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Canon has released new firmware updates for the EOS R5 II and EOS R1. The updates main­ly expand Action Pri­or­i­ty mode and add sev­er­al improve­ments for both stills and video shooting.

Autofocus Improvements

• Action Pri­or­i­ty mode now sup­ports Amer­i­can foot­ball.
• The cam­era should bet­ter rec­og­nize and track play­ers wear­ing hel­mets and shoul­der pads.
• The mode pre­vi­ous­ly supported: 
  • Soc­cer
  • Bas­ket­ball
  • Vol­ley­ball

Improved Register People Priority

Canon has also improved Reg­is­ter Peo­ple Pri­or­i­ty, a mode that pri­or­i­tizes the detec­tion of spe­cif­ic reg­is­tered people.

Recog­ni­tion should now be more reli­able in sit­u­a­tions involving:

• Pro­file views
• Blurred or par­tial­ly obscured faces
• Small sub­jects in the frame
• Chil­dren

Pre-Burst Now Assignable to a Button

• Pre-burst shoot­ing mode can now be assigned to a cus­tom but­ton.
• This makes it eas­i­er to turn the fea­ture on and off.

For me per­son­al­ly, this is the most impor­tant change in the new firmware ver­sion. I’ve now assigned the pre-record­ing switch to the aper­ture but­ton on the front of the camera.

Video Improvements

The updates also add new video fea­tures, some of which come from the EOS R6 V:

• Four cus­tom white bal­ance slots
• White bal­ance switch­ing via a cus­tom button
• Prod­uct Demo mode as a menu option (The cam­era dis­ables face detec­tion when an object is held in front of it)
• Elec­tron­ic lev­el and grid­line over­lays while recording
• False col­or dis­play even when Log Assist view is enabled

What’s next: Content Authenticity System

Canon plans to intro­duce an Authen­tic­i­ty Imag­ing Sys­tem based on the C2PA standard.

• It stores meta­da­ta about the ori­gin of images.
• The goal is to help news orga­ni­za­tions ver­i­fy the authen­tic­i­ty of cam­era footage.
• The sys­tem is designed to coun­ter­act manip­u­la­tion and AI-gen­er­at­ed images.
• Ini­tial­ly, it will be avail­able to news orga­ni­za­tions in Europe, the Mid­dle East, and Africa (inter­est­ing­ly, the Amer­i­c­as were not mentioned).
• For now, the EOS R1 and EOS R5 II will be supported.

Canon test­ed the sys­tem in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Reuters, which con­firmed the reli­able gen­er­a­tion of authen­ti­cat­ed prove­nance data.

Accord­ing to Canon, the fea­ture will ini­tial­ly be avail­able to news agen­cies in Europe, the Mid­dle East, and Africa. Canon states that it part­nered with Reuters for ini­tial test­ing, and the news agency “con­firmed that authen­ti­cat­ed prove­nance data can be reli­ably gen­er­at­ed.” For now, the fea­ture will also only be avail­able on cer­tain mod­elsCanon will zukün­ftig ein Authen­tic­i­ty Imag­ing Sys­tem ein­führen, das auf dem C2PA-Stan­dard basiert.

Availability

The new firmware is now avail­able for down­load direct­ly from Canon here:

• Canon EOS R1
• Canon EOS R5 Mark II