EOS R5 Mark II -- Missing 4K backup recording when recording in 8K RAW

maxjw — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:46:01 GMT

One really useful and important feature of the original Canon R5 is that when recording video in 8K RAW to the CFexpress card, you could also record a 4K backup in 10bit to the SD card. Obviously this gives a lot of peace of mind.

On the R5 Mark II, I don't see any way to do this. It looks like you can only record a 1080P 8bit proxy when filming in 8K RAW, but that's not useful as a redundancy. Is there a setting I'm missing?

It's a pretty significant omission if it's currently not possible. If so, can Canon add this ability back in with a firmware update?

Re: EOS R5 Mark II -- Missing 4K backup recording when recording in 8K RAW

maxjw — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:04:20 GMT

Double-checking through the manual, I'm not able to find a way to enable backup 4K recording of 8K RAW. Am I just not seeing it, or can anyone confirm that this is in fact missing from the R5 Mark II?

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EOS R5 Mark II -- Missing 4K backup recording when recording in 8K RAW

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