Quick & dirty test with the limited time I had with my friend's R5! Would love to hear your thoughts

Since cameras are getting more similar each day in terms of image quality, I like to see where each camera breaks, how the sensor & codecs perform, so bear that in mind with these extremely under exposed shots lol

Also I made no attempt to color match these, simply left them at their default color gamma settings (Cinema Gamut on the R5, Blackmagic Design Color Space on the Pocket 6K)

Both cameras are amazing and the 12-bit codec is visibly better than the 10-bit h.265 in terms of color information & overall tone mapping etc. Also 8K is not as awful as I had originally thought (my 9 year old 3rd gen i7 & GTX 960 is obviously struggling but hey, Premiere didn't even crash which is awesome! No smooth playback for my setup, of course....)

If you do the math the data rate of 8K RAW on the R5 (325 MB/s) is close to shooting 6K BRAW 3:1 on the Pocket (323 MB/s as per the Blackmagic website), so since 8K has about 2.6x more pixels/data (correct me if I'm wrong) I imagine this 8K RAW, as massive as it is, is still compressed at around 4:1 or even 5:1 (it even imports as Canon C200 Cinema Raw Light which is interesting)

The good news is they now added 8K RAW Light which is about 170 MB/s when shooting 24p, closer to 8K BRAW 8:1 on the new UMP 12k or like shooting 8K 8:1 redcode on the Red Monstro! So big ups to Canon for that!

Full disclosure, even with the 1.1 firmware, although I was just shooting short 20 second clips in each setting, the camera overheated after about 45 minutes being on (which goes to show the overheating timer doesn't depend solely on recording continuously), which is a massive bummer. Otherwise a very solid camera that can achieve images worthy of high end cinema production, if only it had active cooling to get past the heat....fingers crossed for the rumored R5c with active cooling like the FX3 & S1H!

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