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Canon C300 Mk II (PL Mount) 4K Camcorder / MiniS4i T2.8 Prime Set (18-75mm)
Shoot Kit 6- MB19/FF4/Video 20
This is a very worthy successor to the incredibly popular Canon C300 in PL mount.
The Canon C300 Mk II is a Super-35, full 4K camcorder and this PL mount has a PL option and offers fully automatic operation including an effective autofocus (subject to being used with suitable lenses). It recordson board 4K/Full HD video with HDR and Canon Log2 of the new REC 2020 colour gamut.
Please read VMI's article The Canon C300 Mk II vs C300 - What's the fuss about?
Please also read VMI's article on Capturing 12 bit RAW with ARRI, Panasonic, Sony, Canon and other cameras using Odyssey 7Q RAW Recorder
Shooting kit comprising
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Cooke Mini S4i PL Prime Set of 5x T2.8 lens are smaller, lighter than the S4i but offers the same resolution, optical quality and reliability. Previously known as Cooke Panchro but not to be confused with old generation Cooke Panchros. Cooke decided that the lenses should be equally suitable for shooting film and digital images up to and beyond a 4K resolution pipeline.
In addition the lenses include /i Technology, providing lens data per frame for downstream post production.
Like the S4i lenses, the Mini S4s are designed for motion photography and they don't breathe and as they are one stop slower than the S4i, as a result they can be smaller and lighter.
All Cooke lenses are colour matched. This means Cooke Mini S4i and S4i lenses can be mixed on a shoot with full confidence that the images will match.
Cooke Mini S4i PL Prime Lens Set
- Cooke Mini S4i PL Prime 18mm T2.8 (110mm front diameter)
- Cooke Mini S4i PL Prime 25mm T2.8 (87mm front diameter)
- Cooke Mini S4i PL Prime 32mm T2.8 (87mm front diameter)
- Cooke Mini S4i PL Prime 50mm T2.8 (87mm front diameter)
- Cooke Mini S4i PL Prime 75mm T2.8 (87mm front diameter)
This is a very worthy successor to the incredibly popular Canon C300 in PL mount.
The Canon C300 Mk II is a Super-35, full 4K camcorder and this PL mount has a PL option and offers fully automatic operation including an effective autofocus (subject to being used with suitable lenses). It recordson board 4K/Full HD video with HDR and Canon Log2 of the new REC 2020 colour gamut.
Please read VMI's article The Canon C300 Mk II vs C300 - What's the fuss about?
Please also read VMI's article on Capturing 12 bit RAW with ARRI, Panasonic, Sony, Canon and other cameras using Odyssey 7Q RAW Recorder
- C300 Mk II (PL Mount) 4K Camcorder
- MiniS4i T2.8 Prime Set (18-75mm)
- Video-20 3 Stage CF Tripod
- MB19 4x5.65 Prod. Matte Box
- FF4 Follow Focus Unit
Package Price
£628/day,
£2124/week
Optional Accessories
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BP-U60 triple power kit with D-Tap power output and 15mm bars fitting
£15/day £72/week
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Anton Bauer power kit with Gold mount clip and 15mm bars fitting
£25/day £80/week
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Odyssey 7Q 4K Recorder with Canon option
£60/day £180/week
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Everything you wanted to know about 4K but were too afraid to ask...
Do we adopt 4K now or wait for 8K?
Shooting with HD Video lenses on large sensor cameras
Large Sensor Cameras - Everything that you need to know
VMI Guide: The Canon C300 II version C300 - What's the fuss about?
Tapeless Acquisition and Production
Specifications
| Product name | DigitalCinema Camera: EOS C300 Mark ll | |
| Image sensing device | Sensor | CMOS sensor (single-panel) equivalent to Super 35 mm |
| Total pixels | Approx. 9.84 megapixels (4206 x2340) | |
| Number of effective pixels | Approx. 8.85 megapixels (4096 x 2160): When 4096 x 2160 or 2048 x 1080 is selected as the resolution | |
| Approx. 8.29 megapixels (3840 x 2160): When 3840 x 2160 or 1920 x 1080 is selected as the resolution | ||
| Lens mount | Canon EF mount | |
| [EF lens group supported (including EF-S lenses), EF cinema lens group supported] | ||
| Exposure | Exposure mode | (1) Manual exposure based on shutter setting, iris setting, ISO/gain setting, and ND filter setting |
| (2) Push auto iris control, auto iris control (Light metering system selection, shift possible) | ||
| Shutter setting | Speed, Angle, Clear Scan, Slow, or Off mode selected | |
| Either 1/3 or 1/4 steps selected as speed increment | ||
| lris setting | 1/2-stop, 1/3-stop or fine setting selected | |
| (1) Push auto iris control | ||
| (2) Auto iris control * | ||
| * Available only with some EF lenses | ||
| ISO/gain | ||
| ISO | 1 step, 1/3 step settings | |
| [*100 - 160 - 25600 -*102400 | ||
| *When the sensitivity is expanded | ||
| Gain | Normal [*-6dB - -2dB - 42dB - *54d8] | |
| Fine: Setting in 0.5d8 step increments possible | ||
| * When the sensitivity is expanded | ||
| ND filter | 5 density settings (2,4,6,8(*), 10(*) stops) [(*) when expansion is selected] | |
| Motorized drive | ||
| Focus control | DAF (Dual Pixel CMOS AF) supported | |
| Manual focus, one-shot AF, continuous AF, AF-Boosted MF (*), | ||
| face detection AF (Only lenses that support AF functions can be used | ||
| in any of these modes.) | ||
| *See Technical Description. | ||
| LCD monitor | 4" (10.1 cm diagonal) color wide-screen LCD with 16:9 aspect ratio | |
| Approx. 1.23 million dots (854 x RGB x 480), 100% field of view coverage | ||
| Viewfinder | 0.46" (1.18 cm on the diagonal), color organic EL display with a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio | |
| Approx. 1.17 million dots (1024 x RGB x 576), 100% field of view ratio | ||
| White balance | Kelvin setting (setting range: 2000K to 15000K), daylight, tungsten, settings (A/B) | |
| System frequency selection | 59.94 Hz, 50.00 Hz, 24.00 Hz | |
| Frame rate | 59.94 Hz mode 59.94i / 59.94P / 29.97P / 23.98P | |
| 50.00 Hz mode 50.00i / 50.00P / 25.00P | ||
| 24.00 Hz mode 24.00P | ||
| Recording media | CFast card | Movie recording, custom picture settings, metadata 2-slot |
| SD Card | Recording of movies and photos (JPEG), custom pictures, metadata, menus and other data possible | |
| Video format (XF-AVC) | Video compression formats | MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 |
| Audio recording system | Linear PCM (16bit/24bit- 48 kHz - 4ch) | |
| File format | MXF | |
| Bit rate | Intra 410 / 225 / 210 / 110Mbps, | |
| LongGOP 50Mbps | ||
| LongGOP 35 or 24Mbps (for proxy recording on SD cards) | ||
| CFast card | Intraframe recording | |
| Resolution : 4096x2160 / 3840x2160 / 2048x1080 / 1920x1080 | ||
| Signal configuration : YCC422 10bit/(*)RG8444 (12bit/10bit) | ||
| (*) Only with 2048x1080 or 1920x1080; 29.97P, 23.98P, 25.00P and 24.00P | ||
| LongGOP recording | ||
| Resolution : 2048x1080 / 1920x1080 | ||
| Signal configuration : YCC422 10bit | ||
| SD Card | Movies: LongGOP recording only (*) | |
| Resolution : 2048x1080 / 1920x1080 | ||
| Signal configuration: YCC420 8bit | ||
| Photo: JPEG | ||
| Resolution : 2048x1080 / 1920x1080 | ||
| (*) Proxy recording using low bit rate | ||
| Time code | Count-up | Drop frame(*) or non-drop frame |
| Operation mode | Rec run, free run, regeneration | |
| (*) Only in the 59.94 Hz mode | ||
| Special Rec | Slow & Fast motion recording (max. 120 fps supported), frame recording, pre-recording, interval recording | |
| Other | Relay recording, double slot recording, 4K RAW output, custom picture settings, color bar, peaking display, zebra display, My Menu settings, waveform monitor display, edge monitor display, customized functions, function assignment buttons (1 to 11), key lock, marker displays, Enlarged display, custom display Browser remote control using WFT unit, peripheral illumination correction, monaural microphone, fan control, magnification chromatic aberration compensation, GPS information recording, etc. | |
| Playback | Playback operations | Normal playback, fast forward (at speeds of 5x, 15x, 60x), fast reverse |
| (at speeds of 5x, 15x, 60x), frame fonruard, frame reverse, fonrvard skip, | ||
| reverse skip, rec review | ||
| Clip display | 3x4 (clip) index screen | |
| [Original, OK mark, check mark, shot mark, expand, proxy, photo (SD card) index displays available] | ||
| Clip information displays | Clip metadata display, custom picture data display | |
| Edit | Clip deletion, clip copying | |
| Terminal | Body | |
| lnput | GENLOCK terminal (also serves as SYNC OUT terminal), TIME CODE terminal (inpuUoutput switching), REMOTE terminal, MIC terminal, AUDIO terminal | |
| Output | MON.terminal, REC OUT terminal, HDMI OUT terminal, headphones terminal, SYNC OUT terminal (also serves as GENLOCK terminal), TIME CODE terminal (inpuUoutput switching), VIDEO terminal | |
| Input/output control | Expansion system terminal (WFT/other unit) | |
| Monitor unit | ||
| Input | INPUT terminal (XLR) x 2, VIDEO terminal | |
| Output | AUDIO terminal | |
| Power supply | 14.4V DC (battery pack), 16.7 V DC (DC-IN) | |
| Image processing platform | Dual Digic DV 5 | |
