When most people start out shooting video with a DSLR camera, one of the first questions they come up with is “what lens should I use?”. \u00a0The answer is both simple and not so simple. \u00a0For the simple part, the answer is a quality lens typically from the camera manufacturer (i.e. not a 3rd party lens). \u00a0But the not so simple part is a little trickier.<\/p>\n
And it’s trickier because it comes down to the type of video you’ll be shooting and the type of camera you are using. \u00a0If you’ll be shooting broad scenes, a wide angle lens will work best. \u00a0If you want to achieve depth-of-field, a telephoto (zoom) lens will work best. \u00a0And if you’ll be shooting in low light, you’ll need a lens that offers a large aperture.<\/p>\n
Those things are all pretty basic. \u00a0But what most people don’t realize is that the image sensor on your camera can dramatically affect the performance of a lens<\/strong>. \u00a0That means the same lens on cameras with different image sensors will perform very differently. \u00a0Specifically, if you’re using a higher-end DSLR camera with a full-frame image sensor, you’ll get a lot more out of your lens. \u00a0And if you’re using a cheaper DSLR with a “crop” sensor, well, you’ll get a lot less out of your lens.<\/p>\n Confused?<\/strong> Then watch the video below. \u00a0It gives an excellent demonstration of how the same lens performs on two different cameras. \u00a0One camera is a Canon 5D Mark II (full-frame sensor) and the other is a Canon 7D (crop sensor):<\/p>\n[simple_video]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When most people start out shooting video with a DSLR camera, one of the first questions they come up with is “what lens should I use?”. \u00a0The answer is both simple and not so simple. \u00a0For the simple part, the answer is a quality lens typically from the camera manufacturer (i.e. not a 3rd party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[724,723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}