Nikon SLR Cameras

Good lenses for video recording?

Tai
Tai

Currently i have a Canon Eos 60D, and i was wondering which lenses would be great for video? I'll be shooting mostly scenery shots, maybe some up close shooting, landscape, etc. Which range of mm will be great for this? I'm considering a nikkor 35mm 1.8G, a 50mm 1.4 or 1.8, and a 28mm 1.8.

Bernd
Bernd

Before buying new lenses do tests with your current lenses in the wider settings. Should work fine for most assignments.

Nikkor lens on a Canon? You can make those mounts work?

Do you have a solid fluid head tripod? - a big help!

fhotoace
fhotoace

If you are considering the Nikkor lenses, you bought the wrong camera.

AND to shoot landscapes, you need a much wider lens than those you listed. The 35 mm and 28 mm lenses are wide angle on a full frame camera like the Nikon D600, but you have a cropped frame camera so you need a lens like the Canon 10-22 mm.

As far as "fast lenses", you may find this interesting.

Loss of light at wider aperture:

"We have been very surprised," explained Frédéric Guichard, chief scientist at DxO Labs, "to find out that some of the gain from wider lens openings seems to be offset by the present state of sensor technology. Our measurements all point in the same direction: as you go further than f/ 4 - to f /2 and wider, the accrued quantity of light falls marginally onto the sensor. A stronger and stronger part of this additional light is blocked or lost. I'm therefore inclined to question the real benefit of faster lenses."

Except for the shallower depth of field, there appears to be no advantage to lens apertures wider than f/4. F/2.8 long lenses seem to provide more light to the sensor, but apparently not that much