Anyone Ordering The R5C?

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

Anyone else considering?  The R5C was not the road I anticipated taking, but I'm tired of waiting and since this body doesn't overheat, I am more confident about it over the standard R5.      

Although I am a stills shooter, the Cinema EOS side of the body is intriguing.  Its so much smaller than a C70.  I'm not serious enough about video that I'd miss Clog2.  The body has 16 14 stops so plenty of DR for my use.  Its also not limited to Super35 or 16 (which isn't so much a limitation), but Canon has really stepped up here.  I don't care about ibis.  All of my lenses except 1 are IS and the body has digital IS built in.  I have purchased a bunch of accessories.  Control Ring Adapter, 2 512GB CF ExpressB, 2 128GB UHSII, 2x Watson batteries (Canon was out of stock), and I've not tried Manfrotto batteries yet.  

Going to try the AngelBird CFExpress cards and ProGrade for the XD Cards.  I've always used SanDisk so going to try something else.  Both are highly rated.

I also contacted EasyCover in the Netherlands and my contact there has said they do not plan to make a skin for the R5C.  Was hoping for this, but am more excited about a new body.  Haven't pulled the trigger quite yet.  I have a quick business trip and wanted to be back for the arrival.  Plan to wait a week.  If nothing glaring is reported, I will finally move to mirrorless.

[shadowsports]

I think sfogel2 might join us.  He's got the Tascam XLR and just noticed the dimmed inputs in his menu.

[sfogel2]

I've experienced the same problem. All menu items on the Audio Setup page are dimmed when the Tascam CA-XLRd2-C is in the hotshoe. Frustrating, because since the Tascam has no display, the only way to set levels, assuming you're not using an external monitor, is to use the teeny meter in the lower right corner of the main shooting display on the camera. Not good enough.

I understand that you're expected to set levels on the adapter itself, but at least Canon could update the firmware to let us go to the CH1 Levels, CH2 Levels, etc. pages, dim the up and down arrows to indicate we have to set levels on the device, and show the levels meter so we can get an accurate record level.

[wobbleman99]

Audio page menus appear to be grayed out with or without the Tascam attached. Either it is a firmware glitch, or Canon had neglected to explain its function.  As for determining levels with an external mic, you can go to the 'Audio Status' page, where there is a representation of channels 1-4.  The camera's internal mic records to 3&4.

I don't have a dynamic mic to test with, but I am wondering if the camera's audio menus can be awakened by plugging a mic directly into the camera's port. The manual suggests that the menus's are for the internal mic, but that could have been a translation snafu.

[sfogel2]

Where’s the audio status page??

Thanks

[wobbleman99]

You will have to assign it to a an assignable button, under customizing buttons.

[sfogel2]

Perfect! That solves the problem. Many thanks. Is there documentation somewhere about why the channel 2 meter moves along with the ch 1 meter even if there’s a mic only in Ch 1?

[wobbleman99]

I just happened to come across your post about channel 1&2.  I assume that you are referring to when the Tascam is attached to the R5c?  The Tascam adapter allows one to combine channels 1&2 if you are using a single XLR input, and while I haven't tested that function,. turning it off should allow only the meter for, i.e. channel 1, to be active.  There are no in-camera settings to accomplish that end, unless it is to be found somewhere within the grayed out menus.

[wobbleman99]

Hi Rick,

I finally took the opportunity to shoot some MP4 8k clips with the R5c, and it immediately became apparent that even with my maxed out 2019 Mac Pro Tower I would have to work with proxies. 8k is nice, but I had purchased the R5c to mate with my C300 Mk III, so I will be primarily shooting in 4k.

[sfogel2]

MP4 is very compressed so your CPU has to work harder during editing. Try 8K XF-AVC. 

[wobbleman99]

I don't believe that 8k XAVC is an option on the R5c, and other than RAW, all I could find was MP4 8k.

Add: I've just checked, and there is no XAVC 8k option on the R5c, it's either one of the RAW options or MP4.  That means that editing 8k via proxy may be the best option in Resolve.  Some have claimed that Apple's M1 processor does a better job with 8k, but that would mean editing from a laptop, and I need my 31" 4k monitor and various other accessories that are connected to the Mac Pro.  While I am certain that Apple will eventually update the Mac Pro Tower with an M1 or its equivalent, I'll save the anticipated huge upgrade cost and, for the rare instances that I choose to shoot 8k, edit with proxies.