C100 Announcement Tomorrow (probably)

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

Either way... staying tuned. Damned thing will probably beat the Magic Cam to market...
 
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.
 
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.
 
RatLabProductions said:
What other cameras have large sensor raw or 100mb/s 4:2:2 internal recording at the 7K pricepoint?
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
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H264 isn't neccessarily bad. BluRay is H264.
If the C100 can give me the low light sensitivity of the C300 with a decently high bitrate, 4:2:2 I frame codec it would be the perfect compliment to the BMC.
 
Don't think this is a massive threat to the BMC, sounds like it's a fairly loud statement at the FS700. Will see what happens, next purchase will definitely be a BMC though, it's just too good.
 
It looks like a very practical little camera, and upgrade to the Fs100, and competition to the FS700, but not enough to get shot of either

I dont think its in the BMC class - different tools for different jobs

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Good thing that they've added internal mic and ND filters to this cam. The LCD is at the back and seems like a flip out or slide out LCD.
 
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Don't forget Sony is about to release a full frame mirroir less cam for little money.... Canon has better to play well this time because at this time they lost my interest and the first battle with the canon 5d III...

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A lot depends on the pricing. Not such a bad move from Canon, but technology and the marketplace is changing rapidly. We've got Raw at $3k now, and very high frame rates in the FS700. Canon needs to start moving quicker, because people are beginning to expect RAW and high frame rates at lower prices.
 
i think the handling of this camera will be pretty similar to the C300, this will be a plus point over the BMC and the FS700... Screen on the back is a bad idea in my opinion... how can anybody shoot low angle handheld if your arm is hiding the screen?
 
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