When you are first getting started with videography it can be overwhelming. What camera body should I get? Which lenses should I get? Should I spend more on the body or the lenses if I’m working with a budget? In this video I hope to help clear up some of those tough questions.
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I would choose to invest more in lenses than in the camera body. In my experience, the lenses make more of a difference in the quality of your images and video.
I first invested in the Canon 50mm 1.8 and then the Tamron 24-70 2.8. I love the 50mm for portraits and the 24-70 allows me to zoom and get a wide angle shot.
It’s don’t feel it’s necessary to get high quality glass lenses right away. Some people really love these type of lenses but I’ve had great success with the Tamron 24-70 and 50mm.
It’s important to figure out if you have a crop sensor or full frame camera. Crop sensor cameras (like the Canon rebels, Canon 7D, Canon 80D) are going to have more of a zoomed image than the full frame cameras. For example, if you have a crop sensor camera and are trying to get a shot similar to a 50mm lens you would need to get a 35mm lens and the shot would look like a 50mm shot on your crop sensor camera. You’d also want to get a 17-55mm lens if you are trying to get the 24-70mm lens look on your crop sensor camera.
- Remember, most of the really high quality camera bodies are full frame. Keep this in mind when investing in your lenses. If you think you’ll eventually be getting a full frame camera you’ll want to get lenses that you’ll still love once you make the switch. I was shooting with my 50mm and Tamron 24-70mm lenses on my Canon Rebel because I knew I was eventually going to get a full frame camera and would love these lenses on the full frame camera as well.
