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Canon R5 hotshoe upgrade/replacement?

Started 2 weeks ago | Discussions thread
antonio-salieri Regular Member • Posts: 208
Re: Canon R5 hotshoe upgrade/replacement?
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MarshallG wrote:

Smooth_J wrote:

With the newer R5 delayed, and the newer flashes coming out that have a newer hotshoe design (ie EL-5), does anyone think there will be "upgrade" program for the first generation R5 or are we forced to upgrade to say the R5c or even R5 Mark II when it comes out?

What does the fancy new hot shoe offer, besides compatibility with one flash model (which isn’t even available yet?).

The only feature that seems new is “Controllable from smartphone app,” but I’ve used enough Canon software to have little faith in it.

It can communicate with the camera more. So for example it will integrate the menus together more and so on. The shoe can also work with microphones without using another connector and so on. Nothing game-changing, though.

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