New Cinema EOS products have been few and far between over the last couple of years. The last camera added to the lineup (not including the EOS R5 C), was the Cinema EOS C70.
We have been told that 2023 will see the introduction of multiple Cinema EOS cameras.
The first one will be the Canon Cinema EOS C200 Mark II, and we have some infomration about it.
One of the more interesting bits of information is the ability to easily switch between EF and RF mounts. We're told that the EF mount comes off to reveal the RF mount.
Canon Cinema EOS C200 Mark II Specifications
- Same image sensor as the Cinema EOS C300 Mark III
- Same connection ports as the Cinema EOS C300 Mark III
- Compatible with Cinema EOS C300 Mark III and Cinema EOS C500 Mark II accessories
- Timecode
- SDI Terminals
- Easily interchangable EF and RF mount
- Same frame rates and resolution as the Cinema EOS C300 Mark III
More to come…
Interesting... so it... comes with an adapter?
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I hope this is announced in tandem with the C300 IV, and I hope the C300 IV remains a 4K S35 camera, but samples from a 5.9K sensor for sharper resolution.
At least the crop-loving stills guys got their R7.
The news story from a few months back about Canon releasing 32 new lenses may make more sense. They certainly haven't been keeping pace with that suggested cadence with normal RF lenses. Perhaps taking existing designs and using Neuro's "adjunct mount conversion apparati" across a dozen lenses for crop sensors, and then doing the same to create some price-juiced "cine" versions could knock down that number by a couple dozen.
What happened to that box camera that was supposed to be coming? That, with built in NDs… A real world 14 stops of dynamic range… Decent preamps and a good wireless solution and it will sell like hotcakes. Oh and can we get a 4:3 sensor?… That doesn’t crop in? I’m prefectly happy deciding in post if I want to crop the image to 17:9 or 16:9 or whatever.
Has ANYONE heard anything else on the box camera, the Canon EOS C5?
We have the C70 and EOS R5C for B-Roll and gimbal cameras, but we love the additional ports and viewfinder on the C200 for interviews and livestreams. SDI is a must when you're running several hundred feet of cables to a Blackmagic ATEM switcher.
The perfect thing about this is, if it's the same sensor as the C70 and C300 Mark III, it will let our interview cameras(C200s) match our b-roll cameras(C70) perfectly. I'm good with that. Add in RF mount accessibility and, I would presume, EF-RF speedbooster accessibility, and this is basically the perfect camera for what we need at the moment.
The C300iii body is 6x6x5.5. How much more of a box do you need?