This is by far the best video I have seen for setting up the Canon R5. Very well done and so informative!

I just purchased an R5. I'm so thankful I found your video. It helped me navigate through a very overwhelming menu. Thank you so much for all the time and dedication you put in to providing this information. It was a real blessing!

Best video I've seen on R5 video settings. Thanks.

Extremely good she is, i think she solved one of my biggest blurry pics problems.Great teacher

This was so, so helpful! Really made my first day with my R5 so much less intimidating (and much more exciting). Thank you for sharing with us!

Best video for setting up the R5. Clear and so easy to follow. Thanks you Janine.

Thank you so much for the information! I just purchased a R5 and will be using this video to set it up!

I've just ordered the R5. This guide is just what I was looking for. Thanks Janine.

Muy agradecido 🙏🏽🌎

Have been using my new Canon R5 more and it is a big struggle as I switched from Nikon D500. This video is actually very informative and one of the best. I am going back and forth on you tube to different speakers and she has helped incredibly.

Great video, thank you! The multifunction button customization to switch from stills to video was genius!

Excellent video. I discovered that setting my video settings and then registering them to C3 means when the red button is pressed, the camera switches to video based on C3 settings.

It is a very heavy video with a lot of good content. Thanks for doing this video.

Been struggling with switching between Eye Tracking and Point in a fast manner. Your method is genius. Thanks!

This was really helpful. My wife shoots with the R6 and most all of these settings are able to be set on her camera.

Excellent information, easily explained, just waiting on my R5 to arrive now.

Thank you Janine and Sabine. You hepled me to set up my R5 and R3. They work perfecly now. In fact so good that my buddys are also seting up thei cameras based on your advises. Hope to visit your safari area some time. Thanks again.

Great video and you asked one question on setting a button to control the iso setting, which can be set only by the multi-function button on the front of the camera.

Just got R5, lucky found out this video, I saw I knew enough information to set up. But, I still have so much info to learn from you. Thanks again.

you have a really lovely speaking style :)

Just watched this to help me set up my new R5 with the 100-500 so off so thank you so much for making this so easy to follow 👍

Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge and experience. A game changer for me...

Whew...thanks so much! A thorough and detailed, well-explained video. A relief to see this!

Thank you Janine - you patiently explained these settings so well I am able to transmit them to the Canon R. Excellent..

Fantastic help and probably the best one on the R5 across KZfaq, thank-you. I now have my camera fairly similar to your settings less a few but you explained it so clearly with thought and passion. Another great KZfaq so all I have to do is book a safari now😂😂📸👏👏👏🇬🇧❤️👍❤️❤️❤️🤓

Excellent preparation and execution for this video. I appreciate your effort here, well done!

Thank you for providing all the details of your settings and information about options. Excellent video, extremely useful tips

Super review. Using the * button for Eye Focus mode is a great idea. I had been using * to switch from the usual One Point focus to the tighter Spot focus, but this is much better. Here’s a suggestion to consider. As I shoot nearly exclusively in Manual/Auto ISO mode, it is seldom necessary to change ISO. So, rather than assigning the new third dial to set ISO, I program it to adjust exposure compensation and the lens dial (on RF lenses or the EF to RF adapter) to ISO. I use either the latter or the screen on those rare occasions when a manual ISO setting is required. This way, each of the three easily accessible dials programs one of the principal adjustments. Main dial for shutter speed and large dial for aperture (as we’re all accustomed to using on the DLSRs) and new, third dial for exposure compensation. The Set button is reserved for returning the focus point to dead center, a method which, for me, is quicker than fumbling with the joystick.

Learned a lot of useful information that I can use in my bird photography. Thank You.

Superb instructional video Janine. I’ve just purchased the R5 and finding my way around the camera . Love your Instagram portfolio also. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Some great tips and advice on settings, cameras are so complex these days, tutorials like this are a blessing. I think I will be a bit starstruck when I see you all in person on safari, as I watch so many of your tutorials!

Comprehensive and clear advice. Very helpful

This is so helpful - comprehensive, articulate, every choice is explained, the best "set up" video I've come across and I've watched quite a few so far. Thank you!

I could not find a video to guide me to set up the new R7 - although different in many ways, it helped to get started - now I have to see what result we can get with it. Thanks for the detailed explanations.

You have lovely voice and perfect pace...

Greetings from Turkey, nice explanation, thank you, I made the settings even though I do not know English.

Great Canon Camera Vlog, thanks for sharing

Excellent video,. I bought the R6 a few weeks ago but I returned it because for birds and wildlife the 20mpx were too small when I cropped the images, now I'm waiting for the R5 with the Sigma 60-600mm, 45 MPX is like the bread and butter for birding and wildlife photography, Thank you very much for your time and for sharing it ..

This is a brilliant informative video, I have spent a lot of time configuring my new R5 already but I will rethink some items after watching this! Thanks very much

thank you I have the R6 and learnt quite a bit

Awesome video. Really helpful. Very well presented. I took use of a majority of your settings . Keep up the good work! Thanks.

Really great tutorial. Thank you so much!

This was great! I love that Canon uses many of the same menus on most of their cameras and I can use some of these settings on my Canon. Thanks so much!

Perfectly explained and presented !

Fascinating exercise Huw, personally, to my eye the digital JPEG was the most black & white of the three! certainly more contrast in the digital. I prefer to take colour and change any picture that doesn't appear to be working then I will convert it to mono in software, where you can even add a red filter. But I understand you initial comments about black & white being not that, so often my pictures have a tendency to have a green hue when printed, but at the end of the day we all see colour or lack there of differently, so if you are happy with the results that's what matters!

Thanks for the great and detail video. I have been using my R5 since last August. My setting on the R5 is pretty much the same as yours. Having two Back Button focus buttons is definitely a must.

Using the M-Fn button for switching from photo to video is awesome!! I love it!! The R5C has a physical switch and takes a few seconds to start but on the R5 it's instant 8K!! Another cool trick is using THREE Back Button Auto Focus. I forget the name of the genius KZfaqr who figured it out to give proper credit to but I've been using it for a year now and it's great! AF ON=Zone focus, *=Spot focus, and AF POINT SELECT=Eye Detection ON (the 3rd button HAS to be set for Eye Detection ON but the first two buttons can be set however you wish).

absolutely brilliant and fabulous!!!!!

Simply the best! I will play with it in the next couple of weeks.

Great information Janine! Thank you.

Excellent video with lots of information. Thanks. I wish I had this camera during my visit to South Africa in March of 2020.

Thank you Janine, You are awesome ! It Is not possible to set full frame on video mode? Thank you for your answer. (I will come on March 2023 to Chobe Hotel - Hope to see you there )

Hey Janine, thanks so much for this video! I (finally, after much saving) got my R5, RF100-500, 2x TC and other bits and pieces yesterday; this video is gold! After many years of “normal” focussing, I’m going to try back button for both eye AF and normal AF, on an upcoming trip: what could possibly go wrong!🤣 Looking forward to some more keepers. Cheers, Mark.

Really helpful video thanks. In particular the transformational suggestion for dual spot and eye detection focus with the * button, which I also never use (d). Just tried it out with a barn owl at dawn and it's great. Thank you very much for this

Thanks, quite informative and also of use to R6 users. A couple of comments: You mentioned the phenomenon that the animal eye tracking autofocus is less accurate on some wild animals than on birds and wondered about the reason. As I understand it Canon used domestic pets to "train" the autofocus system and their technical marketing material actually states that it is optimised for cats, dogs and birds. So the less an animal looks like a cat, dog or bird the more the autofocus is likely to struggle. I have e.g. found it to be "less accurate" on horses, although it still works surprisingly well. This brings me to a suggestion you may want to give try when the system struggles to identify the face/eye or locks onto the "wrong" eye: I have found that it is possible to use the touch and drag autofocus to "guide" the system to the correct subject (a little orange circle appears that you drag to the subject and when you release your finger the system locks onto that object). Also when it identifies multiple eyes you can use the joystick to select which one you want to track. Lastly (and I might be wrong) it looks like when you selected the drive mode you selected High Speed Continuous Shooting and not High Speed Continuous Shooting Plus. Just be aware that with the former the maximum burst rate is 8 shots/sec. For 12 shots/sec you need to select the Plus mode. Thanks again for an interesting video.

Thank you so much for this video 🙏🏻

Thank You appreciate the information

Thank you! This is very helpful!

Thank you so much! Extremely helpful and thank you for sharing!

Very very helpful. Thank you.

Excellent as usual, not sure if you have a different microphone? Not such good sound on this tutorial (in my opinion)

Excellent video. Thank you!

Janine very interesting, for the photo part we are on the same settings, I will try your suggestions for the video, hello Marco from Italy-Rome

Tremendously helpful, informative, and well-presented video! Even for my R6 :-). Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your knowledge!

great helpful video - helped me loads

Thanks, Janine I will definitely be coming back to this video when I've got more used to my R6. I will look out for instructions on the R6 from Charl too. I had to buy it without trying it due to covid but was pleased to find it similar to my old EOS. Hope to see you soon.

A very intelligent video.

Thanks!!

Love Pangolin’s instructional videos. So we’ll done and helpful. Would be great if could do a tutorial on R5 settings for video. And, thanks for the video vignettes posted.

Thank you so much ma’am 😊🙏🏻

Very clear and useful indeed 🙏

Fantastic video, thank you so much. Just FYI, you can set 5 different green menus.

Superb

Very good. I programmed some camera functions I hadn't thought about before It's a complicated beast. However I love my M-fn button which is programed to switch c1-c3 which are set to c1=1.6 crop in Tv, C2= Av in FF, C3= M with auto ISO. The 4th press puts the cam back in whatever the normal mode is set for. My control ring on the lens is set to select AF mode as I occasionally like zone for BIF on a white sky. Great work. Love your vids.

very good video thank you

I have also used this great video to set up my Canon R

Excellent and crisp 👍🙏

First time on your FB Site. Very well presented in an easily understood way. Video next

Perfect presentation - Thank you so much - rdh

I just purchased an R5 and performed the 1.5.2 firmware upgrade. I am using your video to set it up for wildlife. As an inholder in Denali National Park and also scheduled to travel to Africa (Botswana) this winter, I am lookin forward to using the camera. Your video for me is a lot to digest and it requires a bit of pausing and sorting things out but I am anxious to head out and try it. I too have L lens that require the RF adapter and wanted to know if that requires any special considerations. Thanks so much for the video. Living in Alaska is a photographer's dream location. Especially for wildlife. I greatly appreciate your effort.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Wonderful tutorial. Can you consider doing a separate video on how you setup AF for video? Thanks so much.

Best settings. thanx.

I have learned so much and have printed the transcript mainly because I have hearing aids., and I'm old. However, I do not understand why one would give up almost 50% of their megapixels using the Crop aspect just to zoom in a little. One can use the magnification button in the VF, IMHO.

Great video Janine! I am definitely going make a few tweaks to my camera. I actually bought the R5 for the 45 mp not for video. I'm sure I'm not the only ones. In fact I don't really care about the video at all. I decided to make use of the custom functions making C1 animal eye detection and C2 people. I personally choose to do this so I don't have to go to the menu at all. For me, it makes switching from animals to people or a more manual mode very quick.

This video is chock full of great advice and extremely valuable in setting up the camera for shooting wildlife. However the presenter moves through the menus and sub menus at lightning speed indicating she is keenly aware of where everything is located. However, for many viewers I suspect that menu familiarity is not always at the same level meaning that the viewer has to stop and replay some sections frame by frame in order to follow which menu and sub menu the presenter has jumped to. So a 28 minute video now takes at least twice as long or perhaps even longer. Moving from menu to menu a little slower would enhance the flow and make for easier and quicker learning. Otherwise, a great job and very informative!

Its an amazing camera ..I love it.. ❤ Good One mam

Well done and very helpful, thank you

interesting take on the cannon R5, I am a Nikon shooter, and interesting to compare the two, ONE other point re: the back button focus; on my Nikons, the GRIP and BODY AF-ON switch/ system can be activated independently, ie have the afl/ael button on the body OR the grip activate focus, and the shutter NOT, OR to have one shutter button (body) operate 'normally' despite the AF-ON being activated on the grip ie: this setting ONLY activates back button AF ON the GRIP, NOT the BODY!! - one thing to definately be mindfull of, esp. if you change from portrait to landscape orientation often, or as the subject warrents it.

Thanks for the video .I have been using the R5 for some time for bird photography and have almost everything set as you described. Except the Raw is set to C.raw as there is no noticabe difference except for file size.

Really great...thanks a lot...greetings from Rome

Thank you for a very informative tutorial. I use in a similar manner but have the back button af button to tracking the middle one is set to animal +eye tracking. The depth of preview button on the front of the camera body adjacent to the lens is set to single point (spot). This allows me to cover all three shooting situations very quickly. Thank you again for all the wonderful content. 👍👍

Excellent explanation from someone who lives with wildlife photography on a daily basis. Just one comment. I have picked up from another birding site that indicated that there is a misconception with CRAW, which in fact gives you exactly the same resolution as a RAW file with the big advantage that it is has almost half the size. Any comment on that?

19:38 good to know to disable GPS of photos so endangered species can't be tracked. I own a Canon 5D Mark III. I don't photograph wild life. But I do photograph still life like flowers n foliage. I find this settings video to be comprehensive and thorough. I find videos about the most recent Canon cameras to be helpful in my knowledge and understanding of photography.

can you provide similar tutorial on settings for R6 too. It may not be very different from R5 though !! Enjoyed the video..

Another easy to understand review from a classy lady, so much better than many of the clowns (Fro) out there!

great !

I have set the * button but the animal tracking only stays active whilst the button is held down. Is this correct? Love everything else. Very helpful and great advice

Hi thanks for the vlog on settings it works a treat on my R5. I have found one thing I recently took a series of shots of a couple of Zebra at our local wildlife park. I got great results but the poor camera got very confused using the eye recognition system it must be the patterns around the eye.

good one, tks Janine