You probably already watched our interview with Canon about the newly announced C300 Mark III and read the post. I had the camera for a couple of days and went out during “lockdown” in Vienna to capture social distancing in all its beauty for this first look, to gather some impressions about the camera. When we got a chance to test the C300 Mark III, I got very excited – I was an owner of the original C300, and before that, in 2011 when it was announced, I shot a short film with it and fell in love with that camera – you can watch the C300 short “13:59” directed by Mario Feil by clicking here. It still holds up nicely, 9 years later. But let’s get back to the C300 Mark III, fast forward 9 years to the presence – first off, the Canon C300 Mark III feels very much alike the full-frame C500 Mark II (watch our first hands-on here and read our lab test looking at the dynamic range and rolling shutter of that camera here). The reason is simple, it shares the same body. Apart from the features that already made the C500 Mark II an interesting proposition – internal Cinema RAW Light recording, Dual Pixel Autofocus – in my opinion, there are two new features of the C300 Mark III which are most interesting about this camera: The newly introduced Dual Gain Output (DGO), which essentially combines two amplifications of a moving image into one,...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 20 April, 2020