Shortly after the publication of our Canon C500 Mark II lab test last week, we learned that we will gain early access to a pre-production Canon C300 Mark III in our headquarters in Vienna. And of course we had to take an immediate “lab test” look at Canon’s latest Super 35 addition to their line of cinema cameras. After 5 weeks of home office, leaving my space mainly for only a quick walk with the dog and food shopping, I had to jump at this chance. So I picked up my face mask, greeted Nino from a safe distance and after a quick coffee together (and washing our hands thereafter) we headed straight into this. Please note that Canon mentioned this to be a pre-production unit, the firmware used was 1.8.1.1 – the final image may change when the camera is released. Nevertheless, we were super interested in getting a lab benchmark for this new camera so here we go! Time was very limited, which is not the best precondition for a thorough lab test. However, as we just ran the C500 Mark II through the lab (see our article here) and we quickly saw that the C300 Mark III shares the body, menu structure and a lot of other features including codecs with the C500 Mark II, we were fast in setting up the cam and decided to focus on 10bit XF-AVC, 4K DCI image acquisition for now (internal raw recording mode is available as well). Canon claims in...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 21 April, 2020