Canon 1D C offers 4K/25p recording -- free firmware release next April

Emanuel

Emanuel

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http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/news/eos_1d_c_feature_upgrade_due.do

"January 2013

Canon has announced the development of a feature upgrade for the groundbreaking EOS-1D C DSLR that will add support for 25p recording at the camera’s maximum 4K resolution. The upgrade has been developed after taking into account feedback from the European professional video community.

Designed for the motion picture, television and high-resolution production industries, the EOS-1D C is the world’s first DSLR to support 4K video capture. It offers a unique, highly portable package optimised for ultra-high quality recording, delivering exceptional low-light performance and film-like dynamic range from a highly compact body that can be used in a wide-range of shooting situations.

The EOS 1D-C captures 4K (4096x2160) video using 8-bit motion JPEG compression, with the ability to simultaneously output an uncompressed Full HD (1920x1080) YCbCr 4:2:2 signal to an external recorder, via its HDMI terminal. Full HD video can also be recorded directly to CF cards, at frame rates of up to 1080/60p, whilst Canon Log Gamma ensures video is rich in exposure latitude and dynamic range – offering outstanding freedom for video professionals during shooting, and for colourists in post-production.

The new feature upgrade will be available free of charge from April 2013. Watch out on the CPN website for further details of its availability."
 
I like the "available free of charge" bit , at the price you pay for this camera, there should be refinements to the firmware and they should be free.
 
I wish they'd add a more efficient codec for the 4K to be recorded onto the CF cards so you won't need 1000x UDMA 7 cards just to record 4K video..
 
Greyfus Wolf said:
I wish they'd add a more efficient codec for the 4K to be recorded onto the CF cards so you won't need 1000x UDMA 7 cards just to record 4K video..
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I am ok with it. But at the same time, it is pretty startling to see data much rates higher than Red (and almost as high as BMC?). With red you pay more for a card, but your other costs are offset by the data rate.

Long term, if you archive, the 1d-c will add up (whether time spent compressing or buying hard drives). Also, the cost difference between UDMA CF and Red drives is offset by the fact you have to buy almost twice as many CF cards.
 
25p in 4k is what this camera needed IMHO. Although if they listened to us PAL landers and included 25p I wonder why no 30p for NTSC clan?
 
People will use it as an A cam, but that is not why Canon brought it to market. The C500 is their 4K "movie camera"... with all the video/audio tools that people demand. The 1-DC is an image making box with very, very few tools.
 
Jay Birch said:
People will use it as an A cam, but that is not why Canon brought it to market. The C500 is their 4K "movie camera"... with all the video/audio tools that people demand. The 1-DC is an image making box with very, very few tools.
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I have yet to see an official comment saying it isn't an A-cam and that it isn't what Canon intended it to be. The C500 isn't as rugged as the 1D-C, I wouldn't use the C500 in a sand storm, or in a torrential down pour, or if I was going out on a low budget multi-week excursion into the wild. The C500 is an actual cinema camera, one you sit on a tripod all the time, and the 1D-C is a rugged sometimes-cinema camera that you use for real world film making, like documentary.

They are different cameras for completely different purposes. That is how I see it, one is for indoors or nice outdoor weather, and one is for anytime.
 
Documentary, really? Try shooting an interview with 600Mbs! This cameras main "thing" is 4k (IMHO). So I doubt it was meant to be used for documentary work.
 
atarijedi said:
I have yet to see an official comment saying it isn't an A-cam and that it isn't what Canon intended it to be.
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They are hardly going to label it "only for use as a crash cam". I've already said, it will be used as an A cam.... But i don't believe Canon released it for that reason, Hollywood needed a small, cheap 4K camera for shots that they didn't want to risk an Epic/Alexa or film camera on.
 
I guess atarijedi meant to say wildlife documentaries.

I was planning a one month long shoot (wildlife) with the 1DC as the primary camera, but the number of hard disks that are required to download and backup made my head spin. In those situations the C300 is better. Ofcourrse the C300 has all the required features of a video camera (apart from slow motion in 1080p). The 1D C files have got lot of details in the 4K mode and one can be highly creative with it. The 1D C is going to be used as A camera by some people and believe me you will be stunned.

Every camera has got some limitation or other. It is upto us to use those cameras according to their strengths.

KINOKS said:
Documentary, really? Try shooting an interview with 600Mbs! This cameras main "thing" is 4k (IMHO). So I doubt it was meant to be used for documentary work.
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