ronaldl911

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Hi. I'm fairly new to DSLR Video - Only had my DSLR for a few weeks now. (Canon 600D)

Anyway, I have a basic 18-55mm kit lens - which shouldn't put me off filming for now.

I encounter something strange - When I try to set the aperture at 3.5 (lowest value it can get), to get an increased depth of field, it always seem VERY over exposed when I'm shooting outdoors ( which is common sense as the lens is obviously now wide open).

I don't want to play too much with the shutter speed, as most tutorials / ebooks I have read recommends that you keep your shutter double your frame rate.

I always keep my ISO at 100 when shooting outdoors.

Any tips, how I can get a better image outdoors, while still be able to maintain a very shallow depth of field?

Thanks in advance.

Ronald

I only recently got my first DSLR. It's a Canon 600D. Still learning how to use video on it, as I'm used to something like a Sony handicam that does everything automatically.

Anyway, I got some footage, but as we all know, Canon DSLR's use H.264 video codec, which is highly compressed and therefore could make editing video a lot slower.
Any recommended formats that I should encode my footage to?

Thanks in advance!