- Could this be it?
(sellotape ripping)
Yup!
C500 Mark II.
It's interesting how it says 2K and 4K, right?
'Cause pretty sure this camera can do 5.9K
I think.
So I think I got a special
'cause it came with a free one of these cards,
but dang, look at that.
1,700 Megabytes per second read speed
and 1,400 Megabytes, not Megabits, Megabytes,
so that is frickin' fast.
Manual here.
Let's see what we got here.
We got our strap right there.
Monitor.
Ooh, this is actually a little bit bigger
than the C300's I believe.
This must be the bracket for the monitor.
Cables that are extremely expensive.
Top handle.
Battery charger.
Battery, ooh, it gives us a bigger one.
It gives us the A60 which is nice.
I believe the C300 came with the A30,
which is much shorter in lifespan,
but these pack a lotta juice.
Microphone mount.
And here's the beast itself.
Oh yeah.
I like that there's the XLR inputs
just built in right onto the body,
so you got your input one and input two.
It is beautiful!
It is modular, so you can see that
it accepts some sort of module right there.
Oh man, it feels nice.
I mean, this is an exciting camera
'cause not only is it full frame,
but it's cinema quality and dual pixel autofocus
built-in NDs, you can swap this out with a PL mount.
I mean, it checks off a lot of the boxes
that I've been wanting,
so I'm excited for this thing.
Let me just try to build this out real quick.
Oh, hi Pita.
You wanna say hi to everybody?
Say hi!
No, over there.
No, seriously though, you gotta get outta here.
I gotta get some work done.
Looks like it's got a hot shoe
and a quarter inch thread up here,
so this just locks into the hot shoe.
So slide it in and lock it down.
Now, I remember this mount from the C200.
I also remember it being a little bit tricky.
Why am I sitting on the ground by the way?
A random ass...
I don't know.
My studio's really messy right now
and I was like, "You know, I don't really feel
"like cleaning this up.
"I'm just gonna film it on the ground
"outside of the studio."
This is a puzzle on its own.
Pretty sure this goes up front.
I think this monitor fits in right here.
Looks like I need an allen wrench.
Did they give us one?
They did not.
Got some.
Don't you love it when you have
a bunch of different allen wrench sizes
and the first one you try fits perfectly?
Yes.
It looks like it's just a single cable
that goes from the monitor to the camera.
Before it used to be two.
I think it was one for audio, one for video,
but since audio is built into the body here now
I think that's why there's only one cable, so I like that.
Less set-up time.
Oh snap, it turns out they do give you these allen wrenches,
I just didn't see it.
All right, cool.
So yeah, you can just build it out
with stuff that comes in the box.
Let me throw this on the charger
and we'll come back.
Maybe by that time I would be done
cleaning up the studio so we can film in there.
I look so unprofessional just sitting on the...
What am I doing with my life?
All right, there we go.
See, I cleaned up, I look all professional again.
Happy now?
Got a battery pack charged up,
so let's fire her up.
Oh yes, of course.
The time and date.
We are in Los Angeles.
January 4th, 2020.
2020, it's hard to say 2020.
I still feel like it's 2019.
So here she is with everything that
kinda came with the box here.
Still kinda getting used to this monitor.
It's actually kinda nice
'cause you can kinda rotate this up like this
and almost use it like how you would use a red.
You kind of flip it this way.
Almost like a vlogging.
It doesn't perfectly line up right there,
but check it out, see.
You'd be able to monitor yourself,
but mostly I think it's just meant to be used like this.
With the shoulder pad and the lens right here,
this would feel pretty good like this.
I am liking this screen though.
It is a tad bit bigger than that C300 Mark II.
Probably gonna be making a lot of C300 Mark II comparisons
'cause that's a camera I have a lot of hours on.
I still don't know exactly the best way
to kinda transport it though.
There's no real spot for it to kinda fold.
Maybe kinda like this sorta?
I don't know, it doesn't really seat in anywhere nicely.
That was one thing that was nice about the C300,
it kinda closed into itself
so it can stay safe during transport.
Here it just kind flops around.
It's nice and flexible in where it can go,
but yeah, no perfect storage spot, right?
Let's try slapping a lens on here.
Comes with an EF mount,
but you could swap it out for a PL mount
with just a couple screws.
You don't have to commit to one or the other necessarily,
so that's a big plus.
Oh!
Okay!
There we go, wow.
This is looking good actually.
Now this isn't gonna be a pull in-depth review.
That's gonna have to come after I have a few weeks with it,
this is gonna be my main camera around Thailand,
so that should give me plenty of different
shooting conditions to work in,
and you can clearly see that it's a full frame sensor
kinda like the EOS R that I'm filming on here,
but it just had this extra layer of sharpness and clarity,
just so much better dynamic range just right off the bat.
So yeah, so far so good.
I'm so excited to see what the footage out of this
is gonna look like.
Let me just go film some random stuff.
(upbeat music)
Man, we got like no left unfortunately,
but here, just quick side-by-side shot.
All right, so I'm basically gonna try to match
this camera with this.
So I'm just gonna start off in rec 709,
so here's how the EOS R looks,
and here's how the C500 Mark II looks.
Now let's look at the flat color profile,
so here's how the EOS R looks in C-Log,
and here's how the C500 Mark II looks in C-Log3.
Now that's all the experimenting we could do
as of right now, but trust me,
tons more footage coming with this guy, but anyhow.
Thank you, Carrie, for helping me model.
I was like, "Carrie, the sun's dipping in
"and I need you to be in the shot!"
And she's like, "I just came back from the gym!"
You know how earlier I said the A60 battery last forever?
Now this camera definitely draws
a whole lot more power,
so maybe not so much with this camera.
Just looking at it on this teeny little monitor
I can already see a big difference from
footage I've seen before, so this is gonna be cool!
Man, I can't tell you how excited I am
to shoot with this thing,
so let's look at the body real quick.
Now all this is looking very familiar
if you used any of the Canon cinema cameras.
We've got out ND filters here.
It looks like we got a two-stop, four-stop
and six-stop filter built in here.
Magnification to punch into your frame,
focus peaking, zebra, wave for monitor,
that's WFM, LUTs, ISO/gain, shutter speed.
And you can toggle slow motion right here.
It's a little button there to light up all the buttons.
White balance, custom white balance,
record button, got a dial here
and your one-shot autofocus.
Slot select to choose between our different
memory card slots right there.
That's where our CFexpress cards go,
we got two of 'em and also a slot for an SD card.
Media to see your playback,
and then right now it's on camera,
but you can lock it in or just turn it off right there.
Ooh, check this out, if we pull off
our top handle here...
Look at that, six quarter inch screws right here,
actually seven and eight.
That's gonna give us all kinds
of mounting options up here, huh?
I guess if you don't want this top handle
you can just pull this monitor off here.
There's a quarter inch on the bottom of the monitor,
so you could just Noga arm it up here.
Make this even smaller or for gimbal, so that's cool!
And again, you don't need this handle up here
for your audio 'cause on the C300
audio XLR inputs were on the handle here.
I like how it feels with this top handle on here,
so I'll leave it on for now.
With this cable here, you wanna make sure
that you clip the excess cable right up into here.
If you don't, this thing is gonna end up
floating in front of your lens,
you're gonna blow a take.
Back here we have function number 12
so we can customize that button,
we got our joystick and menu and cancel,
so this is where we're gonna be dialing all our settings.
I think it's just a repeat of what we got over here.
So depending on your setup you can
navigate over here or over here.
So yeah, so far so good.
I love that all your functions
that you're gonna be accessing frequently
right here labeled clear as day.
Now let's check out the right side here.
We got out two SDIs right here,
monitor SDI out, there's your port for time code right there
and of course our two XLR inputs with phantom power.
That makes this camera an awesome documentary camera.
And then you got your DCN,
that's a four pin XLR right there,
got your remote A HDMI mic and headphone jack,
so it looks like you could probably plug in
even just like a small little road video mic
or something like that, huh?
And then you got your very standard
input one, input two line mic and phantom power mic.
Look at this, air intake and exhaust fan.
That thing's massive, keep this camera cool.
It's a powerful camera, so I imagine it'll need it.
Got a USB port right there, that's a mini.
And what is that?
I have no idea what that is, but let's cut this part out
'cause I want people to think I know what I'm talking about.
Up front we got our one-shot autofocus,
and what's over here, our push auto iris.
Ooh, that could be convenient on run and gun shoots.
You change exposure real quick, you press that
and it generally gets you in the ball park
and then you could just kinda dial the rest in there.
Handle pops off, a must-have feature
if you're gonna throw this on a gimbal.
Your focus guide, another joystick, and a wheel here.
I think by default this is your iris control.
Another record button.
So yeah, loving the body.
Not much new here, it just kinda works.
Can be a little bit overwhelming
when you first see all these buttons.
You go, "Ah, I'm intimidated!"
But you learn what everything does and it's easy.
All right, let's dive into this menu here.
Love these cameras 'cause they're pretty self-explanatory.
There's usually not too much in here
that'll make you scratch your head, right?
I hate those cameras where there's so many options,
you're like, "I've never heard of this before."
But C300 and C500 Mark II looks like
it's pretty much the same,
and it's gonna be pretty straightforward if that's the case.
So, iris mode, oh I got a manual lens here.
Let me put on a Canon lens on here
so I can kinda see some of these options activated,
let's go with the 16-35 F2 .8.
Iris mode, still grayed out.
This function is not compatible with the current lens.
I just talked about how I know
what everything on this menu is.
Literally the first thing that pops up is iris mode.
What's that mean?
Let's try this one.
100 millimeter macro.
This function is not compatible with the current lens, what?
I don't get it.
What is iris mode?
I can adjust my...
I'll know this for sure
by the time I get my in-depth review, okay?
That's why this video is titled Unboxing The C500, okay?
Means I unboxed it.
I don't know (beep) about the camera yet.
Ooh, extended ND range.
Lemme see what happens if I pop that on.
So earlier we had an ND of two, four, six.
Oh, okay, so this allows me to go to eight and 10 stops now.
If we go to eight stops,
the number of ND filters used has changed,
so double check your focus.
So it must be stacking different layers of glass
and you could get up to 10 stops, so that's dope.
Man, I love having these ND filters in the body.
Much prefer that over having it up here on front of the lens
where it causes all kinds of glares and crap.
I mean, 10 stops, that's pretty dang good.
You'll rarely need to ever go past that,
so you can leave your filters at home, boys.
Shutter mode, angle.
Yes please, or you could change it back to speed.
So you know, if you're coming from a DSLR land,
you use the shutter speeds like one 50th of a second,
one 48th of a second.
But I like angle, that way we just put it at 180 degrees
and you never have to think about your shutter speed.
When you change your frame rates, it's always going to
perfectly match it at basically double your frame rate.
Auto black balance, oh you got
chromatic aberration correction?
I have it all off right now, but we'll see.
If I ever see a shot with a lot of chromatic aberration,
I might pop it on and see how it does.
Digital image stabilization.
That's something I'm curious to try out.
Custom picture, we got our 709,
Log2, Log3, I'll probably be shooting in Log3.
Not a huge fan of C-Log2.
It's a little bit difficult to grade.
It's supposed to be the rawest, cleanest one,
but C-Log3 looks really good and it's easier to grade,
so I prefer that.
All right, sensor mode.
We're on full frame.
Perfect, you could also crop into super 35.
Especially if you're using the cropped in lenses,
and super 16 if you want to go
to a higher frame rate I believe.
So on full frame, looks like our max frame rate is 60
and at super 35, highest frame rate, still 60.
Then if we go to super 16 cropped in mode,
so that's gonna be in...
Ah, that opens up the option of going
120 frames per second.
That is still one thing that I wanna see
outta these cameras, is some really good
high frame rate options.
And then RAW which is gonna be nice
'cause that's gonna give us access to 5.9K
up to 60 frames per second.
But for now I think XF-AVC is gonna be plenty
for what I'm trying to do,
and that's only gonna give me 4K instead of 5.9K,
but honestly that's plenty.
And it's 10 bit, so loving that.
You got your options to how you wanna record
onto your memory cards,
relay recording means you fill up one card,
it automatically switches to the second one.
Or double slot recording, writing to both cards
at the same time.
Just to get that super redundancy.
I don't know if I need that.
I'm probably just gonna keep it on relay recording for now.
Ooh, some options for our monitor.
So if I needa brighten up this screen,
we're filming outside and the sun's blasting,
I can pop this off and that looks pretty bright,
I have to test this out in bright sunlight.
So here's our assistance functions,
so stuff like focus peaking, that's gonna help out a lot,
magnification, false color.
This is where we can kinda adjust things.
Zebra.
I personally never use zebra,
but I do like to use wave for monitor sometimes
or false color, so I think I could swap out
number three which is zebra for false color.
Oh man, you can customize all 15 of these buttons?
That's awesome.
I mean, I think they did a pretty good job
laying out all these buttons
to most frequently accessed buttons,
but if there's something that you don't really use on here
you can always customize that, so that's cool.
And check this out, I am now vlogging
on the C500 Mark II.
It's incredibly heavy.
Anyways, guess where I am.
Let's go outside.
And here's we-- oh my God, it's so bright.
Luckily ND's built in,
saving the day.
What are we, four stops, let's go to six stops.
Ah, there ya go, looking pretty good.
And cue plane.
Yup, thanks for ruining my audio, plane.
But yeah, check it out.
How's the footage looking?
I'm going from sun into shade.
Yeah, I still got some pretty good dynamic range.
It's not so bad, huh?
It's kinda silly to be vlogging on this camera,
but it's actually not that insanely bad.
I still got my front facing display, I got autofocus.
Super heavy, got a mic on top,
but yeah, this is gonna be super fun.
Man, I'm still not used to cars
driving on the other side of the road.
They drive on the left side.
I just keep walking into traffic,
checking the wrong side of the street.
Not gonna lie though, this is looking pretty good.
Should this just be my main vlog camera?
But not everyone's just staring, like,
"Why is he recording himself?
"Why is that camera so big?"
This is uncolor graded with just the standard
color profile, and it looks pretty good.
I'm just gonna carry this around everywhere with me.
But yeah, super excited to be here in Thailand for--
another plane?
Do you really have to fly that close to me?
Autofocus seems to be tracking pretty well,
but yeah, super excited to be here for the next two weeks.
We're riding around in scooters.
This one's mine, and we actually crashed a scooter yesterday
so if you wanna see the vlog for that,
click right there.
Boom, you can follow our journey
in Thailand on the vlog channel,
so yeah, anyways, my arm's getting
incredibly tired and people are really looking at me a lot,
so I'm getting kinda self-conscious.
I'm gonna cut now.
All right, see you guys later.
(upbeat music)