Canon EOS R5 Mark II Review: A 45MP Stacked Sensor Makes It Canon's Do-Everything Flagship

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Canon EOS R5 Mark II is the camera you buy when you don’t want to choose. Landscapes, weddings, birds, sports, 8K video. It handles all of it, at a level that only stacked-sensor flagships could reach a few years ago.

The original R5 from 2020 was already a big hit. It also had a reputation problem: 8K video that overheated. The Mark II, released in mid-2024, fixes that and changes the sensor underneath. It’s a 45MP back-side illuminated stacked CMOS chip, so the camera reads out much faster. That one change ripples through everything else the camera does.

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Canon EOS R5 Mark II Review: A 45MP Stacked Sensor Makes It Canon's Do-Everything Flagship