Hi Hope you are all well We are looking to start recording interviews with the businesses we work with and we are currently looking at both the Canon M50 and canon 80D to do this, but would like to get your reviews on both of those cameras for creating videos, and if there is another option we should consider please We will also be looking for a mic which we can connect directly in to the camera but will need the mic to pick up the voices of 2 people, can you also let me know your experience in doing this please and if this is possible Thank you for your help Jon
No easy anser here depends on what you value most.... The m50 is a bit newer and significantly lighter, the 80d has a headphone jack which is nice for video, and is a more of a advanced armature DSLR so it will be noticeably more customizable. The batter life of the 80d will be noticeably longer. Both use a APC sensor but I am willing to bet that you won't really notice any huge difference in the generation difference in sensors between the two. Lens wise you will have a much wider assortment of native lenses for the 80d as you have a very large lineup of EF and EF-s(s is for APC), on the flip side.. you can adapt EF lenses to the mirror-less format. I would record video with mics and a seprate audio device to be honest, you will get better audio merging a cleaner recording with the video in post production.
Great, thank you for your help Johnsey, also I love your pictures, the 3D one looks great, can I ask what you would use to record the audio please
I think you should take into account that the M50 and the 80D are both essentially cameras designed for still photography with some limited video recording capabilities, neither are meant for long term video work. The sort of problems you can come up against are short video runs (usually about 20 minutes), limited memory storage and the camera shutting down due to overheating. If you are prepared to make short takes and edit them together afterwards then you could probably cope but if you want to make a straight recording of an interview that lasted any more then about 20 minutes then you may struggle. If you need to do long term filming then you need a dedicated video camera.
No Specific recommendations as I am not a video shooter, but there are a number of common brands in the field such as Zoom. There are devices that will work between the camera as well as record on their own. Maybe dig into some YouTube videos like these to get an idea about what you may want to do. or (second link is a multi part series i think I started you at 3 but you could use the links in the video and start at the beginning) And you can probably start with a good mic plugged into the camera and get alright results, I was simply noting for quality and control wise the best plan is to have something that can record multiple audio channels with clean audio separately and then lay that over the video in editing.
Both the camera's will work better as they both are great. For the voices, I would recommend you to record video with different mics and a separate audio devices. Through this way during post production, you will get better audio merging a cleaner recording with the video.
