Build quality is much more robust as is weather sealing.Ĭons: Large file sizes and tough to edit the files natively in anything but FCPX, short on video features, poor 1080/60p quality, no peaking, no magnified focus assist whilst recording 4K is recorded internally to CF card so can be used bare bones with no rig, which is exactly the raison d’être of a small digital camera and where the closest competitor (A7S) falls short.

Detail is crisp but organic thanks to a strong anti-aliasing filter. Why buy: A true Hollywood calibre cinematic image and price starting to make more sense (used)ĭefining attributes: 1.3x crop 4K from a very good sensor which offers more natural, cinematic colour than the A7S and a 12 stop dynamic range where all of it is usable in Canon LOG mode. Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera (BMPCC).League 1 Canon 1D C with SLR Magic 50mm T2.1 PL lens converted to EF League 1 at a glance Like-wise full frame and 14bit raw do the same for the Magic Lantern enabled 5D Mark III. The Digital Bolex would fall well short of a 4K camera for resolution but the overall ‘feel’ of the camera as a film stock really stands out from the pack for me and ‘Super 16mm’ is still a great format. It’s subjective and emotional because images are. This isn’t an all out technical or objective scientific list.

The league 1 cameras can be considered ‘a class apart’ from the league 2 ones. This was an at-a-glance chart of image quality delivered by every camera I can possibly think. This year I’ve decided only to include the cameras I’ve direct experience of shooting with in my own filmmaking projects, with only a few exceptions such as the Sony F35 and Canon C300. I’ve also removed cameras that have been superseded by very similar ones (such as the GH2 by the G6, sharing the same sensor). Last February I made the first EOSHD video quality charts 2014.

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