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Custom Picture / Canon Log setting when shooting RAW in R5 and R5C

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pedz
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Custom Picture / Canon Log setting when shooting RAW in R5 and R5C

A YouTube video enlightened me on "Picture Mode" when shooting RAW still images. It does not affect the image stored but it does affect how the view screen displays the image. The first part I knew, the second part I had never thought about.

Now we come to the same question -- I think. Both the R5 and the R5C can shoot RAW. But they still have either "Custom Picture" in the case of the R5C or similar options such as "Canon Log" submenu with the R5. "But I'm shooting RAW", I say to myself. Why is the camera giving me these choices?

With the R5C, I shot two short clips, both in 8K RAW. One with CP set to CP1 which is BT.709 / Wide DR and the other with CP2 which is Canon Log 3 / Cinema Gammet. Looking in the camera, the two clips looked different. Changing the CP mode after the fact did not affect things. When I import them into Premiere Pro, both show up exactly the same. Selecting a clip in the source monitor, picking Effect Controls, under Canon Cinema RAW Light Source Settings, the color space and Gamma of both clips showed up as Cinema Gamet / Canon Log 2. So, if the metadata is different between the two clips, Premiere Pro doesn't see it.

I set the Color Space and Gamma in the Premiere Pro Canon Cinema RAW Light Source Settings panel to BT.709 / Wide DR and put both clips side by side in a sequence and I can't tell them apart.

So, I'm concluding that what the YouTube video said about RAW format for still images basically is valid for RAW format for video files. When shooting RAW, what is recorded on the card is not affected by the "Custom Picture" setting. Does anyone want to confirm this or perhaps you have a counter example?

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pedz

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