Thanks for the input, John and Rick...
We had really been considering the Sony, and for quite a while I figured it would be next in line here... all the while hoping that Canon put finally get off the dime and put their big sensor in a proper video camera. We're still weighing both, but I haven't found many downsides to the C300.
I can see where the lack of automation would really be a hurdle for some people, and will likely be a dealbreaker for many. Personally for me though it doesn't matter. It's probably been several years since I've had
any camera in any sort of auto mode at all... I just always shoot full manual everything and am used to doing that. Maybe every now and then I'll think "This is one of those cases where autofocus would be nice," but it's not often. I remember shooting just some backyard stuff with a friend's camcorder a while back... I kept reaching out for the follow-focus wheel (which wasn't there, of course) just out of habit.
As my bones and body seem to be inexplicably getting older, smaller and lighter is our goal this year... my current "A" camera rig is built around the XLH1 body which isn't
huge, but all rigged out it weighs in at 23lbs. The C300 body weighs less than the
battery hanging on the back of my present camera.
As for adapters, Craig... yes they work, but aren't always the easiest or most elegant solution, and some things work better than others. Putting a PL mount lens on an EF mount camera takes a pretty special adapter... it's not just a metal ring with the right connections on each end. Because many/most PL mount lenses have a "flange depth" (basically the ass-end of the lens) that's too deep for tolerance, the PL-lens-to-EF-camera adapter is a pretty cumbersome gadget, and it has optical elements in it as well to account for that flange depth. It's also about $2500, just for the adapter.
Well, now we've
really sidetracked the thread. Sorry, Craig... probably just should have started my own thread when Rick mentioned the camera.
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Todd Terry
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