Al Bergstein
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rob, for a variety of reasons I’ve moved to the GH5. part of it was that I am no longer doing as many stage shows as I was doing a year ago, I’ve sort of gotten out of that to some degree. I can rent an xf300 when I need one . as far as the C100 goes I needed to go to 4K. Canon has been doing a horrible job of putting together high-quality gear at reasonable price lately. I like the c200, but I just can’t justify for the work that I’m doing at this point . for a great deal less money I can purchase multiple GH5 bodies, an Inferno, and a number of lenses. For the work that I do these days those work just fine and are much more portable . for similar reason I sold my 5D Mark III, and decided against going to the 5D Mark IV. The feature set in the GH 5blows away the mark iv. I wish it didn’t I wouldn’t of had to buy a bunch of new lenses! as a long time Canon user for decades I find it disappointing that I have to abandon them in order to get the features that I need in a reasonable price. I would love to have a C 200 or a C300 but the price should be 1/3rd less. As an example of feature sets that have been deprecated by Canon , the fabulous polar wave form monitors found on the sf300 was removed in the c100. that one feature made it much easier to get extremely good color balance by centering a gray card reading.
I have not been disappointed in the GH5 shooting stage shows, but I must say that in 1080 P the XF 300 still has a superb quality, maybe even better color range for stage shows . it feels more organic in the subtle color areas of flesh tones and shadow ranges. The GH5 is clumbsier to shoot with, and it needs an external monitor as the built in one is horrible for pulling fine focus from afar. if I was continuing to shoot stage shows in 1080 P I would not of sold the xf300.
Al
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Sorry Jaime.did I miss your upload? I don’t see it here. it shouldn’t necessarily matter whether you’re an MP4 or whether you are in AVC HD there’s not a whole lot of difference between the two. They’re both envelopes to hold the bits. you could just as easily transcode either them into some other envelope to hold them.
Al
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Rob, I’ve owned both, and sold both recently. For stage shows I really liked the XF300. This video was shot last year with an XF300 on both left and right sides and a C100 in the center.
https://vimeo.com/205844898The C100 was my go to camera for the last couple of years, with the XF300 as backup or used when I wanted parfocal in a well lit theater show.
The C100 has much better low light ability. And it has much better dynamic range. The XF300 in good light is a better image, IMHO. In lower light the C100 is much better.
For sports and theater in good lighting I would have chosen the xf300 over the C100. In most documentary or cinematic scenes I would always chose the C100.
Most of my Vimeo videos are one or the other or both.
Al
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Jaime could you post a short clip to help us understand what you are seeing and what you feel is wrong with it? I’ve not used this particular camera but have used a number of other similar Canon video cameras like it. One thing I can say is that most of these like lots of light. They do best in brighter days outside. They are good inside for well lit interiors. I have used them for well lit stage shows and they are pretty good.
So if you post something, a short clip maybe one or two scenes that highlight your concerns we might be able to give you some decent feedback.
Al
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Robert, I see the bigger problem is that Apple is not providing professional level upgrade paths for their “high end” laptops. The top of the line MacBook Pro tops out at 16GB of soldered RAM. You read it right, they have disabled the ability to remove their RAM and add more. This has been my biggest show stopper and lead me to continue to keep my Mid-2014 MBP with a Retina screen, 16GBs of RAM, an Nvidea GEforce GT 750M 2GB , and 2.5 GHz Intel Core I7. (You might want to see if you can find one of these used on the market). I too thought about migrating to Windows, but didn’t want to lose the ProRes ability at this moment. (I have an inferno for my setup).
So in the meantime I bought a highend (but not Pro) iMac 27”. It handles my 4K video with ease. It cost about 3200 which was what a similarly configured Windows 10 machine would have cost. I bought my RAM 3rd party, and got a minimally configured iMac at that price range.
Since Apple has just (finally) released a high end MPro, maybe they will release a Professional level laptop at the same time. If they don’t next year, I’ll be forced to move to a Windows laptop. I have lots of experience with Windows and Adobe, and am not afraid of the move, but it’s just a lot of irritation. I think that Philip Bloom just made a video of his conversion to Windows, and it was also irritating to him, but he doesn’t have the background in Windows.
I don’t think that the kind of video card is going to be a showstopper. Both environments know they need to be competitive. I do know that my MBPro has not yet had an nVidea upgrade for it’s CUDA drivers since I upgraded to to High Sierra. It’s odd that it’s been a number of weeks now and the CUDA driver is *stuck* at 387.99 and I’m being told an update is REQUIRED.
I wish and hope that the release of the new MB pro shows that Apple is serious about keeping up on this industry. I like a lot about the Mac universe when it comes to finding third party support, and my experience is that the MacOS is more reliable than even W10, though that gap has closed dramatically in the last few years.
Good luck and keep in touch with us about what your choices are.
Al
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I wonder if your tripod moved in the wind, or whether it was bumped.
Al
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So I noticed rolling shutter at the beginning of the clip. you say the camera was locked down. Odd. Not sure what happened there. Were you shooting in 4k? What settings? Shutter speed. Etc.
Al
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Kyle, for the price you can buy the XLR/Line Input accessory for the GH5. And a bunch of neutral density filters. And the expensive but well designed Zakuto cage. And get 4K so you are future proofed. Canon has made no promises to upgrade the 100s to the 200s. If they offered me a reasonable price to switch out my C100, I might have stayed with their product line. As it is, I’m gone.
Al
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Understood. Good luck!
Al
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From https://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/education/technical/canon_xf305_xf300.do?page=8
Three Image Stabilization modes for stable handheld footage
An Optical Image Stabilization system is used in all Canon professional camcorders, but the new XF-series now features three Image Stabilization modes for different shooting conditions – Standard, Dynamic, and Powered. The Dynamic IS mode builds on the power of the Standard mode, and is specifically designed to counteract walking motion for steadier HD shots. The Powered IS mode uses technology adopted from Canon binoculars, and steadies an image at the telephoto end of the zoom by counteracting shake when the Powered IS button is pressed. This mode is recommended for steady shots, but not for panning.Al