The EOS C500 is a
digital cinema camera
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released by
Canon
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in August 2012. The camera is offered with the option of
Canon EF
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or
Arri PL
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mounts.
Camera
The Canon EOS C500 is Canon's second camera to form part of the Canon
Cinema EOS
The Canon Inc., Canon Cinema EOS (Cinema Electro-Optical System) autofocus Digital data, digital photographic and cinematographic single-lens reflex camera, SLR and mirrorless interchangeable lens camera system was introduced in late 2011 with ...
line, complementing the previous
Canon EOS C300
The EOS C300 is a digital cinema camera in the Cinema EOS range. It was announced by Canon on November 3, 2011.
The camera is offered with the option of Canon EF or Arri PL mounts. It has been available since January 2012.
In September 2015, Cano ...
. Notable new features compared to the previous camera are the addition of 4K and QHD motion video capture to the previous HD capture of the C300 and the ability of the C500 to record
raw
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motion video to the Motion RAW format as well as
raw
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* Raw materials, basic materials from which products are manufactured or made
* Raw food, uncooked food
Raw or RAW may also refer to:
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* .RAW, a proprietary mass spectrometry dat ...
still video to Still RAW format.
Specifications
*8.85mp Super-35 CMOS sensor
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*Outputs EOS Cinema RAW (uncompressed undebayered raw stream)
*Frame rate up to 120fps at 4k
*Availability: late 2012
*Price:
MSRP
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$30,000 USD
References
External links
C500
Digital movie cameras
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