Canon XF605 UHD 4K HDR Pro Camcorder

I am primarily a videographer half dozen sony nx5u cameras with all kinds of lanc controllers. I have been waiting for them to get their act together between the z190 and z280 and they keep stepping around the sweet spot of dual recording networking camera that this has. I had to get it to consider replacing my whole sony fleet.I told it to record 4k 30p 422 10 bit on the card 1 and 1920 x30p x 420 8 bit on card two. It worked like a charm for a 3 hour concert.However, twice I pressed the record button and then pressed it again because it was a mistake. The menu button is close to the record button.Both times the camera locked up. I mean frozen screen not a single button would work. The off switch didn't even work. I had to remove the AC power and the battery ... MoreI am primarily a videographer half dozen sony nx5u cameras with all kinds of lanc controllers. I have been waiting for them to get their act together between the z190 and z280 and they keep stepping around the sweet spot of dual recording networking camera that this has. I had to get it to consider replacing my whole sony fleet.I told it to record 4k 30p 422 10 bit on the card 1 and 1920 x30p x 420 8 bit on card two. It worked like a charm for a 3 hour concert.However, twice I pressed the record button and then pressed it again because it was a mistake. The menu button is close to the record button.Both times the camera locked up. I mean frozen screen not a single button would work. The off switch didn't even work. I had to remove the AC power and the battery to get it to reboot. I continued the show.When one of the sd cards are full, the manual says it will stop recording. Well in this case the sd card recording 4k got full first and the camera locked up. Same as above. I had to remove all power to get it to shut off to power reboot it.Next day I contacted canon customer support and he said try it now. Sure enought by repeated pressing on the record key, it locked up. Then he said try another brand of sd card. I changed sd cards and could not get it to lock up.The SD card that locks it up was sandisk u10 s3 v30. The card that worked was the samsung u10s3 v30. I asked if he had a list of acceptable cards, and he did not.The Second problem was that I bought this to be able to stream directly from it since now I used an external encoder.It turns out it only streams in RTSP with a password.My livestream provider, vimeo only accepts rtmps. so it would work.I tried a workaround, I used my Livestream Studio software as a switching software. It accepts camera inputs of RTSP but not if they have a password.Next workaround, I tried to bring it in with my switcher using NDI protocol, no NDI.So right now its internal streaming encoding device is not useful to me at all.John Lenihan

I head up a wildlife film crew and this is our primary camera, in front of an R and XC15. It replaces an xf400, which was really good in its own right. This is a drastic increase in quality for us. Stand out features are endless. The zoom rocker mechanism is exquisitely smooth. The function and status controls make operating the camera so easy regardless of how customizable it is. CLog3 to rec709 conversion never fails to exceed my expectations. Snap on the old trusty 58 mm 500D although unsupported, autofocus works perfectly through the entire zoom range. Snap on a Raynox HP 9000EX and you've got 688 mm of jaw dropping zoom. The camera is surprisingly light and has a very long lasting battery. Freedom to stop the aperture beyond F11. Built-in time code. Unmatched ... MoreI head up a wildlife film crew and this is our primary camera, in front of an R and XC15. It replaces an xf400, which was really good in its own right. This is a drastic increase in quality for us. Stand out features are endless. The zoom rocker mechanism is exquisitely smooth. The function and status controls make operating the camera so easy regardless of how customizable it is. CLog3 to rec709 conversion never fails to exceed my expectations. Snap on the old trusty 58 mm 500D although unsupported, autofocus works perfectly through the entire zoom range. Snap on a Raynox HP 9000EX and you've got 688 mm of jaw dropping zoom. The camera is surprisingly light and has a very long lasting battery. Freedom to stop the aperture beyond F11. Built-in time code. Unmatched focus accuracy and flexibility. Tons of button customization options. Camera remote allows touchless control at full zoom, so absolutely no camera motion. I always dreamed of owning the XF705, but it was too expensive for our small film crew. Then this came out :-))). Check out samples on our website using my handle. The lichen video close ups we're all recorded with this camera.

I posted an unhappy review about this Canon, however, after aday of updating my Mac and installing new codecs the quality of the final filelooks much better. It is still softer compared to both Sony cameras, which Ihave, however it has its won charm. Thinkthat this camera better in event production, where softer footage lookspreferable, vs with Sony, which I use for the nature documentary production andsharper image plays better.