Unlike its close sibling, the Canon EOS R5, the R5 C comes with cooling fans and a host of other video upgrades, including actual Cinema EOS menus.

But despite all this, I'll likely be picking up Canon's other entry-level Cinema camera, the EOS C70.

It's not a simple decision – I'm firmly in the Canon ecosystem when it comes to film and video production, and definitely in the target market for both cameras.

Finally, we purchased a Canon EOS R at around the time the EOS R5 was released (as it saw a significant price drop), which has been a great B-cam and gimbal cam?

The spiritual successor to the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which was the camera that started it all for affordable, cinematic-looking video, the EOS R5 was and still is a great camera, despite the complaints about over-heating and limited recording times in 8K.

That little red 'C' that now appears on the camera’s body denotes that it is officially part of Canon’s Cinema range – a range that includes cameras like the truly awesome (and truly expensive) C500, the ever-popular C300, and one of the greatest, professional video cameras ever-made, the C200.

I also love what Canon has done with the menu set-up on the R5 C.

On the R5, you only have Canon’s stills UI to contend with and this makes things a little clunky when it comes to shooting video.

On the R5 C, you can flip between Canon’s stills menu system and the menu system used exclusively on its Cinema cameras.

In 2020, the EOS C70 arrived and was, at the time, Canon's smallest, entry-level Cinema camera.

While the two cameras sit alongside each other in Canon's lineup, there are some significant differences – and it's these that will likely sway filmmakers like me. .

You get the option of shooting in the Canon Log 2 format, for a 16-stop dynamic range, rather than the EOS R5 C's more limited Canon Log 3 (for a 14-stop dynamic range)