Firmware: R5 v1.8.1 now available

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

Pixel shift has come to the R5 in FW version 1.8.1.

I had a chance to check this out myself and the detail is awesome.  Pixel shift is not for everyone. as the files can be rather large.  If you want to see it for yourself, install v1.8.1 and grab the latest version of DPP.

R5 Downloads

[tdehan]

Thank for the quick response FloridaDrafter.  However, I am still not clear what the need is for it.  I've never used it before but use both Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.  Am I to understand that the new feature in the latest R5 firmware can only be used with  EOS Utility/Digital Photo Professional?

[FloridaDrafter]

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@tdehan wrote:

Thank for the quick response FloridaDrafter.  However, I am still not clear what the need is for it.  I've never used it before but use both Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.  Am I to understand that the new feature in the latest R5 firmware can only be used with  EOS Utility/Digital Photo Professional?

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That is a strong possibility. It took quite a while for Adobe to be able use the dual pixel Raw files that I mentioned earlier, if they did at all. Canon likes to hang on to some of their tech, or so it seems. I can only find references to LR using them in 2021, and that statement from Adobe was about converting to DNG. Not being a user of LR, I can't verify that. I do use dual pixel Raw however, and DPP 4 to process.

DPP 4 is a nice program and is all I use for my Raw editing. It has lots of tools specifically for editing Canon Raw files and their features. A lot of folks use it to process Canon Raw, then export to Adobe PS via the PS export function in DPP 4.

Newton

[FloridaDrafter]

I just did took test shots and turns out the high res files are JPeG, so you can open them in whatever program you want... Provided it will handle a 400MP file of 150-200MB's in size 🙂 My favorite program on my modest laptop threw up a memory warning, but opened the file anyway, LOL!

Newton

[Peter]

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@ata wrote:

interesting but not on the canada page.🤔

https://canoncanada.custhelp.com/app/browse/a_status/published/channelRecordID/DRIVERS_AND_SOFTWARE/...

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All download pages point to the same file path.

SHA256 checksum for the file is 7b1d007883c9a79cb8abd071ccbd2b9f153e256ca97157296924a5a8b4c30582 eosr5-v181-win.zip

If you find eosr5-v181-win.zip with another SHA256 checksum, please send me a PM.

[shadowsports]

There is a bunch of testing happening on the CR website.  Many have expressed a desire for a raw file format.  My body doesn't have ibis so it's not something that I've been able to test myself.  I have viewed several samples uploaded by others

[ata]

Thank you Peter, 👍

[Landon_H]

I just checked again.  As someone said elsewhere, 1.8.1 doesn't show up at the top of the list (at least on my default order of Recommended).  You can either scroll down and find updates to DPP, the firmware and EOS Utility associated w/1.8.1.  Or you can manually sort by most recent and it pops to the top.