Cinema EOS 1D & EOS C500 for NAB

[psolberg]

all very expensive and as expected, way out of the range of most people That's the price of 4K. still want it now? 

[JR]

Quite interesting.

Wasn't the reason for (somewhat questionable for 1Ds owners) merging the 1D and 1Ds to keep the costs down?

Now a similarily "megapixeled" with only some more video capabilities the new camera doesn't make sense, isn't it? Instead of the 1D & the 1Ds we would have the 1Dx and the 1DC(inema), history repeated.
Wouldn't a high MP 1DxS made more sense?

Totally! For us still shooters that is...i think this has a lot to do with the market positionning that Canon wants to do.  They likely felt that say they have two pro style body in the lineup, would be more lucrative to position one for still and one for video, instead of having two for still like in the past.  I am curious to see where this will lead us, and if the new video model might surprise us on their quality for still pictures even if not marketed as such...

[dstppy]

Will these new model have the same faith as the 1DX and be available in 6+ month!?!?!?!?

Honestly, the T5i will be announced before all of the new $3500+ body supply issues are sorted out.  Let's hope Canon isn't spreading themselves too thin financially and manufacuturing-wise.  If there's any significant delay on availability of the new lower end rebel(s) after announcement, then the answer would appear to be 'yes'.

[Ivar]

I can't help but: we could have a brilliant photocamera here !

Just replace the video with an ordinary one to make the price sensible.

My bet (from simply calculating ...):
It will have something around
  8 Mio x 5.3 Mio pixels
to allow 2x2 or 4x4 binning for quad HD (2160)/4k and HD (1080)
resulting in 42 MPix.

So it will be the high MPix alternative to the 5D Mk III with enhanced
and future proof video capabilities. And the studio cam for Hi Res stills. And an
alternative to other full frame cameras with roughly 40 MPix. And hopefully
a small raw with 10MPix with binning: Each resulting pixel created from1 red, 1
blue and 2 green photosites.

[messus]

Makes absolutely NO SENSE with more megapixels than the 1DX on a FF video DSLR !
Maxium 8-9Megapixels would be sufficient for 4K video and would provide excellent
low light conditions! Totally strategic miss and WAY to expensive!!

I can understand some people demand higher megapixel count, but NOT on the 4K video DSLR,
totally wrong direction!

Also I why no RAW video? Writing simultaneous to two or more UDMA7 cards (300MBps) should be sufficient for that.  Like some other cameras from Panasonic.

Completely disappointing if these specs are right!

update: And looks like they are according to dpreview.

And since 18megapixels you have to crop down to APS-H (1.3x) to avoid extra cpu usage in downscaling, and then you can not use your 14mm fully, or your 24mm 1.4 !!!

[EYEONE]

Anyone posted this yet?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/04/12/Canon-EOS-1D-C-4K-capable-DSLR

[neuroanatomist]

Wasn't the reason for (somewhat questionable for 1Ds owners) merging the 1D and 1Ds to keep the costs down?

No, the reason wasn't to 'keep costs down' per se.  The 1D series used an APS-H sensor which was, in many ways, a compromise sensor enabling a lower cost of production, indirectly resulting in 'greater reach' (crop factor) and corresponding loss of wide angle capability.

Now a similarily "megapixeled" with only some more video capabilities the new camera doesn't make sense, isn't it?

Maybe not, but that's exactly what was just announced...

[preppyak]

This is what the Sony FS700 has to offer for $8000 but 4k would come as a firmware upgrade that has to be purchased.

This is what u get for the price......

BNC connector offers 3G/HD-SDI and a planned future firmware upgrade will enable 4K data-stream output

Yeah, I love that Sony put out their specs originally to get people to go "holy crap, 4k video for $8k", and then the truth is that they took the RED approach. For an additional x thousand dollars, you can get a camera that actually does what its supposed to do. With proprietary connections that change your workflow

Also, I figured to get that kind of FPS, they've be giving up on something...looks like low ISO is what they gave up. Should be a good camera for someone shooting action, but, impractical for most other shoots.