C100: How do you like the C100?

[DBP]

I own an HMC150 and a GH2 that I've shot a ton with. Plus other DSLRs and the Panny HPX300.

I do work for a university who purchased a pair of C100s and man... I really love that camera. Love love love it. I realize my camera standards and where I'm coming from are lower than a lot of you in this thread, but it's such a pleasure to shoot with compared to the above.

The image and mojo is great out of the box. It's light and really handheld friendly. Very easy to lug around. Great in low light, so that even @ f4, I've been able to shoot some lectures in pretty poorly lit lecture halls and the footage comes out well. I've done some greenscreen work and I find it keys nicely despite being 8 bit and 4:2:0.

I'm really thinking of ways I can afford it or the MkII. Specs definitely aren't everything. From an image and usability standpoint, the camera is a huge winner as far as I'm concerned.

 

[puredrifting]

I am very happy with my C100 MKI, even though Canon introduced the MKII two weeks after I bought the MKI. The camera has great latitude, speed, sound and image. I've shot a lot with the 5D MKII and MKIII over the past five years and this camera does pretty much everything the 5D MKII does only better. It is such a pleasure to have built in NDs, XLRs, a logical menu system. Sure the eyepiece sucks and no 1080 60P but other than those two items, the camera is a winner. I had the GH4 and sold it because the images were video-like and our clients hated the skin tones and color science. I sold a 4K camera to buy an outdated 1080p camera, it was a smart business move for us. So far, our clients at Fox, Showtime, and Paramount have commented on how they like the footage we are getting from the C100 so much better than the GH4s.