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The Moon as Your Key Light? The Canon C300 Delivers

02.25.12 @ 2:17PM Tags : canonc300, denoiser, lowlight, moonlight, neatvideo

Hyperbole? Not really. It’s no secret that the Canon C300 is a low-light monster. It’s also marginally better than the F3 and FS100 in high-ISO situations (debatable, but from what I’ve seen, it holds slightly more detail and color information in those extreme situations). But this is just ridiculous. Barry Goyette has posted a video of mostly available light C300 footage – and get this – parts were lit with just moonlight. Yes, that moon, as in the reflection of the sun off of the lunar surface. For the really interesting footage, wait until after the credits. Here’s the video: More »

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How Do the Canon C300 and Sony F3 Compare in Low Light?

12.19.11 @ 11:43AM Tags : cameras, canon, canonc300, f3, lowlight, sonyf3, tests

Cameras have been getting more and more sensitive, so it follows that low light tests are a nice showcase of the latest in camera technology. Here, Sebastian Wiegärtner pits the Canon C300 against the Sony F3 (with S-Log) and Canon 7D: More »

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The thing about light is...

10.20.09 @ 2:01AM Tags : dslr, lowlight, red, vincentlaforet

First, Canon has announced a 24p/25p update to the Canon 5d Mark II; this is crucial and I will now be keeping the camera I purchased mere months ago. But I don’t have much interesting to say about that, other than, “thank the lord.”

There’s some other news out of the Canon camp today, however, and that’s what the title of this post is about. The thing about light is… when it comes to guerilla filmmaking, there’s never enough of it. More »