Andrew Reid

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?

This is the key point. EF and the range of DSLR lenses has been an advantage for so long and now it's practically in the bin Why does the 1D X Mark III have LOG then? Did all the pros say "No"? I think you may want to revisit your made-up reasoning there.

It is a Sigma EF lens on Canon EF adapter.

https://www.smallrig.com/blog/no-more-concerns-about-the-overheating-of-canon-r5/ I like their sense of humour! However you can do the survey too and tell them what you'd like to see. We will definitely get some sort of fan cage from someone!

Just get on the same chinese forums as he does and find out yourself!

Interesting there is an interview with the southern tweed wearing hipster at DPReview: https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/2999935759/interview-we-talk-to-ap-director-of-photography-about-switch-to-sony I think if silent shutter is a big motivation to go Sony, it shows Canon should be doing some sort of hybrid EVF on the 1D X series in future. One that allows the silent shutter to work through the viewfinder rather than only on the back screen. A camera with no viewfinder isn't very much use to a professional in bright daylight!

Interesting move. This is partly because Canon's mirrorless camera system is so late in the game. And Nikon's mirrorless system is mainly aimed at consumers. Sony could learn a lot from the AP use of their fleet. The A9 II should really get S-LOG now in a firmware update. I expect the photographers, some kitted out with A7R IV and some with A9 II to have the same colour science and video formats available between them.