We continue with our round of “summer interviews” with executives from companies from our filming industry and in this Canon interview, Johnnie caught up with Go Tokura-san, Chief Executive of Image Communication Business Operations at Canon. Johnnie took the opportunity and asked some questions that were on his mind for quite some time. A quick note before we begin: If you’re interested in more parts of this interview series, you can check out our in-depth interview with Panasonic’s Yamane-san about the GH5 II, GH6 & more. But since this part is all about Canon, let’s get right to it: CineD: The video capabilities of the EOS DSLR and mirrorless cameras were abandoned by Canon for some time, but during last year’s introduction of the EOS R5 (CineD Lab Test) and EOS R6 (CineD Lab Test) you made a glorious comeback. I’m interested in understanding why the decision was made in the first place to generally emphasize video capabilities only with the EOS Cinema line, and at present time, change the decision and allow high-quality video recording capabilities to the photo cameras, as well? Canon EOS R6 (left) and R5 (right). Image credit: CineD Go Tokura-san: We have continuously advanced the video capture capabilities of our DSLR and mirrorless cameras. For example, the EOS 5D Mark III was made compatible with both ALL-I and IPB compression formats, as well as timecode recording. For the EOS 5D Mark IV, we included the Dual Pixel CMOS AF system that provided natural and smooth...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 14 September, 2021