Cinema EOS - Canon EOS c300 and 5 Lenses Announced in Hollywood, CA

[Kayaker72]

I am still trying to figure out the sensor. From the release posted on CR--"The sensor reads Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) video signals for each of the three RGB primary colors, decreasing the incidence of moir

[neuroanatomist]

...the camera has a 8.29 MP sensor which is exactly 4x the ~2.0736 MP size you get from 1920 x 1080 pixels, not 3x. What happens to the other 2 MP?

It's still a Bayer mask - the red and blue 'channels' are 1920x1080, but the green 'channel' is 1920x2160 - that's your extra 2 MP.





So, yes, it's 4K video cam, which derives from the nearly 4000 lines of horizontal resolution (the 3840 pixels in the top center RGB merge).

[Daniel Browning]

is the output 1920 x 1080 or is this nearly a 4K camera

The only output is 1080p. It's like an 8 MP camera that only has one option for file sizes: a 2MP "small" JPEG with "low quality" compression.

[neuroanatomist]

Daniel - if it's output is 1080p, then presumably it's not interpolating the colors, right? The 2x2 binning means better spectral response per output pixel, and more sensitivity, too?

[Daniel Browning]

Well, almost any method of reducing the spatial frequency will increase the sensitivity in terms of photons per pixel, but the percentage of photons captured will still remain the same. I

[Dr Croubie]

So they

[Daniel Browning]

But then they're not letting you take stills more than 2MP in crappy-jpg, why?

Probably for the same reason that it can't autofocus with their own EF lenses -- even though the competitor's cameras can. (You have to buy a Red camera if you want to autofocus Canon lenses, because Canon's own camera can't do it -- even for $20,000.) Of course, whatever that reason is, I don't know.