Eric Coughlin
Veteran
What's on your wishlist?
Here is mine.
Here is mine.
- 8.6K like Burano with all the intermediary frame rates (6K, 4K, 1080p) that use subsampling (unlike some of the Red's that require a sensor crop for lower resolution)
- Full frame, S35, and S16 with different crop modes available at the touch of a button for quickly changing during a shot
- Higher than 240 fps slow motion
- 24g (8K) SDI output and/or 8K HDMI output (Burano cannot output 8K)
- A viewfinder shaped like the Alexa 35 viewfinder, but the LCD can either be attached to the viewfinder like the Alexa 35 with a very short cable that plugs in from the viewfinder to power the LCD, or the LCD can be detached from the viewfinder and connected to the camera with a cable and a secondary LCD/viewfinder power port (Alexa 35 has two ports for the viewfinder/LCD). The Alexa 35 currently has the best viewfinder/LCD setup on the market, but if the LCD was detachable for more modularity, while still being able to also be attached and then not needing a separate cable than the viewfinder, would be even better. If were getting greedy, I may say three ports so then one could do a small camera LCD, viewfinder, and a SmallHD with full camera control and power.
- Ethernet port for (SmallHD) camera control
- AI assisted autofocus
- Improved dynamic range
- Improved low light
- Sony's variable ND I've heard mixed things about regarding color shifting, so I'm not sure if the 7 stops of that is actually better than Canon's current 10 stop ND filter wheel
- USB C port to allow for recording to external hard drive and also download media without removing it from the camera (for studio applications or if one forgets a card reader)
- Two full size XLR and two mini XLR (maybe overkill) and one 1/8" input
- AI meta data generative fill so you can change the background or aspects of an image (such as replacing a blown out window with a not blown out window, removing a power outlet, etc.) on set by typing into the app or on the camera how you want to change your image with generative fill. Of course an editor can do this too, but a good videographer/DP ideally provides less work for an editor to need to change things in post, so having this capability in a camera would be very useful, and generative fill is already a current technology
- Camera match SDI and/or HDMI input. How this works is say you have a Sony or Arri camera that you are mixing with your Canon camera and instead of trying to find and tweak a picture profile to match the other camera brand, you can output via SDI or HDMI from the other camera into this camera, which upon receiving the image, can then recognize the colors, etc., and tweak it's picture profile or LUT to replicate the look of the other camera
- Digital servo zoom from the 8.6K sensor (which can also be setup to automatically activate when you've reached the end of your optical zoom)
- Option of a 4" camera LCD, 5", and 7". With multiple ports, could use multiple sizes at once. I suppose using a SmallHD powered by the camera port would not be much different than a Canon manufactured one.
- Small LCD screen on the camera to show primarily camera controls such as ISO, iris, shutter, etc. Maybe could provide a camera feed as well but too small to use as a primary camera monitor.
- More shutter speed options like Arri has, able to adjust in decimal increments which can help with eliminating flicker from lights
- Improved handling of RGB lighting
- Large library or LUTs built in, with adjustments for items like film grain, etc., and the ability to bake in or not bake it all in
- Breathing compensation and chromatic aberration reduction
- I've gathered there is some play in the RF mount regarding using heavy lenses, so when putting an RF to PL adapter, you may not have the most rigid setup. I see Red has a plate you can screw in to secure the PL mount to the camera, but this looks like it would take a fair amount of time to put on. I'd like to see a heavy duty lever lock that locks the PL mount very securely to the camera so that you do not need to mess with any screws but still retain a very rigid mount. This could be used for the RF to EF mount as well. Right now the common method is to use the baseplate foot to secure the mount, but I think Red's method of securing it to the camera front is superior if you are able to use a lever built into the camera rather than having to waste time screwing thing in.
- LEMO and P-tap outputs on the body
- Manageable power draw
- Ability to record Proxy to both CFast Express cards and to SD card
- Ability to playback clips without going into a separate playback mode (like DSLRs)
- Speakers on the camera to hear audio playback of clips
- IBIS
- Either four SDI outputs on the body or an extension unit with additional SDI and HDMI outputs
- Small built in battery (still user replaceable when it dies after years of use) that enables at least two minutes of camera run time to enable hot swapping batteries
- Fast boot time
- The C700 (or C500 Mark III) version would be large format like the Alexa 65 (and Fuji GFX100 II) at 12K resolution, also able to do full frame (8K) and S35 (6K)
- The joystick on the camera when pressed in will select like the function key does to select ISO, shutter, etc. The original Canon C100s did this but for some dumb reason the C300s have not been able to.
- Voice activated camera settings. Instead of taking minutes going into the menu to change frame rate, resolution, log setting, etc., you speak, "[Name of Camera], change frame rate to 6K, ISO to 400, Canon Log 3, frame rate of 23.97," and it then changes all the settings via voice command. I often forget where a setting is such as mapping the control dial on the hand grip to ISO or Iris, so voice activation could be a quicker way to find and change settings on the camera. Either have a unique word to enable it to be activated so you don't accidentally change settings, or have an activation button on the camera to enable it when speaking.
- Ability to send screen shots to a cell phone. Type in the phone number, select "Screenshot," and click send.
- Built in wireless transmitter would be nice, but current tech may mean if it's a good one then it would increase the camera body size too much. Same for built in wireless audio transmitters.
- Ability to play music from the camera speakers, able to load in a music play list
- Extendable cup holder
- Removable sensor block like the Rialto
- Ability to use autofocus of the camera to communicate with a lens motor (Tilta, etc.) to give autofocus to manual focus lenses, which would enable manual focus lenses to have the camera's touch screen auto-focus capabilities.
- RAW should allow for full post adjustment of ISO, color temp, etc., along with having more compressed RAW options (which it appears just got added in the latest firmware update)
- Improved color science
- Call this Canon camera the Ari C300(C500) Mark IV, with a big Ari logo on it. This gives it a more marketable name for high end production.
- Do keep the option to have a small viewfinder on the back of the camera, even better if it's able to be repositioned, as the larger viewfinders are large enough you don't always want them attached, while the smaller viewfinders are small enough you can always leave it on the camera without worrying about added size and weight
- Small RGB on-camera light
- Integrate lighting control apps (such as Sidus) into the camera so that you can control lights with your touch screen camera LCD. This could also work with things like Sound Devices' Wingman App.
- There is currently an App to control cameras with a phone, but make it so that in multi-cam environments, you can see other cameras monitor viewing on your camera along with changing the settings of other cameras from your one camera, eliminating the need for a phone. Make the cameras automatically pair to one another when turned on so this ability is easy and quick to use. Also enable a "Match camera settings" button that immediately syncs all cameras connect to having the same settings (frame rate, ISO, shutter, resolution, etc.). Have box with check marks to select what items you want to match, for example, you may want to match resolution, but may want to have ISO be different between cameras since one camera has an f/4 lens and the other an f/2.8 lens. This feature will save a lot of time on mulit-camera productions.
- Enable AI tech support via voice command or typing in with a keyboard, so you can for example ask, "How do I make the LCD brighter?," and it will reply with voice and/or text giving you the answer. In many cases you could give it a command instead of a question, but it could be questions too. Things like the "Match camera settings" listed above can be voice activated as well.
- Make an option for ISO increments to be so smooth that it's like an iris or variable ND adjustment as opposed to stepped increments
- Have a night vision IR mode (lots of cheap handycams have this). I want to see high quality Ghost hunting footage.
- Add interval recording
- LCD luminance has always been a useful feature for viewing the LCD outside and it works well, the problem is it is easy to forget it is on when back inside and then misjudge exposure based off of the LCD. When luminance is turned on, add a display icon to indicate when Luminance is turned on and displaying what level it is on, as well as being able to map a button to toggle between the different luminance numbers.
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