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Hands on with the Canon EOS R5 C

We get to grips with one of the most important new hybrid mirrorless cameras for a very long time OPINION BY CARL YATES HEAD OF TECHNICAL MARKETING FOR PROAV

W e were lucky enough to spend time getting to know Canon’s new hybrid powerhouse, the EOS R5 C, in the weeks before its launch. Pro Moviemaker has already given you comprehensive analysis of its key features in this issue. So, we will share some further thoughts on its usability, while elaborating on the information and opinions you can delve into at the ProAV TV YouTube channel. Why is this different? Canon have been making great cameras for a long time, that’s no secret. But the world of the video DSLR/mirrorless has been a strange one for them. The brand (perhaps accidentally) invented it with the EOS 5D Mark II and – since then – has let video play second fiddle to photography in its cameras. Instead, Canon concentrated on the very capable Cinema EOS line-up for video users. With the new EOS R5 C, it has gone down a very different path by taking its most popular and well-rounded stills

camera, the EOS R5, and modifying it to enhance video. This is a Cinema EOS camera inside a photography form factor. It’s a massive move for Canon, and may well change the way the EOS line-up looks to video users forever. The Cinema EOS UI When the camera is switched to video, it reboots entirely into the Cinema EOS user interface. This is a huge strength, but also the source of some early criticism. Canon’s cinema AF is less feature-rich than the stills system found on the R5, so some perceive this as a downside. Except, the advantages of this UI make up for the slight backwards step in AF features like animal and vehicle tracking. Perhaps the biggest advantage is that we now gain all the exposure and monitoring tools from the EOS C70. Waveform monitors help keep video exposed correctly and, yes, they stay on screen while recording. Plus, we get powerful video features such as false colour, vectorscopes, anamorphic de- squeeze options and more. None of these

HYBRID THEORY From the front, the EOS R5 C looks like the R5, apart from the large ‘C’ badge. But the new photo/video select button shows this is a whole new way of working have been seen on a Canon camera outside of their traditional EOS Cinema range. The camera has 13 assignable buttons, which can link to any feature in the menu, plus access to five pages of a customisable ‘My Menu’ to save your most-used features. Add this to the touch-screen menu we saw on the C70, and you get an incredibly quick machine once it is set up the way you like it. Image quality The EOS R5 C shares the same sensor as the R5, meaning image quality is mostly similar, with slightly more dynamic range. It now supports up to 8K/60p in Raw recording and the addition of an

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