C500: Canon C700 Production

Thanks for the link Macaholic, but does anyone else see the absurdity of a teaser for a BTS camera test? There is really no content here and it seems that Canon will release the film that Carpenter is shooting, which will just be a test and then they will probably release a real BTS of the making of that has details and sound bites from Carpenter and the director. What I want to see is the teaser for the BTS making of of the BTS camera test. Which camera and lens was used to shoot the teaser of the BTS making of?
 
puredrifting said:
Which camera and lens was used to shoot the teaser of the BTS making of?
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Sony A7s II.

From the BTS shooter's commentary, "I needed a small and light camera with 4K so I could punch-in in post, and the IBIS of the A7s II is mainly what sold me over the 1DX Mark II. I stuck a Canon logo on the camera which fooled the Canon execs (these were the same guys who uploaded their previous 4K launch videos in 720p, so fooling them wasn't difficult). Sony skin tones wouldn't be an issue because camera crew look ugly no matter what camera you use."
 
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Just returned from the ASC event on the C700, where we watched the demo short and BTS, sniffed around the camera, ate barbeque and drank beer and tied Jim Martin's shoelaces together while he wasn't looking.

The film was impressive. No question the camera can make pretty pictures and the latitude is all there. After the 2k projected presentation we could look at it on Canon's new 4K HDR monitors and that was an impressive harbinger of things to come.

Overall pleased with the layout and ergonomics. It's like a fascinating hybrid of Canon C series and an Alexa. Which isn't a bad thing. The back half of the body and the menu layout is particularly Alexa-like, which at this point is more like a logical rectangle with things where you'd expect and the 6-item menu display with softbuttons that is now common to multiple manufacturers. This is a good thing. It's the appropriate form factor so it's good to see it being embraced. While it looks hefty, it's actually very light but it's nice to be able to pop it onto a shoulder.

The viewfinder bracket is not a winner though. That will be improved upon by a third party manufacturer, no doubt.

Good newcomer to the production camera world!
 
You're the one who did my laces!.......good seeing you, the C700s, and all the great ASC DPs at one gathering. To mimic Charles, the footage looked great and for all the outside shots, the majority were back lit with no fill or bounce used...impressive. In talking with Russell Carpenter ASC, the low light & sensitivity is so good, you have to watch for unintended bounce from areas you normally would never worry about. more later....

Jim Martin
EVSonline.com
 
CharlesPapert said:
Just returned from the ASC event on the C700, where we watched the demo short and BTS, sniffed around the camera, ate barbeque and drank beer and tied Jim Martin's shoelaces together while he wasn't looking.

The film was impressive. No question the camera can make pretty pictures and the latitude is all there. After the 2k projected presentation we could look at it on Canon's new 4K HDR monitors and that was an impressive harbinger of things to come.

Overall pleased with the layout and ergonomics. It's like a fascinating hybrid of Canon C series and an Alexa. Which isn't a bad thing. The back half of the body and the menu layout is particularly Alexa-like, which at this point is more like a logical rectangle with things where you'd expect and the 6-item menu display with softbuttons that is now common to multiple manufacturers. This is a good thing. It's the appropriate form factor so it's good to see it being embraced. While it looks hefty, it's actually very light but it's nice to be able to pop it onto a shoulder.

The viewfinder bracket is not a winner though. That will be improved upon by a third party manufacturer, no doubt.

Good newcomer to the production camera world!
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Great to hear your views. Where can we see the film online?
 
A Canon film narrated by Alexa! (see, I read the credits)

In any case, this needs a slight edit. They should have included more bar shots at the end because that's a "real shooting scenario". Horses and climbers would be mostly shot by a drone anyway (they shoot horses off drones, don't they?)
 
Jim Martin said:
You're the one who did my laces!.......good seeing you, the C700s, and all the great ASC DPs at one gathering. To mimic Charles, the footage looked great and for all the outside shots, the majority were back lit with no fill or bounce used...impressive. In talking with Russell Carpenter ASC, the low light & sensitivity is so good, you have to watch for unintended bounce from areas you normally would never worry about. more later....

Jim Martin
EVSonline.com
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That sounds very similar to what was being said about the VariCam 35. I believe one of the early DP's claimed he was getting light pollution from the tally in certain situations.
 
This footage is beautiful. That said, yes, I wish they had given the camera to a director who would have shot something a bit more cinematic than a whiskey promo, maybe something with some characters and a plot? But the footage shows off the beauty of the skin tones and the latitude nicely. It has a different look than the Arris but being a Canon person, I like it. To my eye, doesn't have the same look as the Alexa SXT but it costs a whole heck of lot less and that could also just be the subject matter. This still was all glossy, but I would have liked to have seen something grittier and less "commercial" looking. I work on the set of Homeland so looking at the Arris in video village and then seeing the same footage months later, that's kind of the bar for me for being of the best looking TV i have ever seen. David Klein is a great DP too! I would love to see an episode of Homeland shot with this camera to compare.
 
I don't want to push buttons, but a C300 Mark II couldn't look like this? (without the slow-motion)
 
puredrifting said:
That said, yes, I wish they had given the camera to a director who would have shot something a bit more cinematic than a whiskey promo, maybe something with some characters and a plot? But the footage shows off the beauty of the skin tones and the latitude nicely.
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Brings up a good point as I may be tackling a camera rollout video soon myself. I felt that this piece did a great job of showing off what the camera can do without the sort of self-absorbed/contrived nature of a lot of these kinds of video that strive to tell a story while being reverse engineered from making pretty pictures under multiple conditions. Quick poll then; would you guys rather see a story video or a nice collection of images? Do you need to be entertained by a short film or is that potentially distracting from the purpose?
 
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