You nailed it - C100 was such a well designed camera! Very solid body, display was bullet-proof solid and EVF!!! Great layout of controls too. Despite only HD, low bitrate, only 420 and poor codec it produced exceptional, crisp HD footage. It will go down in Canon history as one of its best Cine cameras IMHO. I still keep mine for streaming, basic backup safety camera, time lapse and still good for documenting long presentations -
@@Sutterjack I mean, really, the footage is still great. Almost every good movie we ever saw was the equivalent of super35. The specs were always bad, and are just laughable now, but man, the footage will always look good.
@@bobdrummondfilms5402 I’m as guilty as anyone to get hung up on not having the “perfect” camera before starting on my epic project. Content, good lighting and sound is far more important than your camera specs - it’s always been that way
Hello, actually channel 1and 2 are mini xlrs if one or two is plugged in, if you use the mic jack channel 1/2 is the jack mic and the controls on the back are assign to it too.
@@ginger_dogit shouldn’t be greyed out. But for some odd reason 2 channel is the default and you have to manually change it. Also it’s great for the extra backup setups.
Coming from a long-time C70 owner, great review. Thanks. Before the C70, I used C100s, C200s and C300s for years. Apart form the lack of EVF, I'm very happy to use C70s as A-cams for corporate and event work. Currently I use two C70s. One with a flip down Zacuto z-finder on the LCD and rails for tripod work. And a second C70 with a portkeys EVF for handheld.
Man, EVF is such a dark horse important spec. I've been on record saying it is an essential spec on cameras. Good for you. Thanks for you input. Keep up the great work.
While the Dual-Gain Imager in the C70 is compelling, I recently purchased a used Canon R5-C, cinema body for less than $3k. With a recent firmware it's become a pretty amazing and capable FF and Super 35 and Super 16 format beast. In my case, I also have R7 and R8 bodies, and I've worked out external power for each, giving capabilities as a system that just a couple years ago would have been unthinkable! I've been working with video since the late 1960s, Ampex open-reel 1' B&W recorder with old Plumbicon-tube studio, pedestal cameras. In the mid 70s, I got hired as a corporate photographer and videographer for 31 years, now fully retired.
You are right that the XFAVC will do 4 channels. In MP4, yes only two channels. But you can also record on MP4 with the mic input jack. You change the input in the menu to the mic input, and then the dials on the back would adjust the audio of the mic. I have been shooting MP4 with it for almost 4 years, and being able to switch between the mini xlr input or mic input has been great.
That's good to know. I'm trying to remember if I figured that out myself or not. I can't remember. My best solution is just always have two mini XLR adapters handy or make sure all mics I use have mini XLR. Buy you know, there are always situations that arise when that's not possible.
Happy New Year! Great to see new content. I thought about the C70 as an upgrade but my C100 MKII spoiled me to certain ergonomics. The features on the C70 are amazing and can be had 2nd hand at a reasonable price. The C400 or C300 MKIII may work best for all you do. Either way, you’re not making me buy another camera 😂😂😂.
Just upgraded from C100mk1 to C70’s. The lack of C100 style grip was a deal breaker for me when c70 was released, but someone worked out you can use a Sony fs7 grip which works very well.
+1Dedicated buttons. Played with a C70 during a Canon Day event at our local camera store. I wanted to love it (or at least like it) but it 'wasn't built for me'. 😀
Good review. First to note - You are so right - audio is 70% of video, and people will forgive poor video LONG before they will forgive poor audio. I was a C100 M2 shooter for many years and just upgraded to the C70 in Jan 2024. You nailed a lot of my annoyances with the C70, but quite frankly you're more generous on the IQ from this camera than I am. Check out my review. ruclips.net/video/xwNvFrznKkQ/видео.html
Awesome, thank you. Ha ha. Honestly, if you compose and expose/light properly, I feel like you have to be in extreme scenarios and do major pixel peeping to really find much to fault with the image quality. Especially, as you said, when people are becoming more forgiving of that than the audio these days.
@@ginger_dog I don't feel any urgency to buy the C80 yet, but the lack of sharpness in the C70 does bug me. But as I said in my review, you understand the limitations of the C70, focus on it's strengths, and it's a very capable camera for my work - documentary, concert, and general run-and-gun. As I said in my review, I may not love it, as I did my C100, but I like it a lot.
If Canon made a cheap c100 mk3 camera that shot 10 bit I would be really happy with that.
Ha ha! Yeah, my guess is those days are past. That would have been pretty cool. C300 Mkii is probably the closest thing.
Yes! Just put a C70 in a C100 mk2 body. Gimbals be damned.
You nailed it - C100 was such a well designed camera! Very solid body, display was bullet-proof solid and EVF!!! Great layout of controls too. Despite only HD, low bitrate, only 420 and poor codec it produced exceptional, crisp HD footage. It will go down in Canon history as one of its best Cine cameras IMHO. I still keep mine for streaming, basic backup safety camera, time lapse and still good for documenting long presentations -
@@Sutterjack I mean, really, the footage is still great. Almost every good movie we ever saw was the equivalent of super35. The specs were always bad, and are just laughable now, but man, the footage will always look good.
@@bobdrummondfilms5402 I’m as guilty as anyone to get hung up on not having the “perfect” camera before starting on my epic project. Content, good lighting and sound is far more important than your camera specs - it’s always been that way
Hello, actually channel 1and 2 are mini xlrs if one or two is plugged in, if you use the mic jack channel 1/2 is the jack mic and the controls on the back are assign to it too.
Thank you for that clarification.
There’s a dropdown menu to allow 4 channels of audio in mp4. It a feature a lot of people miss because of how they implement it.
Good to know. Weird that they burry it like that. Still, if I use XLR mini, most of the problem is solved.
@@ginger_dogit shouldn’t be greyed out. But for some odd reason 2 channel is the default and you have to manually change it. Also it’s great for the extra backup setups.
Coming from a long-time C70 owner, great review. Thanks. Before the C70, I used C100s, C200s and C300s for years. Apart form the lack of EVF, I'm very happy to use C70s as A-cams for corporate and event work. Currently I use two C70s. One with a flip down Zacuto z-finder on the LCD and rails for tripod work. And a second C70 with a portkeys EVF for handheld.
Man, EVF is such a dark horse important spec. I've been on record saying it is an essential spec on cameras. Good for you. Thanks for you input. Keep up the great work.
While the Dual-Gain Imager in the C70 is compelling, I recently purchased a used Canon R5-C, cinema body for less than $3k. With a recent firmware it's become a pretty amazing and capable FF and Super 35 and Super 16 format beast.
In my case, I also have R7 and R8 bodies, and I've worked out external power for each, giving capabilities as a system that just a couple years ago would have been unthinkable!
I've been working with video since the late 1960s, Ampex open-reel 1' B&W recorder with old Plumbicon-tube studio, pedestal cameras. In the mid 70s, I got hired as a corporate photographer and videographer for 31 years, now fully retired.
Dude! That's amazing.
You are right that the XFAVC will do 4 channels. In MP4, yes only two channels.
But you can also record on MP4 with the mic input jack. You change the input in the menu to the mic input, and then the dials on the back would adjust the audio of the mic.
I have been shooting MP4 with it for almost 4 years, and being able to switch between the mini xlr input or mic input has been great.
That's good to know. I'm trying to remember if I figured that out myself or not. I can't remember. My best solution is just always have two mini XLR adapters handy or make sure all mics I use have mini XLR. Buy you know, there are always situations that arise when that's not possible.
Happy New Year! Great to see new content. I thought about the C70 as an upgrade but my C100 MKII spoiled me to certain ergonomics. The features on the C70 are amazing and can be had 2nd hand at a reasonable price.
The C400 or C300 MKIII may work best for all you do. Either way, you’re not making me buy another camera 😂😂😂.
Ha ha! Well, I'm still on the C100 Mkii and still don't see myself buying a new camera any time soon either.
Just upgraded from C100mk1 to C70’s. The lack of C100 style grip was a deal breaker for me when c70 was released, but someone worked out you can use a Sony fs7 grip which works very well.
That's awesome. Good for you!
+1Dedicated buttons. Played with a C70 during a Canon Day event at our local camera store. I wanted to love it (or at least like it) but it 'wasn't built for me'. 😀
Yeppers! It's fantastic for a specific use case.... just not mine.
Good review. First to note - You are so right - audio is 70% of video, and people will forgive poor video LONG before they will forgive poor audio. I was a C100 M2 shooter for many years and just upgraded to the C70 in Jan 2024. You nailed a lot of my annoyances with the C70, but quite frankly you're more generous on the IQ from this camera than I am. Check out my review. ruclips.net/video/xwNvFrznKkQ/видео.html
Awesome, thank you. Ha ha. Honestly, if you compose and expose/light properly, I feel like you have to be in extreme scenarios and do major pixel peeping to really find much to fault with the image quality. Especially, as you said, when people are becoming more forgiving of that than the audio these days.
@@ginger_dog I don't feel any urgency to buy the C80 yet, but the lack of sharpness in the C70 does bug me. But as I said in my review, you understand the limitations of the C70, focus on it's strengths, and it's a very capable camera for my work - documentary, concert, and general run-and-gun. As I said in my review, I may not love it, as I did my C100, but I like it a lot.