Hello and welcome to Up to Speed.
Today we have a major new announcement from Canon to talk about.
They have just officially announced the C700, a new flagship video camera which sits very
comfortably at the top of their lineup and seems poised to take aim directly at competing
high end cameras, the Arri Alexa, Sony F55, Red Weapon and Panasonic Varicam.
Physically it changes the canon design we all know from the rest of their cinema lineup
and goes for a more traditional form factor, very similar in fact to the alexa and sony
f55.
Its a longer, shorter body, with a huge selection of ports on the right hand side, and the controls
on the left.
This screen and control placement really reminds me of the alexa and f55, but theres a reason
they are all doing the same thing.
A screen to show your settings, with a row of buttons on the top and bottom for quick
access is a really simple and efficient way of controlling your camera.
This screen and controls are also mirrored on an optional control panel which you can
either use a long cable to control the camera remotely, or you can attach it to the right
hand side of the camera for an assistant to access, which will be really handy.
Theres an EF mount on the front, or you can buy it with a PL mount if you prefer.
The mounts can be swapped at a canon service centre.
And you can even use B4 lenses as canon have made a EF to B4 adapter as well.
So what can the camera do.
It has a brand new 4.5K sensor and actually comes in two versions, a regular CMOS sensor
or a global shutter.
The global shutter will get rid of any possible rolling shutter, but will mean the camera
is less sensitive.
It will be interesting to see if theres a loss of dynamic range with the global shutter
as well as historically CMOS sensors have always had the edge there, we will just have
to wait for test footage to be released.
Its great that canon are giving customers the choice here though, theres lots of flexibility
with this camera to get it exactly the way you want it for your specific production.
These sensors are completely new, so it will be fascinating to see if theres an image improvement
over the already impressive C300 mk2.
Canon claim the same 15 stops of dynamic range which implies they will be quite similar,
again we will just have to wait for test footage.
The camera records to two c-fast 2 card slots on the right hand side of the camera and you
can chose between XF-AVC at up to 4K 60fps or Prores at 30 fps 4K.
Its great to see prores options internally here.
Thats one of Arri’s biggest strengths with the Alexa and so is great to see canon adopting
it alongside their normal XF-AVC codec.
If you drop the quality down to 2K you get some options to do higher frame rates.
With a normal full sensor read out you can go up to 120 frames a second, or you can use
a 2x crop to get up to 240 frames a second.
So theres plenty of slow motion options here.
Colour science could be one of the biggest strengths of the camera.
Canon is well known for its fantastic colour, its one of the companies main strengths over
the competition.
The c700 records 10 bit 4.4.4 colour internally in 4K. and if you drop down to 2K you can
go up to 12 bit 4.4.4 which will be very welcome.
So thats what the camera can do by itself.
But thats not all, because Canon have partnered up with Codex to make a specific Codex recorder
for the camera which will allow you get record a 4.5K raw signal at up to 100 frames a second,
with a full 12 bit colour depth.
This is huge for high end users.
Codex is well used across the high end production industry and has a fantastic reputation for
powerful products.
So this recorder should help the C700 work nicely as an A camera on high end productions.
Canon are also releasing some new accessories for the camera, a new EVF which looks fantastic,
a shoulder kit with a VCT plate, a servo control grip and of course the B4 mount and control
panel I mentioned previously.
The new C700 seems like a hugely powerful new flagship camera from Canon and seems to
tick nearly every box for high end productions.
We are very excited to see what the industry makes of it and to see if can convince productions
to switch over from the established competitors.
But just as important is what you think.
Is there anything you think canon left out?
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