Recording Features
Play, Edit, and Print Functions
Battery Information
Downloadable Software

Recording Features

Overview: The Canon EOS 5D Mark IV digital SLR kit includes the camera body only. No lenses are included. Improvements over the 5D Mark III include a new 30.4 Megapixel Full-frame image sensor, the Digic 6+ processor, 4K video capabilities, built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, and a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface.

Rugged Exterior Body: The EOS 5D Mark IV's exterior is constructed with lightweight and ultra-rigid magnesium alloy that fits comfortably in your hand.

Intelligent Viewfinder: The Canon EOS 5D Mark IV uses an eye-level pentaprism viewfinder with 0.71x magnification for approximately 100% vertical and horizontal coverage. The viewfinder uses a transparent LCD to superimpose a customizable combination of focus points and gridlines directly over the image. Unlike with other cameras, the intelligent viewfinder gives you the choice of seeing shooting information or looking only at the scene in front of the camera.

Clear View II LCD Touch Screen Monitor: The EOS 5D Mark IV features a 3.2" Clear View II TFT color LCD monitor with approximately 1,062,000 dots which allows you to view and shoot real-time images. The monitor has a capacitive touch screen that allows you to make menu selections, touch focus and touch shutter in Live View, and browse images using your fingers. The LCD monitor offers 100% viewing coverage and 3 automatic or 7 manual brightness levels to choose from. In Live View, grid lines can be displayed in 9 sections (3x3), 24 sections (6x4), or 9 sections with diagonals, as well as a dual-axis electronic level. The Live View function enables you to shoot your subjects while viewing them on the LCD monitor.

30.4 Megapixel CMOS Sensor: The EOS 5D Mark IV features a huge, full-frame sensor. The 30.4-megapixel CMOS sensor delivers images of up to 6720 x 4480 pixels. For the flexibility to shoot in even the most dimly lit situations, the EOS 5D Mark IV offers Canon's highest ISO sensitivity to date, ranging from 100-32000 (expandable to ISO L: 50, H1: 51200 and H2: 102400). Thanks to improved noise reduction technologies, images shot even at highest sensitivity will be remarkably smooth.

DIGIC 6+ Image Processor: The EOS 5D Mark IV uses the DIGIC 6+ Image Processor, with a dedicated DIGIC 6 just for metering. It can deliver continuous shooting speeds of up to 7 frames per second, 4K video recording, and lower noise at high ISO settings.

Sensor Cleaning System: Canon's Integrated Cleaning system includes a self-cleaning sensor unit and software that can remove the effects of dust on the image sensor. The Self Cleaning Sensor, attached to the image sensor's front layer (low-pass filter) can shake off dust automatically when the camera is powered on or off. In case visible dust remains on your images, you can append the Dust Delete Data to the images to erase the dust spots later using the provided Digital Photo Professional software.

Dual Recording Media Slots: The EOS 5D Mark IV has two slots for inserting recording media. The camera can use a Type I CompactFlash (UDMA Mode 7 supported) card or an SD card (SD, SDHC, or SDXC), including UHS-I cards. If a card is inserted in both slots, you can select which card to record images to, or record the same images simultaneously on both cards. No recording media is supplied with the camera.

Image Recording Format: The camera records still images in JPEG and RAW (14-bit Canon Original) formats. Simultaneous RAW + JPEG recording is also possible. The image's aspect ratio can be set to 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, or 1:1. JPEG images will be saved with the set aspect ratio, while RAW images will always be saved in 3:2, with the aspect ratio information stored in the image. Movies can be recorded in the MOV format (4K video: Motion JPEG, Full HD + HD movies: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, Audio: Linear PCM) or MP4 (Video: MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, Audio: AAC). Available image sizes include:

Still Images:

Movies:

Dual Pixel RAW: When shooting RAW images (other than mRAW or sRAW), you can enable the Dual Pixel RAW function. This allows you to perform post-shooting processing with the Digital Photo Professional software, including micro-adjustment of the position of maximum sharpness and resolution using the depth information contained within the file. You can also reposition the viewpoint or foreground bokeh, and reduce the appearance of ghosting in images.

4K Frame Grab: You can select any desired frame from a 4K movie, and save it as an 8.8 MP (4096 x 2160) JPEG still photo. This 4K Frame Grab is done during playback.

Drive Modes: The Canon EOS 5D Mark IV offers the following Drive modes:

• Single Shooting: When you press the shutter button completely, only one shot will be taken.
• High-speed Continuous Shooting: While you press the shutter button completely, multiple shots will be taken continuously. High-speed continuous shooting can record up to approximately 7 shots per second (6.6 fps with Anti-Flicker Shooting, and 5.0 fps with Dual Pixel Raw shooting)
• Low-speed Continuous Shooting: While you hold down the shutter button, you can shoot continuously at approximately 3 shots per second.
• Silent Shooting: Silent Shooting is quieter than normal shooting. You can choose Silent Single shooting and Silent Continuous shooting with a maximum of approximately 3 shots per second.
• Self-Timer/Remote Control: The camera will record an image 2 or 10 seconds after pressing the shutter button on the camera. Using the optional RC-6 Remote Controller, you can operate the camera from up to approximately 16.4 feet. With the RC-6, you can either shoot immediately or use a 2-second delay.

61-Point Autofocus System: The EOS 5D Mark IV features a newly designed 61-point High Density Reticular AF for greater accuracy. It features up to 41 cross-type points, an extensive AF area, and a wide subject tracking area. There are 7 AF point selection methods:

• Single-point Spot AF (manual selection)
• Single-point AF (manual selection)
• AF Point Expansion (manual selection, 4 points (up, down, left, right)
• AF Point Expansion (manual selection, surrounding 8 points)
• Zone AF (manual zone selection - 9 zones)
• Large Zone AF (manual zone selection - 3 zones)
• AF Point Auto Selection AF

Focusing Modes: The camera employs one of 3 AF systems, plus manual focusing, to let you seize every photo opportunity with fast, accurate focus:

• One-Shot AF: suited for still subjects, the camera focuses only once.
• Predictive AI Servo AF (III): for moving subjects when the focusing distance keeps changing. The subject will be focused continuously while the shutter button is pressed halfway.
• AI Focus AF: switches from One-Shot AF to AI Servo AF automatically if the subject starts moving.
• Manual Focusing

Shooting Modes: The EOS 5D Mark IV's top-mounted Mode Dial offers the following shooting modes:

• Fully Automatic (Scene Intelligent Auto): The camera analyses the scene and sets the optimum settings automatically.
• Program AE: The camera automatically sets the shutter speed and aperture value to suit the scene's brightness.
• Shutter-Priority AE (Tv): In this mode, you set the shutter speed and the camera automatically sets the aperture value to suit the brightness of the subject. A slow shutter speed can create a blurred effect, while a fast shutter speed can freeze action.
• Aperture-priority AE (Av): In this mode, you set the desired aperture value and the camera sets the shutter speed automatically to suit the subject brightness. A low aperture number can create a blurred background (narrow depth of field), while a high aperture number can create a sharp foreground and background (wide depth of field).
• Manual Exposure: In this mode, you set both the shutter speed and aperture value as desired.
• Bulb: When Bulb is set, the shutter stays open as long as you hold down the shutter button completely, and closes when you let go of the shutter button. Bulb exposures are for night scenes, fireworks, the night sky, and other subjects requiring long exposures. It is recommended that you use a tripod and a Remote Switch, such as the RS-80N3, for bulb exposures.
• Custom Shooting Modes: You can register the shooting mode, AF mode, menu settings, etc. to the three Custom Shooting Mode positions (C1, C2, C3) on the Mode Dial.

Metering: The EOS 5D Mark IV features the iSA (Intelligent Scene Analysis) system, with a 150,000-pixel RGB+IR metering sensor. The system provides precise exposure metering, detects flickering lights, and allows for enhanced scene recognition and face detection.

Metering Modes: You can select from the following metering modes:

• Evaluative Metering: The camera's standard metering mode suited for most subjects even under backlit conditions, after detecting the main subject's position, brightness, background, front and back lighting conditions, etc, the camera sets the proper exposure.
• Partial Metering: Effective when the background is much brighter than the subject due to backlighting, etc, uses approximately 6.1% of the frame at the center.
• Spot Metering: For metering a specific part of the subject, uses approximately 1.3% of the frame at the center.
• Center-weighted Average Metering: Metering is weighted at the center and then averaged for the entire scene.

ISO Speed: The camera's ISO speed can be set between 100 and 32000 in 1/3-stop increments to suit your shooting conditions. The camera also features a Low ISO setting equivalent to ISO 50 and two High ISO settings equivalent to 51200 (H1) and 102400 (H2). In addition the camera features an Auto ISO setting which allows the camera to automatically set the ISO speed from 100 to 12800 in Scene Intelligent Auto mode, ISO 100-32000 in P, Tv, Av, or M mode, or ISO 400 in Bulb mode.

Picture Style: By selecting a Picture Style, you can achieve various effects matching your photographic expression or the subject. You can also adjust the Sharpness (with separate strength, fineness, and threshold parameters), Contrast, Saturation, Color tone, Filtering Effect (monochrome), or Toning Effect (monochrome) of each Picture Style. Picture Style selections include:

• Auto: Color tone is adjusted automatically to suit the scene. The image will look vivid, especially for blue skies, greenery, and sunsets in nature, outdoor, and sunset scenes.
• Standard: A general-purpose Picture Style to suit most scenes. The image looks vivid, sharp, and crisp.
• Portrait: Suited for close-up portraits, this Picture Style is for nice skin tones, making the image look softer. You can change the color tone to adjust the skin tone.
• Landscape: For vivid blues and greens, very sharp and crisp images.
• Fine Detail: Suited for detailed outline and fine texture description of the subject, and slightly vivid colors.
• Neutral: For natural colors and subdued images, no sharpness applied.
• Faithful: When the subject is photographed under a color temperature of 5200 K, the color is adjusted to match the subject's colorimetrical color, no sharpness applied. (recommended for users who prefer to process images on their PC)
• Monochrome: Creates black and white images
• User Defined 1-3: You can register your own Picture Style settings for Portrait and Landscape modes.

High Dynamic Range (HDR): You can take artistic photos having a high dynamic range and preserving detail in highlight and shadow areas. HDR shooting is effective for landscape and still-life photos. With HDR shooting, three images of different exposures are captured for each shot, then merged together automatically. The HDR image is saved as a single JPEG image. You can choose from several options: Natural, Art Standard, Art Vivid, Art Bold, and Art Embossed.

Multiple Exposures: You can shoot two to nine exposures to be merged into one image. If you shoot multiple-exposure images with Live View shooting, you can see how the single exposures merge while shooting.

White Balance: White Balance is for making the white areas look white. You can choose from the following white balance settings: Auto (Ambience priority), Auto (White priority), Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten Light, White Fluorescent Light, Flash Use, Custom, and Color Temperature.

EX Speedlite Compatible: The EOS 5D Mark IV features the acclaimed E-TTL II flash metering system. With any of the flashes in the EX-series Speedlite line, E-TTL II provides reliable flash output whether shooting fill-in flash pictures in sunlight, or using flash in total darkness.

Built-in Wi-Fi: The camera features built-in Wi-Fi, which lets you connect wirelessly to a compatible smartphone, tablet, or computer. You can also wirelessly print images using a Wi-Fi printer, or save images to a CS100 Canon Connect Station. Using the free Canon Camera Connect app on a compatible iOS or Android device, you can shoot remotely from a distance, with complete control of settings such as aperture, shutter speed, ISO, focus, and shutter release. The EOS 5D Mark IV is fully DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) compliant, so you can share images with other DLNA products, including HDTVs and smartphones.

NFC Technology: Built-in NFC (Near Field Communications) technology lets you easily connect wirelessly with compatible Android devices (4.0 and up) or the CS100 Connect Station by touching the two items together.

Built-in GPS: The EOS 5D Mark IV has built-in GPS, which provides geotag information from overhead satellites. Location data, as well as time and date information, are embedded into the shooting data of your still images and videos. The camera is compatible with American GPS, Russian GLONASS, and Japanese quasi-zenith Michibiki satellites to give you accurate location data around the world.

EOS Webcam: Using Canon's EOS Webcam Utility software, you can use the camera as a webcam and livestream from a remote setup. You will need to connect the camera to your computer, using the included USB cable. While you are streaming, you can also record the video internally on the memory card. The software works with many of your favorite streaming apps, including YouTube Live, Zoom, Skype, Facebook Live, Microsoft Teams, Apple FaceTime, and Messenger. EOS Webcam Utility is compatible with Windows 10 (32- or 64-bit) and macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, and macOS High Sierra.

Play, Edit, and Print Functions

Single Image Playback: When playing back a single image, you can choose from these display options:

• No Information: Only the image is displayed on the monitor.
• Basic Information: The image is played back in full frame with minimal shooting information (aperture, shutter speed, compensation, and frame number) displayed at top and bottom.
• Shooting Information Display: The image is displayed as a 1/4-frame thumbnail, along with a single histogram and full shooting information displayed, including GPS, White Balance, Lens, Picture Style, Lens Aberration Correction, Color Space, and IPTC information.

Image Magnification: When viewing a still picture in single image playback mode, you can magnify the image from 1.5x to 10x. While the image is magnified, you can scroll anywhere around the image.

Index Display: You can search for images quickly with the index display, showing 4 (2x2), 9 (3x3), 36 (6x6), or 100 (10x10) images on one screen.

Comparing Images: You can compare two images side-by-side on the LCD monitor.

Auto Rotation: Vertical shots can be rotated automatically so that they are displayed upright during playback.

Image Review: The image can be displayed on the LCD monitor immediately after you shoot. The review time can be set to off (not displayed), 2 seconds, 4 seconds, 8 seconds, or Hold, which keeps the image displayed on the LCD monitor until the camera is focused again.

Slide Show: You can view all images on the memory card one after another with the Auto Playback function (slide show). You can choose which recorded images will be displayed in the slide show by selecting All images, Folder, Date, Movies, Stills or Rating. The display time interval can be set to 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, or 20 seconds.

Jump Playback: During playback you can jump to images 1, 10 or 100 images at a time. You can also jump screens by date, folder, movies, stills, protected images, and image rating.

Rotating Images: You can rotate an image by 90° or 270° clockwise in the LCD monitor.

Protect Images: You can select specific images from being erased accidentally.

HDMI Output: A Type C Mini HDMI connection is provided for connecting the camera to an HDMI-equipped TV. A mini-HDMI-to-HDMI cable, such as the Canon HTC-100, is required. The camera automatically switches the output resolution to the capability of the HDTV. The HDMI connection is CEC-compatible, allowing you to control the playback of the camera using your TV remote.

SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0): A SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) Micro-B port is provided for connecting the camera to your computer. It can also be used to connect it to the WFT-E7 (Ver. 2) Wireless File Transmitter, or to the CS100 Canon Connect Station. The IFC-150U II USB 3.0 cable is included with the camera, and includes a cable protector to make the USB and HDMI connections more secure.

Post-Processing Images: You can process RAW images with the camera and save them as JPEG images while retaining the original RAW file. This allows you to process the RAW image according to different conditions to create any number of JPEG images from it. Only Large RAW images can be processed in the camera. mRAW and sRAW images must be processed using the supplied Digital Photo Professional software.

Resize: Images shot with the camera can be resized to make the pixel count lower, and saved as a new image. You can only resize JPEG Large, Medium, Small 1, and Small 2 sized images. JPEG Small 3 and RAW images cannot be resized.

Cropping: You can crop the image and print only the trimmed portion as if the image was recomposed. You can change the frame size, move the trimming frame, rotate the frame (vertical to horizontal or vice versa), and correct the image tilt up to +/- 10 degrees in 0.5-degree increments. Images shot in JPEG S3 or RAW or 4K Frame Grab images cannot be cropped.

Direct Print/PictBridge Printing Capability: The camera is compatible with Direct Print (Canon) and PictBridge-compliant printers. With the supplied USB cable, you can connect this camera directly to a Canon Direct Print compliant printer or a PictBridge-compliant printer, and print without a computer. The PictBridge standard allows you to connect the camera directly to a PictBridge compliant printer and make prints, regardless of brand.

DPOF Print Settings: On the memory card, you can select which image or images you want to print and how many copies you want. This is convenient for printing images all at once on Canon Direct Print or PictBridge-compliant printers, at participating photo labs or at photo printing kiosks.

Battery Information

Power Options: The EOS 5D Mark IV operates on the supplied LP-E6N Lithium-Ion battery (7.2V, 1865 mAh, 14Wh).  The battery can be charged in the supplied LC-E6N battery charger in approximately 150 minutes. The supplied battery performance specs are as follows:

Optional AC Power: With the optional DR-E6 DC coupler and the AC-E6N, you can connect the camera to a household power outlet and not worry about the battery becoming exhausted. The ACK-E6 AC adapter kit can also be used.

Optional BG-E20 Battery Grip: With the optional BG-E20 Battery Grip, you can power the camera with two LP-E6N batteries. The two LP-E6 battery packs in the BG-E20 will give you up to 1800 shots while using the viewfinder, or 600 during Live View shooting. When two batteries are installed in the magazine, power is supplied simultaneously from both batteries.

Auto Power Off: To save battery power, the camera turns off automatically after a period of non-operation. The Auto Power Off time can be set to 1 minute, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, 8 minutes, 15 minutes, or 30 minutes. You can also disable the Auto Power Off function.

Downloadable Software

Available Software: The following software programs and applications can be downloaded from Canon's website.

• Digital Photo Professional (Windows/Mac): Recommended for users who mainly shoot RAW images. You can view, edit, process, and print RAW images at high speed. You can also edit JPEG images while retaining the original images.
• EOS Utility (Windows/Mac): With the camera connected to a PC, this software enables you to transfer still photos and movies shot with the camera to the computer. You can also use the PC to set various camera settings and shoot remotely with the computer connected to the camera.
• Map Utility (Windows/Mac): You can view your shooting locations on a map on a computer screen. The embedded geotag location on your image and movie files show you where each picture or movie was taken.
• Picture Style Editor (Windows/Mac): You can edit Picture Styles and create and save original Picture Style files. This software is aimed at advanced users who are experienced in processing images.

OS Requirements: The above-listed software is compatible with computers with the following operating systems:

• Windows: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 (32/64-bit): compatible with 32-bit/64-bit systems for all versions except Starter Edition
• Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8