This also compensates for the fact that the 5D Mark IV has a fixed screen.Īnother option is to use Canons Camera Connect app on your smartphone to remotely view and control your camera. Investing in an external monitor is something I highly recommend anyway, because of the small size and sometimes poor quality of the built-in monitors on DSLRs and mirrorless cameras (here’s looking at you, Sony!). A great low-cost option is the Aputure V-screen 2 that offers many advanced video options for less than 250 dollars! Thanks to the external-4K monitor-recorder craze, prices on simple external monitors have come down dramatically the last few years. The easiest (and most obvious) way to work around this would be to invest in one of the many external monitors or EVFs, monitors or monitor/recorders. While in the past this lens was only useable at 16mm on full frame due to heavy vignetting, if you factor in the 1.64 4K crop factor this lens will be useable over its entire range! Effectively turning it into an affordable 18-26 full frame lens! Focus peaking/zebrasĪnother much-heard complaint is the fact that the 5D Mark IV still does not feature focus-peaking or zebras, while many mirrorless cameras have been featuring these filming-aids for a while now. If you need wider than that, check out the Tokina 11-16 f2.8. Of course you could spring for Canons expensive 16-35 L lenses, but luckily there's a host of third-party APS-C lenses that DO fit the 5D (and due to the 4K crop factor they finally make sense on the 5D)! The back of lenses like the Sigma 17-50 f2.8 or wonderful Sigma 18-35 f1.8 does not stick out as much as Canon's own APS-C lenses and that's the reason they will fit without an issue! While the 1.64 crop factor is exactly the same as Canons APS-C DSLRs, those lenses will not fit onto the full-frame 5D. While personally I would take a cropped image over a pixel-binned image any day, it does make getting wide shots a little more difficult. The reason Canon chose for a crop over downscaling was to avoid the pixel-binning that plagued many of the early Canon HDSLRs (remember our old friend moiré?). Although almost every cinema camera available has that same industry standard Super-35 ‘crop-factor’, it’s easy to see how it’s a little disappointing for anyone expecting the 5D Mk III’s full frame video look. The other issue with the 5D Mark IV's 4K video mode, is the fact that it has a 1.64 crop factor. That's why I've created a set of Canon log to Rec709 LUTs designed specifically for Canon log on the 5D Mark IV and EOS R. They seem too punchy and skin tones quickly become unnatural. The only downside is that you have to send your camera to Canon to do the upgrade, which will often mean 4 to 6 weeks without your camera (unless you become a Canon Professional Services member, in which case it will only take a few days).Īnother issue I found is that the Canon-provided C-log LUTs don't work well with cameras like the 5D Mark IV and EOS R. One of the biggest complaints about the 5D Mark IV was Canons decision to leave out Canon log, and this criticism eventually lead Canon to offer a Canon log upgrade for the 5D Mark IV.
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