After putting the C70 through its paces for the last three years I've consolidated all my learnings into a course! Linked here: www.ericwalkervideo.com/c70

LOL we've all been there, dude. Frustrated a something and then realizing it's a simple fix 😂 I'm hoping to get a C70 soon, and so I naturally binged all your C70 videos. Love your vibe and truly appreciate the work you put into each video. Excited to see what you create next!

Very helpful seeing your process. The C70 autofocus has also driven me nuts. Especially after using the R5 which is almost never an issue even in dim light

Awesome! I’m learning for sure. Keep it up Eric!

love your videos about the c70!! just got mine and I've been learning a lot from you!!

Dude this is so helpful! I’ve been struggling with this on my c70 as well!

Wow, your video totally made me realize that indeed there is a solution! Thank you! I am lucky to also own the R5, so I can use it for 120fps and face tracking but nothing beats the convenience of ND filters, way longer recording times in 4k (without heat warnings) and many other video-centric functionality that the C70 offers, I'm glad you did not do the switch! lol

We have been having some trouble using this for reception coverage for our wedding company. Excited to try this working around. I have had better auto-focus results on my Canon R over my C70 with low-light venues. It's upsetting that my Canon R outperforms my C70 with auto focus seeing that it cost so much more.

Great help. Thanks for info

glad you found a good fix! also, my C70 is currently at Canon getting repaired now too because of the hinge.. I think its super common unfortunately

So useful as usual !

First of all, let me thank you for your channel, for your very helpful videos and for being yourself. Handsome, nice and down to earth. I am a C70 user as well, and your research has helped me a lot. One thing i wanted to ask you, regarding the autofocus: How do you handle tracking mode, when you don't have the possibility to touch the LCD, in order to track an object? For instance because you are shooting on the shoulder rig and looking through a Zacuto Viewfinder. Is there a good way to configure a button for this purpose? Many thanks in advance! Ingo from Germany

Wow that is so cool that you are in Boston! I just drove to Melrose to buy the C70 a few days ago. I updated the camera and I noticed with the crop sensor the autofocus is not really doing well. I still haven't had a chance to put my RF 24 to 70 2.8 on it yet.

Such a good review, yet again. Thanks from all of us!

Very helpful. I remember watching this video a while back. I was setting my SF mode to the 12 button and trying to figure out was I was loosing face tracking when I switched it to 59fps. I thought that was the whole point of this video from what I remembered. I had to rewatch this video to see I missed the word "manually" setting to 59fps for 40% in post. Ahhh I see said the blind man. All good. I was shooting some great slomo but losing footage because of focus. Your remedy works great. THANKS!!! In the footage you used as reference, you were shooting hands. Will you still have the same issue?

ohhhh my days!!! it really does work 😆😆😆 this is brilliant!!! thank you for this one !

It's a shame they can't implement the same AF system from the R5/R6, it's so much sticker. Plus eye tracking, there's no reason it shouldn't be able to.

@Velghe87

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not acceptable… my 2018 EOS R has better AF than my C70…

I have the R5C that I've been using for over a year and as of last week I bought the C70 and I have a lot of learning to do.

Thanks a lot for making these videos about the C70. Has been on my wish list for a while. With that being said, I keep hearing about constant disappointments with the autofocus and build quality (LCD hinge.) I hope Canon can address this soon, I may go Sony FX6 instead.

Thank you! Exact same situation at shoot today - and I watched this at lunch.

@SoundItOutFilms

Жыл бұрын

Haha amazing!

Dude so funny I had the exact thing happen to me. I always shoot in slow fast mode and I was getting frustrated with the autofocus to the point I was looking at R5’s too and then another videographer who shoots on a C70 asked me to second shoot a wedding with him and he showed me this and I was blown away haha felt so dumb for not thinking of it but so happy to have slow motion and autofocus now, it’s not the best but definitely much better than slow fast mode!

hahahahha that klanggking of the LCD Screen had me laughing!!! hahahaha

Great video thanks. You know when you said you figured out you could just change the franerate to 60 then slow down in post and you map the custom button...can you also increase the shutter speed to double the framework with that same button press? I.e. map the button on the C70 so it switches to 60fps and 1/120th frame rate? Or are you just mapping the button to switch between 23.987 and 60 and leaving the shutter at 1/50th for this? I always found it annoying having to go through the menus so custom buttons would be great for this! I just never bothered setting them up!

@SoundItOutFilms

2 жыл бұрын

No need, it's a shutter angle!

lol you literally have all the same issues I have on my C500mkii lol I totally use this now as a work around!! Thanks

If you could give me a list of the buttons you customized on your c70, it would be deeply appreciated. Thanks!! Tim

Just subscribed to your channel as I’m getting a c70 and finding your videos incredibly useful. Could u please kindly make a video on audio both with a shotgun attached and checking the sound along with audio is via aux with a rode wireless go for example? Thank u

Duuude how do you get to that big touch-sensitive frame rate menu?? When you select like shooting at 60fps to be played at 24fps

I don't know if you have tried it but you can connect the Ronin S USB-c cable to c70. It's the same cable that is used for Panasonic GH5 cameras. It should be in the set with the gimbal. It will give you the ability to start and stop recording as well as pulling focus. It's not ideal but it is a fast way to have some focus control when you are in a hurry. Check it out and let me know what do you think about it I'm curious.

@RobinGuiton

2 жыл бұрын

The Ronin S isn’t compatible with the C70 - you can plug in the USB-C but no functionality between the gimbal and C70

Hey Thanks for creating this video... and all the others on the C70. Feel like I've learned a ton on how to use my c70. Question if you have time: I have my custom 12 button set to Slow and Fast 120FPS. So just by pushing that button I can jump in and out of 120Fps and back to 24fps. So nice! After watching your video I was thought it'd be great to be able to do the same with 60Fps and still have face tracking available! I set my Custom 10 button to fame rate like you showed in the video. Super simple! I can easily sway in and out of 60fps. But now when I hit the 12 button for 120FPs is goes to slow and fast motion but the frame rate stays in either 60fps or 24fps in SF mode not 120fps. It's like its remembering what frame rate you were in or something? I don't know if I'm programming it wrong or if its a limitation in the button mapping? If you had any thoughts it'd be super helpful, if not no worries!

@SoundItOutFilms

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, you're not doing anything wrong. It's because the camera is switching into S&F mode, not a specific type of S&F mode (like specifically 120/24). One thing you can do to speed up the process of getting back to 120 is setting another custom button to be S&F Frame Rate which allows you to quickly up that 60 to 120 without going into the menus.

@theothermarkwilliams

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoundItOutFilms Thanks for this, Eric. Still, this is actually insane that Canon would do it this way, isn't it? I mean, this actually makes the C70 (which I just got last week) *slower* at switching into various frame rates than either the R5 or the original R! On my wife's R5, I just have the memory slots (M1, M2, and M3) set for three different frame rates: 24fps, 60fps, and 120fps. Super easy to hit whichever mode she wants for a given shot. Even on my R, I can easily have 24fps and 60fps set up in those memory slots, with shutter speed saved along with it. There are several things like this with the C70 that are very odd to me.

Hi, good video. What was the process of getting the screen changed for the C70, I see you teased it here, but I don't see a video on it.

@SoundItOutFilms

Жыл бұрын

I just called Canon and they sent me a free UPS shipping label, free if within the first year! I talk about it a bit more in the video where I’m pointing at a pixilated camera in the thumbnail.

@SoundItOutFilms

Жыл бұрын

Oh, and the video about 5 common questions, it think I go into it most there!

never noticed that the auto focus problem with the c70. but i still rather do internal slow mo. amd yes my LCD screen shakes like thats as well on both of my C70s now...

Hey great video ! How come you're at f1.0, what is the setup ? 0.71x + which lens ? Thanks !

@SoundItOutFilms

2 жыл бұрын

I'm currently rockin a Sigma prime set, 24, 50, 85 all 1.4 (1.0 w/ adapter)

59.94 in XF-AVC YCC422 10 BIT is only available if you're LGOP, not intra-frame. Why is that, do you think?

So how do you activate object motion without needing a custom button?

Where did you get that shirt?????

Now they just need to make the trigger button customizable too so that we can use it as the tracking trigger on the gimbal button

Hi, Eric. Great video. How do you play back the footage in camera at so it is slowed down 40% so it appears as slow mo footage? Thank you.

@SoundItOutFilms

2 ай бұрын

That's with the Slow and Fast Motion mode. You can't watch back slowed down in normal recording.

@josephberkeley

2 ай бұрын

@@SoundItOutFilms Thank you for the response. So you record in normal mode to retain the auto focus then if you want to see playback you go to Slow and Fast mode, review playback, then return to Normal mode?

@SoundItOutFilms

2 ай бұрын

@@josephberkeley Unfortunately it's one or the other. You can't record in normal mode and review in slow & fast. You have to record in slow & fast to review in slow and fast. One important thing to note is that this video is very old and with current firmware your autofocus is just as good in slow & fast mode as normal recording now, face tracking and all!

audio got cut off at the end of the video.

How much does it cost to have the screen hinge repaired? I'm looking at getting a C70 and would love to know how much I'll need to pay when my screen eventually breaks as it seems most people have this issue.

@SoundItOutFilms

2 жыл бұрын

$0.00 ! But when i got mine back it was still a little crooked...

@joshuabirman4709

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoundItOutFilms Nice! Did the warranty cover it or just Canon being cool?

So I noticed when I flip the screen so I can view while I film in back of the camera it seems loose already. I really don't fault you for breaking the screen because it seems a little flimsy for a $5,000 plus camera. Honestly my R5C body feels a lot better to me but I love all these features.

I’ve been through this all… I also shoot 50 or 60 fps to maintain AF. But the huge AF gap between our C70 and the R5 is not from this world… please Canon… give us that eye AF we want. My 2018 EOS R had better AF than my C70… and that is just not acceptable.

Can you set a custom button to change framerates/access the framerate menu?

@jacobkelso9150

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. He explains it in the video. It's a game changer for efficiency.

@laurencechase5439

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobkelso9150 ah nice one, thanks - I missed that somehow haha

I appreciate this isn’t really the focus (no pun intended) of the video but did you have any issues with the C70 on the RS2? I bought the C70 to mainly be a gimbal camera and it used to work fine but recently, when connected to the RS2, it works for a bit but then the camera will freeze up. Only physically disconnecting the battery can reset it. I had a similar problem using my 1DX MkII on the original Ronin S and that got to the stage where the camera became unusable (even off the gimbal) and I had to have the main board replaced by Canon. I looked into it and found that the C70 isn’t actually supported with the RS2 which sucks. I was using the chat function on the DJI website and the person there told me they were developing a new cable (or something) to make it work. So disappointed.

@jacobkelso9150

2 жыл бұрын

This happened to me after the most recent firmware update on the RS2. The fix is to downgrade the firmware back to the previous one. I was having the same problem and was freaking out because I use the C70 on a RS 2 all the time. You can Google how to downgrade firmware as I don’t remember all the steps off the top of my head but it can be done on the Ronin phone app. The cable operates the C70 camera controls just fine. I had someone from customer service at DJI tell me the same thing but trust me the previous firmware works.

@ben_grubb

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobkelso9150 Cool, thanks for that! It was so annoying because it was working fine. It’s still usable but having to start and stop recording on the camera is a pain. I’ll look into the downgrade.

@jacobkelso9150

2 жыл бұрын

@@ben_grubb you are welcome. The firmware version you want is 01.03.00.50 and you should be back in business. I had this problem after firmware upgrades for both the C70 and RS2 within days of each other. I was hoping it was on DJI’s end and not Canon’s since I really like the C70’s new firmware for reasons discussed in this video. Plus I don’t believe you can downgrade firmware on the C70 even if you wanted to.

@ben_grubb

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobkelso9150 Great, that was going to be my next question. I’ll give it a try. The C70 is such a great gimbal camera.

I'm wondering why you wouldn't just shoot in 59.94 FPS and use your editor to slow it down? I'm honestly asking because I'm curious.

@PizzlesTechTime

23 күн бұрын

Lol I'm sorry I realized that you covered this. You took the keys from under my fingers one would say

The audio cuts out at 8:34 - I don't know how you ended the video!

@SoundItOutFilms

2 жыл бұрын

Always make sure you have permission to use stock music otherwise you'll end up slicing the audio from an existing upload with the KZread editor!

@EdmundElijah

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoundItOutFilms Good to know!

I live in fear of breaking our C70 screen. It's a mystery why they would make it so fragile. Hopefully the EVF we just ordered will allow us to ignore the screen for the most part.

@andohbytheway4609

2 жыл бұрын

which EVF did you order?

@OhanaFilms

2 жыл бұрын

@@andohbytheway4609 First I tried the cheap Portkeys EVF that everyone on youtube says is great. It's garbage. Returned it after 5 minutes. Just got the Z Cam EVF and it's good enough. It's not as high resolution as I would like but that's my only complaint. 90% of our shoots are in the bright Hawaiian sun so we need an EVF. If I had to spend more than $1000 for a viewfinder the C70 starts to be less appealing to me, at some point it's no longer worth it. I hope the C90 is like a C70 but with an EVF.

Ahhhh ok. Perfect. Haha. And you're right. 120fps. Is A little too slow anyways. It was cool when Peter McKinnon was doing it In 2016. But 120fps is boringly slow.

Very good. Thanks. But what happens @ 8:33

@SoundItOutFilms

2 жыл бұрын

Accidentally used a track I didn’t have permission for… I had to cut it out with the KZread Editor

@SarahJonestoo

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoundItOutFilms Ah ok. Now I see. Thank you. Good video. I am thinking about getting a C70 but it would be a sizeable technical step for me. I enjoyed your video.

I think you will be surprised how many "pros", re-shoot

So you found a fix!!. No why I sold my C70 and bought a Sony video? Mr you are no fun LOL. like your videos. BTW that is how I doit with my C100 Mark II.

Haha you could just learn to pull focus properly like the decades of filmmakers before you? Kids these days, so spoiled