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

Bryan posted a link to some coverage of Canon's new camera and lens announcements. There's some info here too:


http://www.dvinfo.net/article/acquisition/canon-eos/canon-usa-announces-cinema-eos-c300-and-eos-c300-pl-cameras.html


The camera is a big yawn for me, but I'm interested in the new lenses. Reportedly there are these EF versions:

• Canon Zoom Lens CN-E14.5-60mm T2.6 L S
• Canon Zoom Lens CN-E30-300mm T2.95-3.7 L S
• Canon Prime Lens CTZ-029 (24mm)
• Canon Prime Lens CTZ-030 (50mm)
• Canon Prime Lens CTZ-031 (85mm)

I wonder if these will cover full-formats or just APS-C? Hopefully more information will come out soon.

I

Super-35 is approximately equal to the 1.6X format. Cinema cameras and still cameras both use the same 35mm film, but cinema cameras run it *sideways*, so it

Canon press release on the new cinematography dSLR. Full frame sensor, but cropped to APS-H-like for 4K video, otherwise light on detail. Image looks like a 1-series body.


www.canon.com/.../nov04e04.html

Now *that* could be a very good camera.

Stealing a quote from someone over at CR:


"The new lenses have 2 red rings, so probably double price too"

The press release says $47,000 for the 30-300. The primes are a much more affordable $6,800.

Also:


"All seven new lenses are capable of delivering exceptional 4K optical performance and offer compatibility with the Super 35 mm-equivalent image format. ***The three single-focal-length EF lenses can be used with cameras equipped with 35 mm full-frame sensors.***"


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and $45k for an effectively EFs 14.5-60 f/2.4 or so.


*drools*


*buy 17-55 IS instead*

That

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Originally Posted by andnowimbroke

That's serious cash for something that won't fit on anything but a 1.6 crop

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I suppose if you had that kind of cash you'd be buying the Cinema DSLR as well. Remember when one of the rumors was that the new 1D would have 4k video?? Who saw this coming? I wonder how the stills look. Also, what kind of res/iso would there be in a dslr like that? No way it'd trump a 1D for still quality, right? Otherwise the 1D would cease to be the flagship.

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.


http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....1320365387.jpg


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

So they

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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.