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Hi, I'm Dustin Abbott and in my ongoing review of the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, I've been shooting
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with it for a week now and as I go along it's premature for some of my real final review
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but and I'll share some episodes along the way highlighting different features but today I just
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wanted to give you a quick look at what I would call the picks and the pans of the actual
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real world usage of the camera. And so I'm going to start by looking at some of the negatives so far
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The biggest, of course, negative thing that people have talked about regarding the 5D4
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is when it comes to the implementation of the 4K video. A lot has been made over that crop factor, but also with the huge, the motion JPEG storage
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codec and how massive amount of storage that it takes. And all of that is true and well justified
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I wanted to highlight one other practical issue, and that is you have to have a really
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fast card to even record much of anything in 4K. I primarily skipped the last generation of 5D bodies and so the CF cards that I have go back to the 5D Mark II
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And while I've used the 5D Mark III and the 5DSR, I've primarily shot with Canon 6D bodies over the last cycle of full frame cameras
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As a result, my fastest CF card that I have was a 400 times Transcend card
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And using that or a Lexar Professional SD card that is supposed to have, they call it 1,000 times with a transfer rate of 150 megs per second
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I find that I can only record about 7 or 8 seconds of 4K video before the camera automatically shuts off because the data transfer rate just isn't fast enough
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So that's a pretty significant issue in and of itself outside of the other 4K issues that have been delineated
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And so I've got a faster card on its way to me. But just note that that's one other kind of, you know, pan in terms of the handling with it
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The price, of course, is another big issue here in Canada. And I'll be honest with you, I've been putting money aside for the last year and a half
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to be prepared for when the 5D Mark IV came or whatever body I chose as a replacement And so I had put away around in preparation for this moment
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I thought that that would cover it without any kind of issue. But here in Canada, the actual list price is $4,599
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and I got a slightly preferred price of $4,200. Even so, after I paid taxes, I was over $4,700 for the camera
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And so it came in at considerably more than what I had anticipated
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Of course, there's other early adopter woes. You know, I found that while some of my Tamron lenses that came before the new tapping console
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and you don't have easy firmware updates, I found that a number of them didn't function properly in live view
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And so I've had to send three lenses to Tamron to have firmware updates done on them and to prepare them for that
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And then, of course, many of you that have bought a 5D4 have figured out that Adobe doesn't support the RAW files yet
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And that's still probably a couple of weeks at least out. So in the interim period, you're stuck either using Canon's fairly limited Digital Professional Pro software
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or just using the JPEG files that come out of the camera
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I've done a little bit of both, and if there's files that I really want to get more into the raw processing
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and of course to really evaluate performance, I'm outputting some 16-bit TIFF files out of DPP
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and then doing my kind of normal workflow in Adobe. But even so, I don't really feel like I'm yet getting the full potential of the raw files out of it
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So that's obviously a hassle, and beyond that, I like to calibrate my lenses
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using Rykan Focal, and it's not supported yet for the 5D Mark IV. The other thing is, is that using
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JPEGs, I find that in some situations, the JPEGs aren't quite as sharp as what I'm accustomed to
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seeing out of the 6D. And of course, if you down res them to 6D size, they look nice and sharp
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but it's more that the JPEG engine, it doesn't produce quite as much detail as what I would like
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and I see more detail in the RAW files themselves. All of that being said, I have had a fabulous time
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shooting with the 5D Mark IV and I'm quickly falling in love with it for a number of reasons
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For one thing, although on paper the focus system is similar to that of the 5D Mark III or the 5DSR
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it has a slightly expanded coverage of where the focus points go to and so while it has the same number it covers a large larger area of the frame but on top of that I just find that the focus has
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improved in every detail it's faster than the previous generation of bodies it's more precise
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even without having done a lot of calibrating yet I'm finding that I'm getting very quick
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very fast focus results. Furthermore, while the 5D3 didn't have GPS and the 6D did, and I've used
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the GPS capability on the 6D a lot over the last four years, at the same time I've lamented its
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execution. I don't use it all the time. I use it more when I'm traveling or shooting specific
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events where I want that GPS information logged, because if you leave the GPS on, the way that it
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was implemented in the 6D, it stays on all the time. As a result, even if you're not using the
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camera, the battery is slowly draining. And so if you're traveling, it just means that you're going
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through batteries more quickly. And so I was really delighted to see that not only is there GPS
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on the new 5D Mark IV, but the GPS is much better implemented in that you have a choice
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of different modes, including one that the GPS is only active when the camera is on. And so
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So when the camera turns on, if you give it a few seconds to locate and to start to transmit
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it does a great job of GPS tagging your images, but without that constant battery drain
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Just a much smarter implementation that makes life easier in the real world as a photographer
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Now I'm leaving it in that mode all the time, and so I more consistently get the GPS tags on my images
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I really liked when the 80D came out and its more expanded implementation of autofocus with a maximum aperture of f8
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Specifically with a combination like the Canon 100-400mm, f4.5-5.6 LIS Mark II lens and a 1.4x teleconverter
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But at the same time, I found that it worked best when you used it in specific situations
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It works best with better light situations, and on top of that, it works best basically the fewer number of focus points that you use, the better results you get
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I'm happy to say that on the 5D Mark IV, number one, all of the different focus points, all 63 of them are active
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And so you can use that F8 combination on every single one of them. And beyond that I find that it focuses faster It focuses better in lower light situations than what it does with the Canon 80D And overall I getting very fast very consistent focus results basically whatever I choose
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to do. And so while I haven't done a lot of tracking yet, I feel like it's going to do a better
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job in tracking situations even with that teleconverter attached. One final thing that I'll highlight, my final pick that I've really noticed even though
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I've had limited raw support as I've noted before, but there is a clear advantage to
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the dynamic range of the 5D Mark IV images. I really noted a big difference when I moved to the 6D and its improved dynamic range, how
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I just found that I had more latitude when processing images. It was a revelation at that point
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I feel like even coming from the 6D to the 5D Mark IV, it's a similar revelation in that
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I just find that there's much more latitude for pushing shadows and even recovering highlights
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more so on the latter than what I've ever seen out of a Canon body before
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The 80D was a big step in the right direction, but the 5D Mark IV is even better
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And so I really find that I'm really excited actually for Adobe support of the RAW files
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because there seems to be a tremendous amount of latitude there and really creating a very dynamic looking image, even without resorting to techniques like HDR
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which the camera does have HDR built right in, unlike some of the previous bodies
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even HDR when it comes to shooting movies. And so there are some really nice features that are there
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And so the bottom line is that while there are some annoyances, yes, some of which just have to come with early adopting
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both in price and implementation and support, but I'm finding that I really enjoy shooting with the 5D Mark IV
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and I'm excited about it becoming my new workhorse everyday camera. It really is a great camera and I'll be giving you more details as I progress further into both using it and reviewing it
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I'm Dustin Abbott and if you'll look down below, I've now got a pretty extensive gallery of images captured with the 5D Mark IV
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with a number of different lenses and a variety of different situations, including some 4K screen grabs
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which is one of the things that they're kind of marketing about this camera to see how it actually works
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and so you'll want to follow along there there's a link down in the description below as well as
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the ability to follow me on social media or to shop for the camera itself if you haven't already
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please subscribe thanks for watching have a great day
