Canon 5DS & 5DS-R Technical Overview

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Canon 5DS & 5DS-R Technical Overview

From Tony Northrup at Stunning Digital Photography

By Randall Gross

Technology • February 2015 • Views: 1,279

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8 comments

Thanos Feb 6, 2015 2:14:16pm

Exciting, but also highly disappointing…

Thanos Feb 6, 2015 2:17:16pm

Your amazon code thing isn’t working right…

Charles Johnson Feb 6, 2015 2:32:53pm

re: #2 Thanos

Your amazon code thing isn’t working right…

Those are shortened links that don’t contain an ASIN code. It wasn’t designed to handle those. But I shall investigate.

Charles Johnson Feb 6, 2015 2:56:51pm

Fixed!

goddamnedfrank Feb 6, 2015 3:37:27pm

re: #1 Thanos

Exciting, but also highly disappointing…

Agree.

Native iso range is 100 to 6400, one and two thirds stops less than the Nikon D810. Losing the high end is bad enough, but not being able to shoot at ISO 64 reduces your long exposure capability without having to add ND filters. Adding ND filters is a less than ideal solution here because the older Canon lenses most Canon users already have don’t possess the optical resolution capability to pass through 50 MP worth of information. Adding more glass, regardless of the quality, isn’t what you want to do. Anybody who gets this body will need to buy all new high end L series (ideally prime) glass to take full advantage of it. Even then the optical aberrations towards the edges may well rob the sensor of information it might otherwise be able to resolve, even when stopped down.

Its shortcomings with video don’t matter to me, video should be an afterthought with a camera like this.

Anyway, it’s interesting and a coup for Canon that they’ve been able to cram this many MP into a 35mm sensor. I still think however that it may have skipped over the data quality sweet spot in this format. It seems like they’re going after the medium format digital market. If in the end they can get companies like Phase One to be a little more competitive in their pricing that will be a good thing.

Skip Intro Feb 6, 2015 4:19:17pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

Losing the high end is bad enough, but not being able to shoot at ISO 64 reduces your long exposure capability without having to add ND filters.

You can expand the range down to ISO 50 and up to ISO 12800. The big disappointment to me, other than no ISOs above 12800, is that the dynamic range is no better than that of the 5d MkIII.

Nikon still has the edge here, and if I didn’t have so much Canon gear I’d switch. Also mirrorless cameras from Sony and Fuji have really come up with some great innovations that neither Canon nor Nikon have. All they lack, in Sony’s case, is great glass.

Thanos Feb 6, 2015 6:11:03pm

I’m really thinking that I am headed mirror-less as soon as the lens assortments grow a bit.

Tsuga Feb 6, 2015 7:01:52pm

Sony also uses lossy compression on its RAW files, resulting in artifacts, and its firmware updates basically root your computer. Intriguing and attractive cameras with some real issues for now…

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