R5 or R5 mark II

Ok guys,

i need your help…

i buy now R5 or I wait for R5 mark II?

i understand the last update give to R5 more power but when I saw the evolution of R6 with mark II…I’m not sure if the firmware update is enough ?

Buy now, an R5 II will not be out for a while.

The R6 was first released with the old 1DX3 sensor and the R6II got a new sensor. The R5 was first released with a brand new sensor so they wont update it for some time.

Boomer1967 wrote:

Ok guys,

i need your help…

i buy now R5 or I wait for R5 mark II?

i understand the last update give to R5 more power but when I saw the evolution of R6 with mark II…I’m not sure if the firmware update is enough ?

You might get a better response posting this in the R forum instead of the DSLR forum ?

Boomer1967 wrote:

Ok guys,

i need your help…

i buy now R5 or I wait for R5 mark II?

i understand the last update give to R5 more power but when I saw the evolution of R6 with mark II…I’m not sure if the firmware update is enough ?

I would wait for the R5iii considering the only thing that actually exists is the R5.

Boomer1967 wrote:

Ok guys,

i need your help…

i buy now R5 or I wait for R5 mark II?

i understand the last update give to R5 more power but when I saw the evolution of R6 with mark II…I’m not sure if the firmware update is enough ?

01. How old are you?

02. What is your financial situation?

03. Is photography a hobby or your business?

04. Do you need a new body right now for some reason?

05. Is there something you need to shoot right now that you can't with what you currently have?

06. What do you shoot?

07. Is there some shooting opportunity that you will miss if you don't buy the current version of the R5?

Unless you really need the extra Mpix count for really large prints I would go for R6 mkII. It is better camera in most aspects than the R5 except the resolution and you can have it "now" unlike the R5 mkII.

Boomer1967 wrote:

Chesapeake Imagery wrote:

Boomer1967 wrote:

Ok guys,

i need your help…

i buy now R5 or I wait for R5 mark II?

i understand the last update give to R5 more power but when I saw the evolution of R6 with mark II…I’m not sure if the firmware update is enough ?

01. How old are you?
56

02. What is your financial situation?

Good

03. Is photography a hobby or your business?

hobby, indoor sports. I use a 6d mark ii now

04. Do you need a new body right now for some reason?

i can wait but look forward to try new tech

05. Is there something you need to shoot right now that you can't with what you currently have?

see below

06. What do you shoot?

see below

07. Is there some shooting opportunity that you will miss if you don't buy the current version of the R5?

may be but I can wait, first my next buy was 5d mark iv, but now I have something else in mind

01. I'm a little older than you, but I regret to inform you that you are not a young man. I wouldn't buy camera equipment at the expense of putting your kids through school, but if that's not an issue, and unless you know for sure that the next greatest thing is being released next week, I would get what you want right now. A lot of shooting opportunities can come and go and be missed in a year or year and a half. If you have time and your health right now, take advantage of that. The newest shiniest upgrade will always be coming down the pike "next year."
02. I have two 5Dmk4 bodies which I loved. After I got the R5 they both got demoted to Zoom video meeting cameras because I couldn't bear to sell them for pennies on the dollar, and they work pretty well for that purpose.  If you are doing tabletop product shots for web publication or some other static type shooting, landscapes, maybe studio portraiture, the 5Dmk4 or a similar DSLR is fine. Well, even for studio portraiture mirrorless works better. But for any type of action shooting or wildlife, birds in flight, mirrorless is a game changer, what with the ability to automagically have focus travel all over the viewfinder. I had some good times with my 5Dmk4 bodies, but once you go mirrorless, trying to go back to shooting with a DSLR is painful. DSLR to mirrorless for many if not most genres of photography is not just a mere incremental upgrade.

Boomer1967 wrote:

Ok guys,

i need your help…

i buy now R5 or I wait for R5 mark II?

i understand the last update give to R5 more power but when I saw the evolution of R6 with mark II…I’m not sure if the firmware update is enough ?

My advice:

Boomer1967 wrote:

i buy now R5 or I wait for R5 mark II?

That depends on whether you want to buy or wait. Very different outcomes

Remember, next camera is always usually better. It will eventually come too, but no guarantee when and whether it will entice you

There will always be a newer, better camera at any given time. No one knows exactly when, or even if, an R5II will be available to buy. No one knows when the next firmware update for the existing R5 will appear, or what that firmware might enable. Everyone's guess is as good as anyone else's. Only a few product planners, engineers and department directors in Japan know for sure, and they aren't talking to the public any time soon.

So, if you need or really, really want a great sub-1series high megapixel mirrorless Canon camera now, buy the R5; you will not regret owning this amazingly capable instrument.

If time is irrelevant to you, wait however long you want; why not even wait for the Mark III version if time is of no real consequence, and I am not being sarcastic in saying that.

Just know that the leap in capabilities from the 5D4 to the R5 is huge, especially in the area of autofocus; for me and my work it is the first truly dependable and nearly always useful (and better than my own manual ability) focusing performance that I've experienced, nearly freeing me to just take pictures, to concentrate on composition, lighting and timing, with just some attention paid to exposure. For me, that has been nearly revolutionary, a much greater advance than even the media transition from film to digital. Of course, YMMV.

As a now semi-retired professional, I may eventually buy a later version of my R5 as well, but, I don't think that, aside from some likely video performance improvements, the leap from R5 to R5II will be anywhere near the chasm that exists between the 5D4 and the R5. For stills, you likely will get some incremental benefits from the Mark II version, but whether those would tip the balance for you would likely be debatable and more depend on exactly your interests and styles of shooting than any overall evaluation of the new camera's improvements.

Good luck out there.

I'd go with the R5 now. If you don't need the resolution go with the R6 II.

I know it's only a rumour but the R5 may get a firmware update that brings it's autofocus more in line with the R3 and R6 II. Who knows it may also include pixel shift and pre burst.

Wait and see what the new rumored firmware for the R5 actually brings. If after that you don't think the camera fits your needs, wait.

If you are jumping from a dSLR then I wouldn't wait a year plus, I'd go mirrorless now—it is huge jump.

Rey G wrote:

Wait and see

How long - that's what it always boils down to

Boomer1967 wrote:

Ok guys,

i need your help…

i buy now R5 or I wait for R5 mark II?

i understand the last update give to R5 more power but when I saw the evolution of R6 with mark II…I’m not sure if the firmware update is enough ?

As Yoda once said, "Wait, young Jedi, always wait.  Never buy, just wait."

R5 MKII...what's that? LOOOOL!!!

Of course the R5 “Classic” (you saw it here first!) will stop taking good photographs the moment the R5 mk ii is announced…