Canon Launches Cinema Series Cameras For Hollywood circles

Japanese electronics giant Canon, has just launched a digital video camera aimed at the professional filmmaker. Canon C300 unveiled at a special event in LA yesterday, attended by Hollywood luminaries such as Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard.

Along with the launch of the C300 Canon also showcased a variety of lenses that are expected to be used by big-name film directors. Cinema Series is built upon the success of the Canon 5D Mark II, which has become a hit for independent filmmaking since its release in 2008, even the popular DSLR has been widely used to aim the car racing scene in the movie Iron Man 2 classmates.

Priced at $ 20,000, or about 200 million rupiah, C300 course is intended for professional filmmakers. 60 EF lenses can be used for this camera, but it has also issued two Canon zoom lens specifically designed for the PL-mount version of the C300 with the price of each $ 45,000 and $ 47,000.

With features 1080p HD video capture, super 35mm CMOS sensor, built-in ND filters, two CF card slots, an ISO range between 320 to 20,000 and can display timecode. The size of the camera is relatively small and lightweight design also makes it an ideal choice for film crews working in cramped spaces.

Mitarai CEO of Canon Fuji said, the camera produces skin tone or skin color is very good also offers a unique quality and warmth of the film.

Does not stop here, Canon will still be issued a series next Cinema Camera. At the same time, Canon has also announced that the company is developing a full frame DSLR that is optimized for the manufacture of video / movie with high levels of resolution. It promises a camera capable of recording video at 24fps and 4K Motion-JPEG compression. In press releasnya EOS DSLR Cinema is seen paired with EF 50mm lens and 24mm lens special new type of Cinema series.

Here is an example of the resulting video from Canon C300 in the manufacture of the latest short film 'Möbius' Hollywood director Vincent Laforet, in this video Laforet says "Honestly, my first impression was not the prettiest camera I have ever seen, but all of them go when looking the images from the camera. This is a camera that has all the bells and professional wisel you need for professional expenses. "

This camera will be officially available in stores in late January.