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Nathan Doy
I'm buying a canon 60D and need to know the top two lenses I will need for shooting video. I have about 600Euro to spend.
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Nathan
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I use video a lot on my camera as well. It's the 5d mk II. But there is barely a difference in the video quality between the two cameras, actually the 60d is probably better due to better video options.
Well to the point. I have no idea what type of videos you are shooting but I'm guessing you will need a wide angle lens and some sort of zoom lens and a portrait lens.
Another thing to note is that video resolution is a lot smaller than photo resolution (1920*1080 v 18 mp), so that means you don't necessarily have to buy the sharpest lens out the to achieve a shapr video image plus you can sharpen the video quality with in-camera settings which will do a lot of the sharpening for you.
I'd definitely advise to look at www.photozone.de. This give an in depth review of many lenses out there. Look in the Canon APS-C sensor section for your camera and preferably the 50D section of this to get a more accurate review of the lens for your camera.
Also a lot of lenses make noise when focusing. You do not want the noise of that in your video. So look a lenses that don't make this noise. Canon lenses that don't make noise have USM in their name and for sigma lenses it is HSM. But unfortunately these are more expensive.
Auto focus in video mode is actually incredibly slow while shooting, even on my 5d mk II and actually unusable in most conditions. So I use manual focus 90% of the time so you are actually better of just getting a cheaper noisier lens. Manual focusing doesn't make any noise.
The lenses I recommend:
(1) Wide angle lens/zoom lens. Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS (â¬120-150).... this lens is actually probably one of the most surprising lenses out there for its price. It is the kit lens you get with the 60D as far as I know. If you want to spend much more, which you don't have get this Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2,8 USM IS. Also I suggest Samyang 14mm f/2.8 (â¬300)... it has a lot of curvature, similar to a fish eye lens but not as much. It's only manual focus but the sharpest wide angle lens out there, it's also great for low light. Extremely fun for videoing with. The canon version is actually 5 times this price and has less sharpness.
(2) Portrait lens. Canon 50mm f/1.8 (â¬90). It is the cheapest lens out there but incredibly sharp. This is my most used lens. It is also surprisingly my sharpest lens bar my Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 IS USM II (which is way out of your budget). You will get a nice DOF (blury background) with this. Although not a USM lens it actually has a quite enough AF.
(3) Telephoto lens... Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM (â¬400) (not the new L or DO lens). This lens is sharp with IS and quite AF. If you can't afford this, buy the Sigma equivilant. Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG APO macro. Although not the best lens out there it has a constant sharpness in the middle that is very good. And as I said it will be definitely be able to get you very sharp results for video quality.
Also sound on the canon 60d is simply shite. You will want to buy the RODE video stereo mic with stereo sound. I have this and it's excellent. you can buy it for around 180 on ebay.
I use video a lot on my camera as well. It's the 5d mk II. But there is barely a difference in the video quality between the two cameras, actually the 60d is probably better due to better video options.
Well to the point. I have no idea what type of videos you are shooting but I'm guessing you will need a wide angle lens and some sort of zoom lens and a portrait lens.
Another thing to note is that video resolution is a lot smaller than photo resolution (1920*1080 v 18 mp), so that means you don't necessarily have to buy the sharpest lens out the to achieve a shapr video image plus you can sharpen the video quality with in-camera settings which will do a lot of the sharpening for you.
I'd definitely advise to look at www.photozone.de. This give an in depth review of many lenses out there. Look in the Canon APS-C sensor section for your camera and preferably the 50D section of this to get a more accurate review of the lens for your camera.
Also a lot of lenses make noise when focusing. You do not want the noise of that in your video. So look a lenses that don't make this noise. Canon lenses that don't make noise have USM in their name and for sigma lenses it is HSM. But unfortunately these are more expensive.
Auto focus in video mode is actually incredibly slow while shooting, even on my 5d mk II and actually unusable in most conditions. So I use manual focus 90% of the time so you are actually better of just getting a cheaper noisier lens. Manual focusing doesn't make any noise.
The lenses I recommend:
(1) Wide angle lens/zoom lens. Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS (â¬120-150).... this lens is actually probably one of the most surprising lenses out there for its price. It is the kit lens you get with the 60D as far as I know. If you want to spend much more, which you don't have get this Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2,8 USM IS. Also I suggest Samyang 14mm f/2.8 (â¬300)... it has a lot of curvature, similar to a fish eye lens but not as much. It's only manual focus but the sharpest wide angle lens out there, it's also great for low light. Extremely fun for videoing with. The canon version is actually 5 times this price and has less sharpness.
(2) Portrait lens. Canon 50mm f/1.8 (â¬90). It is the cheapest lens out there but incredibly sharp. This is my most used lens. It is also surprisingly my sharpest lens bar my Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 IS USM II (which is way out of your budget). You will get a nice DOF (blury background) with this. Although not a USM lens it actually has a quite enough AF.
(3) Telephoto lens... Canon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM (â¬400) (not the new L or DO lens). This lens is sharp with IS and quite AF. If you can't afford this, buy the Sigma equivilant. Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 DG APO macro. Although not the best lens out there it has a constant sharpness in the middle that is very good. And as I said it will be definitely be able to get you very sharp results for video quality.
Also sound on the canon 60d is simply shite. You will want to buy the RODE video stereo mic with stereo sound. I have this and it's excellent. you can buy it for around 180 on ebay.
What are the biggest difference between Canon 60D vs 7D vs 5D?
js6571
What are the biggest difference between Canon 60D vs 7D vs 5D?
Answer
Ignore the DXO sensor tests, they are made using unprocessed RAWs.
They are not real world images.
Reviewing unprocessed RAWs is like reviewing a car without a gearbox.
5D is full frame. Great for portraits, lanscape. Very low light performance is good at extreme ISOs.
7D is APS-C, low light performance excellent up to ISO 1600, good at 3200, poor above that, for high ISOs you should shoot RAW and tweak the noise reduction, particularly chroma noise reduction in Adobe Camera RAW or Canons DPP.
The 7D is really a stand out camera for sports and nature. Very sophisticated AF system, with loads of points, all cross type points and double cross type sensor at centre with f2.8 or faster lenses.
If you need AF speed and accuracy for your stills the 7D is the best thing you can buy this side of a 1D series. It has a dedicated AF processer (only the 1D / 1Ds series cameras also have this) and it has Ai Servo mode adjustments, which make a huge difference to AF predicatability. Again, not seen on the 60D or 5D2.
The 60D has same sensor and processor as the 7D pretty much and so image quality is comparable.
If you aren't exceptionally demanding of your AF then it'll do very good job for you.
The 5D2 and the 7D are designed for very different users, it's not a case of one is better than the other.
The 60D is a great camera, but keep an eye on the 600D / T3i, a bit more compact, same flip out screen, a subtle step down in AF performance, but again, same sensor, same processor.
Ignore the DXO sensor tests, they are made using unprocessed RAWs.
They are not real world images.
Reviewing unprocessed RAWs is like reviewing a car without a gearbox.
5D is full frame. Great for portraits, lanscape. Very low light performance is good at extreme ISOs.
7D is APS-C, low light performance excellent up to ISO 1600, good at 3200, poor above that, for high ISOs you should shoot RAW and tweak the noise reduction, particularly chroma noise reduction in Adobe Camera RAW or Canons DPP.
The 7D is really a stand out camera for sports and nature. Very sophisticated AF system, with loads of points, all cross type points and double cross type sensor at centre with f2.8 or faster lenses.
If you need AF speed and accuracy for your stills the 7D is the best thing you can buy this side of a 1D series. It has a dedicated AF processer (only the 1D / 1Ds series cameras also have this) and it has Ai Servo mode adjustments, which make a huge difference to AF predicatability. Again, not seen on the 60D or 5D2.
The 60D has same sensor and processor as the 7D pretty much and so image quality is comparable.
If you aren't exceptionally demanding of your AF then it'll do very good job for you.
The 5D2 and the 7D are designed for very different users, it's not a case of one is better than the other.
The 60D is a great camera, but keep an eye on the 600D / T3i, a bit more compact, same flip out screen, a subtle step down in AF performance, but again, same sensor, same processor.
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