in shooting video so there's a couple of shots I want to take a look at all I think this shot of the field is a great example to see how much dynamic range we have going on in this camera look at the sky there is so much detail in the highlights there both in the sky and also on the grass and if you look at the shadows in the foreground and also the darker parts in the background in the trees you can see there's a lot of detail there the other thing is the Highlight rolloff if you look at the sky and also the grass you can see that it's very smooth you don't see a lot of those like white sort of clippy bits that you might see on other mirrorless cameras I was really impressed by that and another thing is just how much detail is in the highlights this is something that Canon mirrorless cameras have not been very good at and I see it's really good here you get great highlight roll off a lot of dynamic range and a lot of highlight detail now this clip here it's more the same I specifically if you look at the grass there it doesn't just blow out it looks smooth and the Highlight roll off is nice and there's just a lot of detail in the highlights and to me having analyzed a lot of different Canon cameras you know I don't see this all the time and at the same time if you look into the darker parts of the image you definitely have detail in the shadows it's able to capture a lot of dynamic range in one shot a lot of this has to do with clug 2 but I think also with the sensor and in the another clip here look at you can see deep into the shadow and if you look at the brighter Parts like on the bark of the trees or in the field behind the trees you can see that the highlights the highlights look really Pleasant and you know hold on to detail so I also want to mention that when I was out shooting these high dynamic range scenes uh of course besides the ones where I was literally just pointing the camera directly at the sun when during those Sunset shots uh cuz I was basically shooting directly at the sun I could actually keep all of the information inside of the histogram and waveform without clipping highlights or crushing Shadows and what I mean by this is that when I'm out shooting a scene like that generally what I do is I expose as high as I possibly can and it just starts to clip and then I lower the exposure just a little bit to protect the highlights now often when I'm shooting on Canon mirrorless cameras especially in clog 3 when you do that you wind up crushing out some of the shadows and you lose some of that information because it can only capture so much dynamic range but when I was out shooting it was all contained within the histogram and waveform and when I got home to look at it and post of course besides those Sunset shots where the sun was clipping a little bit nothing was clipped on the highlights or the Shadows so I was really impressed by that now again this is a preliminary test just looking at some sample footage I will definitely do be doing my normal Deep dive dynamic range testing soon in comparing with other cameras but I'm very hopeful about the dynamic range coming out of this camera and the big part of it I think is the new sensor design here but also having clog 2 is just absolutely fantastic now if you haven't used clog 2 before it is very flat coming out of the camera but it grades really really easy easily because it has so much latitude now when I was grading all these clips I just used a few color space transforms in resolve and I did some light work with exposure contrast and saturation but what I found which is common with a lot of other Canon cameras is it doesn't require a lot of color work right out of camera to get that sort of look now Canon cameras have a look just like Sony cameras or Lumix cameras or Leica or red or whatever it's a look that you may or may not like but right out of camera in my opinion it does have a pretty pleasing image and it did capture a lot of dynamic range of course I'll have to get more nerdy about this but preliminary results I think the dynamic range look pretty good all right next I want to talk about autofocus and stabilization so most of the footage that I showed you I was using manual focus like I usually do but I did try out autofocus on some of the birds now I was in a spot where I don't usually go birding so I didn't have a lot of luck finding birds and a lot of them were little and those are much harder to uh to get shots of uh in my opinion the animal autofocus worked similarly to the R3 from what I recall now I haven't on the camera in a little bit and of course I don't have them to compare them side by side but just from memory recall it worked about the same it was really quick like when you hit the afon button it snapped to focus really quickly so maybe the same maybe just slightly better but it all was already really good in the R3 now I did test out the autofocus quickly in my driveway just filming myself with um you know uh human uh subject detection and it seemed very Snappy quick accurate didn't really hunt uh maybe almost too quick I might have to dial back the speed and sensitivity a little bit so it looks a little bit more natural but yeah very very sticky I think it's going to work really well for uh focusing on people now the stabilization seems similar to me with the R3 maybe just slightly better and the reason why I'm bringing up the R3 cuz in my opinion after testing all these Canon cameras the R3 has the best autofocus and stab out of all the cameras before the r52 and the R1 which I haven't tried either now all the footage that you saw in the opening sequence was shot handheld uh I did stabilize one shot and post but the rest of them I just wanted to leave it as is and show you what it looked like right out of camera of course like I said I was shooting on the rf24 to70 and rf100 to 500 which both have image stabilization but I didn't have any of the digital stabilization turned on so autofocus and stab I'd say is probably on par with the R3 or maybe just slightly better for my initial testing that I did earlier on next let's talk about the ergonomics the build quality and the usability of the R5 Mark I so here I have it next to the r5c to give you a sense of the size and design and all that sort of stuff I'd say that the main design of the body is very similar to the r5c and probably also to the R5 mark1 as you can see the sort of main shape of the camera is very similar minus the fan bump on the back of the r5c but overall I'd say they're they are very very similar both in terms of the design the size um the grips all that sort of stuff they look very very similar and have a similar feel to to me personally specifically about the r52 uh I really enjoy the evf this is the evf believe it's out of the R3 which is was my one of my favorites to date so I really like that it's really you can see how big it is and easy to see through also it it just looks great and it's easy to see outside of course we have a really nice Canon LCD flip screen which I believe is the same on the R5 Mark 1 no complaints about that and also the r5c like I said the grip feels really good it's nice and deep uh it's comfortable it's grippy um sort of what you'd expect with a Canon camera and one thing about this camera when I got it I just made me really really want to go on Che with it cuz it feels really good in the hand couple other things I want to point out this is awesome guys finally Canon has a full-size HDMI port in their camera it actually looks funny to me after shooting on so many of their other mirrorless cameras to see a fullsize HDMI port but it does have that now a couple other things to point out I really do like the onoff switch we've seen on some of the other cameras right here because when you're holding the camera in your hand you can easily flip it on and off without having to move your hand too much I like that there have been some complaints about the photo video switch being on the left hand side for me personally I don't do a lot of Photography but if you do have it up to your eye and you're focusing or zooming you have to take your hand off the lens switch it go back so you know that is that is something that I've heard some people complain about for me not really a big deal it has this new hot shoe cover that's really tough to get off but it does seem very protective in terms of the cards it has one CF Express B and one SD card and I do wish that it had two CF Express B cards but it only has one these are my cards I've been using lately these Angel Bird Pro SE they're fairly inexpensive they've been very reliable the only thing I have to mention is little plastic has been breaking off in the bottom I've been meaning to reach out to Angel bird about that but yep and these are the SD cards I like these prograde v90 256 GB again links down in the description if you want to pick either of these up in terms of the battery life this does have the new LP 6p battery and I didn't really notice a huge difference between this and say like an R six Mark I or R5 mark1 the first part of the shoot when I was out shooting on the field was walking around for probably 3 hours but I was turning the camera on and off quite a bit and it got through that whole shoot so I don't have run times yet I will do that when I test out overheating and stuff but uh it seemed to work pretty well definitely better than the r5c but uh I don't know exactly in terms of run times I will have to test that out now there's a couple things about the menus that I want to talk about so I'm not going to do a full menu walkthrough or anything like that here I just want to give you a couple of First Impressions about it I'll probably eventually make a full menu setup video and maybe an advanced user guide for this camera after I've used it for a little while but it's really interesting because I remember watching some of the marketing videos that came out and they were saying there's some of the language and stuff from the cinema operating system that will make its way into this camera and it was really interesting to see how that's implemented here because if you're used to Prior Canon mirrorless cameras you know that the video menu is very similar to the photo menu but they Chang a few things they have these tabs in here but one of the biggest things to me which was super interesting especially after shooting on the r5c so much in the last few years is the custom picture and this is how you choose your different modes and stuff so when you come in here you have the custom picture files which is how it is in the cinema operating system so very different than it was before and you can come in here and select can 709 clog 2 clog 3 and so on and you can add in look files as custom lots and you can edit these and all that kind of stuff and this is like I said how it was how it is in the Canon Cinema operating system so it was just interesting to see how some of that stuff was implemented and I can't wait to dive more into the menu and share share that all with you in terms of overheating I didn't have any issues out shooting yesterday it wasn't a super demanding situation I was shooting at an over sampled 4K fine mode but I was turning the camera on and off between shots it was about 80° Fahrenheit and the sun was in and out of the clouds but again it wasn't super demanding but I didn't see any overheat warning or issue or anything like that now I did pick up the cooling grip and I will test this out so I'm curious how this will affect or help out with longer run times especially for interviews and and long warm and stuff like that so I will be testing this out and making videos about this so keep an eye out for that now I as I said I didn't have any issues with overheating but I did have a few other issues that I want to mention first of all this happened to me two times where the screen just showed this like green stripes all over the screen and it happened to me one time when I was shooting during the day and one time when I was shooting at Sunset I have no idea what's going on I turned the camera off I turned it back on and it was gone I didn't have any other issues with the camera whatsoever but I just want to bring this everyone's attention in case you're having this issue make sure you let me know down in the comments reach out to Canon or who whatever retailer that you bought it from and let them know about it I did email my technical contact to Canon and they're looking into it uh I did buy my camera from B&H and they did say they would replace the camera for me I'm I'm not really convinced it's a hardware issue I have a feeling it's a software issue and I'm sure they'll address it in a formal update soon so it I have reported to Canon so hopefully they are looking into it but I just want to report it and just be you know you know transparent with all of you now there's a couple things in the camera that I want to mention that are kind of bothersome some that you probably know about but let me show you one other thing in the camera the first thing has to do with the crop mode and this is just something to be aware of if you're going in and out of crop mode like I often do especially when I'm doing Wildlife so when I'm shooting like I said earlier in that 4K 24 fine mode if I you can see here that I'm in 4k UHD 24 fine if I go into crop mode here crop mode enabled it says 4K UHD here but it's not fine because I think there is only one option in the crop mode it is oversampled but when I go here and I switch back to non-rop mode you can see that I'm not in fine mode so it puts you back in the line skipped mode uh just by default because that's just how the camera is set up so I caught me off guard where I was going in out of crop mode and I wanted to be in 4k fine just keep in mind if you do that then you have to go back in and put it in fine mode it's a it's a weird thing but I just wanted to report that it kind was bothering me the other thing was the view assist in the camera so if you're shooting in clog 2 or clog 3 I didn't really like the view assist I don't think it gave you enough contrast and saturation it looked really washed out to me and it was kind of hard to judge color and stuff both on the LCD and the evf now the other thing to mention here is that it looked kind of like it blew out on the screen before it actually blew out in terms of like the actual light and exposure so I was looking and it looked a little blown out but I looked down and the histogram was fine I actually raised up the exposure even higher because it still wasn't clipping in the histogram and then when I brought into the computer it was totally fine so I really don't like the implementation of the view assist so just be careful with that when you're out shooting um I just want to bring that to your attention make sure you're trusting your meters now in terms of meters what's really cool about this camera is that it has histogram which all the other cameras have before but also has waveform which is awesome so probably most of you know if you shot video on a car mirorless camera and you're using the histogram is that when you press record the histogram goes away but the cool thing here is that if you come in here and you turn on the waveform which is actually a more accurate way of monitoring the exposure you can see the waveform there when you hit record it stays on the screen so probably recommend using waveform over histogram because it's a little more accurate but also uh it stays on the screen when you record because of course we want to know what our exposure is while when we're recording the other thing I have to mention which you probably already heard about is this camera does have false color but you actually can't use it when you're using view assist so you actually have to turn view assist off before you turn false color on I really wish when you hit false color on it just disabled the assist automatically it's like a two-step process it's kind of annoying all right so what are my overall thoughts let me try to wrap this up a little bit keep in mind I've had the camera for 24 hours this is not a review these are just my preliminary First Impressions but like I was saying earlier on with the image quality dynamic range I'm really impressed with the camera so far I'm hopeful and I think that this camera produces a really strong image and I think them the Canon coming out and saying this camera has 16 plus stops I think was a big statement and I'm seeing that there is a lot of dynamic range in the camera but of course I'll have to do my nerdy testing to really verify that now there's two things I want you to keep in mind about the R5 Mark 2 this is a photo hybrid camera this is not a cinema camera this is not a dedicated video camera there are cameras that can do that stuff better than this camera I think there will be limitations for overheating and run times and stuff like that and the other thing is this is an expensive camera at the time of release this camera is $4,300 which is a lot of money especially when you factor and buying new LP 6p batteries and maybe also buying a cooling grip this puts it up to almost a $5,000 purchase and when you get up to that point if you're thinking video cameras you might be thinking about a cheaper r5c which you can get used or maybe a C70 which you can also buy used for less money than that so just keep in mind this is a pretty expensive camera this is a camera that I've been like I said earlier on very much looking forward to for many years I'm going to be using this to make content about on YouTube but I'm also going to try to put this to use in any of the client work that have coming up in the next few weeks in a few months so I will be putting this camera to work as a video camera now I will be doing a lot of videos and deep dives into this camera dynamic range little light overheating the raw capabilities especially that new 4ks s raw Etc I'll also be making tutorials and guides so if you're looking for any any of that information please hit subscribe down below so you don't miss that I will definitely be comparing this to the r r5c and making a in-depth comparison because I'm personally really interested in how they stack up against each other I'm sure a lot of you out there are as well I don't own a lot of cameras right now so it's going to be hard for me to make a lot of those comparison videos but as I can get my hands on cameras I will do that I know a lot of people request comparisons but I just don't have access to all these cameras I'd like to test this out against the C70 maybe the OG R5 as well if I can borrow those from some friends of mine um and I know a lot of you have questions about the r52 so stay tuned I will be methodically going through the camera making a lot of videos and I'll be sharing that with all of you so it's going to be a lot of fun if you have any questions or any topics that you'd like to see me cover please let me know in the description down below and I will get those out as soon as I can thanks so much for watching and we'll see you the next one