Mark Roberts
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I know the #1 thing that made the experience better for me was the Zacuto z-finder. Of course I’m a clueless newbie so take it for what it’s worth 🙂
I’ve still not settled on what lens I want to use for 90% of whatever video I shoot but I know that It needs to be a 2.8 or faster and since I’m using a crop sensor, it needs to be 16mm to 28mm. I have a 50mm 1.8 lens that takes pretty good video but it very tight. I have an 18-270 tamron that is fine at 18mm in daylight but it only opens up to 3.5 so light becomes an issue.
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Has anyone here picked up any of those Zeiss lenses?
I see BH has a 35mm F2 for 1004 bucks. Distagon 35mm T* f/2 ZE Lens for Canon EF Mount Cameras. I’d rather have 18mm but for superb glass at F2 I could probably live with 35mm. Manual focus but no big deal.
I was also looking at that Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L but it’s almost $1420. It’d take me a while to get that much put together without the wife noticing. heh.
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While not quite what you’re talking about, did you see the Zacuto EVF?
They claim it’s high enough resolution. Shrug. I have a Z-finder and adding that EVF would be awesome. Of course, I don’t have their rigs or really the $800 bucks I’d have to throw away on it, but it’d sure be nice.
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Are all the file sizes exactly the same size at 4gb?
If not then there is some other reason it’s shutting down. My T2i has run well over that, 8-9 minutes at 24p and not hit the max file size.
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I have both. I haven’t noticed any difference although my longest shot was about 8 minutes.
All of my cards are Transcend. I haven’t had any issue but I immediately get everything off the cards and onto a hard drive. I’m super paranoid about it.
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Why not just turn off the stabilization of the lens you might use?
Duh, LOL. Right, I forgot.
I have a steady cam rig I made up that works pretty good but I have to hold it away from my body. I saw something on the web and went into the machine shop and built something. In the daylight I can’t see the screen without the z-finder and that throws the balance way off anyway. I guess I need to experiment some this weekend and see what the difference is…if I can live without stabilization on the lens maybe that Tokina lens will work. It’s true that I can just step back some, but sometimes I like being right up close without such a narrow focus.
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Steve,
I do have a monopod already. I’ve just never shot any video handheld without Stabilization. When I used my 50mm lens it was on a tripod. Hmm, I guess I have an old 28-300 sigma lens that isn’t stabilized that I could do some testing with. I guess I’m mostly concerned about how much shake the stabilization eliminates.
I also wanted to get a 2.8 lens that’s nice and wide. I’ve had a number of different L lenses but nothing very wide. I really disliked my 70-200 F4L non IS. I used image plot the last 15000 shots I took, 80% were under 85mm and now with video, I’m finding wide just ain’t wide enough!