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Canon EOS M5 Review - From a 6D Owner.

Started May 27, 2017 | User reviews thread
Photato
Photato Veteran Member • Posts: 3,152
Re: Canon EOS M5 Review - From a 6D Owner.
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jaap51 wrote:

About missing 4K video. I suspect most people don't own 4K monitors or lack the computer power to pp this material. I believe YouTube doesn't do 4K. So what the heck ?

I own the M6 with the old EVF. A very very big plus is that you can tilt this EVF. No M5 or Sony for me.

The need of 4K video in the context of capture devices is not a 4K TV target or the internet.

Is more about quality, creativity and flexibility.
First, Canon is not using in the M series the entire sensor surface to capture video but just a small percentage of pixels, hence the moire artifacts, noise and low dynamic range.

This is obvious when you compare a 1080P JPEG shot from the camera which uses all the pixels to a video frame extracted from a M5 1080P video, the quality is not even close to 720P.

Also you have the option to zoom or reframe a video post capture in editing when the source is 4K

In other words, if you want high quality finished 1080P video, you need to capture at least at 4K resolution.

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