Canon R5 Announced with 8k

Liam Hall said:
You can't tell from this crappy jpg upload but the R5 in normal 4K mode cuts perfectly fine with C500 MKII as a B Cam for interviews. More than enough resolution, particularly if most of it is blurred like mine normally are LOL.

Would be great to see Clog2/3 for their extra dynamic range, but I don't think it's going to be too painful to match these cameras.

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Finally, some skin tones- thanks Liam, looks nice!


Hey NorBro, I thought Jones Beach was your testing ground- what, no bikini skin tone tests??? :happy:

Maybe Abe can be talent wrangler?
 
Liam Hall said:
You can't tell from this crappy jpg upload but the R5 in normal 4K mode cuts perfectly fine with C500 MKII as a B Cam for interviews. More than enough resolution, particularly if most of it is blurred like mine normally are LOL.
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Looks great. That C500ii is gorgeous. Everything I've seen from it looks great

But I suppose if the R5 gets c-log 2/3 it may be indistinguishable? The highlight out the window is the only hiccup I notice in the comparison
 
groveChuck said:
Finally, some skin tones- thanks Liam, looks nice!


Hey NorBro, I thought Jones Beach was your testing ground- what, no bikini skin tone tests??? :happy:

Maybe Abe can be talent wrangler?
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Robert Moses! But I mostly film in non-crowded areas.

Picked up a new toy recently...future proofing...but with EF to keep my options open. :happy::happy::happy:

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I have a lot of test footage but I rarely ever post it as how many lakes and beaches can someone watch, but towards the end of this video I am touching the screen to track the birds. They don't move much so that may not help, but at least the system doesn't bug out which is an important part of good AF. It doesn't do it for people either like in an interview setting which most of us do. (In general I knew this already, but I'm saying this specifically about the adapted lens.)

I haven't tested it for anything extreme like a car/person moving swiftly towards you or what not, but I can next week. But a lot of other people have already said great things about their adapted EF lenses.

P.S. Don't mind the various results; I have been messing around with C-Log's sharpness, saturation and hue (mixture of modes too).

 
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Looks great! Where is that coast?

I shot a short intro for the homepage of a friend. He has a side business as a coach. His special approach is walking with his clients. So I let him walk. EF 24-105 @50mm f4.5, Zhyiun Crane3. It was very hot and unfortunately the sun was already too high and light quite harsh. Music will change probably. AF performed great. For me it would have been impossible to shoot it with the S1 especially not with the shallow DOF

https://vimeo.com/445363287/397ef5c904
 
Thank you! It's the Atlantic off of the south of Long Island in New York, which is just one big beach.

Everything about your video is great; the color, the audio, the DR isn't doing too bad (we all know those harsh days), and especially the camera movement. How are you moving? You're walking too?

My only suggestion (I can't help myself as an editor) is to cut the lip smack in the beginning and trim a second (or 1.5) off the ending so he's not hanging there for that long.

Are you enjoying your camera?
 
NorBro said:
I have a lot of test footage but I rarely ever post it as how many lakes and beaches can someone watch with the same stuff, but towards the end of this video I am touching the screen to track the birds. They don't move much so that may not help much, but at least the system doesn't bug out which is an important part of good AF. It doesn't do it for people either like in an interview setting which most of us do. (In general I knew this already, but I'm saying this specifically for the adapted lens.)

I haven't tested it for anything extreme like a car/person moving fast towards you or what not, but I can next week. But a lot of other people have already said great things about their adapted EF lenses.

P.S. Don't mind the various results; I have been messing around with C-Log's sharpness, saturation and hue (mixture of modes too).

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OK, that's some beautiful beach and nature- so glad you're posting it! Birds instead of bikinis worked out after all... And sweet afternoon light! :thumbsup:
70-200 looks gorgeous!!! All AF, right? And what format(s)?
 
Clermond said:
Looks great! Where is that coast?

I shot a short intro for the homepage of a friend. He has a side business as a coach. His special approach is walking with his clients. So I let him walk. EF 24-105 @50mm f4.5, Zhyiun Crane3. It was very hot and unfortunately the sun was already too high and light quite harsh. Music will change probably. AF performed great. For me it would have been impossible to shoot it with the S1 especially not with the shallow DOF

https://vimeo.com/445363287/397ef5c904
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Very nice, Clermond! That's only 50mm? What format? Thanks for sharing!
 
groveChuck said:
OK, that's some beautiful beach and nature- so glad you're posting it! Birds instead of bikinis worked out after all... And sweet afternoon light! :thumbsup:
70-200 looks gorgeous!!! All AF, right? And what format(s)?
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Thank you!

Mostly AF, but a handful of shots were just push AF.

It's a mixture of 8K ALL-I, 4K HQ, 4K S35 60p (5.1K sample), 4K full-frame 120p, and 4K S35 24p (5.1K sample...for when the camera overheated, lol).

Basically all of the best modes besides the 120p which is part of the pixel-binned full-frame modes (and shows it) although moving water always destroys a camera's image.
 
Thanks for your kind advice! It’s a first draft and there’s some room for improvement for sure in the edit and grading. I was walking too. You can see it in the background and also as he’s keeping the size. When you have to ask it means my job wasn’t that bad ;) I had to take care about my footsteps. I could hear them on the gravel too.

I love the camera. It gives me a lot of options I hadn’t before.

I’m jealous about the coast. We are in the second week of an heat wave 100F during daytime and not under 77F at night. All ACs heat the city up even more..
 
groveChuck said:
Very nice, Clermond! That's only 50mm? What format? Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks!

Yes 50mm with open aperture. I had to stick with one focal length as I had not time to re-balance the crane3. It was shot in 4K25p HQ, but honestly in real life I don’t see this big handicap with standard pixel binning read out. It’s far from mushy what the FB group boys rant
 
ahalpert said:
Looks great. That C500ii is gorgeous. Everything I've seen from it looks great

But I suppose if the R5 gets c-log 2/3 it may be indistinguishable? The highlight out the window is the only hiccup I notice in the comparison
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Yes, those windows are the giveaway. And yes, I think in this type of setting, ie not something that needs lots of detail it will be very close to the C500 MkII. It will still be a B camera to the C500 as that camera is a class above, but I can see lots of uses for the R5.

I need to do more testing with the vari ND adapter but so far that is working well too.
 
Clermond said:
looks great Liam. That's what I said.
1st image has a tad more saturation and tends towards green. Easy to fix and the client probably doesn't see it
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To the naked eye, on my iPad Pro and RMBP, the skin tones in the top image look warmer/rosier and the bottom image they look more neutral. And in the bottom, the whites seem to have just a tick of magenta. I like warm skin tones, but I do prefer the face in the bottom image.
 
Liam Hall said:
I actually shot 'Neutral' and was surprised how much saturation there was. Way more than I'm used to but should be easy to dial down.
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It’s funny, with my 5’s when I shoot stills, I bump the saturation and sharpness UP, but for video, I usually shoot neutral and I think I’ve had to bump the contrast down, even, and I like a contrasty image.
 
Run&Gun said:
It’s funny, with my 5’s when I shoot stills, I bump the saturation and sharpness UP, but for video, I usually shoot neutral and I think I’ve had to bump the contrast down, even, and I like a contrasty image.
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I've just worked out why... ...The R5 was set to BT.2020. Premiere can't handle BT.2020. It looks fine in FCPX.
 
Sometimes you get those days when the clouds let their guard down a little and play nicely with your dynamic range.

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EOSHD bought an R5 and has a similar take on it to Liam and Clermond:

"At the very maximum it is a pixel binned 4K 30p camera similar to the Sony A7R IV with the benefits of Canon’s colour science, 10bit codec, top LCD and better ergonomics. Actually that doesn’t sound so bad does it?!"

That being said, he's working on overheating hacks as well as suing Canon lol.

https://www.eoshd.com/news/i-bought...wifi-menu-also-a-look-at-potential-solutions/
 
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