Update: New information in bold.
I have been told that the next Cinema camera Canon announces is likely called the “Cinema EOS C300 Mark III”.
Canon Cinema EOS C300 Mark III information:
- Most likely will be called C300 Mk III (almost 100% confirmed)
- It has the same body as the C500 Mk II and uses the same accessories
- Just as the C500 Mk II, it has the same optical axis as the C200 and C700 cameras, so the bridge plates, shoulder mounts, and rod supports are the same
- It sports a 4K super 35 sensor with the capability of recording 4K120 without crop in Cinema RAW Light format
- It also has a “dual ISO” function when recording in XF-AVC
- It has an anamorphic de-squeeze function and false-color built in for monitoring (with the C300 Mk II you had to use an external monitor with these functions)
- New Super35 sensor, developed from scratch
- 4K up to 120p with Dual Pixel AF, 2K up to 150p
Canon will also reportedly announced a new Cinema lens alongside the new camera body.
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Looks like Canon is stepping things up on all fronts. Very good.
I hope that the R5 has a decent audio solution, including level adjustment while shooting, levels on screen, and hopefully they release a shotgun mic with physical level controls and a digital connection to the R5, like the new Sony mic for the A series.
Sony loves proprietary implementations which is just one more reason on a long list of reasons why I will probably never own a Sony camera.
SoundDevices MixPre 3 is awesome if you need XLR ins. We use them on our EOS Rs, and they are great - hardware limiters, great sounding pres, tons of routing options, and yes, you can run audio back into the camera with a 1/8" stereo cable if you don't want to mess with syncing files later. Works great as a pre or recorder or both.
I honestly don't know that anything Canon would come up with would convince me to use anything else right now.
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And if Canon doesn't deliver & Mono is fine for you, the Rode videomic NTG is a very fine tool. I wanted to buy some NTG4 or maybe the NTG5 but I was not shure if an XLR solution was the right thing for me (to bulky) and then came the videomic NTG: It has a physical level control (Knob without any (mechanical) steps) , no digital connection to the camera (except the camera has a USB port which accepts such devices) - but it can be used as a USB microphone on a PC too.
I am new in audio but I think I know a little bit about what it has to sound and this is the first microphone where I accept my own voice :) Sound is clean, rich and without any artificial "spoken through a tube" artifacts.
C500 @ $16k
C300 @ $10k (?)
C200 @ $7k
C100 @ $5k
It's getting pretty squashed down under the $10K level. Doesn't seem like there's enough room for 3 of them. Further if the C300Mk3 comes in at $12-13k then why not drop the extra $3-4k and the C500 with FF? We're talking about full time pros here, and a couple thousand one way or another on a camera body at this level is relatively meaningless. Just thinking out loud here trying to decipher where Canon is going with this. Huge price drop on C200? Goes to $5-6k (for the kit) new? If so, the C100 like goes bye-bye.
Well as of now the answer is "Buy EF Glass and adapt it to your RF body". I don't see Canon going RF with Cinema bodies unless/until they decide to make RF Cinema Glass.
Still hoping this is RF Mount compatible. Easy to make an RF Mount removable and replace it with an EF or PL Mount. Hopefully they do that here. Would love to use those RF zooms with great stabilization on a Cinema EOS body.
Though I allready own a lot of EF glass - so I guess the transition to the R5 with the adapter and the ND Filter Adapter will be very smooth for me.
I cant wait for this camera... currently I have such a mixed equipment list: (Canon 5D for photos, 1D for video), but mostly Lumix S1H and Gh5 for video and the Sony A7R IV for photo. If the R5 delivers, I can easily sell the 5D, the 1D, the S1H, Gh5 and A7R IV and just replace all of this stuff with just 2 camera bodys. Its ideal <3 :-)
I'm waiting on the R5 details. I really want small and lightweight. The Sony A7s III may offer something compelling as well.
I've had my eye on the SoundDevices for sure. The MixPre 6 is only a little more expensive. But an in Camera option with fewer pieces to bolt on is best for me. All of these extra bolt-ons tend to get loose and flop around. I hate that.