Poor Video Quality on Canon M50 in Decent Lighting and various Lenses

newb227 wrote:

Hi,

Recently I purchased a Canon M50 to record indoors, the image quality wasn't good with the 15-45 mm kit lens, so I purchased a 22mm prime lens that is supposed to be better for indoor filming (with lights of course). As far as lighting I have a floor lamp with 3 LED 100 watt equivalent bulbs in it to light the surrounding area, and a large LED ring light where I shoot. I cannot figure that the amount of light is the problem because I used to shoot with my iPhone X with the ring light alone and it was completely fine. Close up video shots look much better, but any more than 1-2 feet away looks terrible. The camera is in autofocus, and is focused when I'm filming far as I can see. The camera takes images perfectly fine in acceptable lighting.

I think my settings are correct for the most part. I keep my aperture on the lower end in order to let more light in the lens. I keep the ISO below 500 for the most part because I've heard high ISO can make your footage look grainy, and you should not be overly dependent on it for brightness. I use double the shutter speed than the fps and I'm on 1080p HD 59fps.

Even when I go outside in full sun and adjust the camera accordingly, the footage looks terrible on anything larger than a smartphone screen, if that. The image quality looks perfect on the camera monitor, it's just the resolution when the video is blown up potentially. I really cannot understand what's going wrong, I've been troubleshooting for a while to understand the settings and get the best lens and setup.

Here is some sample footage, I understand that when you lower the aperture that you get a shallow depth of field and burry background, that's not what I'm referring to, but overall everything is low blurry/low quality. If you're on a tiny screen you might not see things too well, but if you're on a Laptop/Desktop/Large iPad you'll know what I'm referring to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6R_xuUOMsk

I bought the Camera new from a seller on Walmart.com so I'm not sure if anyone has any bad experiences buying electronics through them. It is still under warranty, but I don't want to send it in for something that is my fault and, end up back to square one looking like an idiot in the process.

Thank you to anyone who responds to this post, any input is welcome.

Be sure to have a realistic expectations. In good light your iPhone 4k video will look way better than m50 hd video, and heavily cropped 4k video on m50 has almost unusable autofocus. Canon will best iphone only with a pancake lens in a low light situation, but it still won't be very sharp. If you light the subject well to keep iso low you may end up always prefering video made witha an iphone. The only thing m50 has going for it is background blur. I am not sure why you have exactly chosen m50 for video, but if you want results with sharpness comparable to iphone, you may need to step up to Canon M6 II.