Looking at the specs of the Canon EOS R5, my first reaction was “who needs 8K RAW?” – as this cam offers high quality 4K modes as well. Until I saw the Lab results… Curious to hear more about out Canon EOS R5 lab test? Read on. During early August the Canon EOS R5 arrived for a short visit at the CineD office – exhibiting the firmware version 1.0. I was really curious to see how this mirrorless camera would fare in the lab as its specs are quite amazing, despite the early reported overheating issue. Rolling shutter, dynamic range, and our underexposure test was performed – which quite surprisingly proved to be a challenge, as the overheating warning popped up early in the setup of the tests already – and some test runs had to be repeated after a 15min waiting period as the camera continued to shut down between takes. This very fact cooled down my enthusiasm about the camera quite significantly – but that’s another story. If you want to know how we test dynamic range, have a look here. Canon EOS R5 – Rolling Shutter Interestingly, despite the high resolution of the Canon EOS R5 sensor, a very good rolling shutter read out performance was recorded. The Canon EOS R5 in full frame DCI mode (17:9) in high quality readout mode (that is 8K RAW, 8K H265 all-I and 4K DCI) has a rolling shutter of 15.5ms. That is the best result that we measured so...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 26 August, 2020