Canon EOS C300 Mk II £8,999/$9,999

Great, but you’ll need to step up too

The C300 II is in the middle of Canon’s Cinema EOS range. While it costs substantially than any of the DSLR and mirrorless crossover cameras in this group test, it goes a lot further towards meeting the needs of pro videographers, with a modular design suited to attaching external monitors, grips and sound equipment.

It uses a Super 35mm CMOS sensor, similar in size to APS-C and corresponding to the old 35mm movie format. The eight-megapixel sensor captures 4K video directly without cropping, oversampling or pixel binning, and can capture at 4:2:2 10-bit quality internally to twin CFast memory cards. It can also capture raw 4K to an external recorder.

Performance

The built-in ND filters are a major asset outdoors, and there was little visible rolling shutter effect in our panning tests. The footage is excellent for grading later, but video straight from the camera is no better than rivals.