So, I need guidance.
I need to make a bunch of videos for my business, primarily of these types:
- 3 people sitting around a table talking.
- 1 person giving a "chalk talk" at a white board.
- Following 1 to 2 people through houses while they explain things about a property (so, interior and exterior, shots that show the whole person and a lot of space around them).
For the first two, we will not have a large space to work in, I can get maybe 8 to 10 feet back from the people/person.
I have lenses out the wazoo, but I don't really understand the main features that make a lens good for video. I've read a bit about motor noises, focus throw, MF vs AF for video, etc. but don't really "get" the order of importance.
I don't really want to put on lens after lens after lens, then shoot and edit only to find that I've made a grave error in judgement, since I would probably mainly choose on FOV if left to my own devices.
Compounding my stress is that my husband will be in the videos and he is not a patient man, so I need to climb this learning curve fast.
I am a little concerned about keeping the look and feel similar across the video series, so I don't know if I should be mixing and matching lenses, or if the PP from that will be a nightmare.
We shot a dozen videos a few years ago, all with my 24-70 on a 5D Mark II and I made him stand on an X on the floor and not move, so he was just a talking head on a seamless background. This round will be much more, much faster, and much harder.
I bought the Sigma 35 1.4 and a Zeiss 50 1.4 today, then panicked and realized that was rash and that I needed to do more research.
I have the pCAM app on my iPhone, and it's helping . . . looks like 35mm for chalk talk, and 24mm for people talking around a table?
And you kind folks are the best of the best, from what I can tell.
I would greatly appreciate your advice, wisdom and words of experience.
Yeah, 2:30am hand-wringing.
Help!
