topic Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

truza333 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:23:11 GMT

Hello guys. I've got an issue I was hoping someone could help me with. I'm trying to shoot a timelapse movie.

1 Shot every 15 min, 2600 shots...

So, about a month long timelapse movie. The problem is, the camera stops shooting after about an hour or so. It doesn't save anything.

I don't hear it beep after a bit, I go press the info button, and instead of popping on the display and showing it recording, it does nothing. I have press the shutter button and it wakes the camera up.

I was hired to shoot this for a construction company and the first day is completely shot. Nothing to show for it, with a $3500 camera.

Any ideas?

Its hooked into ac power and I disabled the auto-off power setting.

Re: Canon R5 Timelapse-Movie

kvbarkley — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:33:47 GMT

Did you try a test movie?

Did you have an HDMI cable or USB cable connected?

Re: Canon R5 Timelapse-Movie

truza333 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:51:32 GMT

Hey there!

I have not tried a test movie. I just started it up and came back just over an hr later to check on it and it had stopped running. The camera was asleep.

Nothing connected to the camera besides the AC power cable.

I ran this setup a month ago for this customer using a rebel t7i and it went down without a hitch.

I hate to lose access to my R5 for a month but he is paying well, and I've already lost the entire first day :*(

I restarted the timelapse 3x. Same result each time.

I sat next to it the last time to try and figure out what was going on. I sat there for about 2 hrs when the timer on my phone told me it should have beeped and snapped a photo, but it hadn't.

I pressed the info button to wake up the lcd, but this time pressing the button did nothing bc the camera was asleep.

Half press of the shutter turned it back on and the camera appears to have completely forgot it was timelapsing.

Re: Canon R5 Timelapse-Movie

kvbarkley — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:08:02 GMT

Read the manual, there are several pages of caveats and info.

Re: Canon R5 Timelapse-Movie

truza333 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:52:29 GMT

I did read the manual and couldn't find anything that would cause it to shut off at random times. The camera performed perfectly outside of this feature, which appears bugged.

I'm trading it in for a Sony in the morning as I can't afford to lose this client and Canon support appears non-existent.

The T7i did just fine, obv not wide enough for a construction site with its little crop sensor.

Re: Canon R5 Timelapse-Movie

kvbarkley — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:17:48 GMT

You can also use the intervalometer and combine the images in post.

Re: Canon R5 Timelapse-Movie

anzee — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:05:57 GMT

Like someone before said, why dont you use an intervalometer to make still images and then combine them in post. It also is more bullet-proof as you can check the progress or change some settings in the time between exposures.

I understand you want to use the R5 over the crop camera, but if it is the camera angle the only thing, you could get away with 11-22 EF lens or something similar

Re: Canon R5 Timelapse-Movie

truza333 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:19:27 GMT

I'm actually shooting it @ 12mm on the full frame. I may go the single photo route and just snap them at 7.5 min intervals instead and blend the frames myself. I'm going to rent a Sony this morning and run them both.

I was just disappointed that a feature was so poorly implemented on a camera that many use professionally. Fortunately I assumed that it may fail and caught it before I lost several days. The crazy thing is that it doesn't even save what it captured. You hear it taking photos... but then there is nothing at all on the camera.

Its a 1 tb card, so memory wasn't the issue. Wasn't overheating...

I dunno... im over it though lol. Thnx again!

Thanks for taking the time to make a suggestion bud. I appreciate it.

Re: Canon R5 Timelapse-Movie

truza333 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:22:23 GMT

Going this route.

Thanks for taking the time to assist!

Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

jswt25 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:11:12 GMT

I had these issues. It was because I was using an SD card. Upgraded to a Lexar CF card and everything works fine.

Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

jswt25 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:12:52 GMT

I had these issues. It was because I was using an SD card. Upgraded to a Lexar CF card and everything works as it should.

Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

Waddizzle — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:36:52 GMT

“ I was just disappointed that a feature was so poorly implemented on a camera that many use professionally. Fortunately I assumed that it may fail and caught it before I lost several days. The crazy thing is that it doesn't even save what it captured. You hear it taking photos... but then there is nothing at all on the camera. “

You never shared your settings. So I am more inclined to blame your settings than the camera. In fact, I suspect that you may encounter similar issues with the intervalometer. They work the same way. One saves separate images. One combines them into a video. Otherwise, no difference.

Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

jswt25 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:35:03 GMT

Like other folk who have posted about this issue, I tried many different camera modes and exposure settings. Since switching from a SansDisk SD card to the 128GB Lexar Silver CF card the problem has never occurred.

Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

truza333 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:22:05 GMT

The settings shouldn't have anything to do with it. The camera should be able to shoot a frame every x minutes regardless of the settings, unless the shutter speed is longer than the intervalometer, settings should make no dif. In this case I was using a 1TB CF card.

Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

truza333 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:33:21 GMT

Can't tell if trying to be helpful or trolling. I'll never truly know what the issue was because the Sony A9 worked right out of the box no issue. Same settings... Though the Sony lens selection at 10mm is poor and I ended up having to go with a 12mm. Going to use the R5 just for stills now, which honestly, is the only thing it was ever really good for. I remember shooting some video of my dogs at 8k shortly after I got it and it literally overheated within I'd say 3-4 minutes.

Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

Waddizzle — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:01:23 GMT

You didn’t provide sufficient information to reproduce your issue.

”It doesn’t work” doesn’t work.

Re: EOS R5 stops shooting month-long time lapse after about an hour

Waddizzle — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:42:13 GMT

“ The settings shouldn't have anything to do with it. The camera should be able to shoot a frame every x minutes regardless of the settings, unless the shutter speed is longer than the intervalometer, settings should make no dif. In this case I was using a 1TB CF card.. “

Seeing how your issue is the exception and not the rule, i am certain that you have a settings issue. Namely, power settings.

I have a suggestion. Restore the changes you made to the power settings back to their original factory defaults. The camera is smart enough to wake itself up for each shot.