Eric Coughlin
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Dallas Buyer's Club and The Revenant come to mind in terms of films that used only natural light.
C300: New C700 film and BTS from Eurpoe
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There's so much poor available light cinematography in indie movies these days. REDs are cheap and ubiquitous enough to rent out, so you have the camera element in the ball park, but a real lighting kit and crew is tougher to get ahold of.
puredrifting
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Thanks. I was at Canon Hollywood yesterday for a class and the instructors had one of these, a C700 prototype, but they wouldn't even let us get near it. I saw them playing with it while we students were all shooting our assignments. It was the same off white color.
Grug
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Looks fine to me, no better or worse than the competition really. Six years on and still no one's able to touch Arri on the highlight front, but at least it looks like Canon have finally pulled more-or-less level with the rest of the competition.
Still, I think the C700 has some appealing ergonomic and operational features (particularly the internal NDs), so I'm keen to try one out.
Still, I think the C700 has some appealing ergonomic and operational features (particularly the internal NDs), so I'm keen to try one out.
puredrifting
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Also, it's going to break down to cost. A fully kitted Arri Amira, Alexa or Alexa Mini is still going to be a in a different ballpark than a fully kitted C700. I wouldn't be surprised to see some price drops on the C700 six to twelve months after they begin delivering them, that seems to be in the Canon playbook whereas you don't see Arri drop their camera prices too much other than an occasional promotion when they throw in some media or a software upgrade.
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Jim Martin
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You don't know that, you are assuming it is the same. I'm looking forward to talking with the key Canon people who worked on the shoot 3 weeks ago regarding the new chip/ISO/DR....they will know where the camera is in those areas....
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anatusa
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i do know that as it is what canon guy told : same sensor architecture...., same sensor with few extra pixels...to make it 4.5k
https://www.cinema5d.com/introduction-canon-eos-c700-cinema-camera/
Jim Martin
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to show off the DR......
Overall looks nice, but I hate blown out windows. Looks like the cheap corporate stuff I have to do when I have no time or budget.
rob norton
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It's the sky that's blown out, it's not like the windows are nuclear white panels - you can still see detail in some of the outside elements.
The art direction, male model, location and a song that isn't from audio jungle all help too.
Anyway no one is buying this $28K camera after only watching a single commercial on youtube. More samples will come from productions with bigger lighting budgets. Like others have said this will be used as just one piece in evaluation.
SIDE NOTE: We start by hearing the crackle of the vinyl. Then it disappears once the track starts, similar to a hyper digital sample you hear when trying on BOSE headphones... it's insulting.
The art direction, male model, location and a song that isn't from audio jungle all help too.
Anyway no one is buying this $28K camera after only watching a single commercial on youtube. More samples will come from productions with bigger lighting budgets. Like others have said this will be used as just one piece in evaluation.
SIDE NOTE: We start by hearing the crackle of the vinyl. Then it disappears once the track starts, similar to a hyper digital sample you hear when trying on BOSE headphones... it's insulting.
It's not horrible; it just doesn't look like cinema to me.