CANON EOS C500 MARK II GEAR REVIEW.
Specifications
PRICE £10,543/$10,999 SENSOR 20.8-megapixel full-frame CMOS, Digic DV7 FORMAT Cinema Raw Light 12-bit 2.1Gbps, XF-AVC 4:2:2 10-bit 810Mbps; 5952x3149 5.9K, 4096x2160 C4K, 3840x2160 4K, 2048x1080 2K, 1920x1080 FHD FRAME RATES 59.94/50/29.97/25/24/23.98p FAST FRAME RATES 60fps Cinema Raw Light and XF-AVC full-frame, 120fps in 2K ISO RANGE 160-25,600, expandable 100-102,400 DYNAMIC RANGE 15+ stops C-Log2 AUTOFOCUS Dual Pixel CMOS AF; one shot, continuous, face priority LENS MOUNT EF (User changeable to PL) FILTERS Up to 10-stop ND built-in SCREEN 109mm/4.3in LCD touchscreen, 2.76 million dots VIEWFINDER Add-on LM-V2 AUDIO 2x XLR inputs OUTPUT HDMI, 12G-SDI, Mini-B USB STORAGE 2x CFexpress, SD/SDHC slot DIMENSIONS (WXHXD)
CANON PASSES THE TEST OF TIME The proven C500 Mark II is now the brand’s full-frame flagship – and more affordable following a price cut
WORDS AND IMAGES. Adam Duckworth
C amera technology moves at an incredible pace, with new models hitting the market all the time, usually boasting all the latest innovations and a significant increase in price. Yet there’s one camera so advanced that even now – three years after launch – it has spec exceeding most on the market. Best of all, its price has just been cut massively to £10,543/$10,999 body only. That’s the Canon EOS C500 Mark II. We first tried it out in prototype form in 2020 and fell in love with almost everything – apart from the steep price of £16,999/$15,999. Back then, we said if you could stretch to it, it’s a camera the majority of filmmakers could harness and get better results than ever. Much of that is thanks to the convergence of all the latest tech packed into one body. We stand by that conclusion. But now that it’s more affordable, it’s become an incredible buy for independent filmmakers.
It still has fantastic low-light performance and shallow depth- of-field you can only get with a full-frame sensor, high-tech AF that really works, in-body image stabilisation and manageable Raw files you can record without an external unit – all in the body of a multi-purpose cinema camera. The C500 Mark II is a hybrid of Canon tech borrowed from the firm’s cine cam range at both the affordable and super-exotic ends of the market. It blends it all into a camera that’s not a jack-of-all- trades, but a master of them. It has the same 5.9K full-frame sensor as the C700 FF, which cost a whopping £31,490/$33,000 and recorded in 16-bit Raw, though was intended for multi-crew use. The C500 Mark II is designed for
EASY ACCESS All the main controls are on the left side of the body, complete with customisable function buttons and the twin CFexpress card slots
153x148x168mm/ 6.03x5.83x6.61in WEIGHT 1.75kg/3.9lb
“It’s not a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of them”
canon.co.uk
35. APRIL 2023
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