Canon D600 for making documentaries / shorts?

NWheat13

Hello,

Using this camera (Canon D600) and renting quality lenses, lighting, microphones etc. is it possible to make a quality documentary / short?

Obviously there are a huge amount of other factors invoved but from a technical perspective would this camera used with some rented extras as necessary be good enough to make a documentary / short of a high enough standard to enter into the major competitions/festivals?

Cheers

11811

NWheat13 wrote: »

Hello,

Using this camera (Canon D600) and renting quality lenses, lighting, microphones etc. is it possible to make a quality documentary / short?

Obviously there are a huge amount of other factors invoved but from a technical perspective would this camera used with some rented extras as necessary be good enough to make a documentary / short of a high enough standard to enter into the major competitions/festivals?

Cheers

I reckon it would, it'll shoot decent quality 1080 so yeah. It's downside is poor enough low light performance, but if your lighting is up to scratch you should be fine. Now, it wouldn't be up to spec for TV broadcast, but film festivals etc be fine.

I'd recommend checking out magic lantern as well for the camera, gives it a host of really useful tools to help with filming.

peterk675

I've a 600d and it does produce good quality images. Although its not a full frame sensor its still pretty impressive. Would defiantly look into magic lantern, and some prime lens that are good with low light. All the best..

landsleaving

Yes, definitely. I've used the 600D to make a few docs that have gone to festivals.

NWheat13

Cheers lads,

Very helpful.

11811, could you explain why it would not be good enough for TV but good enough for film festivals?

To a novice like me that seems arseways.

Cheers

11811

NWheat13 wrote: »

Cheers lads,

Very helpful.

11811, could you explain why it would not be good enough for TV but good enough for film festivals?

To a novice like me that seems arseways.

Cheers

Most broadcasters have certain technical specs that content must adhere to, especially now with HD broadcasting etc. One is a minimum data rate, when the video is being originally encoded in the camera. The BBC of instance, this data rate would have to be a minimum of 50mb/s. This particular camera wouldn't be able to produce this.

Now that said, some broadcasters overlook these specs sometimes if the content is particularly good, not the main part of the broadcast or part of a short films programme.

NWheat13

Just trying to get my head around data rates at the minute 11811.

That makes sense now . Cheers