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In early Fall 2011, I shot some footage with a pre-production model of the Canon EOS C300 for one week in NYC. I created an article and a video for Canon based on my experiences with the camera. The video is meant to poke fun at most camera test videos I've seen over the years. Canon, not thrilled with my sense of humor, does not credit or condone this video, but I think it shows a lot of the camera's strengths.

You can read my full article about the EOS C300 here: learn.usa.canon.com/resources/articles/2011/c300_for_cinematographers.shtml

I believe that Canon made a beautiful camera that is sensible, reliable and portable in a way that I've always dreamed a camera could be. It prioritizes great skin tone and has higher ISO sensitivity than any other camera out there.

I know there's nothing I can say to change the minds of the RED fan club. For the rest of the skeptics, I think once you get your hands on it you'll understand how great this camera really is. Please buy this camera in January and go film some good skin tones in the dark. You'll love it.

Thanks go out to all my friends for helping me with this.

Read my Filmmaker Magazine interview about this video here: filmmakermagazine.com/news/2011/12/jonathan-yi-talks-about-the-canon-c300/

This video will be broadcast on all Virgin America flights during the months of February and March on Boing Boing TV!

Watch my super weird follow up C300 project here: vimeo.com/jonyi/math

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victor lau 2 months ago

looks good!
Philip Bloom 2 months ago

This was a brilliant test video. Love the humour and it highlights the camera so well!! Well done chaps!
Matthew Vandeputte 2 months ago

"I love this jacket.." hehe
Dale Kamp 2 months ago

Wholeheartedly agree with the Bloom. Great job!
Tom Lowe 2 months ago

Very well done. Love the ISO.
Benjamin Reece 2 months ago

Love the tone of this. Lighthearted in a sea of opinionated filmmakers. The C300 is going to KILL the Epic/Scarlet in terms of low lighting, just as the GH2/5D does right now. BUT, if you are looking for a primary camera to shoot commercial/cinema style video, I would be hard pressed to take a C300 over a Scarlet. In other words: GH2 hacked + Scarlet = best toolkit for my specific uses/humble opinion. :)
HDtimelapse.net 2 months ago

Great job!
iamkalaniprince 2 months ago

That was by far the most enjoyable voice over work of the year. **virtual oscar**

almost spit out my coconut milk on the girl's censored eyes..

Well done, this camera looks pretty promising..
Jac Valentine 2 months ago

awesome job. sorry they don't credit you but i'm def investing in this baby!!
Brandon Bloch 2 months ago

... but does it have a headphone jack? ;-)
Wood Sugars 2 months ago

That corrected log is lookin good.
garrett ilardi 2 months ago

i dig your sense of humor... can you shoot me some green screen footage? id be really interested to see gs in log. pulling keys from t2i footage sucks
Jonathan Yi 2 months ago

Check out the film XXIT to check out a movie done mostly all with green screen with this camera and codec! It's really, really good with green screen.
guillermo castellanos 2 months ago

What a great suggestion! that short film it was amazing.
Blade Runner 2011 Re-load and the range of the camera is simply amazing as yours men.
Thanks
iamkalaniprince 2 months ago

seems as if this 4 to 1 pixel color density Canon mojo-magic will produce very green screenable post flowetry.

The damn dual recording to CF is VERY appealing to me.. Right on Canon!
Brandon Christensen 2 months ago

Hysterical.

Great work.
Daniel Gustafsson 2 months ago

Fantastic review! Thanks for making something utterly boring, awesome! Cheers!
Jon Brown 2 months ago

Umm, this was amazing. Best camera review ever.
editman 2 months ago

Thanks for a fun and illustrative video of the C300.
Motion Minded 2 months ago

that's how you do reviews...! Thanks for sharing
michaschmidt 2 months ago

love that ... awesome work ... shows all the C300 awesomeness even more than the whole canon event / films ;)
Daniel Frome 2 months ago

HAHA... this is better than all of the videos that Canon released. I was not impressed by this camera until I saw this.
Eyeball Moving Image 2 months ago

I thought the exact same thing.
Kemalettin Sert 2 months ago

thank god i choose scarlet
Jonathan Yi 2 months ago

Enjoy your broken camera.
Randy Noland 2 months ago

:-)
michaschmidt 2 months ago

oh boy ... really ?! ... what a comment ... what is so bad on that video (and thereby the C300) that it makes scarlet the better cam ... the low light capabilities??... the long rendertimes for r3d's ...?? ;)
Kemalettin Sert 2 months ago

actually im using epic also but this c300 looks waaaaaaaaay better than epic on high ISO's

can you post screengrabs from high ISO shots?

@unique_design (michaschmidt)
because it shots compressed! once you get started shooting RAW there is no back dude..believe me
Jonathan Yi 2 months ago

Frame grabs from the high ISO shots are available on the Canon site with my article. It's a long article so you might have to dig a little but it's on the link - learn.usa.canon.com/resources/articles/2011/c300_for_cinematographers.shtml
Kemalettin Sert 2 months ago

thanks Yi i liked the video
michaschmidt 2 months ago

haha i see :) ... all good then ;)
Marc Ruiz 2 months ago

It's a great video

You make the camera look pretty good

Now let's blow up the footage on the big screen against the scarlet

720 is barely acceptable for online
Trunk Films 2 months ago

Don't normally bother with this stuff, great test guys. Look forward to having a play with this camera soon.
Sylvain Cruiziat 2 months ago

good job the c300 looks so awesome! I will be seeing it next week :)
Bruno Ázera 2 months ago

Awesome!
Mel Feliciano 2 months ago

I was excited to see how they got rid of the moire at 3:06, but my excitement didn't last long after noticing how soft the image looks. Unlike my GH2 that has virtually no moire, while preserving the details.
Olaf Blomerus 2 months ago

Great work! Very informative and wonderfully hilarious. Gives me a new take on this camera. I'd almost written it off but the noise ability is pretty amazing.
Eben Bolter 2 months ago

even my girlfriend enjoyed that camera test, great work guys.
Derek 4iLL 2 months ago

haha! mine too.
Eric Hines 2 months ago

Entertaining and educational!
Martin Whittier 2 months ago

Great video, loved the detail your put into it.
.Sardo. 2 months ago

Love It!
Dillon Thomas 2 months ago

Wonderful work (and awesome camera!) Thanks for doing this.
.Sardo. 2 months ago

is the side by side "same everything" shot inclue same iso and f.stop ?
Jonathan Yi 2 months ago

Yes, sir!
Adam Cross 2 months ago

the C300 isn't impressing me to be honest, as far as physical results are concerned nothing here I haven't already seen from a 7D or 5DII, or D3S

It's impressive with the amount of options you have and the amount of control you have especially with sound, much more so than a DSLR but again.. the results are no different, maybe on a larger scale production you'll see better results.. hmm
Philip Bloom 2 months ago

Did you watch the same video as me? It highlights the differences very well! Rolling shutter, moire, dynamic range, low light etc...
geco campos 2 months ago

I agree with Philip, the camera is great, works very well in low light, no moire, less rolling shutter (is still there but lessly), nice dynamic range... BUT... US$20K, is to much for a camera like this, in a 10 to 12K range is a winner, but 20K body only.. Ufff... no way
geco campos 2 months ago

by the way, the video is really one of the best reviews, is fun and cover all the info you need
michaschmidt 2 months ago

uhm seriously ? ... as good as 7D or 5DII, or D3S??? uhm well the "Standard EOS" setting looked odd on that c300 indeed ... but all the rest ... as Philip said ... way way better than any DSLR ... it really seems like a mini ALEXA in a way ... maybe not quite ... but close ;)
Kalum Ko 2 months ago

I agree, that of course the c300 has better video. But IMO its pointless comparing the two, when a camera is 20k and another is 2k without a doubt I expect the 20k cam to outpreform the 2k cam. It'd be a way more relevatant comparison if the two cameras were in the same price range, but the c300 is 10x as much as a HDSLR. Anyways I liked the style of this review, good work.
Brandon Weber 2 months ago

I agree with lonelywhitelights. It looks great but it doesn't look THAT much better than the Mark II. To me, the difference is marginal at best. I think some ppl are TOO obssessed with equipment. When your film gets shown to an audience, the average Joe is not going to care whether you shot your film with a Mark II or a C300.... they basically look the same.
Arsenio 2 months ago

you can't compare this to DSLR;
what's the price again?
Jonathan Yi 2 months ago

I can compare it to a DSLR as long as the whole damn internet keeps comparing this camera to a DSLR when it's NOT A DSLR! I wanted to show how great the differences actually were.

I have been forced to shoot with DSLRs for quite a long time now. I'm happy that this will now finally come to an end. DSLRs previously had no match for portability, size and high iso performance - and I do documentary where all these things are important. We didn't shoot with DSLRs because of budget - they were previously the best tool for the job. Now there's no reason why I need to shoot with a DSLR ever again. The C300 will replace it for all my work.
J. Angel Larrieta Arteaga 2 months ago

Actually you can compare it. For internet streaming, 5d, 7d and c300 could be really similar, with the proper lighting and color correction. If you are thinking in a larger scale, like movies for comercial distribution you will get better results from a c300. It is true that they look "the same", but the cool thing about the c300 is not just the look you get, is that the footage is raw and bigger than what you get from a 5d, that means, you get the same image, but with a lot more options to correct the color and crop the image without getting any kind of noise or low quality image.
Wes Howell 2 months ago

Jonathan, I think you're going to get quite different responses from the "armchair DSLR shooters" and "DSLR blog readers" Anyone that 's done a fair amount of shooting with a DSLR knows the pain points and sees them daily in the results (footage) The moire, jello and artifacting gets painful...and we haven't even gotten into the image breaking up in post, audio pitfalls, ergonomics, built in ND, etc. I can wish it was under 20k...but I'm still very interesting in getting one of these.
Philip Bloom 2 months ago

it's not $20k...i thought people knew the street price is actually going to be around $13k. The news was everywhere past week or so...
Philip Bloom 2 months ago

Come on Brandon...we all love our DSLRs but let's not be so blinkered here. If you can't see the huge improvements over, the MUCH cheaper, DSLR than there is nothing I can say!
woodybrando 2 months ago

I've been shooting with dslr's for a year. Not once have we lost a shot due to jello. and we just did a music vid chasing around 5 girls in bikini's. Moire on the other hand yes that I won't miss. But the kind of improvements in the c300 are what I'd expect in the 5d mark III. so if i'm not that enthusiastic about the c300 it's all price based. strip out the audio and the nd filter and sell it to me in a dslr body for $2600 and I'll love it.
Brandon Weber 2 months ago

If you have the luxury of working on a larger scale production and you have the budget to use the c300 or a DSLR, obviously the choice would be the C300. But considering the indy filmmaker and their lack of $$ and resources, the difference in quality is not so much so whereas I can see people chucking their 5D MarkIIs and spending an extra $17k for this.

For the price difference, guess I expected more.
Anthony Burokas 2 months ago

Now that Canon is going to be offering two cinema cameras, I think the video capabilities they put into the vDSLRs may start to wane a bit. There's no need for them to offer all the C300's capabilities, less a internal ND and the jackpack, in a DSLR because, well, then they'd sell a lot fewer C300's.

I think we'll see Canon go back to focusing on new still camera features in still cameras. Exactly what we saw with their new 1D X. Much less about video than a lot of vDSLR fans were hoping for. Remember, this is Canon. They're very good at this. :)
Erik Hölperl 2 months ago

You are probably right, its Canon ! They know how to sell cameras very well. This video was cool and the shots with the 300c are really impressive. But It was not as crazy as I expected it to be. 60f only@ 720P why ?

Its amazing that you could put that thing on a small glidecam and get cinema quality with crazy camera movements.

cant wait
eggermedia.com 2 months ago

Uhm what? While my 7D produces regularily great results there are problems in the footage every day. Moire, aliasing, macroblocks in the dark. Add to it how hard it is too shoot with a DSLR due to the lack of a decent viewfinder, audio, peaking etc. And then add the highlight-roll-off in this footage and the DR it shows under that bridge with the BMX-biker plus a codec that can save it in-cam. There are a least 5 classes difference in these cams in terms of image and workflow.
Kevin Dayrit|knive.dytria 2 months ago

The C300 is a LOT more amazing than any HDSLR but for that price, I'd rather buy 2 1Dx's if I had the money. However, if the C300 shoots above 2k, I'd rob a bank right now and buy that camera right away. It's an amazing camera with a really evil price tag. The Panasonic AF100 seems to be a better choice for the budget filmmaker. Not as good as the C300 but the price is reasonable.
Ryank 2 months ago

Thats a Fixed Gear, not a BMX (Torrey is one of my favorite riders). GREAT VIDEO! I want a C300!
Jac Valentine 2 months ago

I understand that the footage is comparable to what we've seen on the 7D, 5DMKII, or the 550D. even the iphone 4 has amazing video quality when used under ideal conditions ...The big difference is the flexibility offered by the c300. I think you'd see the difference when compared under less than "perfect" conditions. many of these are described in this very video....you're right that many people wouldn't be able to discern the differences once the final footage has been uploaded and color corrected and blah blah blah......but the professional would really appreciate the added functionality while filming.
Rick Macomber 2 months ago

This film was a very humorous way to show us all what the C300 can do. Props to you and your crew Jonathan for the entertainment. And Bloom is correct in defending Canon and this camera as having created many improvements over the traditional DSLRs. But the argument can be made over and over again - you shoot with what you can afford in your budget and/or what your clients will provide in their budget. Canon, as well as Sony and Panasonic will continue to design and place newer and better cameras on the shelves faster than you can pull out your credit cards. That's what they do. What we do is try to shoot with the tools we have and hope what we actually go out and purchase doesn't become obsolete before we pull it out of the cardboard box. Cheers to making moving pictures gang!
Hourglass Films 2 months ago

Great video. This camera is awesome but way too expensive. I don't understand why people are trying to compare it to a DLSR when it is 8x the price of a 5D. Also, how does this camera not have 1080 60fps?
2020digging 2 months ago

I agree, it seems to have quite a lot going for it but some of the omissions are quite puzzling. It would illustrative to compare what the C300 has to offer against let's say a 7D with all the gear needed to get a 7D to a similar playing field. For example, ND filters, external monitor, EVF viewfinder, audio gear etc. It would probably add up to the same price if not more than the C300. Would be interesting.
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Jonathan Yi 2 months ago

Much improved. Double speed readout. You can move the camera like crazy without jello.
Cid Salcido Uyarra 2 months ago

very useful n

that b&w focus puller shot was too much. so he's an amateur is that what ur saying?
Jonathan Yi 2 months ago

He actually is a pro. Local 600. He kept nailing the shot at 1.2 on the 85mm still lens so we had to fake him being bad.
Cid Salcido Uyarra 2 months ago

nice he's in the 600, got ya!

took me a bit to get the humor, but a great way to keep it interesting. Thanks for sharing Jonathan!
KlarK 2 months ago

lol, got THE Philip Bloom defend the camera and this great video.
Javi S. Pheng 2 months ago

yep, this is also how i came across this video: Philip Bloom approved it! ;)
Sean J Vincent 2 months ago

"Canon Log sounds like a turd..." Best line in a review ever. Nice.
Richard Squires 2 months ago

"Canon Log" sounds like a turd. Fantastic. Very funny and sells the camera pretty well
Charles Papert 2 months ago

Genius video. I learned a lot more about this camera than I have elsewhere. I didn't think it was possible to combine legitimate and informative camera tests with entertainment (aka the films from the Canon rollout) but you did it. Congrats and thanks.
Nick Forte 2 months ago

This is brilliant and hilarious. Some fantastic puns! And informative!
George E. Kennedy, Jr. 2 months ago

Impressive, Can't wait to get a look at one in DC this week. GVExpo
Lamair Nash 2 months ago

Thanks for the wonderful review. As I been telling people it not about 4k that you will never use or that your system simply can't edit at that resolution. It's about workflow and how good you can get it in and more importantly OUT. Canon has a winner here.
Weldon Byrns 2 months ago

Great video! Nothing beats a creepy guy, fucking actors and a cool $20k camera!
Mat 2 months ago

love this clip, full of good tips and positive energy
great piece of work too.
Chip Dizard 2 months ago

OK, time to put my 7D on eBay. If anyone wants to buy it soon just hit me up on chipdizard.com
Miles Fabishak 2 months ago

haha your not selling chip lol
Web Video Chefs 2 months ago

Well True...but I had a moment when I saw the camera...#justsayin
Martijn Scholte 2 months ago

thanks reminded me of my marketing
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Samuel McQueen 2 months ago

I thought it was brilliant! I'm gonna forward it to my friend at Canon, here in Chicago to see what he thinks. Good work!
Jonathan Yi 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure they hate the video.
Philip Bloom 2 months ago

on a corporate level probably...but off the record they must love it...
Samuel McQueen 2 months ago

I agree with Philip. You really put the camera to the test. The suits just don't understand...
Ron Dawson 2 months ago

The video is great. I wonder if it's a cultural thing about the comedy. A Nikon sponsored photog I know says that Nikon is the same way about such content. In any case, great work. Look forward to having you on the podcast.
David Seetoh Lang 2 months ago

Really funny yet informative video, and could not believe those shots at 10,000 ISO. In under six minutes Jonathan singlehandedly changed my opinion on the camera for the better. This is promotional gold for Canon whether they know it or not.
sietetresochotres 2 months ago

What a wonderful, well made, well thought, funny test. What a great video, so informative and full of ideas and useful images!
I hope canon grows a sense of humor and we start seeing more of this and less of the other stuff they always end up showing.
Congratulations!
Pull-Start Pictures 2 months ago

Brilliant! Nicely done!
Nick Forte 2 months ago

"...When shooting against iconic backgrounds that relate to your story" is my favorite line. and so true!
Tom Davis 2 months ago

Brilliant.
Jon Storsaeter 2 months ago

Fantastic review :D
Matt Moses 2 months ago

If street prices are in range ($11000-$13000).. the a big Hell yes to this cam.
Matias Gordo Flores 2 months ago

YESSSS! ok I like the camera now... I thought it looked good after Mobius, but didn't really see the difference. The price didn't help sell it either... Now after this clever vid... I'm In!