Canon XC10 4K Professional Video Camera $2240 Delivered @ Teds eBay

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c0balt on 18/07/2016 - 12:16 ebay.com.au (389 clicks)
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Great price for a serious video camera. I've been considering one for a while and this price makes it the cheapest I've ever seen it by a long shot (including overseas grey imports).

The Canon XC10 4K Camcorder has pro UltraHD 4K video capability, and is produced in body ergonomically designed for handheld use and easy portability. The camera incorporates a 10x optical zoom lens with full manual and auto focus abilities. The Ultra HD 4K recording in a small form factor is possible by using a 1" CMOS sensor that is feeds into a DIGIC DV5 processor. With a total resolution of 4224 x 3164, it is also able to capture video up to 3840 x 2160 and 4:3 photos in up to 12MP. The 8.9 to 89mm lens yields a 35mm equivalent focal length of 27.3 to 273mm in video mode and 24.1 to 241mm in the 4:3 photo modes.

For those who would rather not grade in post: Wide DR Gamma yields wide dynamic range by suppressing brightness while maintaining gradations but is designed to produce finished-looking images without requiring any color grading in post-production 100 to 20,000 ISO Range With a wide ISO range of 100 to 20,000 - coupled with iris and shutter speed control - the XC10 is able to electronically adjust to a range of lighting conditions, from broad daylight to dimly lit rooms. For those more experienced in the video world, there is also the option to use gain values rather than ISO. Gain can be set in the range of 0 to 42dB. To help avoid excessive noise, limits can be defined for both gain and ISO when using auto exposure modes 3" LCD Display For monitoring, playback, and menu access, the XC10 features a 3", 1,030,000-dot LCD. It features a full 100% coverage so there will be no worries about pesky boom mics or other protrusion creeping into the edge of a shot unnoticed. The screen is capacitive-touch sensitive allowing you to access settings that do not have dedicated buttons provided CFast and SD Card Slots For every day photo and video capture (up to 1080p), there is an SDHC/SDXC card slot. An SD card can also be used to store user customizations. To accommodate the up to 305 Mbps that 4K video capture requires there is a separate CFast card slot 720p High Framer ate Recording Capture either 100 fps for PAL area or 120 fps for NTSC area to create slow-motion effects. These high-speed frame rates are recorded in either 35 or 50 Mbps Ergonomic Design with Tilting Grip You can always mount the XC10 to a tripod or other stabilization device, but it is designed to be comfortable handheld as well. The handgrip features a photo/video mode selection toggle, record start/stop button, and exposure rotary all accessible by index finger for easy one-handed operation. The grip also tilts up to 90-degrees, helping you to shoot from high or low angles SLR-Style Lens Operation The 10x optical zoom lens features dedicated focus and zoom rings, providing the feel of a typical DSLR lens

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  damfrog on 18/07/2016 - 14:43

  Note the misleading 1" sensor is not actually 1" in any of its dimensions. It's an oddly named "1 inch type" sensor which is about 0.63 inches diagonally if my maths is correct. It gives a 3x crop factor when comparing to full frame.

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    c0balt on 18/07/2016 - 14:50

    +3

    It's not misleading - 35mm full frame is significantly larger than 35mm film/super 35mm video which is what most movies and high end TV shows are shot on.

    That's why your 5D cameras and the like are called 35mm Full Frame and not just 35mm. Film is also ~4x3 and to get other aspect ratios the use of anamorphic lens' are needed. A 5D sensor size is the same size as 35mm film with the non exposable areas such as audio striping (about 2x the exposable area of 35mm film).

    The only thing misleading here is that you got the standard mixed up, it's the other way around in that sensor size is measured against the film equivalent (film came first and super 35mm film lens' work as intended on 35mm video cameras, but not on 35mm full frame cameras).

    35mm when talking about film/video is much closer in physical size to to APS-C sensor size.

    This image should clear things up.
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/35…

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      damfrog on 18/07/2016 - 15:39

      Cool. I'm learning something new.

      From what I've read about Super35 here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_35, the camera takes a standard sized film but only projects onto part of the film depending on the standard.

      So where does the 1" come from?

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        c0balt on 18/07/2016 - 16:02

        +1

        When it comes to projecting from a piece of film onto a screen there are many standards. In the picture I linked up above you can see that a way to get 16x9 onto the screen could be to use a lens that projects a 16x9 image onto a small portion of the exposable area for non anamorphic shooting. This wastes a lot of the exposable area, so you can shoot anamorphic which will take a 16x9 (or greater) aspect ratio and squeeze it into a 4x3 area for most if not all the 35mm exposable area.

        Of course to display it back on a screen to need to reverse that anamorphic aspect ratio, so there are separate anamorphic lenses for capture and for playback. However 99.999% (thanks Tarantino for being an exception) of the time film makers will capture a movie onto film using an anamorphic lens but scan it into a computer as DPX sequences and go through post that way (cheaper, more efficient, more flexible, more options and you end up with a better quality product - screw purists, film to DPX scans are a much better film workflow for your employees and your audiences).

        That standard unfortunately carried across to early digital video cameras which makes my life hard. 576x720 is the standard for PAL video broadcasts. However look deeper into it and you will find that aspect is closer to 4x3.5. This is because those cameras (can) record rectangle pixels (like hearing the devils name working in post). So the pixel aspect ratio/PAR (different to the screen aspect ratio/SAR) would be 1.09:1. That tells the screen to stretch the incoming 576x720 pixels to end up with a 4x3 ~620x720 image.

        Now that PAR needs to be ~1.45 for SD 16x9. There is no difference in pixel count from the broadcasters between sending SD video as 4x3 or 16x9. The only thing that is different is the metadata telling the anamorphic ratio how much your internal scaler needs to stretch those rectangle pixels to fill your display.

        This is why a lot of SD 16x9 materials look average, it's not just the low bitrate, it's that the pixels are being stretched (not native squares) and also interlacing which is a discussion for another day.

        But to answer your question, the 1" comes from 16mm. The total size of 16mm film is ~1" diagonal with the exposable area is around 16mm. It's close to micro 4/3rds.

        For what it's worth - my maths may be wrong (I work with video cameras and editing systems so I can see these things on a screen in practice, but my theory may have some incorrect information) so please don't use my napkin maths as an example, but rather a basis for further reading into it if you are interested.

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        damfrog on 18/07/2016 - 16:46

        @c0balt: Thanks for that detailed explanation. As you probably figured out, I'm coming from a photography background where there are cameras marketed with "1 inch" sensors.

        Here's the photo stack exchange post I read about it which actually explains the 1" is the size of the tv camera tube, which projects onto 16mm film: http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/24952/why-is-a-1-se…

        16mm is 0.63 inches.

        I hope I can remember all this the next time it comes up :)