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How frequently your Canon EOS R5 has locked up?

Started Mar 5, 2021 | Polls thread
RogerZoul
RogerZoul Veteran Member • Posts: 3,243
Re: How frequently your Canon EOS R5 has locked up?
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I have two r5s. I would say they lockup occasionally, not frequently. One has firmware 1.4 installed and the other has firmware 1.5 installed. The one with the older firmware locked up twice over the passed 3 days. I use that one more as it has a grip. Once, I was out shooting with both, and shooting hard (i.e., on the shutter hard), the one with firmware 1.4 locked up, so I grabbed up the other, the one with firmware 1.5 installed, and it locked up too. Typically, I can go a couple of months or more without lockups and then all of a sudden, it happens. Solar flares, I think.

It is annoying, I admit, but it doesn't happen all the time, or even frequently. I don't make a living off these bodies so nothing is meat & bread, but obviously I don't want to lose shots. Would I like for Canon it fix it? Absolutely.

I'm using a Delkin 256 GB CEe black in the one with firmware 1.4, along with a 256GB V90 SD card in the other slot. I'm using a lesser known brand of CFe (256 GB) in the body with firmware 1.5 (and another 256 GB SD card (bot V90s).

I only used OEM batteries.  I routinely use both EF and RF lens (two each: EF 500 mm f/4II, EF 400 mm F/4 DO II, RF 100-500L, and RF 800 mm f/11).

I used to keep tabs on lockups, but I have given up.  the 1.4 firmware r5 I got in the first shipment from B&H and the second (1.5 firmware) I bought used back in July 2021 or so.

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