Hi, I'm Ollie Kenchington, and I run a small film production company in Somerset, in England.
Today I have brought you on location to a shoot that we're doing for a local organic flower farm.
We have been shooting with the C200 as our A Cam for over a year now,
and the EOS R has recently joined it.
We use it for B-Roll and I've also started using it
as a second angle for interviews.
Canon really have thought a great deal about how the EOS R sits in,
as a video device, with their Cinema EOS range,
and that's something that's not happened before.
So come with me now, and we will dive in amongst the flowers,
with our EOS R, and I'll show you how we use it on one of our productions.
We use mirrorless systems on gimbals all the time, but actually I love stripping them right back to the bare
essentials, just a monitor and a hand-grip, and using them hand-held.
Even if you're not using an optical image stabilised, or I.S. lens, the digital image stabilisation in the EOS R
is incredibly good too. And in fact, if you are using both, then the data from the
optical stabilisation system in the lens, actually communicates back to the body and
can be enhanced by the digital I.S. All that means, basically, is that this camera, set
up for hand-held use, is rock steady, and I love shooting this way, if I possibly can.
We will be capturing the interviews today at 4k, 25 frames, but for the B-Roll, I'm
gonna be shooting in full HD, at 50 frame per second. The 50 frames just adds a certain
amount of, kind of, graceful movement.
The other thing that I often have wanted with
a B-Cam, with a small mirrorless system, is good control over manual audio levels, with
good pre-amps. And again the EOS R stepped up in that regard. It's got a separate 3.5mm headphone
jack, a separate 3.5mm input. It's good, clean, crisp dialogue.
Right now I'm using the older 85mm f1.4.
It's one of my favourite lenses, I'd be lost if I couldn't use it, so the included
adaptor is incredibly useful but, more than that is an optional adapter, that has a built
in vari-ND. That's something I've not seen before, and it allows me to, not only use
my 85mm f1.4, it allows me to stay at f1.4 and then use the vari-ND that's built in to the
barrel of the adaptor, to adjust my exposure and maintain that aperture.
If you've ever used any of Canon's DSLR range, then you will instantly be familiar with the menu system.
You can make it understand your way of working. You can programme in your quick shortcuts.
I think one of the biggest impacts that the EOS R as brought to our film work,
is it's extended battery life - I don't have to keep stopping to swap out the batteries,
which we used to have to do with our old mirrorless system.
The Auto Focus is amazing! It allows me to
let people walk out of shot, or disappear in to the distance, and instead of shouting
after them, "hang on, I missed it, can you come back", I can just tap on them on the
screen and just watch as the little box follows them off in to the distance.
And of course there's also the Touch Auto Focus, the Touch Drag.
So we can also drag around the screen
to place the focal point, and allow the focal plane to just move and track as we move our
finger across the screen. You know, this is a whole new way of interacting with focus,
but it's really effective and it's such a lovely way to work.
There's so much that's been thought about by Canon.
From the neutral colour matrix, to the internal 8-bit C-Log,
to the external 10-bit C-Log that you get clean over the HDMI, which allows us to shoot
fantastic sunsets, and other subtle gradations of colour, in objects that would typically band in 8-bit.
It is incredible. It's saved me a huge amount of time, and allows me to work very, very quickly.
And we are thrilled with the images that we're getting from it.