

The HDMI feed will not be 16:9 aspect ratio, so unless your software can scale and crop it, you'll have black bars. If you're going through a capture card, you'll need to use Magic Lantern to hide the overlays. > Will my capture card output a clean view to my students? (No info on the screen) You won't actually be able to record at the same time - the recording will stop after ~12 minutes and interupt the stream with a warning message. It will last a tiny bit longer if you're not recording, but really you're going to want a dummy battery AC supply. You will drain batter pretty quickly as this will require you to have live view enabled so the screen will be on.

> If I’m not recording directly from the camera and just using it to replace a webcam will my battery die just as quickly as if it was recording? Lenses are really what drive your image quality once you go to a DSLR.Īdditionally, I'm finding the Canon 60D for about $195 on Craigslist.

Even the T1i I think has video which the XSi does not.Īlthough, if you could increase your budget to get something like the 24 f2.8 (~$150) lens or something similar that might change my recommendation as the lens will allow in so much more light and focuses way faster. I'd at least look to see if you can afford a slightly newer model a t3i or something similar.

In good lighting conditions it is a good camera even in this day, but when paired with the 18-55mm lens it requires a lot of light and I find myself having to shoot at max ISO to capture a clean image.Īdditionally, It also is one of the very few older Canon DSLRs that used the dual processors and is not well supported by magiclantern. >I'd stay away from the XSi as it's too old, originally released back in 2008.Īs a current owner of the XSi, I must agree.
