when I first got into shooting video this was my first camera and when I
bought it Canon had a strangle hold on the small form factor video Market
thanks to the 5D Mark I's amazing success two years prior in 2008 the Mark
III in 2012 was a solid incremental upgrade but since this release the
marketplace has changed a lot and Canon's dominance has absolutely been ch
challenged so can the markv hold its own against the stiff competition that has
sprung up from Panasonic Sony and even
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description let's take a quick physical tour of the camera on the right we have
two memory slots One SD and one compact flash on the top we find the hot shoe
settings display and controls for focus and exposure as well as the mode dial
here on the left of the camera we have a flash connector mic in a headphone jack
mini HDMI out unfortunately this is a worthless connector and USB the rear the
camera has a shiny 3.2 in touchcreen quick access buttons a joystick a mode
dial and a larger menu selection and settings dial so then out of the box the
markv will feel very familiar to anyone who has used a mid-tier or better Canon
DSLR but with some welcome additions the first usability change that really stood
out to me was Canon's new integrated touch interface whatever Apple might say
a smartphone is not a replacement for a DSLR but that doesn't mean we can't
learn from them using the touchscreen like I would on my phone to set Focus
points to wherever I wanted in the frame quickly is awesome and became second
nature in both video mode and live view for Stills and on that subject live view
which I've always avoided for Stills on Canon cameras due to to its sluggishness
and inaccuracy was surprisingly usable I shot portraits of a friend's newborn and
in order to get some of the top down shots that I wanted I had to hold the
camera in front of me in such a way that I could only see the camera's display
enough for composition trusting that Focus will be taken care of by the
camera's dual pixel AF and to my surprise all of these photos came out
sharp even with my unintentional changes in distance between each shot so beyond
being a convenient way to choose your focus point the phase detection AF
allows you use your camera at awkward angles where it's very uncomfortable or
even impossible to look through the viewfinder with a stronger confidence
that the camera will nail Focus for the shot moving on to video mode instead of
being only fixated on image quality in this review I wanted to push the camera
it's AF in particular to see if I could find success in situations that would
normally be very difficult as a solo operator so I put the markv on my Glide
Cam and did a tracking shot on a 35 millimeter lens at f1.8 and oh my God
this is awesome the markv managed to keep Luke in Focus even as he was
running away in this shot now I know
this isn't a new technology from Canon but this is the first time phase
detection AF was put into a 5D and it has never been better it isn't perfect
and while shooting with the markv I did find scenarios that made it stumble but
what impressed me even then is how natural it looked when recovering from
its stumbles it managed to look much more human than any autofocus I've seen
in any other camera this is the kind of feature that can legitimately make you
look like a better camera operator and even compensate for not having a focus
polar in certain situations on top of the performance benefits of the
touchscreen paired with the AF the menus in the 5D are a breeze to navigate no
more needless scrolling through the same five menus only to click through the wrong one and accidentally click out and
start all over again these two are the kinds of little things that can speed up
your workflow while shooting leading to ultimately better results let's move on
to Canon sensor for the 5D this time around we're looking at a 30.4 megapixel
seos sensor with an ISO range of 100 to
32,000 on paper it's a very nice bump up instills resolution from The Mark iiii
though we'll get more into that later with a slew of new video recording modes
including DCI 4K up to 30 FPS shooting
video on the 5D brought me back to the beginning of my career Canon hasn't lost
the relative Simplicity in the menus compared to my current daily driver the
Sony a7s2 and they've even managed to add quick functions that don't take over
your entire live view like on previous cameras so you can finally change
settings like white balance resolution frame rate and audio levels all without
leaving the live view of the camera thumbs up Canon which leads us to a
common thumbs down that many have brought up when looking over the initial specs of the markv when shooting 4K
video the markv has a 1.64 crop of its
full-frame sensor making its effective size rough roughly similar to an apsc
sensor like my Canon 60D but while I
understand the disappointment I also understand that there were probably
engineering challenges associated with shooting fullframe 4K and anyway I don't
agree that this is should be the top criticism of this camera because while I
shoot with a fullframe 35mm field of view on the a7s2 I actually prefer the
look of a 1.6 crop for a lot of my projects so when shooting with the markv
I actually was quite pleased with the extra reach I got from my lenses I was
been able to use one of my favorite lenses the sigma 1835 f1.8 which
normally doesn't work on a full-frame camera a far bigger issue for me is
Canon's decision to use motion jpeg as the internal codec in 4k this is an
ancient codec that is basically only intraframe compression so it's far less
efficient than something like the xavc interframe compression in the a7s2 to
put some real numbers to this the data rate for this codec is 500 megabits per
second so on a 64 G card I was getting 16 minutes of record time at 4K in 24
FPS compare that to the hour and 10 minutes I normally get from the a7s2 on
the same card it should be obvious that aspiring video creators will be asking
for a lot of SD cards and hard drives for Christmas this year honestly it
feels like they kneecapped it on purpose to avoid competition with their video
cameras the markv still only outputs 1080p over HDMI so any hopes of
bypassing the internal codec for 4K video can be put to rest the one one
redeeming quality the 5D has is the internal recorded footage looks better
straight off the camera than the a7s2 in this shot blown up to 400% the Canon has
the edge in overall detail and in my opinion Canon's color science is more
pleasing and easier to work with than Sony that said the camera has no
internal log profile limiting its overall dynamic range so I ended up
shooting most of this footage in neutral to get the most out of the sensor without having to use an externally made
profile like cyle from Technicolor on the still side the markv is as Ed
excellent Raw photos have improved underere exposure recovery particularly
in the shadows something that the Mark III struggle with depending on your
image and over the several shoots I did with the markv it performed exactly as I
expected which allowed me to forget I was even using it and focus on shooting
images are sharp and ISO performance has managed to improve quite a lot as well
so in conclusion the markv is the new generation embodiment of what has always
been Canon's goal with the 5D line it's a fullframe core Stills camera that has
a video mode for the casual or pro suer video Enthusiast and it's very good at
what it does Stills but if you're hoping for another Mark I a revolutionary and
affordable jack of all trades camera then I'm sorry to say that if the markv
is anything to go on that was entirely unintentional and it's not going to
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