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We have been seeing these R5 prototypes out there for a couple of months now. Maybe with the final R5 production model, Canon will sneak in a proper cooling fan? Without that, I don't see how Canon can do this 8k/4K properly. The Canon C200, C300, C500, C700, all REDs, All BlackMagics, Sony FS5, FS7, F5, F55, FX9, All Varicams, EVA-1...and S1H have cooling fans to control sensor and processing heat in 4k/6k/8k. If the R5 really can do all that they say it can with no line skipping and/or pixel binning.. .in a passive cooled body? That would make the R5...THE..greatest electronics engineering marvel that man-kind has ever seen! Absolutely no question at all! It will literally make all the fan-cooled Canon Cine models look foolish. (And any other fan cooled 4k/6k/8k camera too) Hmmm...or maybe it's just me that is foolish for expecting all this incredible R5 8k/4k 10bit and raw capability to be fan cooled in 2020. I'm telling you guys....the devil will be in the details, asterisks and fine print that Canon will only reveal the day this camera actually hits the streets and all NDA's are expired.

Looking good but after 10 years of repeated disappointment, I'll wait for the final release to make a judgement on this camera. I hope for the beast but fear the small*, **, ***, and other omissions on the official press release. May the Hawaiian gods of photography illuminate the world with their infinite wisdom. Amen.

Exactly. A real successful R5 would mean two things: #1. A massive mental and commercial shift at Canon after realizing how stupid the crippling and product segmentation was for the past 10 years. The mass didn't purchase 5D and Cxxx cameras but they switch to Sony and Panasonic instead. #2. A huge technological leap that would place Canon ahead of much stronger companies like Sony and Panasonic. After being behind for a decade in sensor and processor tech, not only would Canon beat the competition at the specs game but they'll do it more efficiently (no fan, advanced heat management). While point #1 seems to be acted based on recent releases (1Dx3, 24p firmware update, etc.), I'm still curious about how Canon would leapfrog the current state of art camera like the S1H than can't even do full frame 4k60 on a smaller sensor implemented on a fan cooled body. Cxxx cameras have never been cutting edge when it comes to pure specs, resolution and frame rate.

This is truly going to be a revolutionary product for the low budget world if it lives up to expectations. This packs so much into just one product (timecode! recorder! camera hop! IFB! etc), and all at a very very low price and small form factor. I can see a lot of people buying a couple of these to keep as spares in their sound kit to solve whatever random problem might pop up on sets unexpectedly. The biggest negative is that you can't pair a transmitter with more than four receivers, if you're like me a sound mixer then this low number can quickly become a problem. (although it would be good enough for "most" of the productions I work on, I'm not yet at the level when I'll regularly need dozens of comteks available to hand out on a regular basis!)

Did you forget the 1Dx mark 2 came before the GH5??? By a full year.

There's one huge question mark: This camera has a 45 MP sensor - which even with the best and newest technology means a smaller pixel pitch, lower full-well capacity and more noise/worse low light/less dynamic range than a comparable 24 MP sensor. Canon's sensor tech now has a long history of rather dramatically trailing Sony's. (Just compare the 26 MP full frame sensor performance of the relatively new Canon EOS RP with Sony's 24 MP full frame sensor.) So Canon needs to have suddenly caught up or even leapfrogged Sony if the R5's sensor should have a comparable dynamic range and low-light capabilities to the A7iii, the Panasonic S1/S1H, the Nikon R6, the Panasonic S1/S1H and the Sigma fp (all of which use the same Sony sensor or variants thereof). In the worst case, this will be a camera developed for (a) stills photographers and (b) the (cancelled) Tokyo Olympics with its Japanese 8K broadcast standard, with 8K resolution and high megapixel count having been given priority over real-world performance. Which would also help Canon sell its C100/C200/C300 camera range despite all... Just sayin'. We can't really tell anything before the camera will be here and tested in the real world.

I think it's well past time that we all recognize the world is full of stupid people and they affect things much more than many of us are comfortable with.

Hello, Looks like there is no news around the aputure 600D, it was aimed to be released at Q1 2020. Is this another victim of covid-19? Anybody got some news about this? Cheers

La rue Sainte-Catherine is the longuest pedestrian street in europe, 1km250. It's located in Bordeaux, south west of France. Each day thousands of bordelais and tourists from all over the world walk in this street. Since the 17th march 2020, lockdown has been in place in france. This street has never been so empty. This is a run and gun, street video style, a hommage to the bordelais. It's a mix of archives, filmed in anamorphic, from 2012 to nowadays, this covid-19 time. One day all the crowds will come back to la rue Sainte-Catherine, Bordeaux, France. Let's enjoy life and people through these contemplative moments.

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This looks very cool! I've been eyeing a Deity Connect system for my next project, which still looks like a better value for my uses than this new system. But this is really got some great features.

Dad's shares are crashing at home so he has to spend more time with his children now.

Do we know anything about new sensor design and/or who is manufacturing them? I remember the Canon fabs were way behind Sony ones, do they have a new one? with smaller, better and more effiient μ proccessing? Samsung Mobile can pull a 32megapixel photo from anywhere in their video, by the way.

Huge price drop for the 6k! Now $1,995 https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20200424-01

Zcam doesn't have fans for cooling... one of the many reasons I purchased one.

I knew you'd be the 1st guy to respond, being the resident sound guy and all lol

Marketing is the issue, 8K is an important badge for Canon trying to recover from years of ridicule and the perception they fell behind the cutting edge. Let's forget for a moment that the practical uses for it are dubious and niche at best, and that the hardware for 8K exists in a Xiaomi smartphone, albeit with a much smaller sensor. Many seem surprised the EOS R5 doesn't set on fire and melt due to the data processing required for 8K but it has a much larger body than a smartphone to dissipate the heat and if a $999 smartphone can do it then a $4k+ large pro mirrorless really has no excuses. 4K/60p was a big step up in data-rate from 30p remember... Something Sony still hasn't achieved on their A7 series but Fuji and Panasonic have. The Canon 1D X Mark III 5.5K at 60p is also a big step up but 8K sounds like a bigger step up because resolution is always the headline and people forget about frame rate! 45MP by the way is a smart choice by Canon, something of a sweet spot for a full frame sensor, it is 8K horizontal resolution, it is Nikon D850 / Z7 and Fuji GFX 50S level horizontal resolution (the 50S has more resolution vertically though due to the 4:3 aspect ratio sensor). You have to go to 100MP to significantly see a difference past 45MP or 8K and that gets very pricey. Sony have gone to 60MP, and actually the pixel binned 4K from the A7R IV is pretty nice. But it is only really a very incremental type step from their older 42MP sensor in the A7R II and III. If you shoot 8K on the EOS R5 and downsample in post to 4K, yes it will be more detailed. But not by much. And when you view it as intended - on the big screen or in a cinema - the 2.8K Alexa will probably still beat it for the cinematic feel. So yeah, let's not get too excited about 8K. It is still impressive technology compared to what Canon were doing before though. Personally, I would rather have the 1D X III sensor in there and 5K/60p RAW. Same data rate for the processor as 8K/30p remember. I like that 4K/120p is in there but it is probably line-skipped. You know, the big question mark with the EOS R5 is what the quality of the 4K/24p and 60p is going to be like. Will it be oversampled from the 8K (full pixel readout) or will it be binned? If it is binned then we are pegged with the A7R IV and Leica SL2 on 4K quality, more than likely, depending on the pixel binning method Canon uses. So if you ignore the 8K, ignore the 4K/120p for slow-mo, and you just need 4K/60p, the EOS R5's real advantages over the competition like the Leica SL2 are: 10bit codec at higher the frame rates in 4K (60p, 120p), not just at 4K 24p Dual Pixel AF That's about it Still very useful though. And the IBIS might be better, or it might be worse. Personally, I am still going to wait to see what the R6 brings and I am in no rush to chuck my GFX 100 or Leica SL2 in the bin, after paying so much for them. As for Sony A7R IV or A7 III users with mainly Canon lenses, yes, it is safe for you to go back to Canon now As for Panasonic S1 and GH5 users, as well as Fuji X-T3 owners - it is more of a dilemma, and will depend on if you need the Dual Pixel AF, full frame 8K, 4K/120p and Canon LOG / Canon colour science on offer with the EOS R5. Let's not forget how much more the expected costs will be $4k body, expensive FF mirrorless lenses, expensive media. I don't think GH5 owners will rush over too soon. It definitely has AF over the S1, but again the 4K/24p from the S1 will probably be better looking, especially in low light. So it all comes down to whether you need that 10bit codec at 120fps and have plenty of Canon lenses to make use of Dual Pixel AF. Or are tired of 8bit on Sony cameras.

For getting rid of the resolution loss caused by Bayer interpolation, you only need 144% more resolution on the sensor than in the final image. This is why Arri designed the original Alexa sensor with 2.8K resolution for 2K final delivery. This conversely means that the Canon R5 won't deliver true 8K either - but actually "only" 5K optical resolution. For 4K delivery, 6K sensor resolution (i.e. the 24MP of the current, ubiquitous, run-of-the mill Sony full frame mirrorless camera sensor) is perfect. Btw., still only very few films are mastered in 4K. What you mostly see in 4K cinemas are blow-ups from 2K. Even "Bad Boys for Life", the currently highest-grossing mainstream Hollywood blockbuster, was mastered in 2K and mostly shot with 2K cameras. And, believe it or not, even IMAX Digital projection is "only" 2K.

The question is: Who actually needs 8K? Sports broadcasters, nature documentarists - maybe. I think @Andrew Reid wrote here some time ago that we already have enough (or even too much) resolution with today's cameras when filmic images are the goal. Beyond that, you're rather getting problems because you see every pimple on the face of your protagonist, because you can no longer film hand-held (since motion blur will kill your 8K resolution - it already kills 4K), because your 8K will only be visible with deep focus/depth of field (since shallow depth of field will blur out 90% of your 8K). So in order to make actual use of 8K, you'll easily end up shooting boring, static, oversharp and flat video images like in the bad old camcorder days... There's a reason why Arri never went beyond 2.8K on the Alexa's s35 sensors and even kept the full frame sensor of the Alexa LF at 4.4K (much less than even the 6K/24 MP prosumer Sony full frame sensors)... So of whom did Canon think as the target buyer for this camera? "Us", or some journalists who need a hybrid camera to deliver both hi-res stills and 8K video to their employers? Again, I don't wanna spoil anyone's enthusiasm, but just temper expectations before we get to see and test the real thing.

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I think this is what makes me very suspicious! Either they have genuinely turned a corner cos the financials are getting very bad, or there will be some nasty surprises real-world VS this spec sheet...

This represents the type of comments I will come back to when the misty eyed corona pandemic induced haze of wishful thinking goes away. Thinking the R5 is going to outperform the C500ii for a fraction of the price is so delusional it’s heartbreaking. Do you really think the Canon engineers have somehow come up with a way to defy physics? That the R5 sensor and body will magically not be affected by or generate heat? Or that they have conjured up a 45MP sensor that has such an incredible readout speed that rolling shutter won’t be an issue? Or that they mystically now have leap frogged the Sony sensors with regards to dynamic range? Get a fucking grip.

It's kinda wild how quick people are to trust Canon won't disappoint them, given it feels like only 6 months ago they were getting blasted for removing 24p.

It will have dreadful rolling shutter and overheat. If you think Canon will release a more powerfulf MILC than their 16.000 dollar C500ii but for a third of the price you should stop kidding yourselves. Like immediately. If something sounds too good to be true, it's never true. I've tested the 1dxIII and it is of course a wonderful stills camera for sports and journalism, but its rolling shutter almost makes it unusable for handheld video, in 5k and 4k. Oddly many people don't even talk about this. Imagine what it will look like in 8k.

The question is, how many minutes until it overheats or stops recording?

i will keep my a7 iii.... until they make a clever codec for RAW, like BM. I dont want to spent a fortune for 8k raw on CF xpress cards.

So mine arrived. I love how small and light it is. Haven't had the chance to go out in the streets with it, but will this week. One thing it is definitely not is a Kowa! I picked up one of Tito's oval disks to see how that helps. First initial thoughts are that I love how light and small it is. Ease of use is the strong point. Anamorphic character is not really there in my limited time with it, but I think we all kind of know that. I'm hoping taking it into the world opens up my senses for the possibilities. I feel if I can Tito-fake this into giving me that anamorphic vibe with disks, diopters and bpm, it's worth having for size and ease. More later ...

Looking forward to seeing if BLackmagic will use either of the new Sony sensors. Seems to me that 8k maybe a great resolution for BRAW to record in, to deliver full 4K resolution after all of the file size reduction used to compress the images for BRAW storage and allow people to stabilize, reframe and zoom in post and then still deliver 4K. That said, I am fine with watching 1080pm video so delivering 1080p from 8k BRAW could be a great creative workflow as well, if it does not crush your computer in the editing process. I’m not so much worried about storage size with BRAW, so give us the 8k cameras and we’ll figure out how to use it or not.

10-bit 422 internally is a must from now on for any higher end mirrorless body. I’d much rather have that than 5.5k raw.

One of their resellers here in Los Angeles whispered to me that their next release will probably be the Nova (in May) and the 600D is looking more like early fall (maybe late August/September). Dang. Not as excited about another panel light on the market. There seems to be enough of those out there. I wish the 600D was the first on the list. I really think that light will become the industry standard for low to mid-range productions. They’re gonna sell like crazy. Pair two of them together and you almost have an M18, which is crazy.