Precision Meets Power. Beauty Up Close — Captured in Pure 6K RAW.
This is your first cinematic look at the new Canon C400, Canon’s latest addition to the Cinema EOS line — a compact 6K full-frame powerhouse designed for high-end commercial, fashion, and narrative filmmaking. In this short beauty test, we explore the dynamic range, skin tone accuracy, and close-up clarity that the C400 brings to the table, using 6K RAW and Canon’s cutting-edge image pipeline.
🎥 Why the Canon C400?
Canon’s C400 sits at the crossroads of cinema performance and versatility, with internal 6K RAW recording, a full-frame sensor, Dual Pixel CMOS AF II, and a new form factor that’s compact but feature-rich. It’s perfect for on-location shoots, close-up beauty work, and stylized commercial filmmaking.
In this test video, we push the camera’s capabilities with controlled lighting, soft skin tones, and extremely shallow depth of field — ideal conditions to examine color fidelity, detail retention, and motion softness.
🧪 This Video Covers:
- Real-world 6K RAW test footage (close-up beauty shots)
- Canon C400 color science in skin and highlight retention
- Shallow DOF and lens bokeh tests using Canon RF glass
- Dynamic range evaluation in a high-contrast setup
- Workflow discussion: Canon RAW to DaVinci Resolve
- Cinematic lighting using a two-light beauty setup
📷 Production Specs:
- Camera: Canon C400
- Resolution: 6K RAW (12-bit Canon Cinema RAW Light)
- Sensor: Full-frame CMOS
- Lenses: Canon RF 85mm f/1.2, Canon RF 50mm f/1.2
- Lighting: GODOX VL300 + soft modifiers + rim kicker
- Color Grade: DaVinci Resolve — Film LUT + skin-tone preservation
- Frame Rate: 6K 24p (tested at native base ISO)
- Audio: Ambient with licensed cinematic music
- Monitor Used: SmallHD Cine 5 (SDI/HDMI hybrid workflow)
💄 About the Scene:
The shoot was designed to highlight skin texture, color separation, and organic bokeh. Our subject was lit using a standard commercial beauty lighting setup: soft frontal key, edge backlight, and clean background separation. Focus was driven using Canon’s Dual Pixel CMOS AF II, and performance was monitored with peaking and false color tools to ensure maximum exposure control.
This isn’t just a lens or color test — it’s a cinema-style application of Canon’s new image engine, under real-world beauty production constraints.
🎯 Perfect For:
- Cinematographers exploring new camera systems
- Commercial filmmakers needing full-frame + RAW
- Beauty, fashion, and luxury product filmmakers
- Canon shooters upgrading from C70/C300
- Editors working in RAW workflows
- Anyone building a future-proof cinema setup
⚠️ Disclaimer:
This test footage was shot for educational and demo purposes only. No commercial products or paid sponsorships are featured. All visuals were captured with full model consent and in a professional, closed-set environment. Results may vary based on firmware, lighting, and lens configurations.
