CANON EOS R5 C PROMISES ‘NO LIMITS' VIDEO CAPTURE

Canon’s first full-frame 8K Cinema camera is a powerful hybrid option for pros

Canon has announced the EOS R5 C, a video-first version of the standard EOS R5 that shoots internal 8K 12-bit up to 60p, has Dual Base ISO, and possesses an integrated cooling fan – which means that it has “no limitations on shooting”. While the EOS R5 C is, at its core, very similar to the standard EOS R5, it’s specifically a Cinema EOS product. In short, where the R5 was a stills camera that enabled you to shoot video (with compromises such as recording limits), the R5 C is a cinema camera that enables you to shoot stills.

To that end, the camera operates in two distinct modes. Boot it up in stills mode and it behaves almost identically to the R5; it has the same menus, the same full-frame 45MP sensor, the same 20fps maximum burst rate, the same Dual Pixel CMOS AF II (with Animal AF), even the same EVF and LCD screen. What it doesn’t have, however, is the same in-body image stabilisation (there is no IBIS whatsoever), and it possesses a slightly modified version of the R5’s Digic X processor.

Canon EOS R5 C: what’s new

Since the R5 C can’t shoot video in stills mode (or vice versa), you’ll need to boot the camera up in video mode to capture moving images – and upon doing so, the familiar EOS menus are replaced by the Cinema EOS menus.