The camera Canon ME 20 F-SH is certainly not the latest technological advance, having already five years on its shoulders. Launched in 2015, we have already written about it before. But its unique features still make it perfect for special projects like the documentary Awavena about the Amazon rainforest .
The US division of the Japanese manufacturer recently spoke about it. In a video “behind the scenes” of the realization of the Awavena documentary you can see the great capacity of Canon ME 20 F-SH in being able to take pictures in very difficult lighting conditions.
Canon USA wrote in the note “the challenge of shooting documentaries at night in the jungle is that any lighting you can use will stop the creatures from working you’re looking to film. In the award-winning documentary Awavena, cinematographer Greg Downing used the ME camera 20 Canon’s F-SH to showcase the amazing fluorescence of plants and insects in the Amazon. The project, which chronicles the Yawanawa tribe and their first ever female shaman, uses mixed reality to off give viewers the experience of a visual research. In this video, Downing describes how the Incredibles 4. 500. 000 ISO of ME 20 F-SH helped create stunning images to simulate visual search “.
We remind you that Canon ME 20 F-SH has a full-frame CMOS sensor by yourself 2, 26 MPixel . But this low resolution allows for large pixels well 19 µm (for comparison, iPhone 12 Pro has 1.7 µm pixels) that can better capture the dim light of scenarios such as those of ‘Amazonia, but not only.
The resolution of the movies can reach FHD to 60 p but obviously it is the ISO sensitivity of 4, 56 million (equivalent to 75 dB) to be the master! It must also be considered that this model adopts an attack compatible with EF, EF-S and Cinema lenses (based on EF) and therefore the range of lenses is quite large. When it comes to shooting scen