Canon R5 and Z CAM E2-F6 Compared: RAW, Low Light, Codecs

The Canon R5 is a new hybrid stills and video camera with some impressive video specs. The Z CAM E2-F6 is a cinema camera first and foremost. You might not think these two cameras are very comparable, but my findings might prove otherwise.
I put the Canon's 8K raw up against the Z CAM's ProRes RAW. I test low light with both raw and H.265 (interesting results). I give my likes and dislikes of the two cameras and show lots of footage.
I was wrong about the playback of the Canon 8k raw on my iMac. While it does playback better than the H.265, I'm only getting around 12 fps. This could be a combination of CPU/GPU performance and also hard drive speed. The 8K Canon RAW footage has a high data rate and some spinning disc hard drives aren't fast enough to deliver the footage in realtime. SSD's and 7200 RPM drives are recommended.
A viewer commented that if you change the Resolve decode quality to "Full res - Canon" it will enable the Color Space, Gamma, and ISO controls for Canon RAW. This is excellent! Unfortunately it's not obvious and the manual doesn't reveal it.
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