News & Events
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Canon C100 Camera Helps News Station Promos Stand Out With Cinematic Style
'Large-sensor cameras have changed the way I shoot and produce, and have enabled the station I work for to differentiate itself in the market. The Canon EOS C100 is the most ergonomic camera I’ve used so far. It’s easy to hand hold... I could shoot with it all day. With the EOS C100 camera, I’m now thinking more about the composition and how the background will play into it. It’s really opened up my creative potential.” Read More
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Canon C300 Cameras win Cannes
Canon C300 Cameras shot the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winner, Blue is the Warmest Color.
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1080P is Better Than 4K (Or, Why I Chose the Canon C100)
After many years of owning a wide range of camera systems, including a RED ONE and an EPIC, I decided to sell it all and rent. So for the past three years I have been exclusively renting cameras on a per project basis, that is, until recently when I made the plunge and bought the Canon C100... With the instant $1,000 rebate on the C100, I felt that it came in at a price point that allows me to own a camera system objectively without forcing me to choose it due to financial reasons.
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Object of Desire: Canon Cinema Prime Lenses
Most photographers are already very familiar with Canon’s high-end glass for still photography but these cinema lenses are a whole different animal. They have an odd-numbered, 11-blade aperture diaphragm, designed to achieve cinema-style depth of field manipulation and luscious, background blur (bokeh) effects. They also offer 300-degree focus ring rotation for precision control along with easy-to-read, engraved focus scales on both sides of the lens barrel so cinematographers can Read More
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The Canon EOS C300 Helps Capture Documentary Footage in Deep, Dark Caves for the Extraordinary Holocaust Documentary "No Place on Earth"
Melville, New York - It was a challenge unlike any cinematographer Zac Nicholson had ever faced. Asked by director/co-producer Janet Tobias to film scenes deep within a narrow cave for an incredible true story of human survival, Nicholson relied on the compact size and exceptional low-light performance of the EOS C300 cinema camera. Read More
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Canon Holds No. 1 Share Of Global Interchangeable-Lens Digital Camera Market For 10 Consecutive Years
Canon Inc., today announced that the company's EOS line of interchangeable-lens digital cameras (Digital SLR and compact-system cameras) have consistently maintained the No. 1 share worldwide in terms of volume within the interchangeable-lens digital camera market for the 10-year period from 2003 to 2012. Read More
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Canon Offers Menu Training for Its ‘EOS C500 4K’ Digital Camera
Canon U.S.A. is offering a free training tool for the Cinema EOS C500 4K Digital Cinema Camera that can help prospective users navigate the camera’s menu system with a mouse, keyboard arrow keys or a touch screen device. Read More
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Canon EOS-1D C in West Papua
Nick Rains explains how the EOS-1D C allows him to shoot multimedia slideshows using just one camera.
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MU graduate students use Kickerstarter to raise funds for self-produced film
"Pichla said one of the largest expenses the Kickstarter funding will cover is the rental of a Canon C100 camera. The camera is needed to shoot exterior nighttime scenes later in the production schedule and rental costs are expected to be about $100 dollars a day." Read More
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Video: Canon Cinema EOS C100 - Things You Should Know
Burbank, CA - Filmtools Blog: 'The Canon C100 is a compact, professional video camera that provides exceptional image creation capabilities to filmmakers on a large range of high-end productions.' Read More
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Arlo and Julie: A Feature Length Film on the Canon C100
"I love this camera. It never failed us. It held up. It was surprisingly easy to use and I’d highly recommend it. I’ve shot quite a bit with the C300 and now for a month on the C100." Read More
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Canon Creates a Full-frame Sensor for Shooting Video in Low Light
"Canon has specially engineered hardware as well as software algorithms in order to provide the best low-light performance possible." Read More
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Snackhaus Production Company Deploys Litepanels Sola 12 for Articles of Society Denim Fashion Video
'The Snackhaus team was chasing the sun and with twelve different setups, they had a lot of ground to cover. 'The small form factor of the 1D C allowed us to move quickly,' Laughter explains, 'but the Litepanel fixtures were just as quick and incredibly versatile.'' Read More
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Canon Develops 35 MM Full-Frame CMOS Sensor for Video Capture
"The sensor facilitates the shooting of clearly visible video images even in dimly lit environments with as little as 0.03 Lux of illumination, or approximately the brightness of a crescent moon." Read More
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Canon Announces Low-Light Full-Frame CMOS Video Sensor
"The sensor was able to capture a stunning array of stars in the night sky, anything above an 8.5 magnitude, which is beyond what the human eye can see, and under the light of a full moon." Read More
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The Canon C300: Field Tested by MediaStorm DP Rick Gershon
Brooklyn, NY - A review of the Cinema EOS C300, based on the DP's personal experiences filming with the camera on location in Angola.
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Jem Schofeld discusses digital acquisition at resolutions beyond Full HD
Camera systems like the Canon EOS C500 that are capable of outputting 2K (2048 x 1080), 2K (1920 x 1080), Quad Full High Definition (3840 x 2160), and full 4K (4096 x 2160), images with extraordinary latitude and detail offer a very attractive, high-resolution alternative to film production. This article covers digital acquisition at resolutions beyond Full HD and will focus on explaining 4K origination and capture with both the Canon Cinema EOS C500 and EOS-1D C camera systems.
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Film Independent is now accepting submissions for the 2012 Canon Filmmaker Award Program
The Canon Filmmaker Award Program is a program for Film Independent Fellows, alumni of the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Spirit Awards Nominees and Winners. Film Independent will select qualified filmmakers on a quarterly basis who will be loaned Canon camera packages for their production. These packages will be reserved for filmmakers who are preparing to shoot feature length narrative or documentary films, or in special cases, short films.
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Canon Cinema EOS recognized, as Digital Video Magazine Announces 2012 NAB Best of Show Black Diamond Winners.
The Digital Video Black Diamond Awards recognize outstanding achievement in the advancement of video technology. Read More
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Canon U.S.A. Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of EOS System
LAKE SUCCESS, NY - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Canon EOS camera system. This award-winning system, which has helped photographers worldwide capture memorable images, first debuted in March of 1987 with the introduction of the EOS 650 SLR camera and three interchangeable EF lenses. Read More
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Canon C300: A Digital Killer Cam for the Hollywood Set
RED has their Epic camera. Arri has their Alexa camera. And now Canon has the C300, a digital video camera that's soley intended for professional film production, promising accurate color reproduction and awesome low and natural light performance. Read More
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Canon's other surprise: EOS DSLR prototype with 4K video recording
Canon has just announced, amidst its EOS C300 launch, that it's developing another camera in the EOS Movies line. While this one is unnamed and still in the concept phase, it's going to have the same body as the recently announced 1D-X, but with a 35mm full frame image sensor inside capable of shooting 4K video at 24 frames per second with Motion JPEG compression, which would bring professional-quality video together with its top-notch still images. Read More
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Canon Cinema EOS C300 first hands-on pictures and video
Canon's digital cinema revolution - if in fact that's what it is - is right here in all its photographic glory. We grabbed one immediately after the on-stage unveil, and while we don't have the cinematographic chops to tell you how it compares to an Alexa or RED, we can safely say the 3.2-pound rig looks and feels fantastic. Read More
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Canon has a new 'EOS Movies' DSLR on the way too: 4K video, 35mm full frame sensor
Canon has more on the way from its newly launched EOS Movies lineup than just the C300, as shown by this new prototype DSLR. Promised to be 'ideally suited for cinematographic and other digital high-resolution production applications' this camera packs a 35mm full frame image sensor capable of shooting Motion-JPEG encoded 4K video at 24fps. Read More
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Canon launches C300 cinema camera, prepares to take on Red Scarlet and Arri Alexa
Well, we have to hand it to Canon -- this was one tight-lipped product launch. The imaging company just unveiled its C300 cinema camera at Hollywood's Paramount Studios, in front of a crowd of hundreds of journalists and film industry elite, including Martin Scorsese. Read More
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The Canon Hollywood event liveblog!
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Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera revealed [Video demo]
Slash Gear believes 'this fantastic looking camera' impressed 'a crowd included journalists and the film industry elite – including no less than Martin Scorsese.' Read More
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Canon offers new camera for Hollywood filmmakers
The Associated Press article has already been picked up by dozens of reputable outlets around the world. Praising Canon, 'Four decades after winning Academy Awards for its cinema lenses, Canon Inc. was back in Hollywood on Thursday, unveiling a new high-end digital video camera before an audience of some of the world's most famous filmmakers.' Read More
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Canon Booms With Pro Camera Line
Variety provides an in-depth reporting of the event, the product and predicts a bright future for Canon in Hollywood. Read More
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Canon Unveils New Digital Camera System for Film, TV Production
The Hollywood Reporter observes, 'With Thursday's event -- which attracted hundreds from around the world -- Canon may have created one of Hollywood's most anticipated product announcements of the year.' Read More
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CSU Summer Arts Digital Cinematography Workshop 2013
Seaside, CA - Students gather at California State University, Monterey Bay, to work alongside ASC Master Cinematographers to learn the craft of shooting cinema. Read More