Following the announcement of the Canon EOS C50 in September last year, it took a while for a production camera to arrive at our CineD headquarters, where we could run it through our standard CineD lab test procedures. Hence, in a similar fashion to last year, we start the year of camera lab tests with a Canon C camera. Curious to see how it fares? Then read on … For a detailed breakdown of specifications and features of this new member of the Canon C family, please head over to our article here – however, I have to give a special mention to the new 7K 12bit Canon RAW (CRAW in this article), 3:2 open gate mode which was a “first” with this camera in the EOS cinema line (the C400 is following with a firmware update). Also, I have to explicitly draw your attention to the beautiful mini-documentary that my colleague Johnnie shot in Japan with the C50 here. The Canon EOS C50 in our CineD lab. Image credit: CineD Last but not least, I have to mention again my colleague Florian Milz, who helped to shoot and analyze this test – thank you, Florian! Rolling Shutter of the Canon EOS C50 As usual, we use our 300Hz strobe light to reveal the pattern of black and white bars – a typical artefact of rolling shutter sensors, which allows precise measuring of the rolling shutter. For 7k 3:2 open gate full frame CRAW at 25fps we get a rolling...
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