Sony FX30 vs. Canon C400

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By admin, on May 25th, 2025

Lowlight tests done by Jake Hayden. He recently purchased a Canon C400 cinema camera; earlier, he was using a Sony FX30 camera for studio and professional work. But now he is regretting his decision since the C400 generates more noise compared to the FX30 in the same situation. Take a look at the sample below

Take a look at what Jake said –

What’s really interesting is I have access to an FX30. Now we’re always making fun of Sony for having a lot of internal noise reduction but look at this difference first of all I’m going to go to the extreme. This is six stops underexposed. The FX30 is recording XF-AVC 10bit 422 in 4k and look at that noise pattern you can tell there’s a little bit of noise reduction but it is so fine, I just wanted to compare that to the same mode on the C400 which looks so bad, the C400 broke at three stops under here’s the FX30 not in raw it’s an XF-AVC, looks like it’s fine granular noise. I am blown away at how bad the noise performance is on the C400 if you want a spiky takeaway from this you could buy five FX30s for the price of one C400 and all five of them would have better image quality but here’s the thing does any of this actually matter

Summary Table

The table below encapsulates the reviewer’s observations on noise performance and image quality, using corrected terms for accuracy.

Camera Codec Underexposure Tested Noise Performance Image Quality Observations
Sony FX30 XF-AVC 10-bit 4:2:2 6 stops, 3 stops Fine, granular noise with some noise reduction Less digital noise, usable at 3 stops under despite compression
Canon C400 XF-AVC, Raw 6 stops, 3 stops Digital, crunchy noise pattern Poorer noise performance, especially in raw, breaks at 3 stops under, less usable
Blackmagic Ursa Raw Reference (3-4 stops) Fine, pixel-level noise ~8 stops latitude with headroom to 9, better highlight and shadow recovery



I got an email today from one of our subscribers pointing towards this video, and this is quite seems to be a legit testing, and most importantly of all, he has put his hard-earned money into getting the camera, so it’s a fair review, not a sponsored one.

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