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Canon R 5 C - video set up - please help

Started 8 months ago | Discussions thread
Markr041 Forum Pro • Posts: 10,078
The Canon R5C is NOT the camera For Video Wildlife Shooting on Safari

I am going to try one more time - the R5C is just about the worst choice for a once-in-a- lifetime safari trip for shooting wildlife in video. Especially for someone who admits to being a novice videographer.

R5C: Terrible battery life - 30 minutes at best for shooting video. AF that precisely lacks the wildlife features one has in many other cameras. No IBIS for handheld shooting. Here is what an actual pro user reports on the R5C:

"LP-E6NH give me on average about 30-35 minutes of actual record time with occasional waveform and false color usage, 4K XF-AFC, Continuous AF, Lens IS." from EOSHD (no link here allowed).

The R5 is now fine for any kind of shooting - it has good battery life, no overheating anymore, and better AF than the R5C.

But, almost everyone agrees that a crop (APS-C) camera is best for shooting wildlife - it gives you more reach for the same focal length range.

Consider the Canon R7 as a safari camera. It has an AF that is better than the R5 and, of course, the R5C (the AF on the R7 is as good as the Canon R3). Oversampled 4K from the full 7K sensor, and a great 4K 60p in crop mode that gives you almost 3X increase in reach relative to FF with no loss of resolution in 4K. Perfect for shooting moving wildlife at a distance.

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