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

Jan1977 said:
I shoot my R5ii gripped, so have 2 batteries in at the time. The batteries last for more than one game, although I do sometimes change batteries when it is not yet needed, just to avoid to have to change batteries when I might not want to (e.g. if it might be raining).

I also have the camera set to airplane mode so it doesn't consume power for connectivity. I think the energy consumers are similar among the Canon R series cameras.

When renting with limited LP-E6P batteries available, make sure to test pre-capture in an early stage. And maybe start with the older batteries when going through the menus to set things up or to see what is in the menus.
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Levina said:
Yeah, see, you two take a lot of shots during one session. I don't. And with the shutter count going back to zero as soon as you have downloaded the images, with my few hundred shots at a time, I have absolutely zero idea how many shots I can take on a fully charged battery. This is the one thing I dislike about the camera. Why did they change that? :banghead:
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I checked and airplane mode is on, on my R7 but was off on my R6ii, changed it to on.

How many Craw plus LF JPEG files an I get on a 256 meg CFX type B card? As I was thinking of shooting until full and then roll to a UHC II card in the second slot to see how many shots I am getting and use. BUT that would bug me the rolling back to zero after every download of files as Canon sucks for finding out your shutter count. I have over 60,000 shots on both the R7 and R6ii and like to have a feel for how many shots are on the shutter.

Also if you start a 0001 every time I would think you would end up with a lot of shots with the same number. In season I will go to the pond 4 or 5 days in a row and shoot 1,000 to 2,000 shots each time so a lot of dup numbers.

Jan1977 makes a good point using my current batteries to set up and do everything except the actual shooting. I also hear that pre-capture won't work with older batteries.

I am also renting a battery grip as I always shoot with one, actually cut the extension off a battery grip so I could use it on the R7, may look ugly but I don't care I look at functionality not looks.
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I checked for my 256GB SD card, which was freshly formatted. The indicator says I can still take between 6500 en 6600 photos in CRAW (I shoot CRAW myself). Based on my experience in the past where I did fill up 256GB cards (both SD's as CF express) the photos remaining count is conservative and there is usually a little more photos to take then the remaining count tells you.

So with a 256 GB and CRAW I would say you definitely can get 6500+ shots. (you typed 256 meg, but I assume you mean gigabytes).

My CRAW files from a recent rugby match shows file sizes on my Windows PC, ranging from 17 to 29 MB per file. Based on the 29 MB per CRAW and lets say 220 GB usable space on a 256GB card, the count would go to over 7500. Still being conservative going by the max filesize and reduced usable/ real capacity of the card.
 
I was thinking last night about the R5ii (again) at this point I will probably put off the rental until May, one it is warmer and better weather more chance to test the camera out without rain but also I want t see if the R6iii gets announced.
I could be wrong but I see the differences that would matter to me are MPX, AF, Buffer. The main one would be the sensor, I also like my R6ii's high ISO performance.

Are the changes enough to justify spending that much on a camera since I am just a hobbyist an average photographer and it is the person not the gear (for the most part). I am tempted to buy a RF800mmm as while I like my 200-800 it is heavy and often I don't want to take it and my RF 100-500 and my walker to the pond ( the walker to carry camera bag, chair, cane etc, can walk with just the cane but I carry a lot of gear).

The only thing about the 800mm is getting the target in the FOV, but that is why I have the 100-500 for moving targets, the 800 would be for floaters or butterflys in a garden etc...
 
Jeff WX1USN said:
The only thing about the 800mm is getting the target in the FOV, but that is why I have the 100-500 for moving targets, the 800 would be for floaters or butterflys in a garden etc...
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The 800/11 is a great lens but not sure it would work well for butterflies as it has a MFD of 20 feet. The 100-500 will be much better for it. But for non-flying birds the 800/11 is great.

I stumbled upon a video that you might find interesting. Guy tested the 800/11 side by side with the rf 200-800 and the 100-500+extender. On the R7.

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Levina said:
The 800/11 is a great lens but not sure it would work well for butterflies as it has a MFD of 20 feet. The 100-500 will be much better for it. But for non-flying birds the 800/11 is great.

I stumbled upon a video that you might find interesting. Guy tested the 800/11 side by side with the rf 200-800 and the 100-500+extender. On the R7.

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I will check it out, yes the minimum focal distance is an issue for some things like my garden but then if I am sitting at my desk next to the window taking pictures out of it the 100-500 and 200-800 work great at the fifteen foot distance.
 
I've taken some really nice shots with the 800/11, most all with the R6. It hasn't been used much since getting the 100-500 though.

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Great tit on a dark and dreary day
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Great crested grebe with 1.4x extender
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