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Technology – but never for its own sake. Always to simplify
your shoot. Increase your options. Advance your art. Accelerate
your project turn time. And lower costs. The technology behind
Canon’s Cinema EOS system draws on everything we’ve learned
about digital image capture – and every innovation that truly
serves your creative effort.
Super 35mm Canon
CMOS Sensor
Modeled on the Super 35mm 3-perf motion picture film standard,
Canon’s CMOS sensor has an active image size of 24.4 x 13.5mm.
It utilizes 3840 (H) x 2160 (V)
photosites to perform the crucial
optoelectronic transformation
of digital imaging. Each
photosite is a generous 6.4 x 6.4
micrometers in area and each
has a microlens that ensures
the highest efficiency in light
transfer to the individual photodiode. Proprietary technologies
within the photosite simultaneously lower the image sensor
noise floor while enhancing the photon capacity of the
photodiode – a combination that assures superb dynamic range.
The image sensor utilizes an innovative readout technique
that delivers full bandwidth individual RGB video components
without the need for any debayering algorithms. Each of these
components has a 1920 (H) x 1080 (V) sampling structure at
up to 60 frames. From these original video components, a
1080-line 60i format or a 1280 (H) x 720 (V) at 60P format is
selectively derived. A high-speed readout significantly reduces
the subjective visibility of vertical skewing on fast-moving
horizontal subjects that is characteristic of CMOS image sensors.
Canon EOS C300 (EF Mount) and EOS C300 PL (PL Mount)
To integrate easily into the working style and equipment
array of film crews and production houses, the Cinema EOS
system begins with two camera bodies. The EOS C300 has a
Canon EF lens mount and is compatible with all of Canon’s EF
lenses, including compact primes, super telephotos, specialty
Tilt-Shift, Macro and fisheye – over 60 in all. It also has
communication contacts built into its mount, allowing EF lens
functions such as focus and iris to be adjusted wirelessly via the
optional Canon Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E6A unit. This offers
huge potential for specialty applications where cameras must be
controlled remotely such as nature documentaries or reality TV.
The EOS C300 PL has a PL mount and is compatible, both
with a new series of Canon EF Cinema lenses (PL mount), as
well as the majority of third-party optics available for 35mm
motion picture cameras.
Canon
≥
DV III Image Processor
Designed and built by
Canon for the highest HD
RGB processing, the
≥
DV III Image Processor
uses proprietary circuits
and architecture to deliver
the highest image quality
at the highest speeds.
It processes the RGB representations originated in the single
CMOS sensor into three channels (Red, Blue and Green) to
maintain the rich resolution and clean color fidelity formerly
possible only in three-chip sensor designs.
EOS C300 with EF mount EOS C300 PL with PL mount
Actual size
EOS-1D X
EOS 5D Mark II
CMOS sensor size comparison (not to scale)
EOS C300 and
EOS C300 PL
EOS 7D / EOS 60D
EOS Rebel Models
Full Frame (16:9 video capture area)
Super 35mm (16:9 video capture area)
APS-C (16:9 video capture area)
4/3 sensor
(16:9 video capture area)
High Definition, Exceptional Quality
3840
2160
1920
1080
Signal processing equivalent to that in a 3-chip RGB system
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