C300: Canon EOS C300 Mark III coming in late 2019, with possible 8K option

puredrifting said:
Late 2019?
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The MKII was released 2015 Q3, so 2019 Q3 seems OK to me. There's nothing spectacular in the feature list either, as I think the next generation will need to be pushing a transition to 8K (otherwise an 8K MKIV wont be till 2023 at that rate).

The electronic image stabilisation is the part that smells fishy, as Canon seem to be hanging on to lens optical stabilisation so that would be a big shift for them (?).
 
One reason why many of us shoot 4k is to be able to crop interviews on a 1080 timeline. As productions are moving to a 4k output, there's no reason why shooting interviews in 8k would be any different.
 
Or pretty much any content. Cropping 8K interviews/b-roll on a 1080p timeline...potentially 3 angles in one shot vs. the 2 most get from 4K --> 1080p.

But regardless, a few more years and 8K will be viewed just as 4K is today.

Circle of tech...10 years ago people felt the same about HD, ha.
 
I don't get the complaint about higher resolutions. It is just information and I am assuming that Canon will give you options on how to use it. Just like with the C300 MK II, if you don't like 4:2:2 4K then you can always use the 4:4:4 2K instead. My guess is that the 8K sensor will allow sensor cropping so that so that you can still shoot 4K at S35. I hope the camera will the RF mount which would significantly open up the number of lenses that can used.
 
NorBro said:
Or pretty much any content. Cropping 8K interviews/b-roll on a 1080p timeline...potentially 3 angles in one shot vs. the 2 most get from 4K --> 1080p.

But regardless, a few more years and 8K will be viewed just as 4K is today.

Circle of tech...10 years ago people felt the same about HD, ha.
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I remember when big FOX said they would never go HD(no one can see the difference. Lol)... I also remember asking a producer on a high-profile sports-doc series I used to shoot for why we weren't at least starting to shoot in 16x9(late Betacam days and a lot of us at least had switchable cameras) and getting, "Oh, we'll never do that". And probably a year or two later, we were shooting it on F900's.
 
cpreston said:
I don't get the complaint about higher resolutions. It is just information and I am assuming that Canon will give you options on how to use it. Just like with the C300 MK II, if you don't like 4:2:2 4K then you can always use the 4:4:4 2K instead. My guess is that the 8K sensor will allow sensor cropping so that so that you can still shoot 4K at S35. I hope the camera will the RF mount which would significantly open up the number of lenses that can used.
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I don't think that some people have a problem with the resolution itself, it's the way that it's marketed(or their perception of how they think it's marketed, in some cases). I do find it funny, that as photographers, who by nature, walk that line balancing art and tech, that so many "dislike" the advancements in our tech so much and shout it down as unnecessary.
 
lol. Personally - and I know it's easy to say in hindsight - when I saw 16x9 for the first time I could never understand why anyone would ever choose and shoot 4x3. Absolutely makes no sense unless it was because TVs were squares and they limited those kind of dimensions to the cameras. (I don't know the reason; I was starting in the industry when HD was just getting going).

Today, I am more than ready for an 8K camera if the price is right.
 
NorBro said:
lol. Personally - and I know it's easy to say in hindsight - when I saw 16x9 for the first time I could never understand why anyone would ever choose and shoot 4x3. Absolutely makes no sense unless it was because TVs were squares and they limited those kind of dimensions to the cameras. (I don't know the reason; I was starting in the industry when HD was just getting going).

Today, I am more than ready for an 8K camera if the price is right.
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I know there were a lot of people out there(because I talked to some) who hated letterboxed programming(on their 4x3 TV's) because "the top and bottom of the image was getting cut off". I wasted at least ten minutes one day trying to explain it to this older lady that she was in fact seeing ALL OF THE IMAGE before I finally had to just give up and realize that she was set in her ways and nothing could change her beliefs.

What really killed me the first several years(really over half a decade) I shot HD was that we had to "shoot 4x3, protect for 16x9". Meaning that we essentially still framed and composed for 4x3. Everything essential had to be kept inside the 4x3 safe area. The 16x9 was just essentially "spill" that had to stay clean(no light stands, etc.).
 
Run&Gun said:
I know there were a lot of people out there(because I talked to some) who hated letterboxed programming(on their 4x3 TV's) because "the top and bottom of the image was getting cut off". I wasted at least ten minutes one day trying to explain it to this older lady that she was in fact seeing ALL OF THE IMAGE before I finally had to just give up and realize that she was set in her ways and nothing could change her beliefs.

What really killed me the first several years(really over half a decade) I shot HD was that we had to "shoot 4x3, protect for 16x9". Meaning that we essentially still framed and composed for 4x3. Everything essential had to be kept inside the 4x3 safe area. The 16x9 was just essentially "spill" that had to stay clean(no light stands, etc.).
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shoot 4k, protect for 8k
 
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