Canon R5 Announced with 8k

The DP poster mentioned at the beginning got into a huge fight with the EOS HD proprietor because he claimed that his R5 wasn't overheating. Reid called him all sort of invectives and kicked him off the forum.

In the video above, there was no documented overheating. At least, EOS HD tests had a temp gun.
 
Apparently, there's also a precedent in the printer manufacturing.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story...rammed-failure-date-for-non-hp-ink-cartridges

From four years ago.

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday September 17, 2016 @09:34PM from the armageddon-for-ink dept.

An anonymous reader quotes some harsh allegations from Myce.com:

Thousands of HP printers around the world started to show error messages on the same day, the 13th of September... HP printers with non-HP cartridges started to show the error message, "One or more cartridges appear to be damaged. Remove them and replace them with new cartridges"... When [Dutch online retailer 123ink] emailed their customers asking them if they wanted to check if their printer also had issues, they received replies from more than 1,000 customers confirming the issue...

Consumers who complained to HP were told the error was caused by using non-HP cartridges. A day later HP withdrew that statement and explained the issues were a side effect of a firmware update, [but] printers without any internet access started to reject non-HP cartridges. Therefore it's very unlikely that a firmware update caused the issues and the only other logical explanation is that HP programmed a date in its firmware on which non-HP cartridges would no longer be accepted.
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So, there's a new fight brewing on the R5 front. Tony Northrup did some testing while quoting that Chinese tear-down dude. And he offered a screen grab from EOS HD. Naturally, Reid replied, "Why aren't you giving me any credit? I did all the work". Northrup, "I didn't see your work".

On top of that, Reid is openly disgusted with Canon, while Chelsea Northrup is claiming to be switching to Canon. And not just any Canon, but R5 specifically. And the links to some discounts work too.

Caveat emptor indeed.
 
DLD said:
So, there's a new fight brewing on the R5 front. Tony Northrup did some testing while quoting that Chinese tear-down dude. And he offered a screen grab from EOS HD. Naturally, Reid replied, "Why aren't you giving me any credit? I did all the work". Northrup, "I didn't see your work".

On top of that, Reid is openly disgusted with Canon, while Chelsea Northrup is claiming to be switching to Canon. And not just any Canon, but R5 specifically. And the links to some discounts work too.

Caveat emptor indeed.
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popcorn anyone?

while they are discussing I'm on the way to the R5 pay-off
 
DLD said:
So, there's a new fight brewing on the R5 front. Tony Northrup did some testing while quoting that Chinese tear-down dude. And he offered a screen grab from EOS HD. Naturally, Reid replied, "Why aren't you giving me any credit? I did all the work". Northrup, "I didn't see your work".

On top of that, Reid is openly disgusted with Canon, while Chelsea Northrup is claiming to be switching to Canon. And not just any Canon, but R5 specifically. And the links to some discounts work too.

Caveat emptor indeed.
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Andrew Reid, Tony Northrup, Chelsea Northrup... ...People pay far too much attention to these amateurs. I'd like to think people on this forum are better than that.
 
Liam Hall said:
Andrew Reid, Tony Northrup, Chelsea Northrup... ...People pay far too much attention to these amateurs. I'd like to think people on this forum are better than that.
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Never heard of Andrew Reid. Only reason I've even heard of 'The Northrup's' is because of people on forums talking about them. Are any of them actual working professionals, outside of making videos for YouTube?
 
Run&Gun said:
Never heard of Andrew Reid. Only reason I've even heard of 'The Northrup's' is because of people on forums talking about them. Are any of them actual working professionals, outside of making videos for YouTube?
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Huh? Does it matter?

Would I shoot with the camera because Roger Deakins gave it a good review? (No.)

They're just making technical analyses - who cares about their shooting? And I don't care about their subjective evaluation.

All I care about is whether or not the camera can work for MY needs. If it could shoot 4K60p without overheating, it would be an option for me, even without 8K or 4KHQ or 4K120p.

I still hold out a little hope that they could fix it for 4k60p because I already own Canon lenses and it will cost me to replace them in E-mount for the A7SIII
 
They are good for the community.

Online personalities are necessary to push companies and spread information otherwise many of us will continue to be negatively affected by corporate antics.
 
The reason I ask if they have real world experience actually shooting in real world conditions with real world equipment for real world clients, then their opinions/evaluations can carry more weight(i.e: they actually know what they're talking about instead of just regurgitating press releases and spec sheet info, trying to get clicks/likes). You need to be able to draw your own conclusions from available information and data in all its various forms. I'm not just going to buy something, because someone on the internet, regardless of who it is, says to. But if I'm going through reviews and evaluations of some piece of equipment and one of them is, for example, Matt Allard and one is Tony Northrup, the information that Matt is giving out is probably a lot more relevant for me.
 
NorBro said:
R&G, you know how the world works.

Not everyone has to sling a camera over their shoulder.
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NorBro said:
They are good for the community.

Online personalities are necessary to push companies and spread information otherwise many of us will continue to be negatively affected by corporate antics.
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I'm not trying to say all of these people are all bad or don't provide anything useful to "the community". Obviously, some are just out for clicks($) and some are really trying to be helpful and some are varying degrees of in-between.
 
Tony's pro resume is on his site. More important than his photo resume is his achievement - 1.4M subscribers. Yes, it's a different business than shooting photography or video but he is more of a pundit these days than a photog.

Andrew Reid has arguably the worst reputation - well deserved too - of anyone even mentioned on the DVXUser.

Both of the above names make a living by selling "how to" videos (Tony and Chelsea) and LUT's (Reid) and getting a cut of the product links to the retail sites.

In the case of R5, however, Andrew did most of the work (and gave credit to the Chinese R5 tear-down video), while Tony (allegedly) did some testing but heavily ripped off EOS HD.

There are a lot of gear reviewers around now. Some develop solid reputation, others are little more than personalities.

PS. To those to dismiss Tony and Chelsea, I think he drives an 8-series BMW. (could be a 6) In other words, personalities are allowed to make a living too.
 
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