Hey there Jake from B&H. Today I got another surprise for you. I’ve got Brent Ramsey
from Canon. The new flagship camera XF705. This is exciting. Okay, what can you tell
me about this guy?
This camera is the culmination of like 20 years of Canon video professional video camera
development. It’s a camera for the 4K, HDR era. And I think that's very important.
Let’s start with the sensor. What is the sensor? 1-inch I believe? Okay, we got a 1-inch
sensor so its approximately effective pixels are going to be about 8.29 megapixels. Let’s
talk about resolution and frame-rate. Start at the top, your ticket is Ultra HD 4K, 60p?
We’ve got 4K UHD, 4:22 10-bit H.265 HEVC. And it's very important you know so now we
have a very highly efficient, very high image quality and very efficient codec combined.
So, that's going to give us 4:22 10-bit at 59.94fps, full HD to a 120fps. 4:22 10-bit
full HD.
The H.265 is what caught my eye. Explain to me the motivation behind that. Well, you know
one of the things that keeps coming up all the time, is when you're shooting 4K of course
is that not only is it require a lot of data storage. You know when you’re offloading
files and so forth. And when you go into your NLE and in my case I'm a lot of people may
have a better computer than me, but you know the footage just chugs along right? And so,
it makes it kind of a challenge to edit right out off of a card. You know where downloading
the footage without going to some transcoding option. So, that takes time. So, you want
to have a very efficient NLE or workflow. And that's what this is going to improve.
This is going to have smaller file sizes, less data storage. Very efficiently, and also
an easier time in the workflow.
So, let's move to image quality. This has HDR and now you have C-LOG 3? I believe? C-Log
3 and that's not all. C-LOG 3 has only been in are Cinema EOS cameras to date. So, this
is coming right out of say the you know the C200/C300 Mark II. We've got C Log, we have
normal one in this. We have wide DR, which is you know maybe giving up a stop at somewhere
to the same curve as C Log 3. C Log 3 will deliver 13 stops. That's not where it stops.
Basically, we also have HDR recording. Which is kind of something that we haven't seen
in any of our cameras. In fact, you know it's this the first one I've seen that Canon and
what this is going to give us, is the ability to record internally to the HLG or the PQ
HDR standard.
So, in all of this is recording to SD cards. Think about that right? Perhaps the most efficient
and cost-effective way of recording right? SD cards. Yeah, we're getting 4:2:2 10-bit
59.94p. 120fps for HD and HDR internal recording to 2 SD cards. And of course, they've got
simultaneous recording and relay recording. So, you can effectively record for a very
long and afford it.
SD cards are nicer on my wallet. Look at the lens I can see your red ring. Is that mean
L series? Yeah it does. In fact, that's really cool. This is a fixed lens. It’s a 25.5mm
to 380.25mm lens. It’s a very extensive focal length. But it's an L-series glass that has
18 elements in there. The sensors back here. This is all lens up here. There’re 18 elements
with 14 groups I think. And 2 aspheric elements right? So, it’s going to correct your chromatic
aberration and provide great edge-to-edge sharpens and contrast. One of the things I'm
sure that users will appreciate it that this is a f/2.8 to f/4.5. So, it's going to ramp
as you zoom in of course. But it gives you that f/2.8. And additionally, it has 9 blades
of iris. So, you're going to get really sweet, round bokeh. It is a 15x zoom lens. But, it
also has a feature and it called Advanced Zoom that we've seen in a couple of cameras
before this. XF405 with Advanced Zoom. Which effectively gives you a 30x zoom range.
And on the top of the body, couple of things I see. The new LCD--It's a 4-inch LCD. It’s
Huge! and it's fully articulating is very cool. You can offer it off to your assistant
or I can come back through the other side and give it to say the director. So, this
will work very well I think that what most people will probably wanted you to work with
it is in the configuration like so. And it gives you a great length to work from. Especially
if you are wearing good glasses like I've got. You know you can see it quite well. It's
at 4-inch screen 1.23 million dots of resolution. So, very high quality. Oh, by the way, it
has dual pixel autofocus. So, eased of operability that's kind of where that's going to be it's
going to make that one man show that this camera will be used the most in. It’ll make
that one-person crew very efficient and get a lot of great high quality, sharp very important
4K footage. Like many of our capacitive touch LCDs as we're seeing you know throughout our
product line. This camera features touch screen autofocus. You've got several faces it'll
basically put a face AF box around many faces that you got in a group shot for instance.
And then literally just touch this screen on the face you want to feature. It's that
easy. So, touch AF available throughout. And it can you adjust the speed? We have AF speed
in three levels. So, they've made it quite easy to kind of get into the game there. So,
for instance, the amount of time it takes for the lens to rack to the other subject,
right? You have low, normal and high.
You also have IS as well. That right? Once again, we’ve got 5-axis, image stabilization.
So, we're getting optical plus the electronic stabilization on the sensor. So, we're correcting
for yaw, pitch roll, up, down, left, right, vibration control and we have levels of IS
as well. So, there's a dynamic mode that would give you a lot of control and say a very shaky
environment. There's a vibration control. Kind of a standard IS and enabled via IS for
walking or handheld shots. Right? Take the edge off of what we normally equate with a
jerky camera movement in a walking handheld situation.
Alright so can we talk a little about, outputs here? We have, HDMI, SDI? What else? On the
back of the camera which has been redesigned with a lot user input. The configuration has
changed a little bit, the covers are independent now. We have one of the XLR inputs right there.
We have a 12G SDI input. Which is very important because now we can send 4K UHD out to an external
recorder or monitored display device on the set.
We have time code in/out. We have a genlock sync connector. We have a headphone connection,
we have a remote A and B. We have a RS-422 for IP streaming and we have a DC-in jack
in the back. So, you can sit there with a power source. But the dimensions of the configuration,
the layout, the buttons and switches. You’ll find that these have been changed a little
bit. Importantly, over here we more less we have the configuration of the Cinema EOS of
the cinema EOS layout. So, we've got now Motorized ND filters and we've adopted that same turret
wheel that you'll see in some of our Cinema EOS cameras. Which rotate in say, in this
case ¼, 1/16th, 1/64th ND or 2-4-6 stops. That's easily accessible right there. We have
a waveform monitor, we have peaking, zebras all those Items you expect on the output of
the camera. We have infrared capabilities here.
So, take away from me here is that you've got to put cinematic image quality into a
camera that performs like Professional camcorder/doc style camera. Where you have to move fast,
you don't want to sacrifice image quality. Is that the kind of user you're talking about
here? We’re talking about the guys (or ladies) who work for a living. They need a camera
that functions. And functions in a lot of different ways. Professional video camera
operators are going to really love this camera. They’re going to find a wide use for it.
A wide variety of events and features.
Exciting new flagship Camera from Canon. XF 705. Want to take Brent Ramsey. He’s from
Texas, I'm not. This is Jake from B&H, just keep shooting.