What Lenses are needed for DSLR movie making?
What is a lens?
A lens is a eye for your camera. Think of it as your own eye. One feature of the lens is the f/stop. The f/stop is the aperture of the lens. Lower the aperture the more buttery background, a buttery background means bokeh. Bokeh is when your camera focuses on a subject and the background is melted. People made the lens based on the eye. Most lenses have autofocus and manual focus, this is really comparable how the human eye works. The aperture is like the iris of your eye, when your iris opens more light comes in. Every lens is different then the other one, choose like a wise person.
The most expensive lens is not always a good lens, don’t judge a book by it’s cover.
You judge the book off reviews off YouTube and personnel judgmental skills. Also don’t buy the cheapest lens out there, because it’s worth the money to get a good lens for a movie you are about to make.
Brand of lens?
Usually DSLR filmmakers use Canon, Zeiss, Sigma, and sometimes nikon. These are all good lens manufactures, but for movies go with Zeiss and Canon. Also if you have a full frame sensor like my Canon 5D Mark II the EF-S lenses, These don’t work, because most of the cameras are using cropped sensors. If you are on a really big budget go with a camera that has a cropped sensor.
If you already have a Canon 5D Mark II you are okay. You can still pick up lenses online for really cheap still, The 50mm’s work with the Canon 5D mark II. I would buy the 50mm f/1.4 if you are on a budget. Don’t buy the 50mm f/1.8 because it will get stuck on your camera. If you have the extra money on a 50mm buy the f/1.2 that cost $1,439.00 “Amazon”. If you have the money to buy some lenses go buy all the good Canon Prime lenses and the Zeiss Cinema style lenses. If you are on a budget choose wisely to pick a lens. Watch reviews on YouTube and read reviews and comments. Also Canon is releasing EF Cinema Lenses, for DSLR! I really doubt that this is going to be cheap but might be the competitors like Zeiss.
The Money
If you are on a really tight budget, go with cheap lenses that meet you minimal standards. If you have enough money to buy a couple expensive lenses,
spend the money on the best reviewed lenses for filmmaking. It doesn’t matter if you have a Nikon or a Canon, you can adapters for your Canon or your Nikon. The only bad thing is that you can’t autofocus, but most of the time you use manual focus anyway for recording. When you put a adapter on for Nikon “for example”, you can use Nikon lenses with manual focus. Also you should really buy a good tripod, viewfinder for LCD, and a follow focus. I would buy follow focus with a LCD viewfinder because when you are shooting outside or in a dark area you need to see your focus. Also keep track with your focus with the follow focus and put certain areas in focus with markings to keep track. Also buy a tripod or a fluid head that has really smooth pans or tilts to avoid the jello effect. I would choose lenses buy your standards not mine.
What is a lens?
A lens is a eye for your camera. Think of it as your own eye. One feature of the lens is the f/stop. The f/stop is the aperture of the lens. Lower the aperture the more buttery background, a buttery background means bokeh. Bokeh is when your camera focuses on a subject and the background is melted. People made the lens based on the eye. Most lenses have autofocus and manual focus, this is really comparable how the human eye works. The aperture is like the iris of your eye, when your iris opens more light comes in. Every lens is different then the other one, choose like a wise person.
The most expensive lens is not always a good lens, don’t judge a book by it’s cover.
You judge the book off reviews off YouTube and personnel judgmental skills. Also don’t buy the cheapest lens out there, because it’s worth the money to get a good lens for a movie you are about to make.
Brand of lens?
Usually DSLR filmmakers use Canon, Zeiss, Sigma, and sometimes nikon. These are all good lens manufactures, but for movies go with Zeiss and Canon. Also if you have a full frame sensor like my Canon 5D Mark II the EF-S lenses, These don’t work, because most of the cameras are using cropped sensors. If you are on a really big budget go with a camera that has a cropped sensor.
If you already have a Canon 5D Mark II you are okay. You can still pick up lenses online for really cheap still, The 50mm’s work with the Canon 5D mark II. I would buy the 50mm f/1.4 if you are on a budget. Don’t buy the 50mm f/1.8 because it will get stuck on your camera. If you have the extra money on a 50mm buy the f/1.2 that cost $1,439.00 “Amazon”. If you have the money to buy some lenses go buy all the good Canon Prime lenses and the Zeiss Cinema style lenses. If you are on a budget choose wisely to pick a lens. Watch reviews on YouTube and read reviews and comments. Also Canon is releasing EF Cinema Lenses, for DSLR! I really doubt that this is going to be cheap but might be the competitors like Zeiss.
The Money
If you are on a really tight budget, go with cheap lenses that meet you minimal standards. If you have enough money to buy a couple expensive lenses,
spend the money on the best reviewed lenses for filmmaking. It doesn’t matter if you have a Nikon or a Canon, you can adapters for your Canon or your Nikon. The only bad thing is that you can’t autofocus, but most of the time you use manual focus anyway for recording. When you put a adapter on for Nikon “for example”, you can use Nikon lenses with manual focus. Also you should really buy a good tripod, viewfinder for LCD, and a follow focus. I would buy follow focus with a LCD viewfinder because when you are shooting outside or in a dark area you need to see your focus. Also keep track with your focus with the follow focus and put certain areas in focus with markings to keep track. Also buy a tripod or a fluid head that has really smooth pans or tilts to avoid the jello effect. I would choose lenses buy your standards not mine.
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