![]() ISO setting – the “film” or sensor sensitivity.There are of course optimal amounts, not too much and not to little, and a stills camera controls the amount of light hitting the lens via a well-trodden triangle of adjustable parameters: Without light, it’s, well, it’s all black. What is an ND filter, and why do you need one? The only way we can shoot anything at all, or that film, video, and even sight is possible is down to light. So not being a dedicated camcorder it doesn’t have an ND filter. ![]() ![]() Essentially, you attach a metal frame around the EVF, which the viewfinder / eyepiece attaches to magnetically. The one I went for was the LCDVF 3/2 at around £75 off eBay. So to all intents and purposes shooting outdoors is impossible, as you’ll never adequately make anything out on the EVF with the sunlight reflected on it.īuy a clip-on eye-cup. When shooting video the image is displayed only on EVF, not through the view-finder, and the EVF has no eyecup. You can’t tilt and move the EVF like on dedicated camcorders such as the Canon C100, C300 or Sony models like the FS700 or PMW 200. OK, so it has an EVF, you can see a digital image whilst recording video… but that’s about it. They look and feel great, the images are exceptional, and you can even get them to the broadcast standard bitrate of 50 Mb/sec. Remember, the 6D is first and foremost a DSLR, a stills camera, it’s only that technology reached a tipping point with the introduction of the 5D (in 2005), and then the TV industry realised that these devices, with super sexy lenses and sensors, actually met the new HDTV broadcast pixel resolution spec of 1920 x 1080p, producing images with wonderful colour and depth of field, all at a fraction of the cost of the TV workhorses at the time like the Sony PMW-EX3 or Canon XF305. I should preface this by saying that though I am going to list the “drawbacks” of the Canon 6D, the build quality of the camera is great, as in my humble opinion are all the professional end Canon digital video cameras. But what are the hurdles? Why is it such a faff? In short, if you want to lift your piece to another level on a tight budget it can be done, and is indeed worth doing. To use a Canon DSLR for HD video takes a lot of tweaking, research and add-ons. I was hoping to leap from video to cinema, and did I? Yes… but not straight out of the box. The look and feel, the bang for you buck, is truly something else. ![]() I’d worked in TV for many years, and had seen the advent of this and the Canon 5D in many of the shows I’d worked on, and the quality was staggering, as was the price tag. I bought the 6D as a second camera for my corporate video production company about a year a half ago. In this case I am using the 6D to shoot HD video, but all points really apply equally to other Canon DSLRs such as the 60D, 70D and 7D, with the 5D having one or two extras that set it apart somewhat, but will still remain relevant. There are many pieces out there assuming a fair degree of knowledge… this isn’t one of them. This piece covers everything from the ground up to set-up and use your Canon 6D DSLR for video, for the completely un-initiated, this is everything you need to know.
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