Best Value Canon for Landscape Video

JamiePen said:

Any thoughts or recommendations would be great.

I have a zeiss lens for canon that I'd like to use--that's why I specify canon.

Mostly interested in video quality, not other bells and whistles.

-- I'll focus manually

--Use a tripod

-- 1080p, not interested in 4k

-- more than 30 fps not necessary

Looking for best value, so an older camera such as the 5d mark ii might work. But maybe a newer rebel or other entry level has good video.

Thanks!

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Have you looked at the Canon 70D? Dual pixel sensor for video, articulated touch screen. The Canon STM series lens are made for video, and inexpensive.

Steve J

I know you asked for Canon, and specified you don't care about 4k, but here is my recommendation anyway: I would get a Panasonic micro-4/3 camera with 4k with a canon lens adapter. I have a Canon 70D with some lovely lenses. I really love it, for photographs. But the video is absolutely no match to the output from my Panasonic LX100.

JamiePen said:

Any thoughts or recommendations would be great.

I have a zeiss lens for canon that I'd like to use--that's why I specify canon.

Mostly interested in video quality, not other bells and whistles.

-- I'll focus manually

--Use a tripod

-- 1080p, not interested in 4k

-- more than 30 fps not necessary

Looking for best value, so an older camera such as the 5d mark ii might work. But maybe a newer rebel or other entry level has good video.

Thanks!

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High quality landscape video and consumer Canon bodies simply don't belong in the same sentence! 4k, downsampled to 1080HD gives unbelievable quality, and can be found in many affordable mirrorless bodies that can use Canon lenses - eg all of Panasonic's m4/3 recent offerings.

If your 4K aversion rules, get the discontinued Panny GH3, whose 1080HD set the bar for all others in terms of resolution and DR (about 1 EV greater than Canon's crop % FF offerings).

The best 4K-capable interchangeable lens body deal out there now is probably the Panny m4/3 G7 which also does nice 1080HD.

Here's a link to my recent post about 4K screen captures and some cropped 4K examples using the GH4 and a Canon 400mm/5.6 tele, for a 1040mm EFL with the 2.3X 4K crop factor. It's adapted with a Metabones "T" adapter which enables aperture control, very good AF-S, and IS.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/57212551

Pete

You could buy a Blackmagic BMCC 2.5k camera and get better than 1080p quality.

You'd be shooting in raw with I believe at least 13 stops of DR.

This is not a low light camera.

But in good light it would be better than any Canon until you get to the $15,000 plus category.

This also assumes you only want video.

Or you could look at a used Red with a Canon mount.

I personally have a BMPC, and bought it instead of a BMCC.

Good luck!

BC