 Welcome to the Crimson Engine. My name is Rebedium. Today we are looking at the differences between the C200 and the C200B. I think the C200 is the best digital cinema camera on the market for the money for either $7,500 or $6,000. You get internal 4k RAW with a whole bunch of bells and whistles like autofocus, internal ND, all kinds of stuff. But it comes in two flavors. It comes in the more expensive C200. That features side handle, touch screen, 4-inch touchscreen, electronic viewfinder on the back, and its own Canon designed top handle. And it comes with the C200B with none of that stuff, just the body, which I guess is what the B is for. So you want to get the C200, you want to buy one of these cameras, which one should you get? It really comes down to an accessory package. For an extra $1,500, you are getting some pretty cool accessories, but you may not use them. So let's dive in and look at what you get with which camera and who each camera is for. So the C200 is the jack of all trades. It comes with two ways, one on the body and one on the side handle to trigger record. It comes with three little dials to set the menu, one on the side handle, one on the monitor, and one on the back of the body. It is all powered by one single battery. So the screen doesn't need its own separate power source, which is a huge advantage with the 4-inch touchscreen to tap on what you want to focus. And if there are several faces in your frame, it allows you to pick which one you want to focus and track or select between them. So they're the upsides. What are the downsides? Well, the biggest downside is that it's $1,500 more expensive. And for that $1,500, you can actually buy a lot of other accessories, which might serve you better. The touchscreen, the 4-inch touchscreen, it's bright. It's beautiful. You can touch it. In my opinion, for me personally, it's too small. I can't really get an idea of what my image is going to look like projected on a 30-foot screen or even a 50-inch plasma from a tiny little 4-inch display. I can't even really tell what's in focus and what's not in focus. For me, it just feels too much like the old DSLR days of trying to judge what your image is looking like off the tiny back of a camera. I think this is great for some people and for run and gun, wedding, corporate, even some filmmaking, this is great. But for me, I would much rather have a bigger, brighter, more versatile screen that has things like customizable lookup tables, like false color, which this doesn't and this can't. The C200 has a really great EVF, but it's in the wrong place. It's not where most people would want it on the side of the camera so that when you're shoulder mounted, you can look through the EVF. It's at the back. So you sort of have to shoulder mount the camera in front of you and have all the weight sort of pulling you forward. There's even a trend of people sending their C200s back to Canon to have the EVF taken out because they never use it and it saves weight. And my main objection with it is that you're buying all these accessories that aren't probably the best of the best. They're all decent, but you might not use them. So let's look at the C200B. It's lighter. It's cheaper. It does everything that the C200 does. And then you can add to it more customizable stuff like, you know, like a seven inch TV logic monitor or black magic video assist. You can put any type of handle you want on it. You can take all of those things off and use it for a gimbal or a crane or even a drone. And for me, it just suited my needs as a filmmaker better. The disadvantage of having an external non-canon monitor is that you can't power it from the camera. You immediately need to add a second power source. So you're carrying around two sets of different types of batteries. You're having to run cable to connect it. You can use a 15 mil rail mount and use a V or gold mount battery to power both the camera and the screen, which is what I do. But all of those things cost more money. And you can upgrade it as time goes on or as you have more money. Whereas if you buy the C200, you're stuck with that monitor. Also, the touchscreen functionality won't work on anything but Canon's monitor. It won't work through the HDMI or the SDI. Now you can go and buy the Canon's external touchscreen like I have. They cost about 600 bucks. But you also have to buy the proprietary $280 cable from Canon to connect it to it. This gives you touch screen functionality. It also gives you another way to access the menu of the camera with this little dial on the side here. But I have to say, for like $950, you can buy a pretty killer seven-inch monitor. And you can still use the autofocus just by using the dial on the back of the camera. You don't have to touch it. You can select the point. And I should say, once you've spent your $960, you still don't get the handle or the mount that comes with the C200. So you have to go out and buy a third-party accessory for that. So I've had the B for about 16 months now. I really love it. Never regretted not getting the C200. I've heard people talk online about how the C200, because it's more of a mainstream camera, more accessible, holds its value better, that there's more of a market for the second hand, there's less of a market for the B. I haven't tried to sell mine yet, so I can't talk to that. But that's entirely possible and something to take into account. You can't really go wrong. These are both great cameras. And they're really the same camera. It just comes down to what you want to do with your camera, how specialized your filmmaking needs are. Are you like a jack-of-all-trades that's going to utilize all this stuff, or are you wanting to rig the camera only for handheld, just for gimbals, or like I do for digital cinema and add rails and matte boxes, and all these extra pieces are just going to be in the way. That's why I went with the B. I found that extra $1,500 went a really long way in customizing the camera to how I was going to use it and absolutely no regrets. But both cool cameras, it's just something to take into account before you spend your money. Thank you very much for watching. Leave your questions in the comments. Subscribe if you want more videos like this. I'm often posting stuff on Instagram, so check out where they put it. One of these sites. And I will see you next time.