More Canon EOS C300 Mark II Talk [CR1]

[tjc320]

I suppose the C300 Mark II will use CFast cards? I don't really see any way around that. Hopefully, they go down a bit in price as they are getting more popular.

I just wrapped a shoot with the FS7 and I gotta say, it's a very impressive camera. Specs wise, it's got everything. The image is great to work with in post, although, I did have some difficulty finding correct exposure but that's just because I didn't have much time pre-shoot to find the sweet spots. Exposure was very forgiving for general landscape, city, natural, shots but when skin tones are introduced it's really imperative to get correct exposure in the camera. The FS7 isn't very easy to operate if you remove the side handle and when the handle is on it's constantly in the way and I'm always adjusting it. I really disliked having to use the Metabones adapter. If it worked properly it wouldn't be a big deal but it still has issues to work through.

The FS7 is far from perfect - especially on the ergonomics/usability side of things. If the C300 Mark II can get me 4K, 10 bit, at least 96fps, and better colors, at around $12-14K I will probably prefer it over the FS7. If they could get 14 stops of latitude there is no doubt that it would kill the FS7...for me at least. Although, I highly doubt that they will introduce a new sensor.

 

[jeffa4444]

On the higher end Canon had some C300 / C500 on features they only did action shots and not many, why they were used on these films was due to some good marketing by Canon shall we say! The C300 is a capable camera and at the time filled a gap in the market and our lower end rental fleet has them. The pictures however from the F5 / F55 family if treated properly far exceed the C300, and the FS7 has the same family roots, less noise, more dynamic range and a bigger colour gamut.
The C300 sales have dried-up and as stated elsewhere the Sony FS7 is on back-order and for a good reason its a superior camera technically.

However at the high-end neither Canon or Sony look likely to challenge Red or Arri who remarkably dont even have a 4K camera. Reasons are complex but Sony, Canon, Panasonic et al dont understand simple, dont understand how crews work on film sets or TV drama sets they over complicate their cameras rather than devoting that time as Arri do to perfecting colorimagery and in an aspect ratio filmmakers want (4:3 for anamorphic & re-framing).

If Canon want to remain serious in Cinematography, listen to end users first long before the engineers get involved, 4K is a number not a right of passage and resolution is but one element.