How many shots left on card for Canon R5?

rmexpress22 wrote:

Assuming your CFe card is smaller, that number would be the correct number regardless of whether your SD card is present.

Both cards are 128gb. The number of available shots is 5121. Whether it's a single card or both cards. Does that mean both cards EACH have that number of shots left? I figured JPG only on the SD card would allow for much more than the raws.

In that configuration the RAWs on CFE are the limiting factor.

Sure, you can fit more JPEGs on the SD, but where would corresponding RAWs go?

kikimora wrote:

In that configuration the RAWs on CFE are the limiting factor.

Sure, you can fit more JPEGs on the SD, but where would corresponding RAWs go?

That's all well and good. I'm just trying to find out if there is a way to SEE how many shots are left on EACH card.

Crayonmuffin wrote:

kikimora wrote:

In that configuration the RAWs on CFE are the limiting factor.

Sure, you can fit more JPEGs on the SD, but where would corresponding RAWs go?

That's all well and good. I'm just trying to find out if there is a way to SEE how many shots are left on EACH card.

The screen displays the shots left on your active card. To see how many are left on the other card -- switch cards.

CameraCarl wrote:

The screen displays the shots left on your active card. To see how many are left on the other card -- switch cards.

I tried this as well and the number is the same. But either I'm not communicating right what I'm looking for or there is no way to see the info I need unfortunately. I've seen it done in other manufacturer's bodies so I had assumed it would be this way with Canon

Crayonmuffin wrote:

CameraCarl wrote:

The screen displays the shots left on your active card. To see how many are left on the other card -- switch cards.

I tried this as well and the number is the same. But either I'm not communicating right what I'm looking for or there is no way to see the info I need unfortunately. I've seen it done in other manufacturer's bodies so I had assumed it would be this way with Canon

You have to change the settings to record on one card only, or maybe have the second as overflow.  Then switching the primary card will show the remaining shots per card.  Like others have said, recording to multiple cards will show the lower amount since it needs to record to both.

James

jckk wrote:

You have to change the settings to record on one card only, or maybe have the second as overflow. Then switching the primary card will show the remaining shots per card. Like others have said, recording to multiple cards will show the lower amount since it needs to record to both.

James

I see. Well that sort of helped.

Side note, another thing I noticed is Fv mode which I've never used before. This seems to just replace all other modes really so I went to use that instead...and my number of shots shown on the screen decreased by about 2K shots. Going back to manual, it goes back to 5k shots or so, back to Fv it goes down to just over 3K. Far as I can tell all the same qualities to each card on each setting as well. Maybe I'm missing something there as well.

rmexpress22 wrote:

To go back to the CFe/SD thing. If you shoot raw to CFe plus jpeg to SD, let's pretend your CFe only had space for 10 raw pictures, but your SD card has space for 100 raw pictures. Only you shoot 10 pictures, your CFe card has space for 0 pictures and your SD card has space for 90 pictures. You can't take pictures at this point because you have no more CFe storage and the camera will not switch to recording raw to SD only automatically. You can change the settings to take more pictures, but as far as the camera is concerned, your settings of shooting raw to one card and jpeg to another dictate that you have no more storage available to take pictures once the CFe card is full.

Fv can be auto anything, including ISO. Higher ISO has more noise, which takes up more storage. You can switch to manual, increase your ISO, and you will see the picture count drop also. Of course, that storage number is a complete guesstimate and how many pictures your storage holds is dictated by how much data is needed to capture the image.

Yes, I understand how the storage thing works, it would just be helpful to be able to see remaining shots regardless. I've seen this in other camera bodies and it was a nice feature for keeping track of cards, especially when switching between 3-4 if needed, to make sure you have a good amount of space left or not.

I was setting up the C1-C3 functions using Fv and manual. When setting them to identical settings, the Fv still shows as far, far less shots estimated. Poured over the settings for a long while to double and triple check. Seems odd, but I guess that's just how it is for some reason. Fv mode seems super nice to use but if I can get drastically more shots on a card from manual settings I guess I won't use it. (All of this assuming I'm not just missing some important detail somewhere, which is entirely possible.)

Crayonmuffin wrote:

if I can get drastically more shots on a card from manual settings I guess I won't use it.

If the photos are actually made with the all the same parameters you will get exact same number of shots no matter if you use M or Fv.

What is shown is estimation only and the numbers differ because camera makes different assumptions – likely expecting photos in Fv mode to be possibly shot on higher ISO.

kikimora wrote:

same number of shots no matter if you use M or Fv.

What is shown is estimation only and the numbers differ because camera makes different assumptions – likely expecting photos in Fv mode to be possibly shot on higher ISO.

Yeah I'm not really sure how it's calculating it. Very odd. But it would be good to know, even roughly, if I have 3k shots left or 1k shots left, for example. Drastic enough difference to matter in some situations. I tried it again today and it's still a giant difference in estimated shots left. Will look into it more.