Brady Gee, Tom Burn and I took an early morning mission up the West Hill, Corfe Castle to capture the sunrise through the low fog.
Shot on the Canon C200 in Cinema Raw Light with the exception of the drone shots at 01:18, 01:24, 01:36, 01:39, 01:43, 01:51 and 02:04 which were shot by Brady Gee on the Mavic 2 Pro.
Thanks to Brady Gee and Tom Burn for featuring in the video and putting up with me chasing them around with the C200. Special thanks again to Brady Gee for allowing me to use his awesome drone shots in the film!
In this film I wanted to test the C200 in a number of ways. First of all in its ability to handle run and gun style shooting, capturing everything on the fly while shooting raw. Second of all how well the camera will deal in extremely low light conditions and how well it will render colours when the sun does come up.
Canon have really made one hell of a workhorse with this camera. The first shots in almost zero light were shot at +24db. Noise is evident, but it isn't unpleasant - and when faced with the scenario that requires low light filming, it's is certainly usable.
Colours from the C200 as the sun started to come up are impeccable - as to be expected from Canon. I have done very little grading to this footage as I wanted the film to represent the cameras ability shooting Cinema Raw Light. The only tweaks I made were minor exposure and contrast adjustment in order to match shots between cuts better.
It's also worth noting that the conditions weren't arctic, but they were very cold and humid with some freezing fog and temps of around -1°C - which for some cameras can cause issues and absolutely kill batteries. I can say, however that I did not notice any drop in performance from the camera, screen or battery life.
The more I use this camera the more it becomes clear that Canon have built this camera to work well, whatever you throw at it. Run and Gun in freezing conditions or set up on grip in a studio. It's form factor and build quality really show that Canon are serious about their EOS Cinema line of cameras.
All stills are frame grabs exported from the Cinema Raw Footage.
Shot on Canon C200 in Cinema Raw Light
Sigma 24mm f1.4 Art, Sigma 35mm f1.4 Art, Sigma 50mm f1.4 Art
Edit and grade in Premier Pro
