Hi, I'm Ollie Kenchington from Korro Films and welcome to this first look at the newly
announced, Canon C300 Mark III.
The new Super35 sensor that Canon have introduced with the
C300 Mark III is quite a big step up from other S35 sensors that they have created before.
The Dual Gain Output is a new method for Canon.
The raw information from the photosites is
actually split, and it's recorded at two different Gain levels. That dual amplification and dual
strategy for dealing with highlight and high saturated areas, and low light and noise areas,
allows you to combine those two things together, before they go through the analogue
to digital conversion and beyond.
Because it's happening before the image gets passed
down the chain, you benefit from that, even if you're shooting raw.
The woodlands near where I live have these incredibly tall, very straight pine trees.
I wanted to see, could the C300 Mark III really, with it's claimed 16+ stops of dynamic range, retain detail
in the bark, on the dark shadow side of the trees. And balance that with the intense sunlight
that was coming through and landing in a pool at the floor of the forest.
Of course the higher frame rates really set it apart from anything else in Canon's line up.
Being able to capture 120 frames per second in Cinema Raw Light at 4K, is quite incredible.
Even after the four or five days that I've had the camera, that still is an exciting thing to me,
and I think that's going to really capture people's imaginations.
It's a great camera for unlocking a huge number of different styles of filming.
From the body, and the flexibility that give us in terms of the expansion packs and the interchangeable mount,
to the sensor with its increased dynamic range for tackling scenes that possibly we couldn't have tackled or
captured faithfully before. The camera is quicker to operate, it's quicker to startup,
it's quicker to go through the menus and initialise media and black balance.
Everything is snappier and quicker. The new digital image stabilisation from the C500 Mark II, which
is in this camera, and of course the frame rates, and the flexibility of codec choices.
These are all things that help me as a creative, and help us as a business, use a small, light-weight,
competitively priced product to punch above our weight.
I can get more out of this camera, my money goes further, it's as simple as that,
from a business standpoint. From a creative point of view, its unquestionably unlocking more creative avenues
for us as filmmakers.
Now as we move forwards, and lockdowns begin to end, we will be able to get out and about
and hopefully soon be hands-on with this camera.
In the mean time, I am going to be making available a selection of the footage that I have shot over the last four or five days,
so that you can download it and you can have a look for yourself, you can pixel peep, if you're anything like me!
Take them in to your own NLE, or finishing package of choice and really
interrogate them, really push them to see where they break apart and see exactly
what this camera if capable of. And I think you will, like me, find that the C300 Mark III
is a very, very capable camera.