Filmmakers Meena Singh and Jimmy Chin discussed Canon's Cinema EOS range in a podcast session.
Canon has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its renowned Cinema EOS lineup. During a podcast discussion, filmmaker Jimmy Chin, director and producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary titled Free Solo, spoke about how the range has supported his professional journey.
The Cinema EOS System, Canon’s first Full HD digital cinema camera and dedicated lenses, launched in 2011 marked a new milestone for Canon. Building on the accolades the EOS 5D Mark II received for filming Hollywood films and TV programmes, the EOS C300 became Canon’s first dedicated cinema camera. With a CMOS sensor that achieved video reproduction comparable to 35mm film, it was awarded a Technology and Engineering Emmy in 2012. This paved the way for the rest of Canon’s Cinema range, giving filmmakers a step-up to a true motion picture camera, which was soon used across broadcast and even feature films including the Oscar-nominated Captain Phillips and Netflix’s true-crime series titled The Confession Tapes.
Since then, Canon has introduced new technologies to the film industry with each of the 13 cameras added to the line, from the Dual Pixel CMOS AF which originally featured in the Canon EOS 70D to the EOS C200 that debuted Canon’s Cinema RAW Light. Further expanding the possibilities of filmmaking, last year Canon embarked on a new era of Cinema EOS with the EOS C70, the first of the range to utilise the RF mount.
To mark the special anniversary, Cano hosted a podcast session with filmmakers Meena Singh and Jimmy Chin about the Cinema EOS range in a podcast, hosted by Canon Ambassador Ilvy Njiokiktjien. They looked back at the past 10 years of Cinema EOS, including the key technological developments and range of high-performance cinema cameras available today.
Yuichi Ishizuka, CEO Canon EMEA, commented: “As we mark the 10th anniversary of our Cinema EOS System, we reflect on the developments that have unlocked new possibilities for the film industry. Following the success of the EOS 5D Mark II for film and TV, we began to hear demands from the industry for cameras and lenses optimised for film and so we developed the Cinema EOS System. Since then, we’ve continued to listen to the changing needs of the industry and over the last decade have pushed technical boundaries to develop a versatile range, including 13 cameras and 30 cinema lenses which have helped cinematographers bring stories to life through video. Now, the future of the video industry is exciting – it is more active and more diverse than ever. As one of the few companies which develop all three core components of its cameras – lenses, sensors, and processors – it is our ongoing responsibility to develop increasingly flexible products that exceed customers’ expectations of image quality, which has always been at the heart of the Cinema EOS range.”
