Canon EOS C300 – now $2000 off

The Canon C300 has just been significantly reduced in price. B&H sent out a notice announcing a $2000 pricedrop.

Even though there is competition for the C300 with the introduction of the C500 and low priced C100 the C300 fills an important slot with its internal All-I codec and SDI connection possibilities.

There’s more competition from Sony with their new PMW-F5 model that’s already in stock.

Both the PL version as well as the EF version of the EOS C300 are now $2000 off and available at B&H with 0% financing.

That makes the C300 priced at $13,999 right now.

Canon 1DC – 25p firmware officially coming in April 2013

The 25p firmware rumored this week is a reality, but it won’t be coming before April.

The 1DC is causing a lot of buzz on the net due the nice videos coming from the camera both in 4K as well as in super35 crop mode.

With 25p this camera will be one hard to beat rival in the affordable large sensor camera market.
We’ll have more footage to show soon.

We also have a very intriguing deal for our European readers:
If you’re looking for the best price here’s a code that gives you the 1DC at an unrivalled 8250€

CODE: 311213SWBC1DC (880€ off)
Insert at checkout when buying the Canon 1DC for 8250€ at A.F. Marcotec.
US customers can get the Canon 1DC at B&H: LINK

official German press release: LINK

via canonrumors

RED pricedrops: Scarlet-X gets $1800 off, RED ONE for $4000

This weekend RED cut down the prices on all their camera bodies. The Scarlet-X’ price has been reduced to $7950 and the Epic now costs almost half. Is this a result of Sony’s massive camera announcement last week?

RED’s Jim Jannard doesn’t seem to call Sony’s announcement the cause for their pricedops. About the F5 and F55 he says: “These two camera announcements are significant. While I do not see them as a threat to EPIC or Scarlet… I do see them as a threat to the conventional and outdated thinking of the industry that tried so hard to cling to “1080P and 2K are good enough”.”
and says that they have lowered their “assembly costs, found better suppliers and fully paid off our NRE.” (…) “Since our costs are now significantly lower we are re-pricing our cameras as of now.”

The timing of RED’s price drops is still an interesting one and raises some questions concerning how well RED is armed against the wave of competitive large sensor cameras that are flooding the market right now.

Here are the exact price changes:

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Is Adobe CS6 imminent? – CS5.5 Production 53% off

I just received news that the Adobe CS 5.5 Production Premium suite is 53% off (link).

It loos like the end of the CS5.5 life-cycle is near, despite the fact that previous rumors and the NAB show in April would make a May 2012 release more credible.

Adobe hasn’t said much about After Effects or Premiere CS6 yet, but they have released a blog post about the top feature requests for CS6 in the field of interest online section.

As Jeff Riegel put it: “I don’t think anyone can make any future buying decision on a blog post (and an upgrade that addressed all 16 of these requests would be beyond huge) but it seems likely that this is more than a subtle hint at what we might expect out of AE CS6.”

Top 16 After Effects feature requests:

• import of AAF files
• keyboard shortcut editor [hopefully better than the one in Premiere Pro]
• Vector Paint effect
• grouping layers in the Timeline panel [Yes please!]
• variable-width mask feather
• saving projects backward so that they can be opened by a previous version of After Effects
• scopes (waveform and vector) [should be there already]
• better handling of image sequences
• extrusion of vector graphics
• GPU/CUDA acceleration [double Yes please! Mercury engine in AE]
• scaling: better algorithms and ability to choose
• nodal compositing [To really play with the big boys]
• custom zoom values
• import of 3D objects
• After Effects for Linux
• bones and inverse kinematics within Puppet effect

Adobe has recently also shown off some new features for Photoshop CS6 including “Content Aware Move”:

Now the final question that remains to be asked is: Will CS6 be cheaper if you buy the discounted CS5.5 with a later upgrade to CS6?

Links:
Adobe Production Premium Suite CS5.5 (mac) $799
Adobe Production Premium Suite CS5.5 (pc) $799

Premiere standalone is also off:
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 (mac) $525
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 (win) $525