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Philip Bloom Dives Into the Hot Mess That Was the Canon R5

Perspective. When Phillip Bloom's latest video popped up in our YouTube subscriber feed, the headline caught our eye: "The BEST HYBRID on the market - but a HOT & MESSY start!" Thumbnail image aside, we knew it had to be about the Canon EOS R5, but what we didn't realize was that Bloom was going to take us on a personal historical journey detailing the why. As the filmmaking community continues to grow and we learn from each other, Bloom always seems to add a collectively calm perspective in a mishmash of information. He's like the Godfather of the DSLR revolution. He got the jump on creating moving images with the cameras over 10 years ago, about the same time No Film School took off. In a two-part series, Bloom discusses his initial frustrations with the overheating on the R5, which we ran into every single time we did our own testing. It made the 8K and 4K high-speed modes nearly unusable until Canon released software to improve the recovery time. But similar to us, Bloom admits he started to like the R5 over time because it fits his style of shooting. Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 3 December, 2020

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