MOBIUS -- short film by Vincent Laforet shot on the new Canon C300

Well I think it looks really amazing. The skin tones were very good and it all looks extremely cinematic (on board codec, whoa). In spite of lot of negative posts on every forum across the web, I'm very pleased with the results. :-)
 
I haven't seen a lot of negative posts about the C300 yet, but it's only day one so I'll reserve judgment. I imagine most of them would be about the price point.
 
Actualy, most of them were about the price. :-) There were some other complaints - mostly about a resolution and specs... But no word about visual quality of the image. :-(
 
the image looks awesome, NOBODY can deny that (though they can bring up the good old "its vimeo. . . iphone vids look awesome on vimeo" argument. . . ) though i still say that 20k is too much since the f3 will give you more for 20k and its "sony" (no fanboy, but when talkin "cinema" whom would you trust more? Sony or canon? )

si by lowering the price to 15 or 16k, they'll be SERIOUS competition for even the scarlet, which turns 2/3 on 2k (sensor crop ftl. . . )
 
Just watched it on Vimeo in 1080p and noticed a ton of noise. Not ugly noise, but lots of noise. Can't tell if its compression or camera.

I wish they made the short available to download or would post some camera grabs from the footage so I could really see what the camera is capturing.
 
It's compression. X264 compression it looks like.

Banding's there too, which is all compression related.

I'm sure there WILL be noise, of course, but the vimeo file's exaggerating it the way it exaggerates my Epic footage noise, which I know isn't there.

The only mistake Canon made was the price. If this thing were 10-12K it'd be a different story.
 
Kholi said:
The only mistake Canon made was the price? If this thing were 10-12K it'd be a different story.
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Yeah...I mean what were they thinking. I was floored when it was stated early on that it would be $16,000. I thought....what a mess. But when the corrected price of $20,000 surfaced....it seemed just plain insulting.
 
Totally agree Kholi, Ian T....it's too high for what it is. The images are nice, but so are a lot of AF100, FS100 images....which is what I think a lot of people were hoping Canon would have been trying to compete with.... just makes no sense to me at all. They will sell some of these...but if they could have come up with a product for half or less, they would have made a killing. This prices SOO MANY out of the possiblity of ownership, it's mind blowing.
 
It might be the Vimeo compression ( I've viewed them fullscreen without stretching ), but I'm not that impressed with the skin-tones, especially for the footage shot inside the car. The darker mid-tones have that "compressed" look to them, which makes me wonder if this is the result of the C300 being an 8-bit camera. Even the SDI out is 8-bit, which sucks in a major way. You would expect a $20K camera to output 10-bit 4:2:2 at the minimum.
 
TheDingo said:
It might be the Vimeo compression ( I've viewed them fullscreen without stretching ), but I'm not that impressed with the skin-tones, especially for the footage shot inside the car. The darker mid-tones have that "compressed" look to them, which makes me wonder if this is the result of the C300 being an 8-bit camera. Even the SDI out is 8-bit, which sucks in a major way. You would expect a $20K camera to output 10-bit 4:2:2 at the minimum.
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What you're seeing on Vimeo is highly compressed, and not indicative of the actual quality of the picture. You'd have to come to LA to see it yourself, but everyone that has agrees that the C300 puts out amazing quality images.
 
Vincent Laforet:
A downloadable version of the final film (5GB) will be made available shortly courtesy of Apple and iTunes.
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Then, I guess, we'll get decent HD version of the film to judge.
 
I think low-budget directors are going to flock to this camera once people get a chance to play with it. Awesome S35 4K imager with CRAZY GOOD low-light performance, 4:2:2 recording to cheap-ass CF cards, a small, lightweight body with everything on it – XLR for sound, timecode, SDI-out, etc. Not to mention that it has great battery performance.

The only thing not to like is the price ($20K MSRP, less at B&H), but thanks to the Scarlet-X, rental prices should be low ($200/day or less).

My prediction is that more films at Sundance 2013 will be shot on this Canon than on the Scarlet-X. It's just a hell of a lot more practical, and the images are just beautiful right out of the camera.
 
What a great film by Laforet. Like most intriguing stories, it doesn't matter WHAT it was shot on--I don't care if it was Alexa or T2i. I'm blown-away by some of the camera movements, the difficult shots, the emotion.
I want more rigs, not more cameras! ;-)
 
LeavingTheCandy said:
What a great film by Laforet. Like most intriguing stories, it doesn't matter WHAT it was shot on--I don't care if it was Alexa or T2i. I'm blown-away by some of the camera movements, the difficult shots, the emotion.
I want more rigs, not more cameras! ;-)
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Totally. Was watching the behind the scenes... salivating.
 
TheDingo said:
It might be the Vimeo compression ( I've viewed them fullscreen without stretching ), but I'm not that impressed with the skin-tones, especially for the footage shot inside the car. The darker mid-tones have that "compressed" look to them, which makes me wonder if this is the result of the C300 being an 8-bit camera. Even the SDI out is 8-bit, which sucks in a major way. You would expect a $20K camera to output 10-bit 4:2:2 at the minimum.
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Philip Bloom just posted an article on his blog about his first hands-on with the C300. Article here. Evidently, one of the developers explained to him why Canon's 8-bit output ends up being equivalent to 16-bit quality. Bloom says that it was all very technical discussion that went over his head (the developer had to diagram it out on napkins) so I don't know if it's just technical jargon but judging by the footage, I'd buy it.
 
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