Greetings,
Anyone else considering? The R5C was not the road I anticipated taking, but I'm tired of waiting and since this body doesn't overheat, I am more confident about it over the standard R5.
Although I am a stills shooter, the Cinema EOS side of the body is intriguing. Its so much smaller than a C70. I'm not serious enough about video that I'd miss Clog2. The body has 16 14 stops so plenty of DR for my use. Its also not limited to Super35 or 16 (which isn't so much a limitation), but Canon has really stepped up here. I don't care about ibis. All of my lenses except 1 are IS and the body has digital IS built in. I have purchased a bunch of accessories. Control Ring Adapter, 2 512GB CF ExpressB, 2 128GB UHSII, 2x Watson batteries (Canon was out of stock), and I've not tried Manfrotto batteries yet.
Going to try the AngelBird CFExpress cards and ProGrade for the XD Cards. I've always used SanDisk so going to try something else. Both are highly rated.
I also contacted EasyCover in the Netherlands and my contact there has said they do not plan to make a skin for the R5C. Was hoping for this, but am more excited about a new body. Haven't pulled the trigger quite yet. I have a quick business trip and wanted to be back for the arrival. Plan to wait a week. If nothing glaring is reported, I will finally move to mirrorless.
~Rick
Bay Area - CA
~R5 C (1.0.7.1) ~RF Trinity, ~RF 100 Macro, ~RF 100~400, ~RF 100~500, +RF 1.4x TC, +Canon Control Ring, BG-R10, 430EX III-RT ~DxO PhotoLab Elite ~DaVinci Resolve ~Windows11 Pro ~ImageClass MF644Cdw/MF656Cdw ~Pixel 8
~CarePaks Are Worth It
