Not content to deliver a clear and simple message at today’s launch, Canon also revealed an “EOS Movies” “concept camera” today. I’m just going to let Engadget handle this one:
Promised to be “ideally suited for cinematographic and other digital high-resolution production applications” this camera packs a 35mm full frame image sensor capable of shooting Motion-JPEG encoded 4K video at 24fps.
The Canon lens makes me think of those “Who wore it better?” celebrity fashion pieces
As promised, Jim and Red revealed a new incarnation of Scarlet tonight, Scarlet X. Gone (for good it seems) is the fixed-lens, 2/3” sensor configuration. Instead, Scarlet X is basically an Epic, but with innards that didn’t quite pass muster for Epic’s heavy data throughput. The result? A camera that looks like an Epic, feels like an Epic, and shoots like an Epic—but with reduced resolution and frame rate capabilities. Specifically:
Those are windowed resolutions, so they change your lens’s Angle of View as well as your pixel count.
Here’s how it’s priced. (Al means an aluminum Canon mount, as Epic X was slated to use; Ti means a titanium mount, which Epic M shipped with and now Epic X as well.) And you can order it now—if you can get through over at red.com.
There’s an FAQ post here with many details.
By all indications, Scarlet X does more than Canon’s C300, for less money. But things are rarely that simple.
Update
on 2011-11-04 04:43 by Stu
Engadget, who have been inexplicably covering all this very well (as if these cameras were “gadgets”), has a nice clear shot of the frame-rate/data-rate/resolution matrix.
Update
on 2011-11-04 07:22 by Stu
Canon has announced the EOS C300, a Super-35 digital cinema camera—along with a slew of new cinema lenses. Coverage here.
Vincent Laforet shot a film with it called Mobius, and his first blog post about it is up now.
Here’s the film, and the behind the scenes.
I contributed a few key VFX shots to the film and therefore got to live with the footage up close for days. I’ll have more to say later about this camera and Red’s 10-minutes-nigh announcement, but for now just know that the C300’s footage looks terrific. Great dynamic range, low noise, and a nice, clean image.
Wow, today is a big day! A new Super 35mm camera has been announced.
Darker. Grayer.
Press release here.
Update
on 2011-11-03 17:56 by Stu
The webcast was worthless, but here’s a nice write-up from @comebackshane at Little Frog in High Def.
