Visual Sensor Format Comparisons

[Muttondraw]

Thats useful to know Scienceguy_ae. I had imagined that the Crop for the 20D would be closer to S35. It is very handy to have the ability to go wide every now and then and 14mm on my 20D is very useable. The 14mm Nikon still would probably work quite nicely on the Red one.

Martin

 

[shaun_au]

Awesome tables Proteus!

Especially from your description, for my own purposes of looking at buying one for filming smaller budget features at 1080p, it looks like a good 35mm still zoom lens with follow focus/matte box kit will give an image that is essentially limited not by the optics but by the 1080p capture, which is fine if that is my intended resolution (about the max usable with a high end editing PC without splashing out $1000s for hard drive arrays etc). Plus filming at 1080p will give up to 120fps variable which is more than ideal for speed ramps etc.

Truly the indie choice in my opinion, with the added bonus of moving to larger format captures if/when I get funding for a larger budget film!

Your smaller budget feature use of a Red One is exactly the same starting route I'll be taking when I get my Red One. A few good 35mm still lens with a resonable priced FF/MB, and filming at 1080p. The Red One leaves me the option of going higher res in the future.