Canon C700x: New information. Explosive specs.

Aug 28, 2014
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Just got this information from a pretty reliable personal friend (he's in a position to know),and he would never lie or fabricate to me but again he might have been lied-to, I highly rate its reliability but nothing 100%, lets say 80-90ish%

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​Anyhow the supposedly C700x specs are:

-Top of the Cinema line: alexa/Red yet in Small C300-like form factor

-New sensor (size in-between aps-h and FF), with 4096x2160 resolution, Global shutter, 15 stops of DR, with still high lowlight performance as previously or better

-New recording compartment (removable and connect to body with a thunderbolt input) that can take 3 New Canon Drives media (1, 2, and 3 TB available) or 3 CFs.

-10-12-14bit uncompressed raw, Mpeg 8-10-12-14, 4:4:4 bit compressed (800mbps to 50mbps) in any container (mov, mp4, xml) basically ALL compression codecs options available from 8bit 422 to 14bit 444 raw internally to the 3 new drives which can be configured to 3x3TB=6TBs (and externally too)

-4K 60P, 2K 120P, 720p 150p, SD 600p

-Body is longer in bottom to accommodate the recorder unit and 4 XLRs at bottom instead of top handle (now saved for just the LCD), body is a beefed up C300 in general.

-Weird emphasis on metadata with tons of specs

-Emphasis on skin colour in lowlight situations (We see faces in the dark)

-EF Cinema primes cover the sensor, and all Canon EF photographic lenses (so will be available in EF as well as PL). New EF-X ciinema zooms and EF-x cinema primes coming also with a weird emphasis on metadata

-One small internal battery pack lasts 4 hours with maximum features enabled

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Believe it? I certainly HOPE it's true! We always say there's no such thing as perfect camera, but this one looks like the worlds first ''perfect'' camera, over every other competitor on the cinema market (alexa/red), but remember if it's true, it will be priced accordingly (think red/alexa/varicam/f55 range), so there definitely will be a lower-end C300 MK II as well to fill that gap. This one just seems to be aimed at the highest end market.
 
Good catch about date, but not very conclusive. Any more flaws seen, experts?

My heart would sink if it's not true, this raises expectation too high.

It's just hard for me to believe someone would make such detailed fabrication for no reason at all, not financial or personal. Look at the body modification and minor changes in length, size, compartment placement, inputs/outputs covers, all make perfect logical sense, plus that weirdly extensive metadata analysis, Canon Hard drives, I mean fabricating a small photo that came up at first, okay just fun, writing a press release, okay fun, but this, I mean I just can't imagine why would someone go into SO much trouble!
 
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No way this is real. The ports that the graphic calls USB 3.0 ports are not USB 3.0 ports (not micro, mini, or full size). I also find it hard to believe that Canon would abandon their recent cinema lens releases in favor of a new lens mount seemingly specific to this camera.

The graphic is poorly done and not at all like what one would expect for a $20k+ camera from a large corporation like Canon. Text bubbles? Seriously?

Why would Canon put *** on a large production camera? Why a 3D position sensor? Why a mix of USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, CF cards, and some imaginary Canon HDD (3TB each, 3 of which can supposedly fit within the camera body)?

The specs are all over the place.
 
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Rumors have circled for months about a C700 to take on Red & Arri and made up or not many of these would need to be true to take them on. It would need:-

4K 14Bit
15 stops DR
Global Shutter
CFast 2.0 and either Codex for raw especially at high frame rates or similar data packs from Canon
Full frame / Open gate (cinema not FF stills)
Rec.2020 color space
lens metadata, roll, pitch & yaw for blue / green screen & set-mapping

The big question is the sensor size shown here as 32.4x18 - Open Gate film is 1.33:1 or 24.92mm x 18.67 and for anamorphic its 20.96x17.53 2.40:1 projection aperture so not quite Open Gate in height but could accomodate anamorphic origination. Thats huge because no Sony, Panasonic or BM camera can properly handle anamorphic nor either Red currently that has been a massive selling point for Arri with the Alexa XT.
 
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