With 1/3" sensor everything is in focus. Not to mention the tracking was slow and would be a gamble to use in real life shooting. The images are actually ok for weddings and corporate events but anything else this overpriced small sensor/high bitrate canon proposition is out of its depth. The footage from this camera is often mistaken for footage captured on consumer camcorders.
All depends what you're doing. For me, I need to have everything in focus since I'm doing ENG work. The shallow depth of field kills all my shots for the type of work I do; for shallow DOF i'd get a C300 :)
the dof should be videographer's choice, via manageable tools such as the aperture on the lens and not the size of the sensor. plus standard ENG cameras have always had a 2/3" sensor and in this day in age 1/3" sensors shouldn't even exist. If this is marketed towards event and wedding videographers, these productions often require shallow dof, esp with the new set of cameraman out there who have been shooting with dslr cameras, so the XF doesn't deliver. canon could've given it a decent sensor but they chose not to so they can sell the C line of cameras. starting with the C100, canon gave it a great sensor, shit codec, semi-shit 8bit 4:2:0 output and priced it close to a legendary FS700. if people complained like i do about the c100, they point to the c300 which again, has a great sensor, a viewfinder finally, an lcd screen, ok codec, but for the price of a RED Scarlet, doesn't even do 1080 50p, let alone 4k out etc. And if you keep complaining again canon still points up, now to the c500, priced like an epic, delivering like an FS700. My point is, Canon should stop playing silly games and start looking after their customers because I am sick and tired of spending towards incomplete canon systems.
Do we get new firmware in 2020
Harish Ba thank you for watching. they are probably no longer developing firmware for this camera. check out the xf45, a 4K version
hi i'm having an issue with the cannon 305 camcorder that i'm only getting colour bars out of the HDMI output of the camera can you please help?
sounds like a menu setting issue. are you trying to get live output, or playing back clips?
With 1/3" sensor everything is in focus. Not to mention the tracking was slow and would be a gamble to use in real life shooting. The images are actually ok for weddings and corporate events but anything else this overpriced small sensor/high bitrate canon proposition is out of its depth. The footage from this camera is often mistaken for footage captured on consumer camcorders.
All depends what you're doing. For me, I need to have everything in focus since I'm doing ENG work. The shallow depth of field kills all my shots for the type of work I do; for shallow DOF i'd get a C300 :)
the dof should be videographer's choice, via manageable tools such as the aperture on the lens and not the size of the sensor. plus standard ENG cameras have always had a 2/3" sensor and in this day in age 1/3" sensors shouldn't even exist. If this is marketed towards event and wedding videographers, these productions often require shallow dof, esp with the new set of cameraman out there who have been shooting with dslr cameras, so the XF doesn't deliver. canon could've given it a decent sensor but they chose not to so they can sell the C line of cameras. starting with the C100, canon gave it a great sensor, shit codec, semi-shit 8bit 4:2:0 output and priced it close to a legendary FS700. if people complained like i do about the c100, they point to the c300 which again, has a great sensor, a viewfinder finally, an lcd screen, ok codec, but for the price of a RED Scarlet, doesn't even do 1080 50p, let alone 4k out etc. And if you keep complaining again canon still points up, now to the c500, priced like an epic, delivering like an FS700. My point is, Canon should stop playing silly games and start looking after their customers because I am sick and tired of spending towards incomplete canon systems.
I agree completely. Unfortunately I'm on a tight budget and can't afford the 2/3 sensor cameras prices. :(