Best 5 Low budget Cameras Under $550 (35000 Indian rupee) for Short Film production

When you are making a short film the first thing your will search for will be a camera. Many people spend majority of their budget for camera. According to me, Its truly ridiculous. We cant spend even half of our budget in camera because we have other expenses, we have to buy Recording gears, tripods lights etc. So its best to choose a low budget camera for short films. 550$ isn't that much low but you have to afford it in order to make short films, So there is it our top five list.

1.Canon 600D T3i.

Canon 600d T3i with 18-55 lens

Price 35000

Best Camera for short films under $550

Canon 600D Key Features

• The EOS 600D has a large choice of frame rates, offering a choice of 24, 25 or 30fps when recording Full HD video clips, and 50/60fps when shooting at 720p or VGA resolution. Note however that the available frame rates are also dependent on what you have set in the menu under "Video system": NTSC or PAL. Another novelty of the EOS 600D / T3i is that if you shoot a standard-definition clip, you can use a function called "Movie crop". This means that you can tell the camera to use only the central 640×480 pixels on the sensor to record video, which effectively gives you nearly 10x magnification. This can come in handy when you do not have the necessary telephoto reach to film something that is happening at a distance.

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2.Nikon D5100

Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm Lens

Price 32699

Nikon D5100 Key Features

• 16.2 megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor

• Side-articulated 3.0" LCD monitor (920,000 dots)

• 11 AF points (with 3D tracking)

• IS0 100-6400 range (Up to 25,600 equivalent when expanded)

• HD movies (1080p, 720p or WVGA)

• 4 fps continuous shooting
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3.Canon EOS 1100D 

Canon EOS 1100D

Price 32000

Canon 1100D Key Features

The EOS 1100D's has a built-in pop-up flash with a guide number of 9.2 at ISO 100, coverage up to 17mm focal length, X-sync speed of 1/200sec and a recycle time of 2 seconds. There's also the expected hotshoe for use with one of Canon's external flashguns. There is a built-in microphone for mono recording, but you can't connect an external microphone for stereo recording. The HDMI port allows you to connect the EOS 1100D directly to an HDTV set. One notable omission is the lack of the EOS integrated cleaning system, which means that you'll need to manually clean the camera's sensor more often, something that we suspect most of the EOS 1100Ds owners will not even attempt.

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4.Canon EOS 1200D

EOS 1200D

Price 28999

Canon 1200D Key Features

The EOS 1200D now features the fully-automatic Scene Intelligent Auto mode, which analyses the scene in front of you and automatically picking the best settings, much like the systems used by lot of digital compacts. The 1200D also offer a Creative Auto mode which allows you to change a few key settings using the LCD screen via a simple slider system for changing the aperture and exposure compensation, or Background and Exposure as the camera refers to them. Creative Auto also includes Basic +. Essentially a more extreme version of the well-established Picture Styles, this offers nine options including Standard, Vivid, Soft, Warm, Intense, Cool, Brighter, Darker and Monochrome, all of which can be interactively tweaked to suit your taste.
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5.Nikon D3300

NIkon D3300

Price 24000

Nikon D3300 Key Features

One of the biggest camera announcements at 2014's Consumer Electronics Show may well have been the little Nikon D3300 and its collapsible 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 VR II lens. It may not shoot 4K video or offer a curved LCD (those shows are all about the tech trends) but it does represent the next generation of Nikon's very popular entry-level DSLR line, and that in itself is noteworthy.
The D3300 sits at the bottom of Nikon's entry-level series, positioned as the friendliest of beginner-friendly DSLRs, just below the D5300. Don't be fooled by their class bearing though, both cameras use a powerful 24MP APS-C sensor. Opting for the D3300 rather than the D5300 means living with a fixed 3.0-inch LCD, rather than one that's fully articulated, and no built-in Wi-Fi.

• 24.2 MP DX format (APS-C) sensor

• Expeed 4 processor

• Fixed 3.0" 921k-dot LCD

• 1080/60p HD video

• 5 fps continuous shooting

• 700 shot battery life             
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See also Beginners guide for short film production

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