Recently I’ve needed to move to DSLRs to shoot HD, as a lontime client that supplied extraordinary HD video gear for me to shoot nature/wildlife with has run out of funding. Thus I’ve had to figure out how to get great HD video for bargain prices.
I now shoot with the amazing (for video, at least) Panasonic GH2. One of it’s greatest assets is mirrorless design, allowing almost any lens ever made to be easily and affordably adapted to it. This lovely manual lens does a great job, as videographers focus manually...making newer Canon lenses less desirable than Nikons, due to the absence of a physical aperture ring on the lens barrel (another task handled manually by a videographer).
Also, on micro 4/3 cameras, this 300mm is “essentially” a 600mm lens, as there is a smaller sensor giving a 2x enlargement vs the 1x-sized image from a full-frame sensor camera. Hope I said that in an accurate and understandable way!
Posted by earthwhile (anon) on 2013-01-05 04:51:00.
great for videographers
Recently I’ve needed to move to DSLRs to shoot HD, as a lontime client that supplied extraordinary HD video gear for me to shoot nature/wildlife with has run out of funding. Thus I’ve had to figure out how to get great HD video for bargain prices.
I now shoot with the amazing (for video, at least) Panasonic GH2. One of it’s greatest assets is mirrorless design, allowing almost any lens ever made to be easily and affordably adapted to it. This lovely manual lens does a great job, as videographers focus manually...making newer Canon lenses less desirable than Nikons, due to the absence of a physical aperture ring on the lens barrel (another task handled manually by a videographer).
Also, on micro 4/3 cameras, this 300mm is “essentially” a 600mm lens, as there is a smaller sensor giving a 2x enlargement vs the 1x-sized image from a full-frame sensor camera. Hope I said that in an accurate and understandable way!
Posted by earthwhile (anon) on 2013-01-05 04:51:00.