I do plan to shoot the movie at 30fps and probably doing camera tests on various shutters would give me the ideal answer for that yes? Will these lenses, in video mode, give me smooth movement? From what I read it will but it would be nice to hear from any experienced Canon users on this question and how it acted on their projects.īattery Life. How's the shutter on that? I hope it's not 'chunky' and can give me smooth movement when I'm handholding the camera moving it around. I also have the camera swooshing a lot from one character to the other. in the style of Michael Mann and slow zoom-in's as seen in Kubrick pictures. Good choice? I have a lot of shots in the script where the camera moves (zooming in and out) on various objects/characters. I might also get the 55mm lens with the low f-stop setting for shots that are pretty dark. 1) Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens (that most of the T3i's come with) and 2) Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS Autofocus Lens (f/4-5.6 IS). Just wanting to hear from other users on how their sound quality ended up while using the camera.

There are lots of video's posted on users using external microphones with the camera and it sounds pretty crisp to me so I hope the one I ordered will do the job the way I want it too- with easy attachment to the camera also rather than buying some kind of extra adapter just to plug the cables of the microphone into the camera. I plan NOT to use the mic with the camera but use an external one, a Sennheiser K6/ME67 & ME66 microphones for crisp sound- attached to a boom-pole and producing sound from the actors that way.

This is a big one that I often keep searching. I have a few questions that I can't seem to find the right concrete answer for.

The video's posted online of what the T3i camera does is astonishing and I'm pretty excited for what it can do for my short. Doing research, a lot of independent filmmakers (movie makers) are using DSLR's for their short films because it's efficient, cheap and gives you great results- not to mention playing with various kinds of lenses depending on what shot it is- unlike a video camcorder that just gives you just one lens and that's it. I'm prepping a project for the summer and plan to shoot video using the Canon T3i Camera.

T3i picture style cinema film