topic Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

ImLMHK — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:01:17 GMT

Hi All,

I just received my new Canon EOS R5 Mark II and I am totally psyched!

I like to download the user manuals for my cameras and file them away. The digital form also allows me to take the manual with me and to read it when time allows.

But I can't find the digital version of the manual for theR5 Mark II anywhere on the Canon site. The manual PDF's are usually found on the product support page (in this case, https://www.usa.canon.com/support/p/eos-r5-mark-ii).

There is a button on that page for the manual, but it leads nowhere.

Can someone please point me to the pdf version of the R5 Mark II user manual?

Thank you!

Mary

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

kvbarkley — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:17:59 GMT

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/EOS-DSLR-Mirrorless-Cameras/R5-Mark-II-Unable-to-find-advanced-user-manual/td-p/495008

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

p4pictures — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:23:35 GMT

If you want the PDF then this is the link to the one on Canon's website.

https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/manual/c017.pdf

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

ImLMHK — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:53:57 GMT

That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much!

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

p4pictures — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:20:11 GMT

There is also an AF settings guide on the Canon Inc website. So far I've only found the HTML version though.

https://cam.start.canon/en/C017/guide/html/index.html

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

ImLMHK — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:18:20 GMT

That's really helpful too. Thank you!

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

KFSC307 — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 10:10:47 GMT

Now the bigger question is why the file for the guide is locked. This is ridiculous. Is Canon afraid that Nikon will steal their secrets?

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

J03_D4ncer — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 02:50:01 GMT

Thank you!

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

p4pictures — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:42:42 GMT

All the Canon user guides are locked. They allow printing, but not extraction of the graphics or text.

I did check a recent Nikon PDF and they are the same, except for some allow the text to be extracted for accessibility.

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

calvy — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:45:18 GMT

So this means that if I want to highlight text, I first have to print all 1200+ pages and then I can highlight it?
Sorry Canon, it's 2025, we don't want to destroy our planet... Annotating a PDF or highlighting text is the minimum, be a little smarter than Nikon!

Calvy

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

KFSC307 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:09:07 GMT

It is totally ridiculous for Canon to be doing this. We are willing to pay a premium dollar for their cameras and lenses and they still play cheap games like this. I like my Canon stuff to a point, but if I could roll back the past year, I would not be using Canon.

Re: R5 Mark II user manual in PDF form

KFSC307 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:09:32 GMT

Not that Canon will care.