My good friend Rick Young has just posted this great overview of the new Canon C100 and C500 EOS cameras. I love my C300 it’s by far the best interview camera ever made the picture quality is outstanding.
I am now glad I pushed out the boat to get a C300 it produces the best cinematic, low noise pictures I have ever seen and the Canon lens system is a joy to use.
I hope to get to BVE North this year and having a look at the C100 for myself, I am still a bit dubious about it’s picture compared to the C300.
Very good interview by Rick Young. Many thanks.
Paul Atkinson’s comment on AVCHD – “A bit easier at the entry level”
I think not. What could be easier than the C300’s onboard codec. AVCHD at 24mb/s is a consumer codec designed for playback.
Lenses – Paul Atkinson said, that the Canon cinema lenses are higher quality than the EOS range of lenses. I understand that they are optimized for cinema use but in terms of quality, I find it a bit silly because all EOS lenses have far more resolving power than 4K.
I wish Rick had asked Paul why the C100 has such a useless viewfinder.
The C100 had better be pretty good to eat into the FS700 market. If I was Canon, I would drop the price by about 1,500 USD.
Cinema lenses do not breathe,have far better internal mechanics,more iris blades,better operational controls and construction etc,etc…they are better for video.