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DSLRs Winning Video Professional Trust
Photographers and video pros are starting to get real friendly with each other these days. The same fundamental principles have always been shared in creating stunning eye candy. Lighting, subject, frame, color, and depth of field are ingrained in both creative brains. Of course the disciplines have a distinct line separating them beyond those themes, but with the introduction of HD video in photographic tools, a monkey wrench has been thrown into that mix. Photographers are starting to ask more about NLE programs and audio, as video pro’s are asking more about DSLR bodies and lenses.
As a video professional I have always been jealous of the professional still image and the tools used to generate it, particularly the lenses. To achieve that shallow depth of field look in pro video, we paid a lot of money and spent a lot of heart ache. You either had to have a very expensive camera body and even more expensive lens, or a bulky and cumbersome still lens adapter designed to fit on a fixed body. Either way you needed a deep pocket and a lot of patience to get that big budget look.
With the release of HD video DSLR cameras, everyday photographers are stepping on our turf. To make it worse they’re doing it with style, ease, and a low budget! Video pro’s can’t fight it anymore. That full 1080p, shallow depth of field image is too rich to and brilliant to ignore. Yes there are many things to give up such as pro audio, easy focus, shoulder mounts, and big viewfinders, but to be able capture with such good glass is a valuable trade off.
More and more video gurus are starting to add new weaponry to their arsenal. Goodbye expensive, bulky bodies and bayonette mounts. Hello DSLR’s and prime lenses!
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Not a problem. Just shot a whole thing with the Canon 7d and it blew my mind what it could do. When comes to running and gunning though, not very flexible, but for eye candy stuff it’s amazing!