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

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

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Originally Posted by Kayaker72

...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?

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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.


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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).

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Originally Posted by Kayaker72

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

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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.

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?

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

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Originally Posted by Dr Croubie

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

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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.