Canon’s EOS C500 Mark II will soon get a firmware update enabling three new flavors of Cinema RAW Light capture. The camera’s existing 12-bit Cinema RAW Light capture will be joined by three additional formats: Cinema RAW Light LT (light recording), ST (standard quality), and HQ (high quality). All will record 12-bit RAW and will now be available for all frame rates. In addition. 12-bit RAW recording will now be possible in 4:3 or 6:5 frame ratios. The firmware update release is due on March 21st. Debuted with the company’s cine-hybrid R5C, Canon’s Cinema RAW Light formats are compressed RAW formats, enabling more efficient recording regarding file size. This is achieved without any perceivable image quality loss thus making RAW recording more accessible and easy to work with. The files occupy approximately a third to a fifth of the storage space required for the existing “normal” Cinema RAW Light file. This also greatly affects writing speeds, making higher frame rates or slower cards a viable option. This new addition of three new Cinema RAW Light formats further boosts the camera’s capture envelope. 12-bit files provide a significant advantage regarding color depth, with up to 68 billion available colors. Canon’s efficient compression now brings this level of color rendition to the camera’s high frame rates, but will also help to make mainstream speeds more manageable in terms of storage. Canon EOS C500 Mark II firmware update – Cinema RAW Light record formats. Image credit: Canon Elevated modularity The Canon EOS C500...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 13 March, 2024