Re: nanoFlash with Canon C300?
 

Hi Mark,
Tell your editor that the C300 outputs an uncompressed 8 bit signal through its HD-SDI connector. You could record it full uncompressed on a Gemini, but then you'd be using 1TB of data every 84 minutes or so...
Internally (downstream from the HD-SDI output) the camera compresses at 50Mbps. That's about 1000 minutes per TB of data (so you could say roughly a 12:1 compression ratio compared to the uncompressed?) With the Nanoflash you can record from the uncompressed HD-SDI data at a lower compression ratio than internally in the camera, thereby eliminating some possible artifacts.

Re: nanoFlash with Canon C300?
 

Dear Mark,

I spoke again with our Lab Manager, who stays very busy, requesting that we post some of our C300 files.

We no longer have a C300 in our lab, but he feels that we can find some good footage that we recorded from the C300.

I hope this will not take much longer.

Re: nanoFlash with Canon C300?
 

Hi All. And still, the discussion continues. Flattered to have such esteemed consumers of gear participating. With all of the talk about ergonomics of cabling nanoFlash to C300 I thought you might be interested to see the design that I've evolved for my camera over the past year. Just a quickie photo on the go but the layout's been serving me well.

cheers,

Stephen McCarthy

Re: nanoFlash with Canon C300?
 

The question of quality difference between C300 internal 50mbps vs nanoFLASH 180mbps still remains unanswered. Shouldn't users of c300+nanoflash simply shoot at 180mbps to get visually noticable difference.

Also I have no idea that C300 hdsdi outputs uncompressed data ! Pl confirm as I just read it on the above replies.

Re: nanoFlash with Canon C300?
 

You probably won't notice a difference.

[QUOT]Also I have no idea that C300 hdsdi outputs uncompressed data ! Pl confirm as I just read it on the above replies.[/QUOTE]

Of course it puts out uncompressed data. However, don't confuse "uncompressed" with "raw" because they are two entirely different things.