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Canon EOS R5 C

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Mirrorless camera

A mirrorless camera by Canon with a 45-megapixel full frame sensor, announced in 2022. The R5's sensor in a fan-cooled video body, without in-body stabilisation.

MakerCanon
MountCanon RF
SensorFull frame, 36 x 24mm, crop factor 1.0
Resolution45 megapixels
Stabilisationnone in the body; use stabilised lenses for slow shutter speeds
Announced2022
Typemirrorless camera

Sensor size

Full frame36 × 24 mmAPS-C23.5 × 15.6 mmAPS-C crops 1.5×
Full frame against APS-C, the next size down.

Focal lengths on it

Full frame is the reference size: lenses frame as marked. A lens made for APS-C works with the camera in crop mode, framing 1.5 times tighter at fewer megapixels.

Lenses for it

Also fits, with a crop

Made for a smaller sensor: the camera crops to it.

Adapting lenses

EF and EF-S lenses from Canon DSLRs work fully, autofocus included, through Canon's EF-EOS R adapter. Canon licenses only some third-party autofocus lenses for RF, mostly APS-C ones so far.

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