Recently, I had a chance to meet Chris Downing, Tim Wilson and Derek Allen of GearJones.com. These guys are talented cinematographers from the Washington D.C. area.

We sat down together to look at the results of a test they did on some of the top cinema cameras, specifically on the the Red Dragon, Canon C300 Mark1, Blackmagic Design URSA Mini 4.6K, Sony F5, Sony FS7 and Sony FS5.

This test really shows off what these cameras can handle and where they fail in terms of the dynamic range, the colors and the compression codecs.

I hope you enjoyed watching the video. If you would like to see more of these tests from Gear Jones, then please go to gearjones.com or to their official YouTube channel.

Here are the cameras we used in the test:

Red Dragon

Blackmagic Design URSA Mini 4.6K

Blackmagic Design URSA Mini 4.6K on BH Photo Video, Adorama, eBay, Amazon, Amazon UK, Henry’s

Canon C300 Mark 2 (newest version of the C300 – Mark I was used in the test)

Canon C300 Mark I on BH Photo Video, Adorama

Canon C300 Mark II on BH Photo Video, Adorama, Henry’s

Sony FS7

Sony FS7 on BH Photo Video, Adorama, eBay, Amazon, Henry’s

Sony FS5

Sony FS5 on BH Photo Video, Adorama, eBay, Amazon, Henry’s

Sony F5

Sony F5 on BH Photo Video, Adorama

Here is Part 2 of the camera test

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