thanks for the input, Im considering the 80d!
The plan is to have someone else hold the camera that has been involved in the project as much as anybody else. So we do the image setup together. Set the angles, storyboard, positions, focus, lights etc. I may go through the settings for him in the camera but he won’t know the camera inside and out. If he needs something I will help him and teach him as much as I can but he won’t know the camera like that.
If that’s the case he would have to teach him and make him study etc. Which would require of him more time and ambition over something he is really not interested in. And Since this is no pay only ideally I think that would be hard. And they are also working actors outside of this, so hard to find time already.
But if that’s what you think is the better option then sure, I will think about this. Have a talk with them. This is filmmaking and maybe we were overthinking this. Or maybe in the end, the best is to just find a professional cameraman and pay him.