![]() This is a concept that is lost on semi-pro and amateur videographers. If the camera is heavy enough, it provides stable footage. Hollywood has been using shoulder rigs for decades to stabilize footage and call it, “the handheld look.” Many modern cinematographers and camera operators use the EasyRig or variant to carry the weight of the camera, while directing the camera (it’s not a stabilizer, but an option). “Panther Walk,” holding the camera, brace it against your eye in the view finder are just a few ways. That is the most important thing you could ever do, and is a skill that with make you money immediately, because you can use that skill with any camera or set up. Learn how to get stable footage with a non-IBIS camera. If you are buying a camera with IBIS to REPLACE a gimbal, then just don’t. The IBIS on the R5 and R6 is great, but will never be equal to a Steadicam, gimbal, etc to provide stabilized footage.įor slow-shutter photography without a tripod.įor filming an event or at a location/ venue, where tripods or gimbals are not allowed. IBIS ( In-Body Image Stabilization): The obvious solution, for the EOS R, is to just to use a gimbal, steadicam, shoulder rig or other device to stabilize your footage. It also doesn’t have IBIS, which can be a good thing, as some situations, like filming the driver from passenger seat, in a scene, is best with the camera locked off on a tripod, with many sandbags (cameras with IBIS produce this weird warping effect that cannot be removed in post). The Pocket 6k has push-to-autofocus, but not continuous autofocus. The Pocket6k also records in 4:2:2 10bit ProResHQ internally, without the need for an external recorder, like the Atomos Ninja V. There is a camera that is both cheaper the R5 and R6, that records in top tier compressed Raw, in 6k, with full cinema controls it’s the BlackMagic Pocket6k, at $2000, with a Super35 sensor and an EF lens mount. If pretty good quality is enough for you, if you film weddings or events and just need a fast turn around, then IBIS and autofocus are more important than compressed Raw, and the R5 or R6 will be a quality option for you. I would choose any camera that can record in RED Code or Braw over anything else for the best video quality, easily sacrificing IBIS and autofocus over video quality. Again, we will have to see the footage to compare. Canon has Raw lite on the C200, and will offer a similar compressed Raw on the R5. Both RED ( RED Code) and BlackMagic (BRaw) have the best compressed Raw codecs, with applicable patents. To overcome that, compressed Raw offers little to no loss in quality, while recording the video using smaller file sizes. ![]() Recording in Raw will always have the highest data rate and is always recommended over any compressed format, like h.264 or h.265, or the forthcoming, even more compressed, h.266. To overcome this, the EOS R has an incredibly high data rate of 480Mbps, more so than the R6, even in IPB, even in 1080p. You could just use the EOS R as an APS-C/Super35 video camera, and punch out to Full-Frame when a larger field of view is needed. This can lead to aliasing and artifacting, which is apparent on many cameras. Many mirrorless cameras have the same issue, due to due processors that cannot keep up the data being recorded, so line skipping and pixel binning are used to create the final video clip. The R6 can record the above both 1080p and 4k at Full-Frame, whereas the EOS R, can only record 4k in ~1.7 crop mode, which is slightly smaller than APS-C and Super35. Obviously the best video quality will be uncompressed. Both the R6 and EOS R can record externally to a recorder, like the Ninja V, in 4:2:2 10bit ProResHQ uncompressed. The EOS R can only record 4:2:0 8bit internally to an SD card, but in ALL-I. The R6 records 4:2:2 10bit (in h.265 compression), internally to SD cards, which is amazing! But it only records that at a highly compressed format, in IPB, vs ALL-I on the R5. The R6 has IBIS for slow shutter, hand-held photography, vs cropped-in Digital IS only on the EOS R, which sometimes is Ok, but often not. On paper, the EOS R takes 30Mp photos, vs 20Mp on the R6. The EOS R may take better photos than the R6, no real comparison tests are available at this time, but are forthcoming. 4k Raw video may be the way to go for filming. 8k Raw video means filming short clips and selecting a frame as a Raw photo to edit in Lightroom or Capture One. Keep in mind that 8k Raw video is really for photography, not filming an epic feature film for theatrical release. The R5 can take better photos, (at 45Mp vs 30Mp, and IBIS for slow shutter, hand-held photography). Is the EOS R still relevant after the release of the R5 and R6? Is the Canon EOS R still worth it in 2020?Īccording to youtube, “it’s trash.” Also youtube, (5 months ago), “the EOS R is amazing!”
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