Upgrading Cameras

For a few weeks now I have been looking at upgrading from a DSLR that shoots with to an actual video camera. there are a few reasons for this and I will be covering them in this blog post. With my work now being aired on TV, the videos will be sitting in-between other professional adverts, and these adverts would be shot with your big industry standard cameras such as Red Epics, Alexa's, Sony fs700's etc. So when i watch my videos alongside those, I can see the differences;

• Overall Image quality 
• Compression 
• Colour range 
• Aliasing and Moire (movement in straight lines such as brick walls)
• Audio 

Between DSLR's and video cameras, there are a lot more differences but the above is what I get effected by. So image quality isn't as great on the Canon SLR's but I think that is down to compression more than anything. Because i work in low light situations, how blacks and noise looks is a huge factor and DSLR's really don't hold the blacks very well. YOu see hardly any detail in them and when you get a little bit of noise, its not nice and organic like you would get out of a film or video camera. Its very muddy and needs work in post to get rid of it 

Audio at the minute is a huge factor for me. I am now interviewing artists and people from the crowd which means I am using a stick mic with an XLR input. The only way I can use that is by going into a sound recorder and then taking the mp3's from that into premiere and matching it with the video. This can be a hassle when working on your own and also you have 100's of clips to sort out. With you bigger cameras, you can plug XLR straight into camera giving you nicely matched audio and video. So I have tried to work out how much I have to spend on a camera and with it being around the £3000 

mark, the two cameras below are strong contenders. 

Sony FS100

 Canon C100

Below is a video that explains all about the two cameras, talking about there advantages and disadvantages. After some thought the fs100 would be right camera for me. The Full HD 60fps option is a must for what I do, and not many cameras shoot it at this price range and are as good image quality.