One camera which I've shot a short documentary on and really enjoyed operating was the Canon 5D Mark 4. This DSLR has an amazing look to it and I loved operating it. It has the body of my 60D so I was comfortable with it. I was operating with a 24mm-70mm 2.8F Canon lens which was a standard filming lens but also had a nice focal range. The camera can film in 4K and do video time lapse as well as having a fantastic auto-focus system with touch screen which with interviews, worked really well and helped when having to change shot quickly. Since I've already used the camera to film an entire documentary I've used a extract from one of the interviews as my test:
Annoyingly I couldn't get more footage from the documentary as it's currently being sent out to film festivals, but from the short test you can see first the quality of the footage (raw) is excellent and as well the change of shots in the footage was nice and smooth which was nice to be able to achieve, the focus was done through auto focus which allowed me to focus on zooming in and changing the shot. The annoying thing about this camera is that the footage is compressed and doesn't offer a huge amount of grading.
Also, the same issue with this camera as I've had with other DSLR's which is the audio input isn't able to take radio mic input which are XLR inputs.
This tends to be the case with the cameras I've tried and although I know now it's a Canon I want to go with (due to the colour quality of the footage and the look from the footage) but I need to find a camera which offers more with Audio recording.
However, I am debating using this as a second camera but an issue which has come forward is that there isn't enough money in the budget to get a second camera and potentially I would need 2 more cameras with the performance so I'll need to find a camera which we don't to pay for and can get for a full day of filming.
Also, the same issue with this camera as I've had with other DSLR's which is the audio input isn't able to take radio mic input which are XLR inputs.
This tends to be the case with the cameras I've tried and although I know now it's a Canon I want to go with (due to the colour quality of the footage and the look from the footage) but I need to find a camera which offers more with Audio recording.
However, I am debating using this as a second camera but an issue which has come forward is that there isn't enough money in the budget to get a second camera and potentially I would need 2 more cameras with the performance so I'll need to find a camera which we don't to pay for and can get for a full day of filming.
Decision: Not to use this camera
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