Okay, so it was rubbish - but why?

Hi all,

I filmed my daughter opening her presents this morning and frankly the results are horrid - grainy and rough as anything, a mobile would have probably done better!

Now I don't really know much if anything about filming with the 60D but it is supposed to be pretty decent.

I've no idea about settings unfortunately, I just wheeled it round to video and pressed record.

Now it wasn't that well lit, being at 6:30AM with just natural light (through a huge window!), but I've seen people take decent movies and images at concerts so surely it can pull that off.

The lens used as a Sigma DC 17-50 2.8 EX HSM, so not too shabby I wouldn't have thought.

By the way - this is a sample still image taken in roughly the same lighting:

https://lh3.googleuser​content.com …s1152/2011_07_2​8_1003.JPG

And this the video (should be available pretty soon - I just uploaded it):

http://player.vimeo.co​m/video/27027215

Are there any good guides (if for the 60D all the better) out there to get me going and at least make it so I can take videos in my front room as it seems a shame to have such good kit and not be able to get the moments I really want to keep.

Cheers

Mystery solved, I had it set to manual at some point and forgot, annoyingly with some extremely poor settings given the environment

You should be shooting in Manual. What were your settings?

At the time 1000/s and f11 !!!

Now I realise what I did wrong I've set it to 50/s at f4 as a decent starting point.

I've no idea how those awful settings got in there but its a lesson to check settings before shooting

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Yeah he just posted that the entire fiasco was entirely his fault, no reason to keep the video up and critique it at that point....

Agreed

It really was that bad!