A test of the Canon EOS R5 in a real world, uncontrolled environment.
The idea was to shoot this almost like a run-and-gun documentary style film, relying purely on the camera and lens to deliver the goods. I intentionally wanted to avoid using any other equipment on this shoot, grip or otherwise for the sole purpose of getting to know this camera and see how well it copes in this kind of environment without any aid from other gear.
It impossible to get a sense of any piece of equipment's strengths and weaknesses until you've used it in the field, so this short film was designed to throw the EOS R5 and RF 28-70mm f2L USM into the rough and challenging mountain conditions on a hike up Mt. Snowdon in North Wales.
Originally shot back in early September, but due to the amount of work recently this project kind of got pushed to the bottom of the to-do list.
No overheating issues where exhibited during filming.
Camera: Canon EOS R5
Mode: Filmed in '4K Fine' HQ Mode (8K Down sampled in-camera to 4k). 422 10bit.
Lens: Canon RF 28-70mm f2L USM
ND: Freewell 95mm Threaded Hard Stop Variable ND Filter 2 to 5 Stop & 6 to 9
No post stabilisation applied, only a colour grade in DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Naturally, as with every video on YouTube, the quality gets destroyed on upload, please keep that in mind. You can download a 10bit HEVC version by clicking the link below.
And if you’d like some of the CLOG HEVC footage straight from camera then that is also available on the links at the bottom of this blog post.
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In the meantime, how do you think the camera did? Let me know in the comments what you think of the footage.