You’ve seen my last post about the BTS shoot by Rodney Charters when he was testing the C300 alongside Lan Bui and Drew Gardner in London. Well, here’s even more of that in interview form, and Rodney is very candid about his thoughts on the Canon C300 – you can see he’s fallen in love, and hearing a major DP talk about it like this makes me looking forward to mine even more.

For instance, he dismisses the lack of 10-bit output for the simple fact that, according to him, the perceptible difference is tiny – even saying that as far as he can tell, the colours information from the C300 is far more detailed than what he saw from the F3 (at 10bit).

He talks about a lot of other interesting stuff too, for example using existing light on large production (that’s something that will make heads of some DP’s I know spinning – e.g. he’s is not replacing fluorescent lights anymore because he says it’s simply not necessary any more as you are simply dialing in the right colour temperature with modern digital cameras and match from there).

Thanks so much to Lan Bui and Drew Gardner for doing this great interview with Rodney Charters, it’s a must-see for every aspiring director of photography.

Check out Lan’s blog for detailed info about the content of this interview, it’s surely controversial but I love that Rodney clearly shows a no-bullshit attitude that is sometimes lacking from some other folks who are sponsored from the camera manufacturers directly. Here is also the link to Drew Gardner’s excellent blog, who shares a lot of invaluable information on the convergence of photography and video.

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