Nikon D7000 video

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Does anyone else find the D7000 video quite sub-par?

I have tried everything! Flooding my subjects with light, focusing 100% accurate, base ISO...nothing makes me happy with the D7000 video.

So much so that despite loving my camera...I can't wait for the D400 to come out so I can jump on that...here's hoping it has broadcast quality video.

I'm assuming it's down to compression but the blacks always look terrible, the highlights are easily blown and anything with contrast just looks a bit terrible.

I've seen much better video quality from compacts and I really don't understand it!
 
Get an adaptor and some Canon lenses - makes all the difference :)
 
Are you shooting at a low iso and with a shutter speed of 1/50 sec?

What colour profile are you using standard, neutral, vivid?

What lenses are you using? Any filters?

Are you using stabilisation?

All these could effect the inherent quality of the film

Have you taken a photo of the same scene and compared them? A video frame grab will always look worse as it will have some slight blur, lower resolution (16mp vs 2mp), worse colours (14bit vs 8bit)
 
It's a little dig - see the thread on the new canon where the OP was getting carried away!!
 
Are you shooting at a low iso and with a shutter speed of 1/50 sec?

A) Normally lowest shutter to get lowest ISO, if available light then I go to 1/30th...I've tested it at different shutter speeds and it doesn't appear to affect the picture...

What colour profile are you using standard, neutral, vivid?

A) Custom, close to standard I guess but with increased sharpness and contrast. Just tested with standard and my custom settings and standard was a huge improvement.

What lenses are you using? Any filters?

A) Range of lenses, 50mm 1.8, 18-55mm, 55-200mm. I can't say I notice a huge difference in quality from the optics...all have UV filters apart from the 50mm which has none.

Are you using stabilisation?

A) Yes, always.

All these could effect the inherent quality of the film

Have you taken a photo of the same scene and compared them? A video frame grab will always look worse as it will have some slight blur, lower resolution (16mp vs 2mp), worse colours (14bit vs 8bit)

No I haven't done this...purely going on the video quality.

Anything need to be done by me to make it better??? In future I will shoot on standard and adjust in PP.

Thanks!
 
Alanem said:
Get an adaptor and some Canon lenses - makes all the difference :)
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Canon lens got nothing to do with getting good quality video.

This is more to do with understanding between shooting video and stills. The way shutter speed and iso works slightly different then it does on still images.
 
badboy1984 said:
This is more to do with understanding between shooting video and stills. The way shutter speed and iso works slightly different then it does on still images.
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I think the problem was I hadn't changed my settings for picture...shooting in standard helped significantly.

I'm not convinced that broadcast quality can ever come out of it...but it's better than it was.
 
badboy1984 said:
Canon lens got nothing to do with getting good quality video.

This is more to do with understanding between shooting video and stills. The way shutter speed and iso works slightly different then it does on still images.
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See my reply above - the smiley is to show I wasn't being serious.
 
Alanem said:
See my reply above - the smiley is to show I wasn't being serious.
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i didn't see that lol. I'm sorry for the harsh comment :)

To get good video quality, lens plays a huge part as well along with many different things. I see some aweful video quality from a canon 5D mkii and also some nikon ones as well. Lumix GH1-3 is decent as well for video.

Lens quality, settings, lighting etc plays a huge part.
 
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