What lenses do you recommend or plan on getting?

Abaddon

Abaddon

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I'm in line for the 7D as well and I need to start thinking about at least one good overall lens. With my 30D, I use the 28-135 which is great for basic day to day use, but with the 7D I may wanna upgrade to something of even better quality like the 24-105 L series. I'm sure for video projects, primes would be best, but I'm not ready to go down that expensive road.

What are your plans?
 
Has anyone used a Novoflex lens mount adapter on a Canon EOS?

I have a collection of Nikon primes for my Brevis/HVX so I wonder if I can still use those Nikons for the 7D.
 
for the time being i'll be using my nikon glass. 17-35 2.8 50mm 1.4 and 80-200 2.8. the only lens i know i'll be grabbing up is a sigma 10mm fisheye(for action spots stuff). and then slowly building up my canon glass. starting with 50 1.4.
 
manglerBMX said:
for the time being i'll be using my nikon glass. 17-35 2.8 50mm 1.4 and 80-200 2.8. the only lens i know i'll be grabbing up is a sigma 10mm fisheye(for action spots stuff). and then slowly building up my canon glass. starting with 50 1.4.
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Have you used them on a Canon already?
 
where would you suggest getting an adaptor? I see some cheapos online, but I want to make sure it's quality
 
$300 for a ring ouch! Serious, it's like there's so little middle ground in this industry haha it's either cheap and questionable or 2nd-mortgage-on-house rediculously priced
 
No one has yet reported on using Nikon AIS or AI's primes on the 7D. Some wider than 35mm wide primes on the D5 Mk2 had clearance issues and small flanges have to be milled off to clear, not the mirror itself but the square around the sensor. The 24mm f2.8 AI lens, the nikor 20mm f3.5, etc. It's unclear what the clearance issues are on the 7D.

The clear advantage to the would-be indie film makers who want the 7D for the 24p option is the possibility of using cine prime lenses for better follow focus capability. Perhaps some out of date glass like primes in mitchel BNCR mount or Arri standard or Arri bayonette mount could be adapted as well. THis will all have to be tested and tried, but that's one route that will be explored soon, no doubt.

Also the Red Primes might be a good rental route.

The combination of decent cine glass and good follow focus gear puts the 7D in competition with formats like s16mm film as far as professional reliability is concerned - "how certain can I be that the last take is going to have good focus when it is seen in the theater?" but it might have better picture quality in some regards. The bottleneck is still that when you hit record, the picture signal to the monitor degrades from HD to 480. Of course, with film you had an operator looking at an optical viewfinder making a judgement call - and then you waited for the rushes to be sure.
 
Too bad there's no such thing as a 16-300 mm f/1.8 on dSLR. Coming from 2/3" broadcast video, it's really hard to constantly change lens for live event shots. On HD 2/3" realm, it'll be about $30-$40K for a premium quality Fujinon or Canon.

The slower lens, 18-300 mm f/5.6 just doesn't look right to me. A workable 3 set of zooms and 2x xtender will work for most shooter like myself.

Canon 16-35 mm f/2.8 L2
Canon 24-70 mm f/2.8
Canon 70-200 mm f/2.8
Nikon 80-200 mm f/2.8 w/ Novaflex adaptor
Canon 85 mm f/1.2
Canon 2X teleconverter
ND .2, .6, .9, 1.8, Polarizer filters for all lenses.

The main selling point to use dSLR video is the small compact factor. I can literally hike tough terrain with 3 lenses (16-35, 24-70, 70-200 mm) and I'll be all set. I found that the most used lenses for me are the 24-70 and the 70-200 or 80-200 fr Nikon.

I'll have to get a 2nd body, it'll be the 7D. I found that it's very hard to shoot live event gigs with only 1 dSLR. The biggest limitation is the lens changing and lack of servo controlled zoom on dSLR lenses. 7D will be an ideal 2nd cam setup for super telephoto shoots.

Abandoned all 1/3" prosumer cams like the HPX170, Sony EX3, etc.. No, 2/3" video is still very useful and I don't see it replacing anytime soon. The dSLR is certainly a breakthrough in acquisition technology. Have been waiting for a long time and I just can't be happier on the fact that I'm getting cinematic quality images on a very lightweight camera.
 
The FotoDiox adapters are the best made and have no wiggle. I use them for all of my Nikon Primes on my 5Dmkii

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