Unless you're very skilled with the camera and absolutely have to have follow focus or shallow DOF, shooting video with a DSLR is more trouble than it's worth. There's reasons why someone invented video cameras.
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| Mr_slate New Member 2 Posts 3/12 |  Posted - Mar 26 2012 : 7:12PMHey I'm upgrading my canon t2i, and I am trying to decide on a suitable lens for small adult movie production. It's seemingly difficult to decide so I was hoping someone could advise me on a nice lens reasonably priced, perhaps someone using this type of camera range would be most applicable, although anything helps! [Link] |
| Rod Member 908 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Mar 27 2012 : 9:24AM Unless you're very skilled with the camera and absolutely have to have follow focus or shallow DOF, shooting video with a DSLR is more trouble than it's worth. There's reasons why someone invented video cameras. [Link] |
| Mr_slate New Member 2 Posts 3/12 | Posted - Mar 30 2012 : 5:06PM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Mar 30 2012 : 6:49PM --------------------- Another Edited by - randomprecision on 3/30/2012 6:59:33 PM [Link] |
| Rod Member 908 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 2 2012 : 11:38PM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 3 2012 : 11:50PM And when shooting indoors, it's also very obvious because you can frequently see door frames and other straight lines in the background. Also, you frequently can see sofas, chairs and all sorts of other things that look very wrong. Everything in the image appears to be bulging out towards the camera. Including the ladies. Edited by - randomprecision on 4/3/2012 11:53:42 PM [Link] |
jayo  All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Apr 3 2012 : 11:54PM Of course that requires time and effort (=expense), which is why you won't see it in most porn. [Link] |
| Rod Member 908 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 4 2012 : 7:55AM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 5 2012 : 11:38AM Virtually all gonzo is shot with really wide lenses. Even when they're shooting in very large, open spaces. It's just laziness and some kind of inexplicable obsession with the way the wide lens makes things look. I don't know why but they seem to think it looks good. The one thing it does do is makes a woman's ass look bigger in a certain way. But it actually looks like distortion so the effect is pointless if you know what you're looking at. And besides, I don't want their asses to look bigger than they are. I want them to look like they look in real life. Or as close as possible. Most of the time, the guys who shoot that stuff are shooting girls who have big butts anyway so it's completely unnecessary. Instead of a sexy video about big butts, it's a cartoon. [Link] |
| Rod Member 908 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 5 2012 : 8:10PM If you look at the camera setup for a still shoot like Playboy centerfolds, you'll see the camera a long way away from the model. Twistys and others do the same thing. It gives them the shallow DOF they want too. I don't think they do the same thing when they shoot video. Hand held video cameras are difficult to keep steady with a long lens and I've never seen a steadicam used in porn. Maybe a tripod for one camera. The OP was planning to shoot "small adult movie production" content with a t2i DSLR. Good luck doing that with a telephoto lens. Even a 50 isn't going to give you the FOV you'll need. Edited by - rod on 4/5/2012 10:58:52 PM [Link] |
| Rod Member 908 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Apr 5 2012 : 10:54PM Lens Choice for Canon DSLR The section about filming the groom and bride getting ready relates well to what you'll be filming in a porn shoot. Hope that helps. [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 5:48AM They spend all this money to make a porn vid and can't be bothered to use a tripod or a Steadicam and put in the extra effort to get the angles and shots they need? What's the point of HD video if it doesn't look right? I think this has more to do with the fact that porn makers are stuck in a rut using the same angles over and over than it does with it being impossible. I've never shot a porn video. You're right. I can't know for a fact. But I have used a video camera to shoot various things (including sex). In a pinch, if I had the money, I think I could probably easily shoot some sex without bolting a fishbowl on the front of the camera. [Link] |
| BYOB_Kenobi Senior Member “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” - Kierkegaard 2684 Posts 8/09 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 4:48AM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 6:56PM [Link] |
| ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03 | Posted - May 23 2012 : 12:14AM That Tokina is a sick lens and I mean sick in an awesome way. My buddy in Austin that does cinematography has one for his 7D (same size sensor) and it's a great wide angle lens. There some barrel distortion and vignetting due to filters at 11m or so but from 12-16mm it's very nice. If you're doing POV stuff especially that would work out nicely. What'd you end up getting Mr_slate? I just got a Canon 24mm f/2.8 for my 5D and it's WIDE since it's a full frame sensor. All i had other than that was a Canon 50mm f/1.4 that was a nice medium lens in terms of focal length. I HAD the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 lens for my T2i and that was nice but when you put in the crop factor that translates to a 44.8-120mm lens on a full frame camera. On the 5D, the 28mm seemed super wide, but that's how that focal length is supposed to look. I sold that lens to B&H since it was just too soft for photos when it was wide open at f/2.8, but DSLR video is compressed to a 2 megapixel image rather than a full 21 megapixel RAW image of a photo, so that softness goes away a little with the compression. Let me know what lens you got though and if you have any questions. I do photography and filming on DSLRs and I'm more than happy to help out if i can since this is what I do with the majority of my time. Do you have any examples of your work with your T2i? I'd love seeing it. I've toyed around with the idea of shooting adult videos on mine but don't have anyone to shoot since the area I live in sucks. I've shot a shit ton of art nudes on my T2i and 5D though. Just nothing overly sexual which is something i want to gravitate towards. Again though, my area sucks. haha.  Cool thread![Link] |
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