C300: It's obvious now, I will never understand the Sony crowd.

[hscully]

What I find exciting is that Sony is pushing the envelope in this regard; rather than a camera that's all about LOOKING PRETTY, they are geared more towards giving us camera people more options in what can be achieved.

And I just listened to a podcast from CamerImage on ASC and they say all the top cinematographers are asking for a simpler camera and workflow... go figure.

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

I'm not sure I see the issue with the video - it seems a controlled and accurate test that shows exactly what you'd expect to see:

- The dynamic range on the Sony wipes the floor with the Canon (that's nothing new)
- The out-the-box colours of the Canon wipes the floor with the Sonys (that's nothing new)
- Sony's built-in picture profiles are godawful

The FS7 offers significantly better image quality over the C300. The images are 10-bit, dynamic range is four times bigger (2 stops), and with the appropriate colour-transform in post it can produce very nice colours.

The C300 offers the same great image it always has, so I wouldn't stress.

Gotta agree with this.

Don't discount the OOB (Out Of the Box) experience.

Canon nailed it with the C-line.

It is easy to adjust kelvin, iso and pretty much everything else in SECONDS on the C-line.

Sony currently forces you to go into submenus for these.

Canon's picture profiles render skin tones beautifully right out of the camera, and producers love it.

I wish I could spend a whole day after a shoot converting a log image into 1-light graded clips for my clients but I rarely get to do that, unless I am editing them too.

Most times I am handing off footage to the client on a drive, and they don't want to hear about luts or transforms or whatever.

 

[hscully]

Gotta agree with this.

Don't discount the OOB (Out Of the Box) experience.

Canon nailed it with the C-line.

It is easy to adjust kelvin, iso and pretty much everything else in SECONDS on the C-line.

Sony currently forces you to go into submenus for these.

Canon's picture profiles render skin tones beautifully right out of the camera, and producers love it.

I wish I could spend a whole day after a shoot converting a log image into 1-light graded clips for my clients but I rarely get to do that, unless I am editing them too.

Most times I am handing off footage to the client on a drive, and they don't want to hear about luts or transforms or whatever.

+1 The Canon C300 looks great on skin tones right out of the box. Being able to hand off footage that people can use without a grade is KEY.