What's up with my camera?

Rylan Zolinski

Rylan Zolinski

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Long story short... I moved away from where I used to live and left my camera gear to my cousin. We shoot videos for local clients and use a T2i. Since I moved away, I receive the videos my cousin shoots through an FTP for me to edit. Anyways, he just shot some video and upon viewing it, it looks like s*%t. Here's a grab from it:

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Notice the horrible grain/noise and pretty much everything else you can spot. There was ample natural lighting there and he shot it with a low ISO. The lens is a Tokina 11-16. Why is it producing s*%t results? I can't figure it out.
 
I don't know.., this looks exactly like DSLR footage would come off in that lighting senario. (Which i would not describe as ample)
 
Does the file have metadata, if not, maybe he made a mistake and is not owning up to it? Not saying this is the case, But I have to agree with the other posters about the iso looking high. IDK.
 
David Jimerson said:
What's a "low ISO"? That doesn't look particularly low to me.
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I guess people have a different opinion on what "low" is. I consider "low" 400 and under. This was shot at 400. When I personally shoot, I notice reds and browns always come out looking incredibly ugly.

I notice that people can also shoot in low light with a low ISO and maintain a good black. Mine always looks noisy as hell.
 
Morox said:
Long story short... I moved away from where I used to live and left my camera gear to my cousin. We shoot videos for local clients and use a T2i. Since I moved away, I receive the videos my cousin shoots through an FTP for me to edit. Anyways, he just shot some video and upon viewing it, it looks like s*%t. Here's a grab from it:
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This ought to learn you not to leave the camera with a cousin...

It looks to me, handheld-ish, lacking in focus, blown, along with a higher than 'low' ISO...
 
Did the camera overheat? I had a 60D and if I let it overheat, the footage became quite noisy, and somewhat similar to what you depict. I suspect that's what's going on above since you say the ISO was set to 400. I think the T2i is more prone to overheating since it has a fixed lcd.
 
Gary Huff said:
That ISO is probably in the 2000-3200 range and that's the issue. That's what it looks like to me.
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I've personally experienced something similar to the picture above when I was shooting at a low ISO. I shot an interior of a home with PLENTY of natural light. I noticed that shooting browns and reds look very similar to how it looks in the image above.
 
Swami Digital said:
Did the camera overheat? I had a 60D and if I let it overheat, the footage became quite noisy, and somewhat similar to what you depict. I suspect that's what's going on above since you say the ISO was set to 400. I think the T2i is more prone to overheating since it has a fixed lcd.
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I guess it's possible but I can't recall mine every overheating.
 
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