Canon R5 Clog3 For Dummies 

This is the video I needed. Thanks, as always. You've got my favorite real world channel since you produce excellent results and I like your actual work. Too many people do uninspired sample shots and boring studio work, but the end result makes me NOT want to take the advice offered, haha. I never feel that way about your videos, since you back up your discussion with creativity and an artistic instinct that I trust. Now we just need Clog3 to come out for the R6!

You are the person I refer to when I want to understand how things really are. Thank you very much, beyond camera gears and clogs profiles, that's key as I am becoming a teacher and want to be real about stuff!!!

Glad you made this video. A couple of them just expose for highlight on both clog and clog3 and says they see no difference.

I’m getting my R5 Tuesday and was planning on making this video because I saw all the bad info floating around...because I knew they weren’t doing it properly. Thank you for this! Hopefully it gets passed along and shared.

I’m just glad you still keep your r5. Planning to get one soon 👍🏻

Very crisp video with extremely useful info. Thank you!

Thanks for not making this explanation 20min long. You the man! Solid info

Thank you for this. I used Clog 3 at the weekend outdoors and personally found it could handle more light and needed it in most cases. The shots that were overexposed by a stop looked the best in post. I didn't have time for an 18% grey card at 35 IRE but I will try it in the future to see when time allows. The shots that were even slightly underexposed looked pretty rough though thats for sure in the shadows.

This is the guy! Finally someone who knows the stuff :)

Omg this is the video I wanted. I don’t have an external monitor that works with my R5, and I live by the histogram. But I had no idea how to expose properly, but this video seems to suggest I can still rely on the histogram. Hopefully a future firmware will fix the issue of the screen too bright with clog3. But I shoot mostly outside, so I typically do need the screen at full brightness. Thank-you for this. 🙏

SO good man, don't need to make this video now! Haha. Loving the increase that the log3 is giving me!

Thank you very much.. this is one of the best and super easy to understand

Just tested some clog3 footage exposing it using the histogram and it came out perfect, thank you for making the video. will be running more tests in different lighting situations. good video.

perfect video, reminds me of how i was under exposing until about 1 month ago histogram is way more reliable than the screen for setting exposure

Hello ! Thank you very much for this great video ! I have an R6 and I'm going to get into the video. If I’m using c-log 3 then I will have to install a variable nd filter. So, how many stops do you recommend for shooting in broad daylight, with average brightness (Norway in February) ? 2-5 or 6-9 stops? Thanks for your help ! Best regards ! Vanessa

This a very helpful information Thank you!

Good stuff man!

I can't find the custom button to turn zebras on and off in canon r6 so how i can fix it please ? Thanks

Hi Cam, If I could ask a question, Clog3, really like the extra DR over the Clog1…… BUT On my EOS R it has a lovely golden skin tone and colour science that looks great, but on my R3 it is a horrid red Magenta cast in the skin tones. If i correct for it in white balance, it send the rest of the image blue cast. Which I don’t like. Now the R3 doesn’t have Clog1, but I need to match the cameras. Does colour space affect this or any other settings? Currently my Canon cameras are worlds apart on colour. Any tips to address this? Much appreciated, can’t seem to find any vids on this topic on YT. 🤔 So came to the expert. 😀

i canot find a video that explain me how to find that clog 3 botton in my camera. i just bouthg a camera i have no idea how to use it

I have a couple of questions. I never shoot in LOG because I’m afraid that I’ll get footage that is unusable if not exposed correctly. But since my new R6 only shoots in 10 bit on CLOG, I want to give CLOG 3 a shot. First, I mainly enjoy shooting travel videos, so things are shot fast and don’t really have time to have ideal lighting situations. I always try to expose for skin tone. So for scenes where there’s not a lot of contrast, using your histogram example, do I just expose for the highlights and make sure they’re not clipped on the right, but keep them as close to the right as possible? And second, for high contrast scenes (e.g. trying to expose for skin tone and there’s a bright, sunny background behind them), do I use the histogram the same or do I treat it differently because I’d expect the background to blow out anyways? Any help would be appreciated!

What i actually did was remove an icon, i think it was IS or something else that id never tap back and forth. Thise set and forget type i removed. Then added other icons fir the HUD and added view assist on/off icon. Makes it easier than going into the menu, even setting up a custom quick menu. Think i added screen brightness, and sd card function. Idk what else to add since i changed my back buttons to zebra and false color for video mode shooting.

Are you using zebras for skin tone? Or only using the histogram?

Hi Cam! How do tou expose for Clog3 in low light conditions? Thanks

So is clog3 better for lowlight scenes or for bright ones? It looks like it’s much better with highlights, but then the base ISO is also higher which means in bright scenarios it’ll be overexposed. Is clog3 good for shadows or is it noisy?

They just released 1.3.1 for the R5. It says it is to fix the view assist issue with CLOG3. Haven’t tested it.

You would think people would already know this but I too had to learn back when I got the original BMPCC in 2014. Learning that camera totally prepared me when my next job required me to man a RED Weapon in 2016; same principle as you show here, Cam. Do you also notice the histogram on the R5 also has “goal posts” similar to REDs?

Thanks a lot. By the way, do you use luts for Clog 3 or just basic color correction?

Good stuff appreciate the info

thank you! I'm always overexposing CLOG 3 CinemaGamut 2 full stops and even with an ISO at 3200 or higher i can't see any noise in the shadows. I love it! Also i turned the Viewassist off, doesn't make any sense at this point of time.

I believe that the target is to expose for the 18% gray and not to the right ... Clog 3 gives u one more stop in highlights so u dont clip as much .. that doesnt mean u should overexpose 1 stop :D

Nice. Thank you

You simply add a counter weight. Did you attempt to find a solution for heavy lenses?

Thank you !

RU-vid showed this to me After it showed me one about how terrible the update is.. thank you for turning my frown upside down! 😃 now I will actually install it..

Thank you.

Seriously, thanks Cam, real talk. How can people by so (don't want to use the word dumb) but this is how you should be exposing all the shots. On the histogram. Screen brightness is just that, it varies, and is not what the sensor is actually seeing. If you are doing pro work i.e. you should know this. The main difference is the base ISO. This is the main difference to be aware of.

So I should shoot at 800 iso to get that extra stops on c log 3? What if iso is 100?

U the man!

Dear all, Last week I did some tests about Clog and its color correction. I shot at home in a mixed-light environment: from the windows I got natural diffused day light and on the ceiling I had a 3200k lamp. I did all the test recording on an Atomos Ninja V+ recording in H.265 HQ. I shot the same set on C-log3 and then Normal (C-log OFF). Obiovusly setting the corrected exposure for both the formats (using the histogram and false color on the Atomos). Well... to be totally honest the Normal mode looked SO MUCH BETTER than the C-log one! When I say "looked better" I mean its color correction. I did a quick color correction on Premiere Pro and the C-log3 clip had a terrible yellow tone and the darkest areas were very grainy. On the other side the Normal shot had a very natural color look and the darkest areas (even if visible) were totally grain free. Of course the ISO was lower on the Natural (around 320/400) while it was higher on the C-log3 (1600). Now... if every professional shooters of the world ONLY shoot C-log there would be a good reason... I'm not stating here I'm better than others or I know more than others... but the results is evident! So... what did I do wrong? Thx Miki

Well done man

Quick question for anyone with experience shooting CLOG and the proper workflow. I've seen conflicting videos and now more confused than ever. Is the proper workflow for any version of Log, : Rec709 LUT, White Balance, then color correction. Or is it White balance, Rec709 Lut, then color correction?

What are the native ISO’s for clog 3? I know the base is 800 but what is it for more low light?

Very helpful.

Just the truth over here!

Do you think checking the exposure meter on the screen when you half press the shutter is a good indicator if the video is exposed properly for CLOG3?

In low light it still produces a ton of noise. Would live if you could make one for low light

Hi Cammackey, Canon just issued firmware 1.3.1 that fixes the View Assist issue with C-log3 😎

Thanks a lot

good Advice

Whats ur thoughts on the cinema Gamut option in Clog 3?

Just tell us where Canon has hidden the Clog-3 LUT.

Very nice

So 800 iso is the base for clog3 but does a lower Iso not give lower noise? I don't get it hope you can clear this for me.

I noticed a big difference in color quality between the RAW & shooting log on the R5. It's weird, because I don't notice this when shooting 10-bit on the C70.

When there's highlights in a shot keep the iso at 800. Expose for the highlights. If you are shooting a scene with no highlights, the lower the iso the less noise!

Why didn’t canon just update the view assist for the different modes? Seems kinda dumb if the setting is there to use. It’s all in the name...

I couldn't figure out why my footage was jacked up until I saw this video.

I just tested clog3 today and it is indeed better than clog in term of recovering highlight. However, i did notice it’s a little bit more noise. I tested with 8k raw and turned it into clog3 and saw less noise. Is it supposed to be like this or am I doing something wrong? I put both clips on iso 800

New firmware has fixed the View Assist bug.

The histogram is garbage in CLog3, I did a ton of testing with it in controlled lighting, and comparing with Zebras, they're completely different.

Do you feel the clog3 footage has a magenta tint? mine looked super magenta.

I am a dummy, thank you for making videos for me :)

*cries in R6

Everybody's doing it wrong. And no one knows how to do it right! LOL well it's the internet, not everbody is getting it right all the time, I can live with it.

I think also a lot of the RU-vidrs are lazy AF and just slap LUTs on their footage and wonder why they aren't seeing an improvement in DR.

I tested Clog and Clog 3 vs Slog with the Sony A7S3 and the Canon is laughable when it comes to how much noise it produces in darker situations. I shot all weekend and the Sony just blew it away.

Some dude just made a video saying he was sending his R5 back to Canon....to make them remove this firmware update...because View Assist doesn’t work right now...SHOOT IN regular CLog then!!! You clearly don’t understand how to do this stuff anyway if you absolutely rely on the inaccurate View Assist image on the back of the camera versus a histogram and zebras. I just couldn’t take that guy seriously anymore and unsubscribed from his channel...he was being ridiculous.