I'm still thinking of buying the R5 mark II. Should I or should I wait? I BOUGHT IT!!!

[pcs]

Yep, I know that one. It's how I select all the rejects and batch delete them.

By the way, I shot pics with the new 100% charged battery in the camera. Downloaded them to my Mac. Shutter count was reset to zero. Seems it's not the battery.

Not even your camera, just downloaded and checked, mine does the same, it's a feature!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Not even your camera, just downloaded and checked, mine does the same, it's a feature!

It does?!! Ooh, that makes me feel LOADS better! Thank you very much!!!!!!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

it's a feature!

It really is, then, isn't it?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

SO is there any way to check total shutter count?

 

[pcs]

SO is there any way to check total shutter count?

Maybe with a paid app but not in the camera, although with the ES it's no longer very relevant.

As I always rename on import with consecutive numbers I can look at my last shot's name.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

SO is there any way to check total shutter count?

I rename my files but keep the original name part of it: 202502014_FILENAME_001
Actually I might go to a three digit sequence now: 0001.

Maybe with a paid app but not in the camera, although with the ES it's no longer very relevant.

As I always rename on import with consecutive numbers I can look at my last shot's name.

I have ShutterCount and it supports the R5m2 but can only read actual shutter movements, so ES is not recorded. Look:

I need to put my name in.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

PCS made a point that the ES doesn't wear the shutter and numbering is only used for naming the images. With the R6ii R7 most of my images are ES so the 50K shutter count is actually 50k images not the actual wear on the shutter
As everyone is probably aware the R6ii names the image R62_1234.img
I could see a lot of duplication of names but as it looks like it will have the date that would mostly avoid that.

Now if you go to the pond or field and fire off 2 or 3,000 images, and it rolls over at 1000 doesn't it put them in a separate folder or add some indicator to the numbers once it rolls over?

 

[pcs]

It rolls over at 10000, after that a new folder but downloading and renaming in eos utility means you don't even see these folders.
I rename yyyymmdd-camera model-xxxxxxx

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Those are ISO speeds I never use.

But, I have both cameras here so I could do test shots! I will do that later this afternoon and post the results tonight.

@Jeff WX1USN

Jeff, I did some testing. I'm terrible at this sort of thing, but I have images. I was thinking it might be best if I just post the originals as a zip file on WeTransfer. I can post the link here, you can download them. Would that be okay? It's a big file 453MB (10 images).

EDIT: I sent Jeff the link in a DM or else he might miss it!

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Yes the R5ii is brighter but it might be the settings in the R6ii, anyhow that is not what I was looking at.

up to up to ISO 6,400 they are pretty much the same noise wise to my eye, at 6,400 the DVD with the woman on the spine seemed a bit better on the R5ii
at 12,800 and 40,000 I feel the R6ii was better than the R5ii

Of course our test is totally subjective and they are very very close.

I am happy with the R6ii and have been able to eliminate rolling shutter on both the R6ii and R7 but it is by shooting bursts when I am tracking birds with the mechanical shutter.

I set up my C1,2,3 on each to have the same Shutter speed and f stop the only difference is the shutters.

also Electronic 1st curtain seems to have very little rolling shutter

C1 Mechanical shutter
C2 Electronic 1st curtain
C3 Electronic

I really want the R5ii and will probably end up being able to justify it, like I did the RF 100-500 (still have my EF 100-400 Lii) adn the 200-800 LOL