I won't go much into the specs of the Canon C100 in this post. All that will go into my next post on what I would like to see in the rumored new budget Cinema camera from Canon.
After grading the footage from the C100, I got to see just how it handled. It handles pretty good, but the C100 has a price tag of $6500 and to get the most of the camera in 8bit 4,2,2 you'll need either a Blackmagic Design Hyperdeck Shuttle 2 SSD video recorder for around $328 plus SSD drives or an Atomos Ninja video recorder for just under a grand plus the SSD drives. Now you're looking at a price tag between $7000 to $8000 for a recorder and SSD's. For a price of $6500 I would like to see at least 8bit 4,2,2 in camera.
Grading the C100 footage straight from the camera I noticed when adjusting the curves to get some detail back instead of rising the mids I was dropping the mids a lot just to get some of the highlights and shadows back in the picture. Another thing I noticed was skintones were alittle harder to get. The Vectorscopes were spread throughout and to find the "skintone" line took some time to get an even line on the scopes without it being spread throughout.
I will say the colors of the C100 look very good. The image is a step up from Canon DSLRs with a little better DR but nothing that just screams miles ahead better. I was really impressed with the low light abilities, a few of the shots were at high iso's, one at 10,000 and one at 20,000. There is some noise but nothing a pass in a noise reduction program can't take care of. I thought the anamorphic file looked the best. After cropping and grading it looks the most cinematic.
Test footage
http://vimeo.com/56536600
Still grabs from the test video all are straight from the camera
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