If you were to design a Canon 5Dc, what specs would it have?

[Michael Ma]

I know we're in fantasy land, but a camera like this would make sense to me.

12MP full frame (like the A7S)

Great battery life.

Dual sided fully articulating screen (180 degree flip like the 70D/GH4).  Dual sided for camera rigidity.  I never needed the tilt.

C-Log

10bit 4:2:2 and raw

Some weight reduction over the regular 5D Mark IV.

4K up to 60p

1080p up to 240p

Under $3000.

You might be saying, why not just get a A7S II?  The articulating screen.  I really need one.

[Matthew19]

efficient 4k codec

full frame 4k

c-log

120fps 1080

60fps 4k

internal functions like false colors, peaking, custom crop marks

I'd be happy to pay in the 6k range.

[SR]

Compressed raw, Sony's sensor and Pentax's price. Of course, none of it will happen.

[Guest Ebrahim Saadawi]

Well, let my post be a one on how it's going to bevrather on how I dream it to be: 

-24-28 mp sensor 
DPAF 
FF UHD (not 1.3x or 4K)
120p HD
No Clog
8fps shutter
cfast 2.0 slot and CF SLOT
fixed higher res LCD
30p max UHD 
 

[Kino]

First of all, what is a "5DC"? I've never heard of such a thing from Canon corporate.

Canon won't even give you the features you have listed in the $6000 1DX II. Do you really think they will give them to you for under $3000 and in a 5D body within the Cinema EOS line?

4K 4:2:2 10 bit internal would be a stretch for the 1D body, with its far superior heat management, recording data rate, and processing power relative to the 5D cameras. It would simply be impossible in a 5D form factor with current sensor and heat sink technology.

Here is what you are going to get in any future 5D Mark IV (which Canon hasn't even announced or acknowledged):

UHD 8 bit 4:2:2 XF-AVC (just like the codec in the XC10, if you are "lucky")

UHD 30p / HD 60p

No C-Log

No DPAF

Look at it this way, it could be much worse. At least, unlike the 1D cameras, it might get something from Magic Lantern . . .

[Andrew Reid]

I'd take the mirror out.

[Tiago Rosa-Rosso]

I would definitely take the mirror out. Then I must say I like the ergonomics oh the xc10.  But they should put a ff sensor there and make it ef interchangeable mount.

Sensor readout 3ms or global shutter

DPAF

UHD 8 bit 4:2:2

2.5k 10 bit 422

c-log   

That would be cool 

[mkabi]

Since we are in fantasy land, I would scrap the 5DC idea altogether and create something totally new....

We want small, DSLR-esque cameras... not too big, not too small.

In my opinion, they had a good idea with the XC10 - only down side (for me at least) - small sensor & fixed lens.

If I were to design a camera it would be a prograde version of the XC10 (minus the red button) super 35mm - ILC - 18-20MP

5K at 60fps (no crop)

4K at 120fps (slight crop)

3K at 240fps (more crop)

2K @ 300fps (most cropped)

All of them relatively sharp, C-Log, better and usuable codec.

All for $6K to $7.5K (USD)

 

[Nikkor]

16bit compressed raw 4k sampled from the whole 8k 36mm wide sensor, and a 10bit log mode that looks like a good filmscan thanks to a new pixel technology that has double stacked pixels so the sensor can read +6 stops into highlights giving 18 stops DR  

[John_Harrison]

I mean the whole premise of Canon releasing a camera with these specs is kind of ridiculous. That being said...

24 MP Full frame

Shoots 4K in two modes: Full Frame (downsampled from 6K) and APSC (downsampled from ~5K) (APSC optimized for rolling shutter performance)

4K 60p (crop), HD 120p

Native 800 ISO

C-Log

more robust codec

Built in NDs

Outputs 12 bit Raw to an external recorder