on November 25th 2022 which was Black
Friday Canon rumors released detailed
leak specifications for the Canon EOS R5
Mark II exactly one month after the
announcement of the R6 Mark II in the
coming weeks we were expecting well
validation of these rumors but we've
heard nothing nothing in two months but
catamarmers did say that this
information comes from a known source
with a very good track record and while
not a perfect track record who really
does in the rumors world so the source
isn't perfect and we haven't received
validation in two months and the red
flags keep growing five to date I'm
going to cover off each of the five red
flags that I've discovered and I'm going
to answer a very simple question the
Canon EOS R5 leak specifications are
they real are they accurate are they
plausible or perhaps did they get passed
off as a forecast indicating that they
release specifications when they weren't
I'm going to cover off all the details
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grow the first set of detail leak
specifications for the Canon EOS R5 Mark
1 came from Canada rumors on January the
27 2020 and they shocked us but then the
very next day on January the 28th
counter murmurs provided some
corrections and updates to those rumors
and as soon as Canada rumors posted the
leaked specifications for the Canada EOS
R1 I followed up with my own video Canon
seemed to have leaked throughout the
competition with AK 24 25 and 30 frames
per second with ibis with autofocus face
detect autofocus and raw it could also
do 8K over sample 4K it could do 45
megapixel Stills at 20 frames per second
electronic or 12 frames per second
mechanical it was just a shockingly
amazing camera people were stunned in a
lot of the comments were wow I can't
wait to see this camera but a lot of
people had a bit of a sense of well a
reality check how could Canon that had
been producing 4K video with a 1.6 time
crop or even contrast detect in some
cameras with 4K how could they possibly
LeapFrog the competition how on Earth
could Canon be the first to Market with
a Stills Hyper camera doing AK 24 25 and
30 frames per second raw 8K over sample
4K 4K 120 frames per second and the list
goes on and it also had a CF Express
type B card slot yeah the rumors were
just and if you look at the comments
from the video when I put it out people
weren't well they didn't pull any
punches and there were some pretty rude
ones saying this is ridiculous how can
you put this out there there's no way
that Canon could LeapFrog the
competition it just isn't real there's
no way it doesn't make any sense and
some people even said that yeah 8K yeah
what are we gonna get one minute two
minutes or five minutes of recording
without over here without before it
overheats and we all know how that
turned out but with firmer 1.6 on the
Canon EOS R5 this camera in such a small
body can provide 8K 24 25 and 30 frames
per second raw 8K over sample 4K
unlimited and temperatures up to 96
degrees Fahrenheit or 38 degrees Celsius
panoramus has shown that they can be
first to Market with leak specifications
and that they can get things correct
that first leaked set of specifications
for the Mark 1 back in January the 27th
proved to be almost 100 correct down to
every single one mentioned and Canon
well they've certainly proved that they
can LeapFrog the competition here in
2023 the Canon EOS R5 the Mark 1 doesn't
in any way seem like it's well old in
the tooth that it's well significantly
behind the competition in fact if we
look at the competition the Sony a7r5 it
can do 8K as well like the Canon EOS R5
but unlike the R5 it stops at 24 and 25
frames per second no 30 frames per
second and no raw and instills while it
can do 61 megapixels it has more detail
it caps out 10 frames per second and not
30 frames per second I'm not here to
argue that the Canon R5 is better than
the Sony R5 I'm just here to remind you
that here in 2023 even though the camera
is almost three years old the Canon EOS
R5 is well it doesn't feel old in the
tooth and when you compare it to the
competition like the Sony a7r5 even
though the R5 the Sony a7r5 came out in
November of 2022 you can look at these
cameras side by side and have an
argument a debate over which one is
better and it's pretty easy on either
side to win when it comes to video we
can look at the Canon and say well it's
def definitely bitter bitter did I
bitter anyway it's better and for the
Sony A5 well we can say it's definitely
got more detail and at 10 frames per
second not as fast as the Canon but both
are very good cameras so when we see
detail leak specifications for the Canon
EOS R5 Mark II and they seem bold they
seem capable of leapfrogging the
competition providing better
capabilities than the Nikon z9 their
Flagship mirrorless camera well it does
seem a bit far-fetched they seem to take
these specifications of the Canon EOS R5
Mark II and they seem to be what what we
all thought might see we might see in
the Canon EOS R1 so let's take a look at
the Canon EOS R5 Mark II leak
specifications and the red flags that I
discovered
I find that with every rumor there's
always some red flags that pop into my
head and I always learn to listen to
these red flags it doesn't mean that the
information is wrong or false it just is
a little bit of a warning light like
when you're driving your car you see a
Dashboard Light come up well it doesn't
mean that anything is significantly
wrong with your vehicle it just means
hey maybe we should pay attention to
this so the first red flag I have for
the Canon EOS R5 Mark II leak
specifications is dual CF Express card
slots the only Canon camera that I'm
aware of that has dual CF Express card
slots is a one series camera and that's
a Canon 1dx Mark III at DSLR announced
back well three years ago in January of
2020 here in 2023 we just got the
successor to that camera supposed to be
the R1 we haven't received it yet but in
late 2021 we did get the Canon EOS R3 a
camera that sells for 59.99 and you'd
expect a camera like this well it would
have dual safe Express type B card slots
right six thousand dollars five hundred
dollars less than the 1dx Mark III nope
it has one CF Express type B card slot
and one SD card card slot why would
Canon go ahead and put dual CF Express
card slots in a camera that costs about
two thousand dollars less and this is
one of those red flags to me that is
well I I just I have trouble believing
that Ken is going to put dual CF Express
type B card slots in the Canon EOS R5
especially if the R3 is going to be an
ongoing camera the second red flag is
the sensor a 61 megapixel sensor that's
while backside illuminated this sounds
very similar to what well the Sony R5
the a7r5 with a 61 megapixel sensor why
would Canon come out with a 61 megapixel
sensor it's a good 15 megapixels more
than the R1 the mark sorry not the R1
the R5 mark one at 45 megapixels and 45
megapixels is a very significant number
because to be able to produce 8K DCI you
need at least 45 megapixels on an aspect
ratio sensor that's three to two however
61 megapixels it's nothing significant
it's nothing significant for video and
Stills with the exception of well the
Sony R5 5 has a 61 megapixel sensor so
it's Canada's way of saying well okay
we're as good as Sony that doesn't sound
like Canon does it and this is why this
is a red flag to me it's the exact same
resolution as a Sony R5 but it doesn't
make sense why would Canon go ahead and
take the base resolution or the max
resolution all the way out from 45
megapixels to 61 just to match the a7r5
this is Canon they feel like they're the
king in that Sony that Sony is a
consumer electronics company they are
the king that's how they see themselves
so if I was Canon and I want to prove
that I was better than the Sony a7r5 I
wouldn't go 61 megapixels I'd go 62 at
the very least and why not go up to 65
to show that we're definitely better and
the third red flag is with that 61
megapixel they're capable of shooting 30
frames per second electronic 12 frames
per second mechanical 12 frames per
second mechanical well that's still a
lot the Sony a7r5 after all only does 10
frames per second at 6 61 megapixels but
that still is an awful lot of data if we
take a look at 30 frames per second
based off of the Mark 1 at a 45
megapixel sensor on average that gives
us if we held down the shutter button
for a second at 30 frames per second
that would give us well 1.5 gigabytes
per second now that number would go up
or down depending on what you're
shooting but essentially on average 1.5
gigabytes per second and today here in
2023 there isn't a single CF Express
type B card slot that can sustain a
write speed of over 1400 megabytes per
second well oh over 1500 megabytes per
second or 1.5 gigabytes per second and
yes I do understand that Kanika put in a
much better buffer a much faster buffer
a much larger buffer but that's the
domain of the Canon EOS R1 the 1 series
camera and this starts to we start to
make well exceptions and caveats for the
rumor to fit into place 30 frames per
second on a 61 megapixel sensored camera
well now the level of data that you're
pushing is so much more significant is
it doing 30 frames per second in jpeg or
compressed Raw still 30 frames per
second is an awful lot of data and while
it doesn't mean that this camera can't
do 31 or 30 frames per second at 61
megapixels raw it does mean that they
would have to beef up the specs an awful
lot and by adding more than just dual
image processors something else has to
go on such as a much better and faster
buffer which again we see normally at
the one series level the fourth red flag
for these leak specifications well
they're the video modes these are the
video modes I expected to see in the
Canon EOS R1 8k60 well certainly that's
plausible for the Canon use R5 Mark II
but to do over sample 4K at 24.25 50 and
60 frames per second as well as 100 and
120 frames per second that's definitely
bold and that's why we would need the
Dual digicx image processors but all
these resolutions and frame rates as
well as being able to do are you ready
for this 240 frames per second and 1080
to be able to do all of this in the R5
Mark II just blows my mind they're
impressive they truly are and to be able
to do that with a dual pixel autofocus
is some eight stops of Ibis to be able
to do all this in the R5 Mark II well
it's not that they're not plausible it's
just that this is what I expect to see
in the flagship model so what is left
for the R1 well the imagination starts
to take off I certainly think that 8K
120 frames per second is possible but
that when people like Mark job told me
that yeah there's no way the R1 isn't
going to do 12K 12K starts to seem well
plausible although I think 8K at 120
frames per second takes an awful lot of
data we can see this with the red B
Raptor doing AK at 120 requiring 650
gigabytes per second and the fifth red
flag has to do with overheat protection
and it's not as though the R5 Mark II is
hitting for the fences or swinging for
the fences if I say the idiom correctly
it's that well it seems like a bit of a
callback from the R5 with firmer 1.6
with firmware 1.6 on the Canon EOS R5
Mark 1 this camera is capable of
shooting 8K at 30 frames per second raw
8K over sampled 4K Unlimited in
temperatures up to 96 degrees Fahrenheit
or around 38 degrees Celsius that's
pretty bold what is the R5 Mark II leak
specifications have to say well in 8k
it's cable shooting and I quote at least
40 minutes and in 4k up to 60 minutes
I know for my own testing I've been able
to go for at least two two and a half
hours shooting 8K over sample 4K at 30
frames per second catalog free and 8K
raw 8K raw at 30 frames per second at 70
and 80 degrees without any overheating
whatsoever now you do have to constantly
press that record button because it only
goes for 30 minutes the R5 Mark II won't
have that 30 minute record limit so
there's that and the deaf director was
able to test in Texas Heat at 96 degrees
Fahrenheit or 38 degrees Celsius
8K raw and 8K over sample 4K without
overheating for an extended period of
time so the red flag here is that the R5
Mark II has well somewhat inferior
thermals when it should have better
after all the R5 Mark 1 had terrible
internals there are no heat pipes there
was no well copper plate between where
the sensor and the image processors were
directly to the Magnesium shell to
produce better well thermals and we've
seen that there are companies offering
to put in a copper plate in the camera
connecting it to the Shell that are able
to produce unlimited 8K video in studio
settings at around 70 degrees Fahrenheit
or 21 degrees Celsius so these certainly
seem like a step backwards over the sum
50 plus years on this planet I've
learned to listen to the red flags when
they pop into my head I'm going to pop
into my head I listen for more
information I'm waiting to see whether
that red flag is going to get bigger and
blow up or whether it's going to
dissipate into the Mist as not being an
issue whatsoever and with these leaked
specifications as we've gone some two
months after we got them yeah the red
flags are starting to grow it growing
from around two or three when the when
the leak specifications came out to the
sum five that we have today and really
the sixth one is we haven't had any
validation previously when Canon rumors
came up with something bold like this
and let's go back to January 27 2020
within four weeks we had further updates
to the specifications then five weeks
after the or the leak specifications
Canon rumors provided or Canon
themselves Canon Japan provided a
development announcement then some five
weeks after that Canon Australia
provided an update talking about how the
Canon R5 is king the king is back and
then at NAB 2020 can really let all the
video specs out of the bag shocking and
surprising that yeah this camera can do
8K raw it can do 4K 120 it has Ibis it's
a truly amazing camera so no validation
in two months that's definitely a red
flag that's number six I really do hope
these are the the specifications for the
Canon EOS R5 Mark II even if they're
both and some of the things that I
haven't mentioned such as having a
full-size HDMI port two USB ports but
more importantly a variable angle LCD
very similar to that found in the Sony
a7r5 these Lake specifications seem
incredible the only thing I don't like
is well The Thermals the 40 minutes in
8k and 60 Minutes in 4k they seem like a
bit of a setback from what we have the
Canon EOS R5 with firmware 1.6 in
conclusion there are essentially three
possibilities one that these Sleek
specifications from Canon rumors on
November the 25th 2022 are accurate that
we're going to see the R5 Mark II
announce in the second quarter of 2023
and my belief would be if it does come
if it does get announced it'll be the
same price in US dollars as the R5 Mark
1 although a rest of the world you will
see price increases depending on how
much your currency has depreciated
against the US dollar the second option
is that well these rumors are completely
false there's nothing accurate about
them we might not even get the Canon use
R5 Mark II announced here in 2022 and
the third option is well a combination
of the two but we are going to get the
Canon EOS R5 it is going to be announced
in the second quarter of 2023 and go on
sale in the third quarter for around the
same price as the Canon EOS R5 mark one
and the reason for that price being the
same not only did they do it for the R6
Mark II but the US dollar has been very
strong against all the major Global
currencies up some 30 against the
Japanese Yen 2.6 percent against the
Canadian dollar around five percent
against the Euro and about 8.2 percent
against the Japanese not the Japanese
pound but the British pound it will
definitely be an improvement over the R5
Mark 1 but will it get 8K 60 will it get
8K over sample 4K all the way up to 120
frames per second we'll get 30 frames
per second on a 61 megapixel backside
illuminated sensor do you think these
leak specifications are accurate the
lack of validation doesn't have you
doubting them in any way whatsoever the
main reason I'm putting out this video
is not only to update you on what's
happened since we got those leaked
specifications but also to kind of
rattle the rumor tree sometimes when we
put out rumors like this we rattle
sources we rattled information and that
shakes information free it's just like
shaking The Apple Tree in September
you're going to have a few apples fall
on your head and hopefully in the coming
weeks and days we will get information
showing up on Canada rumors and others
and maybe even this channel we did this
earlier well I should say later in 2022
on the Canon EOS R6 Mark II where I
started talking about the Canon EOS R5
Mark II and then within a couple of
weeks Hannah Rivers came out with this
information and keep in mind this is a
CR2 it's not a cr1 or a cr0 it is coming
from a known source that has a very good
track record but again when it comes to
rumors there's it's not like you're
getting it from one person who has their
hands on to the information it's kind of
like broken telephones sometimes there
can be as many as 10 people from the
source of the information all the way to
the source that provides us with the
information we can see this with the
Canon EOS R6 Mark II when I said it had
well a backside illuminated stack sensor
the source that I had was a very
reliable very trusted Source that's been
very accurate about 95 percent of the
time but as is always the case with
rumors they are rumors what do you think
do you think we're going to get the
Canon use R5 Mark II announced in the
second quarter of 2023 and which
specifications would you build into that
camera and of course which
specifications do you think Canon is
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