Okay, here's an update. Today I performed the anticipated video recording, simultaneously shooting both my Canon M50 camera and Note 10 plus phone. What I had expected to happen, I was surprised, instead the opposite happened. I initially thought my Note 10 phone would have below average audio recording quality because there would be no external microphone attached, and would pick up unwanted ambient noise. I also thought visual quality of the Note 10 would be nearly on par with the M50 camera. After shooting a 31 minute video with both devices operating simultaneously on the tripod rig I set up, I have some findings to report. First, I should give a visual summary of the room setup. The entire video was shot in a very quiet closed conference room, there was NO ambient noise whatsoever, only 3 people in the room. All 3 people were situated at the end of the rectangular table. There is a large rectangular window pane to the camera left. Curtains were intentionally left about half open to provide good ambient lighting (around 11:30am) without the need for the room ceiling lights. There was only in-direct daylight coming through the windows, NO direct sun. I intentionally placed the speaker to the right of the rectangular table with his profile facing towards the window for best facial lighting. The other 2 people were on the left side. So here's the unexpected happening with the Note 10+ phone video. Throughout about half the video, the exposure kept getting brighter and darker intermittently. I'm not sure why because I'm sure that the sun did not come through the window during the entire 31 minute video clip. It's possible maybe the sun was coming out of the clouds maybe and hence more light was coming through the windows? I'm not sure. All I know for certain is that in reviewing the video on my laptop, the exposure value kept readjusting up and down in brightness value from the phone. Part of the problem I'm guessing is that the Note 10 phone can only do "auto exposure", not manual exposure in video mode. If it can be set for manual exposure, I don't know how it's done. Conversely, the Canon M50 camera has full manual exposure mode, therefore I intentionally set the exposure manually at 1/50 second shutter speed and approx f5.6 aperture, with the only thing automatic was the ISO setting to readjust automatically as needed. Hence, the M50 camera kept a very consistent exposure throughout the entire video clip. There was no unexpected roller coaster rides of going up and down in brightness levels with the camera. So it's a definite win for the M50 camera when it comes to consistent exposure for shooting videos. Plus the details on the people's faces are noticeably better in the shaded areas from the camera. From the phone, the shadow details on people's faces around their eyes were a little too dark. As for audio quality, the M50 camera already had an unfair advantage of having an external shotgun mic attached with +10 decibal setting enabled along with low-cut filter enabled too. The Note 10+ phone was only using its internal microphone (with no external mic attached). But it turns out that audio quality from both the camera and phone came out quite well. I can clearly hear the speaker's voice from the Note 10's internal mic, so sound quality was excellent with no issue. But maybe it's also partly due to the fact the entire recording was done in a very quiet closed environment with no outside/ambient distractions? In other words, could the phone audio be just as good if the recording was done outdoors with noticeable ambient noise all around? My guess is that it cannot. Lastly, I already knew this would happen, but the M50 camera (along with a bunch of other similar types of D-SLR cameras) have a video limit of exactly 30 minutes long. Once the video reaches exactly at the 30 minute mark, the entire video recording automatically turns off. No kidding, seriously. A message comes on the M50 LCD screen that reads something like "the video limit has reached maximum"...or something similar. That means you would need to shoot another separate video clip to continue further. You will need to Google this yourself to find out why many interchangeable lens cameras have this video limitation of 30 minutes for recording time. However, on the Note 10+ phone (or any other smartphone??), there is no such limit. So the phone just happily kept recording until I stopped it. So what is my overall summary of all this? Based on this one test, which is far from conclusive, using a "real" camera for shooting videos definitely produces better results versus a phone camera. But I will have to do more comparisons to give a more definitive answer in the future.
OMG Blast from the past
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