Paul Gwilliams, a freelancer for nearly 15 years who has a lot of experience with Canon's DSLRs, wrote a guest post on Planet5D on the new Canon EOS C300. He did some cool tests while shooting in a restaurant in London, England. What's quite funny though is that he compares the camera to... Justin Bieber! He believes that the C300 is "the kind of Justin Bieber of the camera world".

Paul wanted to try the camera out in a real shoot situation - this is why he decided to shoot a working restaurant. This also gave him the possibility to shoot in daylight, dusk and nighttime, interior and exterior and use the camera in different set-ups.

"The camera is really light so I was able to mount it with a 70-200 lens on the Miller tripod I use with my 5d’s. (...) The first thing I wanted to shoot was piece to camera with Jamie. Next it was onto some nice detail shots of the restaurant & I could make use of my variety of Canon EF lenses (with the super35 crop) Again because of its size, not only could I use it with a Hollywood micro dolly but also on the table top with slider, its size would also be a positive when we got into the thick of the action in the kitchen."

Paul quickly became at home with the controls and buttons of the camera. He set-up some presets for the functions he needed and as the day moved along darkness drew, so he was able to test the camera in low light.

"With the 70-200 on & the iso set to 8000 the low light shots were possible, useable & beautiful – having looked back on a large HD monitor these are the shots that really stand out for me – the grain at these high iso’s is really organic and very film like."

He was very pleased with the shooting and the camera did well and it was a very positive experience for Paul.

"On the plus side the camera seems to address most of the issues we have had to deal with shooting on DSLR’s for the last 3 years. I saw very little in the way of moiré and aliasing apart from when we really pushed it on some metal meshwork (where you would expect to see it on other high end cams). Cameraman, soundmen & editors alike will rejoice in the fact that we now have proper audio in & metering (audio recorder & slate manufacturers less so!)"

Source: http://blog.planet5d.com