DSLR Video question..which dslr ?

Foolio · 27th May 2009, 6:38 PM

Which dslr would you buy for video, used to make films with? I want to hopefully enter some short film comps. I guess in Australia they need to be outputted as PAL 25p and 24p for ntsc brodcasting/comps. But the 5dmkii only shoots at 30p. Is this a major problem? would using some kind of compressor badly effect the quality of the footage ?

lucid · 27th May 2009, 7:47 PM

theres only three out there that are worthwhile at the moment. The panasonic gh1, canon 5d mkii and the nikon d90. Out of those I'd get the canon 5d as it has the best image quality. best video codec, fullframe, plus canon are releasing a firmware upgrade soon to allow manual video control over shutter, iris and iso. converting 30p to 25p isn't too hard and who knows, maybe canon will release another firmware to allow other framerates.
the gh1 would be 2nd as it also has manual control in video mode and records at 24p.

27th May 2009, 6:38 PM	#1
Foolio Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sydney Posts: 660	DSLR Video question..which dslr ? Which dslr would you buy for video, used to make films with? I want to hopefully enter some short film comps. I guess in Australia they need to be outputted as PAL 25p and 24p for ntsc brodcasting/comps. But the 5dmkii only shoots at 30p. Is this a major problem? would using some kind of compressor badly effect the quality of the footage ?

27th May 2009, 7:47 PM	#2
lucid Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Perth Posts: 376	theres only three out there that are worthwhile at the moment. The panasonic gh1, canon 5d mkii and the nikon d90. Out of those I'd get the canon 5d as it has the best image quality. best video codec, fullframe, plus canon are releasing a firmware upgrade soon to allow manual video control over shutter, iris and iso. converting 30p to 25p isn't too hard and who knows, maybe canon will release another firmware to allow other framerates. the gh1 would be 2nd as it also has manual control in video mode and records at 24p.