Andrew Reid

Canon President and long-time camera business COO Mr Maeda-san has stepped down for health reasons. The change means 84 year old Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai once again assumes the triple role of Chairman, CEO and President until a replacement can be found for Masaya Maeda-san. https://www.eoshd.com/news/canon-boss-masaya-maeda-has-stepped-down-due-to-health-issues/

The production models aren't going to fundamentally change. It isn't a Firmware Optimisation issue. You will not lower the heat generated by tweaking the source code. Outputting 8K sensor readout, processing that to 10bit 422 with a CPU not adequately backed onto a copper heat sink and heat pipe, no fan, sealed body, poorly conducting materials, probably far from the latest silicon process node (7nm) used to make the CPU and multiple sources of heat compacted together - big sensor, fast RAM, very fast CFExpress memory (which is also capable of thermal throttling). It's like saying... my laptop gets hot in games so maybe updating Windows will help. Camera design is fixed, it's done. Besides the pre-production model is but a few weeks behind the final retail camera and 99.9% the same even at the firmware level. There is not the time to fix it before release. It needs a complete redesign of the internal hardware.

Have you actually compared the 8.2K oversampled 4K to any of the other oversampling cameras, such as the Fuji X-T4, Panasonic S1H, Panasonic S1, Sony A9 A7 III etc.? These already look perfect even on a chart. Oversampling from a 6K sensor or oversampling from 8K, there is not a huge difference. In fact the Canon EOS R5 image may even be a bit softer looking in C-LOG. Have you actually compared the original A7S II 4K output on a chart to the EOS R5 4K HQ mode? No, didn't think so. But apparently the gap is huge! 😂 Why the hell would you spend $4k on a camera to shoot 2014-standard pixel binned mushy 4K?! That's because it's atrocious, and it's the reason there were no serious 1D X III rolling shutter tests. Canon is the one handing out the cameras to those they have personal friendships with via PR people. Do you really think any of them have the balls to go for the jugular over 32ms+ rolling shutter?

Much as I'd love my forum to become a one way discussion between social media influencer self promotors and camera nerds, it ain't going to happen. Sorry to disappoint! @Django If it is famous names you want, if somebody like Roger Deakins joined he would actually deserve respect. Why don't you invite some more actual filmmakers on the forum to chat with, rather than falling in love with an ex-store sales rep?

HAH! Indeed. Professional - oh can you wait while I put ice on my camera please, thank you. I'd have kicked him off the shoot. It's a doc that anybody could have done, any amateur can ask to film somebody who wants publicity. People do it thousands of times a day all over the world and it is all out there in all its mediocre glory on the internet. To disguise this effort as some sort of 'giving back' to the camera community, helping people make informed decisions, it's all bullshit, and amazingly people do fall for it in quite surprising numbers. Which is in itself a poor reflection on the state of humanity. Why doesn't Professional Career Man answer my questions if he's such an expert. He knows roughly how long the camera rolled for on a take before an overheating warning and how far into the shoot that was. He knows whether or not the camera was turned on or off during gaps in-between takes. Was it in live-view the entire X number of hours, and how many batteries did he get through? Lastly what the fuck did Canon get out of this? The bad publicity from the article is one thing, and deserved. But zero useful feedback? No timing data? THAT is how Canon end up in situations like this in the first place.

Here we have some much higher quality and more useful information from Gerald. The external recorder situation is as follows: Let's give guys like this their due and not reward the wannabe filmmakers.

Just when you thought the Canon EOS R5 overheating drama had ended, the EOS R6 picks up the baton. But this time, not everybody can agree on what it’s good for. Read the full blog post

Behiri's motto seems to be Professional filmmaking is what you do, not what it looks like!

I tried to tease the basics out of him but he was having none of it. Just the usual Cinema5D c**ty line of "you're just a tester, leave the actual filmmaking work to us"!

Incredible that people will spend $4000 for worse than 2014 image quality.

It looks much worse than the old 2014 Sony A7R II to me The aliasing and softness at 100% crop above is worst-case scenario stuff. How that footage can wear a 4K badge I will never know.

There is so much info missing from the C5D 'review' but it isn't looking good. How long was his average take How long was the average break and how many, through the entire shoot How long was his longest take How long was the average gap inbetween clips When the ice pack came out, how many hours was he into the shoot How many hours was the total shoot?? Was the camera switched on all the time, even when not recording If so for how long How much was indoors, how much outside? Was it sunny? What was the temp indoor? There is less technical and detailed info in the review than in the average episode of The Simpsons

Bullshit It looks like moire 1080p upscaled from 2009.

What will you shoot with it though?

What will you shoot in 8K BRAW?

Interesting if true, thank you. If in some readout modes, the 14bit colour depth, wide gamut and translation to 8bit Rec.709 is done on-sensor that would perhaps explain why there are no SLOG or Picture Profiles in silent shutter mode on cameras like the A7R IV too. If the sensor lacks the onboard brain to do LOG then it may explain why Sigma Fp doesn't have LOG either, similar Sony sensor.

I think the sensor can run for around 1 hour in 8K with image processing externally. No chance BRAW is being added in-camera. Externally I still don't see it happening to be honest!

BRAW on the EOS R5 is never going to happen. And EOS R6 doesn't even have Canon's own RAW!

Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, etc. could have got stuff anywhere at any time, I think the decision largely boils down to Sony winning the tender before the other manufacturers even got a look in because it was perhaps a done deal with Sony marketing material in the tender (like AP saying it needs "cut & paste from Sony"... eh, I mean "silent shutter") That's what I hear on the grape vine anyway 🙂 Plus the financial terms probably quite favourable. But also, Canon didn't have a pro mirrorless camera available at the time the decision was made, and neither did Nikon, both with limited mirrorless lens ranges too.

No, I'll review it based on what shit people say on Chinese forums.

You are just making wild assumptions. You don't know what the actual percentages are at all. In all the marketing video is top billing. Has to tell you something.

This is a bit befuddling: "The vast majority of the stills photographers will get a9 Mark IIs. We will get some a7R IVs for the videographers...But the standard kit will be an a9 Mark II." A7R IV for the videographers? The only advantage it has over the A9 II for the videographer is literally just SLOG. So I assume they are going to use SLOG otherwise why get "A7R IVs for the videographers"

From the director of photography AP: "We liked the idea of having the color quality and the image quality being close to the same between stills and video equipment. So if a stills photographer helped out a video colleague with a little filming, or B-roll, it would fit in the edit. And if we were to pull a frame grab from a 4K video camera it would have the same basic feel as a photograph from a stills camera." So it doesn't sound like a good idea to use Sony defaults on A9 II and try to match it to FS line to me. Surely better to shoot S-LOG on both and match in post with same LUT on each. A LUT does not actually slow down your turn-around. I assume professional news editors know how to use one. 10 seconds, click, done.

Can somebody do a Hilter meme of the Canon boss hearing about this please?