600d Movie Mode

Zascar

Guys I got a 600D a while back and I'm delighted with it. I have not really started making movies on it yet but want to give it a go. I have played around with it and one thing I've noticed is that if you have the camera on a tripod, and take a photo, and then go into movie mode, you do not see the same picture, the movies mode is way way more zoomed in. It's like there is a digital zoom already in it. Now I know there is a digital zoom and I can use it to zoom in even more, but I zoom out as much as I can and its still not wide at all. the lens is a Canon 24-105mm f4 L.

Can this be changed to make movies in the same zoom levels as when taking photos? If not, why?

Thanks

BlastedGlute

Interesting enough. Being a cropped sensor your lens is around 45mm at it's most receded zoom. But as you said the problem is that you regular shooting looks different to your video mode. So I think you may have activated the x10 zoom feature. Or you could have selected the file type to not be 720 or 1080, but instead your set to the "crop 640" recording size. The 600d has that advanced cropped recording size so you could have activated that also. Its defo just a setting you have on

5uspect

Should be the same as when you're in Live View. What resolution are you recording in?

samhail

I have my 600d in the car but probably wont be able to have a look at it durign lunch. If not i will check mine out tonight.
There was a setting somewhere that you could choose what aspect ratio the photos are, 16:9, 4:3 etc

Havnt had the chance to mess around with the recording myself either

Quicktime MOV format H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding

• 1080p (1920 x 1080) Full HD video capture at 30/25/24 fps. Up to 11 min recording time (based on limit of 4GB of data per clip). 16:9 Aspect Ratio.

• 720p video capture at 60/50 fps. Up to 11 min clips. 16:9 Aspect Ratio.

• 640 x 480 pixels and 60/50 fps up to 46 min. clips. 4:3 Aspect Ratio.

• External stereo microphone plug-in

• Built-in microphone with mono audio

• Manual exposure control option (select shutter speed, aperture and ISO)

• Digital zoom in movie mode (3x - 10x)

samhail

I have my 600d in the car but probably wont be able to have a look at it durign lunch. If not i will check mine out tonight.
There was a setting somewhere that you could choose what aspect ratio the photos are, 16:9, 4:3 etc

Havnt had the chance to mess around with the recording myself either

Quicktime MOV format H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding

• 1080p (1920 x 1080) Full HD video capture at 30/25/24 fps. Up to 11 min recording time (based on limit of 4GB of data per clip). 16:9 Aspect Ratio.

• 720p video capture at 60/50 fps. Up to 11 min clips. 16:9 Aspect Ratio.

• 640 x 480 pixels and 60/50 fps up to 46 min. clips. 4:3 Aspect Ratio.

• External stereo microphone plug-in

• Built-in microphone with mono audio

• Manual exposure control option (select shutter speed, aperture and ISO)

• Digital zoom in movie mode (3x - 10x)