Comments on: Canon Rebel T1i vs. Nikon D5000 – Video Comparison

By: Dimitris Aspiotis

Dimitris Aspiotis — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:26:36 +0000

The video samples posted here are giving wrong information about video and sound properties, which are very important, on a serious camera review.
Your first video sample I have downloaded from this site is an .mp4 with properties:
Format: mp4
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 640×360 24.00fps [Video]
Audio: AAC 48000Hz mono 768kbps [Audio]
(It would be great if Nikon D5000 could record with AAC 48000Hz mono 768kbps, but the truth is that it records in a poor sound quality)

Nikon D5000 does NOT give this video mode in any of the camera settings.
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Let me post here the correct video properties for the Nikon D5000 as I have checked by shooting 3 different video clips with this camera:

Nikon D5000 video modes properties:

1. small
Format: AVI
Video: MJPG 320×216 24.00fps [Stream 00]
Audio: PCM 11025Hz mono 176kbps [Stream 01]

2. medium
Format: AVI
Video: MJPG 640×424 24.00fps [Stream 00]
Audio: PCM 11025Hz mono 176kbps [Stream 01]

3. HD
Format: AVI
Video: MJPG 1280×720 24.00fps [Stream 00]
Audio: PCM 11025Hz mono 176kbps [Stream 01]
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Regards from Greece

Dimitris Aspiotis

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:53:37 +0000

I recently sold my D100 after 5 years of lucky using It and is time to get new camera.
This time don’t want to spend that much, I’m looking for some dslr up to $700 for body only.
Can you guys help me to make good choice?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,
mark

By: Zetton

Zetton — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:11:55 +0000

Cinematorapher article discusses why D90 is best choice: http://www.reverie.allesmist.net/D90.pdf

By: Zetton

Zetton — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:10:20 +0000

The best video quality comes out of the Nikon’s D90. Period. This is also true of the cheap D5000, which is essentially the same implementation. MJPEG – this codec is better for editing. The others use a playback codec. An example is DIVX. Plays great – but don’t try to edit anything in it. It’s not what it’s designed for. Have fun editing your clips if you’re using these other cameras. 24 fps is not “jittery” unless you consider every film you’ve ever seen in your life “jittery”. Want your motion capture to have that beautiful “cinematic” look, rather than look like a soap opera? 24fps. Recently, an indy film called Reverie was shot entirely with a D90. Here is the film’s trailer: http://nikonrumors.com/2009/06/28/reverie-first-feature-film-shot-entirely-on-the-nikon-d90.aspx Looks pretty darned good to me. Here is a PDF download by the film’s cinematographer who discusses, at length, why he considers the D90, by far, the best choice for shooting films digitally. He considers the D90′s image quality and capability much better than other choices – including the full frame Canon EOS 5D MarkII and RED’s Scarlet camera, a professional digital camera designed to shoot theatrical film.

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:29:53 +0000

Anyone find any way around the difficulty editing the video files from the Canon T1i using Windows Live Movie Maker? I use it to slim down the file size used for uploading to my baby’s blog. I also have adobe premiere elements which can edit the Canon videos but it isn’t compatable with the blog…Any suggestions appreciated.

By: Oleg

Oleg — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:56:58 +0000

I guess lackluster focusing of DSLRs renders them useless to film my child running around?

I don’t expect of myself being able to focus manually using a little viewfinder without even a phase difference plate.

looks like a cheap camcorder will do a much better job?

By: Coby

Coby — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:33:28 +0000

An important aspect not addressed here is manual control over camera settings during a video recording. My understanding is that no exposure settings can can be locked on the Canon, whereas aperture can be locked on the Nikon (although gain and shutter speed still float), and aperture, gain and shutter can be all simultaneously locked on the Pentax K-x.

By: Amir

Amir — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:36:48 +0000

I can tell the D5000 can focus waaaaaaay better, but the FPS and the color balance on the T1i is far superior than the cell-phone-video-like color balance and FPS of the Nikon D5000.

I’d have chosen T1i for still filming. Things like vlogging or filming a view. The colors are more lively and the FPS is better. But for anything more, you gotta give Nikon credit for not being as dumb as Canon and not skipping on critical features like a flip camera and a decent auto-focus.

I’m gonna wait for the next gen T1i, if they don’t have what D5000 has, I’ll get the next gen of D5000.

By: Ali Yassine

Ali Yassine — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:55:35 +0000

Good review but as I was looking at the thing you mentioned about the video size how the Canon has 220mb/ min while the nikon has 100mb/min doesnt the Canon have 720P at 30FPS while the Nikon has 720P at only 20FPS? that could explain the difference in sizes 10 extra frames per second…

By: David Co.

David Co. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:28:43 +0000

Thanks for the info, and nice to hear Jars of Clay in the demo video!