Canon ME200S-SH Multi Purpose Camera

Canon ME200S-SH certainly has some features that make it appealing to filmmakers, starting with its Super 35mm sensor, which is the same one in Canon's popular C-series. It does very well in low light situations thanks to its 12-stop latitude and an ISO that reaches 204,800. It also has several features that may make it faster and easier to work with, like its built-in filter stack (clear filter, ND 1/8, ND 1/64, IR cut filter), One-Shot Auto Focus, and Push Auto Iris, which quickly and automatically adjusts your aperture to maintain exposure.

But even though Canon ME200 has a bunch of great features, it definitely has its drawbacks. For one, it doesn't have a display and doesn't record internally — it's basically, as News Shooter puts it, "a sensor rather than a full camera." So this means that you'd have to include several add-ons to even use it. It also only records in HD, which might be a deal-breaker for some die-hard 4K shooters out there, unless they don't mind mounting an Atomos Shogun or Ninja to it. Furthermore, it's very much a multi-purpose camera, meaning that, yes, there's a little something for every kind of user, but only a little. It may not have many of the features you're looking for, and with a price of $5K you might feel the absence of those features a lot more than usual.

So, this little camera, which weighs about 2.5 lbs. might be ideal for drones and gimbals, or for documentarians who not only need something small and rugged that they can take pretty much anywhere, but also something that allows them to make quick adjustments on the fly.