There's a rumor - and only a rumor - that Canon will soon release a small camera to compete with Sony's X70. It will have a 1" sensor, maybe even a Sony sensor. It might have the form factor of the C100, but smaller and with a fixed lens.
Price around $2,500.

Canon 4K Camcorder Coming Soon? (http://www.photographybay.com/2014/12/11/canon-4k-camcorder-coming-soon/?awt_l=7RSz6&awt_m=JiGBz7abXf62xu)

Very interesting. 4K is definitely getting more and more affordable as the days move forward. Probably by Dec 2015 I may be ready to upgrade all HD gear to 4K.

Just keep the C100mk2 in mind, because it is of course very unlikely canon will put out something to detract sales from that

Just keep the C100mk2 in mind, because it is of course very unlikely canon will put out something to detract sales from that

I don't know if the C100 II and the X70 are in competition. Will a Canon "X70" take sales away from its own C100? Maybe, but they really are different cameras, especially price wise (if the price holds true). But I'm sure Canon would love to take some of Sony's X70 business away.
I've always liked the C100's form. To use that in a smaller, 4K camera would be sweet. But they need more of a codec than AVCHD, in my opinion.

Canon has all of the pieces and parts in their possession, they have yet to just put them in to one camera all together. They need to strike soon before they have lost too much of the market switching over to 4K.

@markkoha: You don't know Canon. They wait and are last with a good solid product. If you buy it, then you get the benefits. However, when you want to move to the next great thing, you have to wait and wait. So if you are the type that always has to have the latest, it may not be a good choice if you want to stay with the brand for more than one go around.YMMV

@Mark and @Les:

Actually you're both right. Canon has all of the pieces and parts in their possession right now, true. It's also true that they always wait and are always last with a good solid product. They always let all the other manufacturers go first, and I'm sure that's a key part of their corporate philosophy. They'll do it when the time is right for them, and it'll be last, and it'll be great. And it'll be 20% overpriced and they won't make enough of them.

And it'll be 20% overpriced and they won't make enough of them.

HA -- yes, so true.

-- peer

What Chris said. So true.

So is the general thinking that a c300 mkII is on the way?

no-one knows, until Canon introduces a successor.

I was always terrible at waiting for Christmas as a kid and I am no better as an adult waiting for new tech. Even though I have pretty much decided I am getting a C100 mkII.

You can get two c100's for the price of one c300..., that's 2 packages under the Christmas tree :)

Can't say that in my current state I would ever pony up for a C300. A C100 is right in my wheelhouse though. It's just the problem of having to get lenses too.

You know what they say, the best camera is what YOUR money can buy. :) Plenty of other much cheaper options out there.

A C100 is right in my wheelhouse though. It's just the problem of having to get lenses too.

$900 for an EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS, and you might as well get some JB Weld and fix 'er on there because it might be the only lens you'll ever need for that camera. Well, until you need telephoto, anyway. And then get yourself an EF 70-200mm f/4L for a paltry $600.

It seems to me obvious that Canon will come out with 4k cameras later this year having seen what Sony, Panasonic and JVC have got right and wrong. I'd expect the range (to be announced at NAB?) to be very similar to the current tape-less HD cameras:
1) an XA25-sized camera recording to the latest, fastest SD, but probably with similar data-rate limitations to the Sony AX100;
2) an XF100/200-sized cam with 4k@60P (recording to what cards?), possibly with a modest zoom-range to meet size and weight targets;
2) an XF300-size record-anything, output-everything monster.

The one thing I fervently hope is that the brilliantly-useful zoom-speed control-wheel, found on the XH-A1 and XF300, but missing from the current XF100, is included in the medium-size camera this time.

I'm looking forward to better-than-average 4k and the best possible 1080 from a camera much the same size as an XM1, that's as easy to use as the XH-A1, and with that camera's sensible and trustworthy auto functions (when you need auto, you must to be able to rely on it)

It looks like this rumor proved true!

http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-video-industry-news/527437-canons-eos-one-4k-video-camera-jackie-chan.html