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title: "NAB 2019: Canon highlights Oscar documentary success"
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# [NAB 2019: Canon highlights Oscar documentary success](https://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/6343-nab-2019-canon-highlights-oscar-documentary-success)

 Written by [Andy Stout](https://www.redsharknews.com/author/andy-stout) | May 7, 2019 2:00:00 PM

The Oscar-winning 'Free Solo' was shot on Canon

**Tim Smith, SR advisor, film and tv production, reveals that every Oscar-nominated documentary this year was shot on Canon.**

“It didn’t happen overnight,” says Smith of Canon’s success. “We’ve only been playing in this space really seriously since the [C700](https://adorama.evyy.net/c/157766/29622/1036?prodsku=CAC700FFPL&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adorama.com%2FCAC700FFPL.html) and that was five or seven years ago. It’s not long…It’s not long to go from not having a camera for documentaries to having one that dominates the industry.

“Three years in a row we’ve won, but this year it was a lock. It was guaranteed that whatever was going to come up when that envelope was opened was going to be shot on a Canon camera.”

Smith details the reasons why in the video below. And that’s before we even start talking about the glass…

 

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