Beginner Camera quality vs phone quality

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Hi, I was just given a canon eos 6d mark I from a friend. I've watched a few tutorials learnt how to use it. But I feel especially in the video category my phone has better quality? Is there something I'm doing wrong? I mean I thought that cameras where far superior?
 
The larger sensor on the camera is capturing higher resolution most likely and you have far more control of aperture, shutter speed etc.
So if you know what you are doing and have processing software the camera can do better over a wider range of conditions.
The phone will make a decent enough job most of the time. It will probably tending to sharpen rather too much and effectively do mild HDR effect.
 
If you can’t make better looking video with a 6d than with an iPhone; either you don’t know how to use the camera, or you don’t know what ‘quality’ looks like.

A phone produces video that’s 90% created by some very clumsy in camera software. It looks ‘ok’ if you shut one eye and squint with the other.

The 6d will produce broadcast quality video that’s given total creative control to the film maker.
 
Ostravaofboletaria said:
Is there something I'm doing wrong? I mean I thought that cameras where far superior?
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It may be that you just prefer the output from the phone. There's far more to a picture than the number of pixels or their size.
 
Don't forget pixels from a microscopic sensor in a phone are not anywhere near the same as the same pixel count from the huge in comparison camera sensor.

Cameras often give you the Raw output that you adjust in post processing, phones try to do all the processing when the footage is shot, so might to the untrained look better at first. Learn to process the camera footage and it will blow the phone footage out of the water..

Paul
 
Even poor quality out of focus pictures and video look good on a phone.. Compare on a full screen desktop computer and the differences become apparent...

problem is *most people are using phones to view everyting we produce

* not sure.. would love to know the figure but am guessing most people use phones nowerdays to view internet content..
 
@Ostravaofboletaria, Welcome to TP and apologies for some of the very blunt, if valid, comments above. The thing with the 6D is that your need to learn quite a lot and probably have some appropriate video editing software to get the most out of it but your phone is point-and-shoot. It's a bit like the difference between being a driver and a passenger. I hope you put it in the time to do some learning, I'm sure there will be Youtube videos on how to set up and use a Canon camera for video.
 
sirch said:
@Ostravaofboletaria, Welcome to TP and apologies for some of the very blunt, if valid, comments above
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Why are you apologising for other peoples posts.. and why such a sweeping statement.. please do let me know if you think I was one rather than just lumping us all in the same basket :(
 
KIPAX said:
Why are you apologising for other peoples posts.. and why such a sweeping statement.. please do let me know if you think I was one rather than just lumping us all in the same basket :(
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@sirch didn’t say you/others were rude but it’s fair to say the replies could sound a bit condescending to a newcomer even if not intended that way. The ‘tone’ is one of the problems of web ‘coversations’.
 
I can't say I noticed any condescending tones in any of the replies if I'm honest, all were very valid and Phil was his usual forthright self. No harm done nothing to see here move along. :thumbs:
 
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jakeblu said:
I can't say I noticed any condescending tones in any of the replies if I'm honest, all were very valid and Phil was his usual forthright self. No harm done nothing to see here move along. :Thumbs:
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Yes, I definitely didn’t say anyone was condescending — trying to see the replies from the point of view of the OP and generally, thought as @sirch said the replies were valid but blunt and probably not useful to the OP though of course the OP wasn’t very clear in what he was asking either as is usually the case and he hasn’t come back with clarification — as usual with these questions “out of the blue”.
 
KIPAX said:
Even poor quality out of focus pictures and video look good on a phone.. Compare on a full screen desktop computer and the differences become apparent...

problem is *most people are using phones to view everyting we produce

* not sure.. would love to know the figure but am guessing most people use phones nowerdays to view internet content..
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I think this is spot on, As already suggested, most photo content be it video or still photos tend to get passed around by phone these days where the screen is so tiny even the out of focus shots can look sharp. I'm as guilty as the next person for using my phone to send pics around friends and family but it's not until i see some of those phone shots on my PC monitors ( I use 2 x 25 inch photo monitors) that I realise how poor they are. My missus often comes into my man cave when I'm working on photos and comments on how different they look on a big screen - the word "stunning" even gets used sometimes ;).

I once heard a story regarding the filming of one of the episdoes of the TV seires "House". It may have been the work of folklore but apparently the film crew had been delayed and the schedule was tight, someone on set happened to have a full frame Canon so that was used to shoot some of the episode.
 
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