• Advice please: dslr for video tutoring
    mespilus jr. has completed exams at end of Y2 at university.
    Some further lectures scheduled, but plenty of time to restart his online tutoring. He has (just about) managed with laptop webcam,
    but would like something better.
    Any obvious choice of (off the pace) dslr to improve his presentations?

  • Buy a cheap android phone, use DroidCam. It's what I do when lecturing and it works much better than a webcam. Buy a flexarm (eg this or this, latter gives the option of use as a DIY visualiser if he doesn't have a pen-based device) to mount it and get a decent microphone.

  • Don't have any specific suggestions, but would've thought mirrorless a better option than DSLR.

  • FWIW, I have an EOS 40D from 2008 which I use with the EOS Webcam Utility.

    This is not a perfect solution:

    1. In webcam mode the aperture is wide open so the depth of field is tiny (doesn't help that I use it with a 35mm f/2.0 lens).
    2. I had to build a 6.4v power supply using a buck converter to make it run longer than 1hr.

    But the picture is amazing and the utility works with just about every video platform except Slack calls (Meet, Teams, Skype all good).

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