Canon’s successor to their popular EOS R5 model has arrived in our lab, so we took the new EOS R5 Mark II camera through our standard CineD lab test procedures. Curious to hear how the Canon EOS R5 Mark II lab test went? Then read on! Canon’s EOS R5 Mark II camera packs a punch of features into its tiny body: it offers 8K up to 60fps with 12-bit raw video internally, as well as 4K 120fps with sound, 4-channel audio, IBIS, better integration with Canon Cinema EOS formats, Canon Log 2, a new cooling grip for longer recording times, and more … Please read more about the full specs here. Quite amazing, actually! The Canon EOS R5 Mark II in our CineD studio. Image credit: CineD Now it is time to run it through our standard CineD lab test procedures. A big shout-out goes again to my colleague Florian Milz, who helped shoot and analyze the lab tests! Canon EOS R5 Mark II lab test – rolling shutter As always, we use our 300Hz strobe light to reveal the sequence of black and white bars, typical for the read-out nature of CMOS sensors. Let’s have a look at 8K DCI (17:9) first: We get a rolling shutter of 17.3ms (less is better). That is a tad worse than the first generation EOS R5, which exhibited 15.5ms but was still good. In full frame 4K “Fine” mode, we get the same 17.3ms result. If we switch to the “normal” 4K...
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