Canon Announces Cinema EOS Product Line

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Nov 4, 2011 10:02 AM, By Brad Dick

Canon voiced an all-new 4K motion picture camera and relating lens product line, called Cinema EOS. The new line of motion picture collection includes the simple Cinema EOS C300 camera body in possibly PL or EF get up and 7 new PL and EF lenses.

Fujio Mitarai, Canon chairman, began the trial adage that his firm longed for to betray the new motion picture line of products in Hollywood both to uncover its encouragement for movie and calm makers, but moreover to highlight the firm's request to rise feedback from this residents of professionals. Mitarai mentioned that whilst the technology is new, the C300 camera builds on the company's success it has enjoyed in veteran digital cinematography with its EOS 5D Mark II camera.

The camera uses Canon's super 35mm CMOS sensor with an efficient 8.3 megapixels. The camera archives using MPEG-2 application and saves the files in MXF format. Based on the Canon DIGIC DV III image processor, the EOS camera outputs 50Mb/s 4:2:2, recording to two CF cards. A third card container can get up an SD card, that an user can use to automatically upload an whole set of preferred presets. For let applications, this permits the shooter to rapidly configure multi-part cameras to same desired settings.

The Cinema EOS camera outlay supports 1920 x 1080: 60/50i, together with 1280 x 720: 60/50p. The HD/SDI outlay includes embedded audio. For the still sharpened in SD, the camera outputs 4:2:2 640 x 480 60/50i. An HDMI outlay moreover is standard.

The many without doubt outmost aspect of the new EOS C300 is its tiny size; the camera body is about the same size as any DSLR camera. The condensed body comes in two flavors - the EOS C300 and EOS C300PL, any ancillary a type of lenses. The EOS C300PL friends with a complete of 5 new lenses - two telephoto and 3 important lenses. Officials were rapid to indicate out that the C300 can use any of the 7 new 4K EF motion picture lenses or a of the more than 60 stream Canon EF-style lenses.

What about options? A full operation of handles and mounts are available. An elective wireless coordinator allows the camera to be remote-controlled around typical wireless gadgets similar to tablets, phones and browsers. The eventuality moreover showed the motion picture EOS cameras mounted and configured in a far-reaching operation of applications, from point-and-shoot to 3-D. Especially splendid was the live set, with little illumination. The actress changed by the set with usually a flashlight. Images were spectacular.