My own personal camera is the Canon 60D EOS DSLR. I've owned this camera for 4 years and love shooting on it. The colour quality is exactly what I look for, nice vibrant colours which Canon is known for but I've even managed to remove this in post-production on projects when it's been required. However, the issue with this camera is that it isn't full frame and so the quality of the image is reduced compared to the Canon Full Frame DSLR's such as the 5D or 6D.
As I wanted to test as many cameras as possible and I needed to film 2 interviews anyway I took this as an ideal opportunity. I was brought on by Derek Boyes to film a behind the scenes for his short film Last Night and chose to film it all (minus one interview) on my 60D. The main interview which I shot with Jemma as practice as DOP and Director was with Natasha Rose Mills who was the leading character in the film. 
Myself and Jemma traveled over to Milton Keynes to meet Natasha and interviewed her, the main aim for this was to ask Natasha about the film, her experience and her character in the film. With the filming I learnt very quickly that I can't change shot in camera with the matt box connected to the rig as it restricts the lens zooming forward more, as well I took one of my LED lights and a diffuser for additional lighting. Since I wasn't able to recce Natasha's house prior to the shoot, I had to quickly recce and evaluate the location for issues and the best place to film. Annoyingly, there wasn't a location relevant to the film (as it was all filmed in a forest) so we chose to go with a setting that was more appealing than relevant and went with Natasha's living room.Below is the testing of my camera:
Natasha's interview
Natasha's interview doesn't look very appealing. Her house doesn't let in a huge amount of light (only 1 window in the room) so I had to try and add more light in not only by adding in the LED light but also opening the Iris and changing the ISO but not to the point the footage gains grain. Annoyingly this failed as the footage is more orange and you can see a large amount of grain in the footage as well.
Night footage
This is footage I shot while the filming of Last Night was happening. This allows me to see how the camera holds up in Low Light. From the footage, I can see that there isn't a huge amount of noise and everyone is nice and clear and the colours work nicely. However, this is also down to the lens I was using which was a Canon 50mm 1.8F Lens which lets in far more light than most but if I were to use this camera I would need a long zoom lens for the performance of our Drag Queen and often they only have an F-Stop of 2.8F.
Ben's interview
The final interview is one I'm proud of and happy with. The interviewee is Ben Mann who was also in the film. This interview is done with no added light. The colours are more what I'm looking for in footage, nice bright and colourful but also high quality. This is mostly due to the amount of light that the location had as it had skylines above head which poured in natural light. The footage does look more orange than colourful but this is easily fixed in post.
With all these tests I did, I was happy with the footage and the operation but the quality of the footage isn't what I want with the camera being cropped frame. As well, the camera doesn't have any audio input apart from a micro jack lead so I could only attach a Rode VideoMic Pro which although a good microphone, not ideal for filming a documentary which is fully interview led. So I will either need to get the audio recorded separately or get a camera which allows me to attach a high quality microphone via XLR Cable.
Decision: Not to use this camera
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