thoughs on stock lens?

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sithroya

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hey what are your guys thoughts on the gh1 stock lens? do you guys actually use them, or sell them just for the body? thanks
 
It is a great lens if you want to use it during daytime or where ever there is lots of light.

The zoom capability is pretty good and the auto focus also performs pretty good during outdoor shots.

The only problem with it is low light performance...
 
Excellent lens. If you want to film in low light just bring lights like you are supposed to. Even Hollywood productions bring humongous banks of lights to the middle of Manhattan streets in the middle of a summer day, or night. Yours don't have to be humongous banks of light but adequate ones is enough. The new LED lights are an excellent choice.
 
I have some truly great lenses. But the only areas where I see a real difference compared to the kit lens for video is in speed, macro capabilities, and bokeh.

There are many circumstances where I feel the best all-around choice is the kit lens for video. Stills are a completely different story.
 
Until we can get a cheap, fast, wide prime (less than 15mm) the Kit lens should always be in your kit.

I am contemplating a few outside low light scenes that I would like to shoot. I have a 28mm (which in reality is closer to a normal 50mm) and a 50mm (which is a telephoto 100mm) prime lens. I have been searching for something wider than 15mm for establishing shot's etc but there is nothing that I can find, the closest is the m4/3rd 17mm, but that isn't wide enough.

So I am stuck with the kit lens for the establishing shots. I am considering either flooding the place with lights (which is a problem for sound with generator's etc) or upping the ISO and (gasp) dropping the shutter speed on the kit lens in order to get them to match. It's a pain but workable.
 
I'm used taking stills and calculating focal lengths for still composition but I find myself needing less of the wide or tele range when shooting video. 35-85mm is pretty much the sweet spot for most of the stuff I do. Only when doing outdoors scenery I'm in need for a wide lens around 15-20mm.
 
Can anybody help me out? I can either for the body only version for £630, or the standard kit lense bundle for £1100... I'm looking to get a very cinematic, wide angle, shallow DoF look. Shall I go the for the body only and spend the £450 on a different lense, and if so which one? Or should I stick with the bundle package? Thanks! Dom
 
It is a zoom lens made specifically for the camera. the only drawback is that it only goes to f/4 opening. Otherwise is very good and useful.
 
Wide angle and shallow DOF are at odds with each other. You get one or the other, but not both. You can have great wide angle and deep DOF, or very tight telephoto and very shallow DOF, but it's very very very difficult to get wide-angle and shallow DOF at the same time.
 
Hi Barry - nice to hear from you, your articles and contributions on the forum have been an absolute life line to me. Despite a lot of dilly dallying I'm going with the 7D - had the chance to try one out today and it blew me away. Will probably go for the stock lens for it's zoom capabilities and wide angle, and pick up the fantastic plastic Canon 50mm 1.8 for the shallow DoF and low light performance. Sound good?
 
I can get the GH1 as body only for £650 - could then get a Olympus Digital ED 14-42, 1:3.5 - 5.6 lens for £150 and the Panasonic Lumix G 20mm 1.7 pancake lens for £335 and not spend anymore than I'd have to spend for the standard kit bundle. Does that sound better for filmmaking? or should I perhaps explore adapters and other lenses?
 
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