topic EOS R5 Mark II tracking feature not working well on wildlife in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

EOS R5 Mark II tracking feature not working well on wildlife

Nat2 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:32:22 GMT

Hi I recently switched from the R6 to the R5 Mark II. I primarily use the camera for taking images and videos of wildlife. I never had any issues with the autofocus whilst tracking wildlife on the R6. However, on a recent trip and now using the R5 Mark II, I found the tracking feature did not work well. For example - with a leopard coming down a tree, all the images were blurred. I also found many of my images were very overexposed (using autofocus) even though when I took them, what I was seeing through the viewfinder looked fine. Whilst some can be corrected in photoshop as I shoot RAW, the colour in some of them, even after editing is washed out.

With video on, the autofocus tracking feature worked well. However, at night both video and images were very underexposed when shooting around a fire. In exactly the same scenario whilst shooting with the R6, I had excellent results.

I would appreciate any advice from the community. Many thanks.

Re: R5 Mark II

Waddizzle — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:48:44 GMT

Sorry to hear about your experience.

To help us better understand your issue and to better assist you, please provide more details about your camera settings and shooting conditions.

Posting RAW files that demonstrate the issues on a public file sharing platform such as Dropbox would help immensely.

Re: R5 Mark II

Waddizzle — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:58:45 GMT

Have tried any of the suggestions offered in the thread linked below?

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/EOS-DSLR-Mirrorless-Cameras/Can-t-get-EOS-R5-Mark-II-out-of-manual-focus/m-p/552499/highlight/true#M134075

Re: R5 Mark II

Nat2 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:43:08 GMT

Thank you for your reply. I will do as suggested and upload some pictures and come back here with the link.