CANON C70 VS CANON C200 | Dynamic Range, Low Light, Slow Motion Footage 

The fact that the C70 can recover so much information and it’s not recording in RAW really shows the performance of this camera. The “it sucks the C70 can’t shoot in RAW” goes out the window. The 10bit on the C70 is phenomenal and the fact that it’s much easier to edit makes it a solid option.

Griffin - your camera comparisons are reviews are some of my favorites - really practical, useful info.

Thanks for this video!!! The C70 is a great step for canon and I think it’s going to be a very popular camera.

Thanks for the tests. As a C200 owner I still love the colour on the C200. I dont know what it is but it has a vibe. But that sensor needs light. ETTR

I'm pumped for the r5 comparison!

great comparison Griffin! solid work as always

Hey Griffin, love your videos, so wonderful to follow your thoughts and honest views on the gear! Thanks for doing such informative content.

quick, to-the-point and quality comparison. thanks for the content. subscribed!

Excellent tests and objectivity. Thank you!

Excellent info dude! Great video! The C70 is definitely going to be my next camera!

At 2:46 you said all the settings were exactly the same. Did you shoot in XFAVC and which Log Profile did you use?

The one video we’ve been waiting for... Let me get the popcorn 😎🍿

Nice video. I’m looking forward to the R5/1DX/C70 comparison.

Great test! Thanks for the great job!

Great video - thanks for the exhaustive side by side examples. I really wonder if Canon is going to come out with the C200 Mark 2 or if it was just a bunch of hype. Two things that really bug me on the C70 - no EVF and bad hinge on the display. Still waiting on my choice to upgrade to 4k from my old C100 Mark 2.

Oooh Griffin got some hands 👊 Great info as always

Canon C200 with its RAW video directly to the card is the most ideal camera for movies!

Subscribed! You and Carlos together have given me a wealth of valuable info in making my decision to finally buy the C70. I am almost there!😁🙏🏾

Solid review and comparison. Your conclusions are much appreciated.

Great video as usual brother. We have a 200 and we’re thinking about the 70 right now. This video was really helpful. We appreciate you.

Hey man! Amazing comparison, helped a ton. If you wouldn’t mind weighing in for me, how do you feel like these two now compare for their current market value? I’m seeing the C200 around used for ~$2,500 with the C70 around $6,500. I’ve just starting looking so I don’t know what the c70 originally ran for, but that’s a massive price difference. My biggest concern about the C200 is primarily longevity when purchasing in 2023. How do you personally weigh their worth and which do you recommend I make the massive upgrade to?

Great video just purchased the C70 and been using it for a lot of professional work. Love it

Great video. Very helpful. Thanks.

more excellent content. thank you, Griffin!

Great job Griffin :)

Hello great video. Did you use the same lens for each camera? Or did the C70 have an RF and the C200 have an EF? It seems as if you used RF for one and EF for the other. Thanks Cheers from LA! Frank

Thank you so much for this detailed video 😁

Great comparison review.

Great video mate. Can you tell me if you were using the speed booster on the c70 for the low light or RF lenses?

Great review! Thank you! :) Considerin to buy the C70 in 2024 haha. What lens did you use at the high iso test at night?

Damn your channel just randomly popped up. Great breakdown really enjoyed learning the difference of these 2 cameras

Good stuff bro 👍🏾👍🏾

Awesome comparison! Looking forward to more C70 videos

Great video babe!!

11:40 so much truth dude!! Great video as always brother!

Hi nice video. Which Sd card do you use for the C70?

Just came across your channel today. Wonderful videos. I'm a C200 owner and looking at the C70 (hoping the C90 may have an SDI among other tiny wishes). Great review, subscribed!

Hey Griffin, can you let us know what conversion or technical LUT you use for clog2? I’m curious what people are using for C70 and the like. And are you using similar Luts for something like the R5? Thanks.

I love your videos and this channel very great info for us.

Super helpful video. I'm trying to decide whether to buy a C70, a Sony CX6, or a RED Komodo.

Thank you for comparing them! I want both!

did you shoot both in Neutral gamma?

Awesome sauce. Thank you!

Hi, may I ask you if you made ABB on booth cameras before shooting?

Awesome video, thank you so very much! Did you every shoot externally with the C200 in to an Atomos or other similar external monitor? I have used my C100 MKII with an external Shogun Inferno recording ProRes (fake 4.2.2.) 8 bit. I’m thinking about getting a C70 but I’m still interested in the C200. I’m not top notch like you and some of the others commenting. I’m just a lil old ,novice, grandpa who has found some really nice cheap cinema cameras. I’m going to stick them in the faces of my family for all of our events and Sunday School review video content. Thanks again - I also use a Ninja Blade

Sir, you got me subscribed! Thanks a lot for this down to earth in-depth review. Greetings from Switzerland from a C300 MkI owner who just switched from the 5D MkII =) Man, started to love the Canon C series!

Hey, are you able to get Browser Remote on the C70 or does it require an additional wifi transmitter of some sort?? Somehow my Network settings are grayed out on the C70

I love you videos man. Always crushing it💯.. Now I'm waiting for C70 vs 1DX mark iii. Please.

You can tell by the likes how helpful this video was over a lot of other C70 videos. Cheers mate, real world feel to this. Much more worthwhile than a full time RU-vidr / Reviewer opinion.

Can you playback 60p and 120p footage on the camera in 24fps (i.e. see it in slow motion within camera)

In case I missed this, Is the c70 using noise reduction as opposed to the c200?

What codec were you shooting the c200 on ? Raw 12 bit ? Or 8 bit 420.

What codec do u mainly use in your studios on c200 ? What codecs on c200 do u mainly use for clients ?

Dude this is a wicked comparison. Great comparisons and basically the same as my thoughts. C200 is amazing, but the RAW was a killer with no compression ratios.

really looking forward to the C70 speed booster review

What SD cards are you running on the C70? I had issues with my Angelbird 128gb V90 card.

Hi Griffin, great video. When comparing noise side by side, do you compare the raw (without noise reduction applied) with the C70 that has noise reduction applied?

Great information.

Thanks for the vid! Do you know what "color matrix" you were in on the C200? I'm trying to dial in my C70 and C200 for 2 cam interviews but am disappointed with how different they are. Thanks!

Good job, thanks. Waiting for speed booster review.

Thanks. I needed to hear that. Got a C70 coming.

Love your insights, they're refreshing thoughts you don't get to hear on other channels. Thank you!

Great Job 👍🏻

Great in depth review! Keep seeing c 70 videos and it’s making me lean more to it over the fx6 but still having a hard time deciding 🥴

Great comparison. Was the C200 footage only shot in raw for this comparison due to 8-bit limitation (aside from 120p tests)? I'm very curious as to the EF lens performance on the 0.71x adapter.

Thanks for the video! Looking to get my first cinema camera and with the recent price cut on the c200, I need more in-depth insight as compared to the c70 (which is the one I’m leaning towards currently). Part of me is wondering if I should wait and see if they update the c200 this year but not sure. Also, yo yo cool to see creators coming out of OC!

You rock Griffin!

Planning for this camera, but likely just going to use Ed adapter and not the crazy expensive RF lens. We have lots of EF glass.

Great comparison. The file size of RAW is also the main reason I'm swapping my C200 for FX6. I've loved the camera, but with better alternatives, theres no reason to stick around anymore.

Hey buddy hope all is irie. What Is the best lens to do talking head interview? Or interview in general people seating talking to the camera so forth?

Awesome comparison. Did you do a ABB on the c200 before those tests or no?

5:01 - I definitely see the same things in my tests. Even when recording in 8-bit on the C200. The shadows in the Canon Raw Light files are always really noisy because there is no noise reduction done in camera and I don't want to have to do that in post on export.

2:43 I'm glad to hear someone else mention the greener look on the C200. I've also been shooting with the C200 for a couple years, and when comparing to my C100 Mk2, I definitely noticed the C200 leans a little greener. I always thought it was interesting that Canon did this with the C200. It's not a bad thing necessarily, as I really like the look of the C200, but it's definitely interesting Canon did that.

Thanks for the comparison Griffin! C200 owner and stoked on it. Happy holidays and happy new year!

what kind of settings do you upload to youtube tho, that banding is horrible.

Solid review! Looks like it should pair well with the c500

Hey Griffen can you comment on the sharpness of the c70's image? I noticed - especially from the high iso comparison - that the c70 was noticeably sharper than the c200. Perhaps there was some sort of in-camera sharpening? Or maybe the sensor's really that good at capturing detail. Great comparison btw!

Thanks for the comparison! I guess I will be holding onto my c200 for awhile. By the way, which audio monitors do you use?

Great video, thanks! I’ve been going back and forth on whether to sell my recently bought C200 and get a C70. This was a really useful side-by-side but I’m still not 100% sure what to do.

Thank you very much.

Nice review @Cliff Conway. Did you do a black balance on the c200? May have helped with the noise in the black. c70 won most tests, but the c200 crushed it on the recovery from overexposed - look at the sky color, more information retained..

I think that the differences in high-ISO performance reflect the different gain architectures of the two cameras. The C200 uses conventional preamps, with a limited selection of physically realizable analog gains. The sensor behaves optimally when shooting at ISOs corresponding to those gains (400 and perhaps somewhere around 1600?), but shows increased noise when operating in between, because it has to use a lower-than-ideal analog gain and then scale digitally. The C70 has dual simultaneous gains, meaning that it applies both low- and high-gains to every sample, and then combines the resulting values. Light tones can use the results of the low gain if they would have saturated at the high gain, while shadows always benefit from the high gain. You would expect such a camera to have an advantage at low/mid ISOs as you saw, because at ultra-high ISO both cameras are basically using their highest gain for every sample (put another way, even the brightest scene tones are so dark that the C70 can use its high gain without saturating) and in that scenario the C70's dual-gain architecture doesn't give it any advantage.

I noticed you used a shotgun mic on top of the c70 and I’d love to know what you used to do that and how good the audio quality is when plugged directly into the camera and not to an external recorder. That would make a shotgun mic very versatile to use because you won’t have to buy another on-camera mic. Thank you!

I thought your where doing a 1dx mark iii and c70 comparison.

Great comparison bro! I've bought my C200 after watching your review and now the C70 in on my wish list haha...

It would be great if you made a video about dynamic range i am having a problem with finding a video that breaks it down well

C200 user also and working with Canon Cinema Raw Light works very well in Resolve. No issues what so ever except the larger files sizes.

Thank you for your in-depth review. I’m in a such dilemma - I’ve got eos R with two rf lenses and want to buy either c70 or c200 as my first cinema camera. C70 costs here in the uk £4,800, c200 (also brand new) - £3,800. I’m still planning to keep eos R as a b-cam for now. I know that the logical thing is to go for c70 due to rf mount, but I’m gravitating towards c200 plus some good 24-70 sigma or canon lens. Albeit I’ll have two rf lenses 15-35 2.8 and 24-105 4 without much of a use. Really struggling here...

What codec were you shooting in? DId you mention that?

On big sets do they frown upon hdmi extenders with Ethernet? Instead of Sdi

I'm really struggling with the form factor of the C70. On my very first C70 shoot last weekend it was a live stream of a half marathon and I was shooting interviews with the race winners and going live to vMix. The LCD in the C70 is not great and I missed the EVF and lack of SDI to run our wireless transmitter. It was like OMG this is just the wrong camera to use in this situation. I'm in a spin here on what to do but just might send it back and swap for a C200. We also run Canon Xf605 cameras, so for much of what we do the c200 might be a better fit for our workflow. Same batteries, similar menu set up, EVF and SDI. I really don't do high end work with big client demands so maybe the 4k 8 bit from the c200 will be fine. But for me it's the form factor. The lack of SDI and EVF are things I can't do without. Yes you can mount EVFs and larger LCD screens and a cage to the C70 but for me it's just all clumsy and I hate it. Thanks again Griffin I really enjoy your videos

Good comparison .but compare raw code and a 10 Bit Codec in terms of noise is a Bit unequal because raw does no noise reduction internally, it’s raw image. But c70 seems pretty good camera for a lot of wedding filmmakers and stuff.

Great work! I appreciate the detail and thorough explanation. Thanks for the content! I've been waiting a month for my C70 order to be fulfilled lol. I'm living vicariously through you guys lol.

Can anyone answer how the extended nd (8/10stops) looks? Is it useful or is there bad colour shift etc. Thoughts.

Great comparison thanks. I’m convinced that my C200 is just fine for a while to come. RAW will become increasingly manageable and storage cheaper. Can’t imagine letting go of RAW, EVF, SDI and overall form factor. I’ll say a prayer for Canon giving us 4K 10 bit external on the C200 for XMas.

The C70 DR is excellent and 1600 ISO is really fantastic. I really never ago above that, but having the speed booster with the .71x adapter with such a clean 1600 ISO will be really nice for slow motion macro work! Like many others, SDI would be my number one wish for this camera. Thank you for taking the time to make this video Griffin.

Although the dynamic range and sharpness of the c70 looks is better its just something about the look of the c200 and they way it renders color that I prefer. The c70 gives me dslr vibes but still a great camera.

Is there any particular reason why all the shots from the C 200 look soft and/or out of focus?...

If you set the noise reduction on the C70 to spacial:1 and frame correlation:1 you can get away with higher ISOs. You get no plasticky softness. The same applies to the C500.

That c70 is 💪🏾. Great Job. Was that you boxing?