EOS R5 vs EOS R5 C: Which is better for wedding videography?

[n1olan]

Hi all! I origionally bought my Canon R5 to do photography but ended up using it for shooting wedding videos quite a bit. I've spent a lot on lenses and really don't want to change brand, I personally love canon.

This being said I seem to have some hot pixels stuck when shooting video in low light and it takes a while for me to edit these out. I've been looking at getting another R5 or a MKii. I just discovered the R5C and seen that this is better for the R5 for video, only issue is battery life which doesn't really put me off. I always have plenty of batteries on me. I called Canon and they said I need to send my R5 for a sensor repair and need a camera as a replacement until that one is back. Just looking to see if anyone has the R5C to let me know their thoughts or if anyone can offer advice on which to get. As its a replacement the MKii is an extra £500 which I'm not against if its worth that... just thinking as I'm using it mainly for video would the R5C be better? or would it be better to have 2 of the same body? In this scenario get another R5.

Or do I just go with something totally different like the R3?

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

In your case, if you are looking for a videocentric camera, I might go for the R5 C.  Im not saying that just because I own one.  If you were shooting photos primarily, and you wanted the 45MP resolution then I say go for the R5 or R5 mkII.  The R6 mkII has even better low light performance for stills over both of the above due to is lower resolution sensor that has larger photosites.

Video is not a primary strength of the R5.  While it's overheating issues have been largely mitigated through firmware updates, the R5 C offers more video codecs and it will not shut down as long as you have power and storage available (ever) 😎.  The R5 and R5 mkII both use line skipping on 4k 60p, whereas the R5 C uses full oversampling from its 8k sensor.  Now if you're shooting 4k 24 or 30p then it's not an issue.  The R5 C has a mini HDMI port and only supports Clog3 (if that matters to you).  I use USB-C PD with my R5 C and it runs for hours.  Far longer than any amount of video I'd ever want to shoot 😂. 

Another option you might want to consider is the newly announced C50.  It will not start shipping until the beginning of December (tentatively).  It will support CLOG2/3 and have a full size HDMI port.  It's 4k will be oversampled from its 7k sensor.  For stills it will boast a 32MP sensor.

Closing thoughts.  There are many people who color grade footage shot on thr R5 C in Clog3 using Clog2 in Davinci Resolve. If you're grading oversampled footage (not line skipped) I don't think you'll notice a difference mixing body's.