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CNET's Hooked Up - CNET's top dSLR cameras for shooting videos

2013-05-08
so as you heard Nelly likes to shoot a lot of his viral videos with his Canon 7d well my man Brian Tong from scene at the senior editor is right here with us no thanks for coming in my world oh I love coming out to your neck of the woods and you know it's a beautiful place for you can you tell us about not only Nelly's cameras but some of the alternatives if Nelly needed to perhaps step up his camera game well you know I know Nelly has some nice gear but you could really step it up and we're gonna start off with our top pick this is the Canon 5d Mark 3 this is a great camera by the way it's great in low lighting situations also the autofocus is fast it does have some features really specific to video so there's a headphone jack on it there's also the audio levels that display on the screen so this is really for the filmmaker on the go Canon 5d Mark 3 that thing does it all oh there's canon folks in their night convo yeah so on the Nikon side you want to check out the Nikon d800 now this is just under $3,000 so it's a little cheaper than what canopy puts out there some of the best image quality out of any camera at 36 megapixel CMOS sensor so you're gonna get amazing photos amazing video and so that's that's a standout on the Nikon side okay so what about someone that's a little more budget-conscious we've got you covered there we want you guys to take a look at the Canon t5i now this is a camera really for the entry-level sort of someone who's just getting into DSLR photography so what that means is you get not only the body but the lens at the same time it's $900 it also has kind of a flip-out LCD screen so this just makes it really easy to use as well it's in a different way so definitely check out the t5 I hear a starting photographer video maker what that once used a DSLR by the way you also see all these action videos now what's the deal if you want to break into the action well we can just forget about DSLRs when you come down to that we're talking about the GoPro Hero 3 this is just an amazing camera if you haven't seen it's about just yay big they start at 199 and you can mount them on like a bike you can put them on a surfboard you can put on a helmet to get these just amazing first-person perspectives and that's a really hot pick that's not a DSLR but still does amazing video you know what I love there's so much technology just percolating inside your head it's it comes from the hair is that what that's what that's what it here see it's not just sexy it also has that's why thank you to it thank you Kevin Brian Tong always good let's get back to Nelly I gotta go all right thanks for coming to hang out with
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