First Canon 6D Footage Surfaces

Johnnie Behiri shot the below video with a preproduction Canon 6D, which should start shipping in the next week or so. There is no color correction applied to this footage and audio was recorded directly to the camera.

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/54352877 w=640&h=360]

Behiri’s initial conclusion is that “there is simply no substitute for the full frame sensor ‘look.'” That said, the moire problem is pretty bad in this short. I really thought Canon was on to something with removing moire as a serious issue from its HDSLRs given the recent improvements with the 1D X and 5D Mark III. Hopefully, this problem will be improved in the production version of the 6D.

Behiri highlights the 6D’s pros and cons as follows:

Camera strengths:

• Full frame sensor
• Clean high ISO in video mode (1250 is very mush usable).
• Manual audio adjusting
• PAL/NTSC

Camera weakness:

• Severe moire
• Soft image
• No headphone socket
• No audio through HDMI while recording (for monitoring audio on new EVF’s)
• No clean HDMI output

Notes:

• Format: 1080/25 All-I
• Video shot with available light. Litepanels 1×1 was used for the interview only
• Audio was recorded directly to the camera. No external audio recorder was used.
• ISO settings 640-1250
• Picture profile: Netural 0,-4,-1, 0
• 30% sharpening was added in post (Adobe Premiere CS6)
• No CC was applied

Equipment used in this video:

• Sachtler ACE L tripod
• Vocas base plate
• Lenses: Samyang 35mm, Canon 70-200 f4, Tokina 11-16mm
• Various Kata bags
• Litepanels 1×1
• TV logic VFM 056 WP

[via Planet 5D]