High Definition, Exceptional Quality

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.

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.

EOS C300 with EF mount

EOS C300 PL with PL mount

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.

Super 35mm Canon

CMOS Sensor

CMOS sensor size comparison (not to scale)

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)

EOS-1D X EOS C300 and EOS 7D / EOS 60D

EOS 5D Mark II EOS C300 PL EOS Rebel Models

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 lightActual size 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.

Signal processing equivalent to that in a 3-chip RGB system

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1080 3840

1920

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.

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