Munich’s DENZ designs a camera plate and superstructure for the new Canon EOS C300

Denz’s new Canon EOS C300 Support is based on their products for DSLR cameras, the Sony PMW-F3 and Panasonic AG-AF100. The construction is made out of highly strengthened aluminium.

On the bottom are tapped holes for their BP-Multi and bridge plates of other brands (ARRI BP3, BP5, BP8 , BP9 or O’Connor plate). 

The superstructure is also made out of this aluminium called Konstruktal and you can attach monitors, batteries, recorders and so on. 

More info on their site.

www.denz-deniz.com

Canon C300 Camera Test

Jonathan Yi is a freelance director and cinematographer and was given a pre-production Canon C300 before the official launch earlier this month. Canon obviously left it to him to shoot whatever he wanted and use/abuse the camera as much as he liked. What they didn't like apparently was his take on camera tests and his brilliant sense of humour and blatant dislike of traditional camera tests. His humour went too far for Canon who don't condone the test but for us Jonathan has dropped a bit of much needed satire in to what is usually a dry viewing experience. Ironically his test champions the camera massively with an authoritative narration mixed in with the fun stuff. Vincent LaForet with laughs!

Scarlet-X: An Epic Release?

The new Scarlet-X, now seen as a 'de-tuned' EpicTechnophobes rejoiced this month with not one but two large announcements from Red Digital Cinema and Canon. 

Jim Jannard waltzed out to speak to the gathered crowd at Red Studios in Hollywood following much ado about nothing for over 30 minutes in complete darkness – a result, we were told, due to the REDUSER site crashing the company’s servers (apparently over 250,000 people were attempting to access the RED forums at the same time). 

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What is the point of the Canon C300? By Phil Rhodes

The Canon C300 and one of those 70 EF lensesThere is of course the direct answer: that it doesn't have the problems the DSLRs have. Aliasing is vastly improved, and the compression should be better even if you choose to use the internal recording facilities. But the pricing is insane, and the spec is anemic compared to what Red have for half the price, notwithstanding the fact that I won't expect Scarlet to work very well for a couple of software revisions after launch, and it's made by people with a public attitude I'll charitably describe as unconventional. I have vastly more confidence in Canon as a manufacturer.

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