CANON C300 MARK I I I | USER REVI EW
CANON C300 MARK III PR I CE £ 1 0 , 498 / $TBC Ollie Kenchington, creative director and post specialist, reviews the new Canon EOS C300 Mark III
and I think, like a lot of people, that the natural progress from those two cameras is a C300 Mark III and an EOS R5. The Mark III is a huge step up for us. Even mundane things are a big deal, such as the speed of operations and the start-up times, when you’re turning on a camera and having to wait 20 seconds for it to get going, But with the Mark III, you turn it on and you’re ready in four. The new camera is slightly heavier than the C200 and has the
The new EOS C300 Mark III will be familiar to previous models’ owners: the stubby form factor (though less so third time around) that heralded the move to smaller cameras, the buttons that easily fall to hand and the broadcast-ready internals that made the world’s TV companies buy them in their droves. As a production company, we already own the Canon C200, which we use as our A camera. We have an EOS R, which we use as a B cam
ABOVE C300 is less stubby, but button placement and broadcast- ready internals are similar to previous models
t was late in 2011 that the Canon corporation invited the world’s video technology journalists to
Paramount studios in LA to witness and report on a significant event. It seems absurd now to think nobody knew what the announcement was, even waiting to go in to the 500-seater Paramount Theatre the moment seemed bigger than a mere new camera announcement. But the original EOS C300’s DNA is strong and its roadmap long enough now to validate such a huge product announcement. We’re still feeling its impact nine years later.
“THE NEW EOS C300 MARK III WILL FEEL FAMILIAR TO PREVIOUS MODELS’ OWNERS”
JUNE 2020 | DEF I N I T ION 23
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