Canon EOS R1 likely before summer, R5 Mark II later

I think the people at Canon aren't crazy, and know very well what they are doing. The R1 is a camera for the professional market. So it will have to be possible to shoot handheld with it, something that isn't the case with 45 megapixels, or you have to have a very steady hand. In the manual of the Canon R5 (45 megapixels) it says use a sturdy tripod. I can't yet see a press photographer running across the street with a 45 megapixel camera and tripod😂😂. So I think we've had our fill with 33 megapixels in the R1. More is absolutely not necessary either. My heartfelt wish for the R1 is, leave the eye-controlled AF out, what a disaster that is. And for the pixel fetishists, buy the expected R5 Mark II.

Where do you get the wisdom from, Lotte, that you can only use the R5 with a tripod? Really nonsense.
Elja, is there any word yet on the specifications of the R5 Mark II? I'm quite curious about that.

Can you also show where this is stated in the manual?
it is indeed mentioned several times but always with functions where multiple images are made.

Hi Nando

It didn't work pleasantly for me, it drove me completely crazy. so I turned that function off.

Hi Guest

I no longer have the R5, but I think it was somewhere in the first 5 pages of the user manual.

@Lotte, I don't have the R5 myself, but a good friend of mine does. I've already seen a great many photos from him and he almost always photographs handheld. His photos are razor-sharp. It is partly thanks to that sharpness that I also switched to a mirrorless camera at the end of 2022. For budgetary reasons, that became the R7.
Also for me, this is the first time that I've read a complaint about the R5 like the one you describe. I find that unpleasant for you, but you should nevertheless first look for the cause in yourself and in the camera's settings. Also check whether it happens with RF lenses or specifically when using EF lenses. If the EF lenses are from a brand other than Canon, problems can arise. So I say: CAN. That does not mean that this is always the case.
So first try to find out what the possible cause is. Do you know someone who also has an R5? Then compare the sharpness of the photos taken with your R5 and those taken with the other person's. Also compare the settings, such as IBIS, for example.
If you have another person take photos with your R5 and they are sharp, then the cause may nevertheless lie with you.

Hi dear Donald

I sold my R5 after 2 years of not using it, brand new in the box. I only use my R3.

Hi Stefanie

Every camera brand and model has its good and less good sides. That also applies to the man/woman behind the camera. With every camera you can take good and bad
Photos. There are sometimes nice articles on canon Rumors, this time again.

Hi Nando

I think that the more resolution, the tighter it gets. In general, I see more bad 45 mg pixel photos passing by than bad 25 mg pixel photos.

@Nando, it is also a question of whether you really need more and more pixels. It is as you say, the more pixels, the sooner a minuscule movement becomes visible. After all, more pixels = more details.
I can imagine that a (super)macro photo benefits from a very high resolution, because that gives more details. There may be other options where that is useful (astrophotography?) as well.
However, there are also some disadvantages. The more pixels you put on a sensor, the smaller they have to be. So the individual pixels can receive less light. We know what the consequence of that is.

I haven't had the number of pixels on my list of requirements for a very long time, it was important right at the beginning of digital but now the 26 mp I have are perfectly adequate and I actually see more as a burden, I hardly notice it but need more memory cards and larger hard drives to store it, the whole pixel density story that Nando just explained to me is just another reason for me to (finally) switch to mirrorless

@Stefanie, I don't think you have to make significant sacrifices when switching from DSLR to mirrorless. Take, for example, the mirror flipping up and down, which creates extra noise and causes minimal vibrations.
The prism viewfinder (OVF) of a DSLR gives much less information directly in the viewfinder. The electronic viewfinder (EVF) therefore gives you more information, such as a histogram, before you actually take the photo.
There are quite a few more features that aren't possible with a DSLR and nevertheless turn out to be useful.
I suspect it's a bit of a 'fear of the unknown'. And yes, the wallet also plays a role, of course. I think an R5 body is still cheaper than the latest version 1D body.