Reddit reviews Canon XA35 Professional Camcorder
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/u/jimkeyjimkey - for what you're doing, a camcorder would make sense. But the XA35 is a small sensor 1080p camcorder in a large sensor, 4K world.
For less than the price of a [$2099 XA35] (https://www.amazon.com/Canon-1003C002-XA35-Professional-Camcorder/dp/B018STURCU//ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=battleforthew-20), you can get a [$2095 4K camcorder with a 1" sensor - the new Panasonic AG-UX90] (https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-AG-UX90-4K-Professional-Camcorder/dp/B01LZ6614R/ref=as_li_ss_tl?m=A17MC6HOH9AVE6&s=photo&ie=UTF8&qid=1486069246&linkCode=ll1&tag=battleforthew-20) - and produce image quality that looks like this:
This camera is much easier to use than your DSLR and will give you modern, 4K images plus shallower depth of field than the XA35.
Hope this is helpful and good luck with your decision!
I agree, manual exposure would have been the best way to go. With our two-camera setup though, we usually leave the back camera unmanned (so we set it with everything on auto), and the front camera operator is often too busy with zooming and panning to worry about manual exposure.
Is face-detect auto-exposure a thing? Also, the product page for the Canon XA35 seems to suggest that it has auto modes that can help with overexposure:
> For natural and realistic-looking image capture that faithfully represents the scene at hand, the XA35 Professional Camcorder features a Wide DR Gamma mode. By suppressing overexposure in high brightness areas of the composition, this mode helps achieve a wide dynamic range of 600% to produce seamless tone gradations, resulting in smooth detail, accurate color and virtually no blown-out highlights.