Help on lens for video

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krizard

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Hi I am searching on winch lens i should buy for video shooting, i already bought a canon 60d, but now the main issue is glass....

i saw not so long ago in many forums they where telling me to go for the 24-70mm f/2.8 L , but in other forums they where telling me that buying one lens only its not the best choice for video, instead i should use the money that i would spend with one L lens and buy 3 lens... and the sugestions they gave me where the Rokinon 35mm f/1.4(working as 50mm cause of the 1.6 crop on the 60d) ,canon 50mm f/1.4, and the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8.
what you guys think??? i have a budget of 1700USD and i will need to shoot on low light conditions.
cheers
 
If you are a cinematographer working in fiction, commercials and other projects where its not a problem for you to cary around 5-6 lenses, then I would go with a set of primes like you said.
If your more the run and gun type, and money is an issue, I would go with the 24-70mm 2.8 from sigma. Just as good as the Canon one except that the Canon is more durable and weather proof. Or even the 24-70 2.8 from Tamron, thats even cheaper (but has reverse focus like Nikon)

I have the Sigma one and I am fairly satisfied. Only issue is a little bit of breathing, no biggie. Hopefully I will gather enough money to someday get the Compact Primes or baby primes.
 
what about the 11-16mm f/2.8 tokina???you think its a good one to go with the primes or i should fine something from 20mm above for the zoom ones??
and winch lens would you buy if you had a budget of 1.700usd for lens?
 
krizard said:
what about the 11-16mm f/2.8 tokina???you think its a good one to go with the primes or i should fine something from 20mm above for the zoom ones??
and winch lens would you buy if you had a budget of 1.700usd for lens?
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What are you shooting? Having a ultra wide is nice but .....
 
You wont know what you need until you start shooting. Aperture is one thing and Focal length is another.


If I had $1700 I would buy


Tamron 17-50 $400
Sigma 30mm 1.4 $450
Canon 50mm 1.8 $100
Rokinon 85M 1.4 $275
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$1225

I would use the rest of the money for supporting gear, such as battery grip, batteries, led light, loupe etc....
 
head over here:
http://philipbloom.net/2010/08/20/which-lenses-to-buy/
http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2010/02/06/still-lenses/
http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/2010/07/03/leica-r-mount-lenses-for-the-canon-hdslrs/
(read all the comments on those blog posts, some are very useful)

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/forumdisplay.php?193-Lens-Discussion
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?201760-The-Vintage-Lens-Thread

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?247211-L-series-lens-Help
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?248450-60D-First-and-Second-Lenses-to-get!-!-Opinions-needed!
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?247953-What-is-the-best-versitile-quality-documentary-lens

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?248835-What-lenses-do-you-keep-in-your-arsenal
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthrea...enses-vs-Canon-fast-primes-for-the-big-screen


also, you may want to check out my tests for sharpness and bokeh, with my vintage Leitz and Carl Zeiss Jena lenses:
http://www.similaar.com/foto/lenstests/lenstestsa.html
http://www.similaar.com/foto/lenstests/bokehtests.html
 
In the future, you will find a lot of this information in the appropriate section of the forum. Since this is an APS-C Canon camera we're talking about, you should have looked/posted in the lens section there.
 
sorry to post here, the thing is that i didn't even know what was a APS-C canon camera before i made the post...
but thank you for all the support...
 
krizard said:
sorry to post here, the thing is that i didn't even know what was a APS-C canon camera before i made the post...
but thank you for all the support...
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No worries. :)
For future reference, most popular Canon DSLRs are APS-C sized sensors (7D, t2i, 60d, t3i, etc). The exceptions are the the 5D (full frame sensor), and the 1D (sort of in between full and APS-C). I know the sections can be confusing.
 
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