5.9K Raw Full Frame Power: A Review of the Canon C500 Mark II

The Canon C500 Mark II is not cheap, but with that price tag comes an impressive range of features sure to satisfy a lot of professionals. This excellent review gives a great overview of the camera and what you can expect in shooting with it.

Coming to you from Gerald Undone, this great video review takes a look at the Canon C500 Mark II. The C500 Mark II is quite the camera, featuring a full frame CMOS sensor with 15 stops of dynamic range and Dual Pixel autofocus support, paired with the popular EF mount (with the option to swap out for the PL mount). It can output up to 5.9K raw using the Canon Cinema RAW Light codec in 12- or 10-bit along with 8-bit proxy in XF-AVC, supports four channels of 24-bit, 48 kHz linear PCM audio recording, Canon Log 2 and Log 3, LUT importing, 2K proxy recording, Touch AF and Face Detection AF, five-axis electronic image stabilization, pre-recording, focus assist, and optional expansion modules, optional electronic viewfinder, and optional wireless streaming. Altogether, it looks like a highly impressive camera on paper, and it seems to hold its own in practice as well. Check out the video above for the full rundown. 

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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Gerald never seems to use these cameras to their fullest potential even when we're not in lockdown. He's a master of taking the spec sheet and spitting it back onto the prompter. Very technical yes, but it's mostly words, I could have learned everything him and Armando said on Canon's home page.