Canon EOS C500 II in action. In which case, you push it to within an inch of its life, and get some amazing footage in the processWhen Canon launced the they asked director and cinematographer Brett Danton to try it out. Not by putting the camera on a tripod and shooting some nice sunsets, but by directing a fully-fledged Jaguar commerical involving gimbals, drones, a Russian Arm, and some very clever tricks, which at one point involved handing the camera from a moving car to another moving car.
Tell us about the main shoot - It seems pretty ambitious - involving Drones, A Russian Arm and a very windy road. We shot a mixture of the full frame RAW and then, because of weather and time constraints (we had a very short time for the shoot) handheld XF-AVC codec with the camera internal….