[davidmanze]

If one is going to make some weird 8K art house movie with half hour takes, or a nature documentary in the Sahara where you need to film in long takes in the hope of capturing something worthwhile, maybe a (single?) EOS R5 is not the right equipment.

How I love camera forums .... (when things go adrift) ...

....... not many posts ago we were boasting all sorts of miraculous specifications for the R5 ....... all formats ..... all frame rates ..... all AF modes etc ..... and were bedazzled until our heads were spinning with disbelief  .... finally our prayers are answered ... praise be ...!!

A couple of R5 pre-reviews later and a few overheating sensors ...... and the perfection bubble is burst ....... and as the smoke clears we come back to reality with a bump .... 

 Canon didn't come clean here ..... while the pre-hype was in full swing ..... they should have given out the caveats as well as the headline news ..... 
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"If one is going to make some weird 8K art house movie with half hour takes, or a nature documentary in the Sahara" 
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 .... or any sort of wedding ...... or anything such as vlogging/sports coverage etc...... that lasts more than 30 minutes even ....... ??
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 Canon should have put a fan in it ..... like Panasonic did ...... and made it switchable in the menu for when you don't need it ..... and that would have been that! ......

  I now realize "Canon didn't want to let go of it's pro video camera protection at all" .... but was playing it as if it was ..... Canon hasn't changed it's protection philosophy ... point !!.....

  they hadn't dropped the dropped the 30 minute limit  (the legislation terminated in 2018) ....... and they hadn't resolved the over-heating issues ....... 

Sony has !!