C100 Announcement Tomorrow (probably)

[cowpunk52]

So, I'm hearing word on the street is the C100 should be announced tomorrow morning (along with pricing for C500). Here's what I've heard from a few sources: EF mount, h.264 compression, $7k. Probably same sensor as C300, but I don't have confirmation on that yet. Drops in November!

[Kholi]

Wonder what's missing or what's the difference.

Either way... staying tuned. Damned thing will probably beat the Magic Cam to market...

[RatLabProductions]

I am also really interested to see what features get cut in order to half the price. I think the C300 is a great camera but also think its priced rather high for the feature set. Canon has a lot of competition in the lower ranges so lets see if they nail it.

[deltoidjohn]

Is 720p120 too much too hope for?

I can't understand how 1080p60 and now 720p120 are becoming common in consumer cameras yet in professional cameras they are unheard of. RED Scarlet does 120p at SD, and the FS700 has its slow-mo burst mode (with a long buffer-write wait), but I don't think there are many cameras capable of continuous 720p (or more) @ 120fps (or more) to fill the gap between the Panasonic FZ200 and the RED Epic.

[Razz16mm]

H.264? Bleah!

[Bern Caughey]

If true this could be huge for Canon.

Hope it can be intercut with it's big brothers.

[FrontFilms]

There's no way I would pay $7k for H.264. It better be RAW or 100mb/s 4:2:2 for that price point. With 60fps in 1080p.

[RatLabProductions]

There's no way I would pay $7k for H.264. It better be RAW or 100mb/s 4:2:2 for that price point. With 60fps in 1080p.

What other cameras have large sensor raw or 100mb/s 4:2:2 internal recording at the 7K pricepoint?

[FrontFilms]

What other cameras have large sensor raw or 100mb/s 4:2:2 internal recording at the 7K pricepoint?

Blackmagic Cam. For half that. Maybe a bit smaller than APS-C size... but, it's still a "large-sensor"... and RAW and the internal Prores option are much more important. Not to mention the latitude... which looks much better than both the F3 and C300. So I'm not sure how canon can improve this on a C100 without a new sensor and/or 10 or 12-bit color space. It might be DOA.

Oh also, the $700 GH2 records stable 100+mb/s footage internally to SD cards. So yea, the technology is there... no excuse for any $1000+ camera to not be recording above 100mbp/s these days.

[RatLabProductions]

Blackmagic Cam. For half that. Maybe a bit smaller than APS-C size... but, it's still a "large-sensor"... and RAW and the internal Prores option are much more important. Not to mention the latitude... which looks much better than both the F3 and C300. So I'm not sure how canon can improve this on a C100 without a new sensor and/or 10 or 12-bit color space. It might be DOA.
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The C100 would be competing for a completely different market than the BMC. The senor is much smaller than S35 leaving little to no options on the wide front. Also the BMC is not at all good for the type of reality show, TV, Doc stuff that the C300 (and I can assume C100) would cater to. Different strokes for different folks. I for one have no desire in shooting a raw workflow with a clunky camera. Too much drive space for the type of work I am interested in.

Like I said earlier I think the C300 would be the boss if it was sub 10K. Not sure what to expect from the C100 at that price.