All lenses work with 60D video?

Im trying to convince the wife to let me get the 60D body for christmas because it has the hd video feature. What I want to know is if my lenses will work with the video feature of the 60D? I have a sigma 70-200 f/2.8, tokina 12-24, 24-105 f/4L and a sigma 8m f/4. Will I have any video quality issues?

All of Canon's EF and EFS lenses fit the 60D.
Therefore you can use them for video.
Simple.
In fact any lens that fits the 60D (Canon, Tamron , Sigma, etc..) can be used for stills or video.

Remember that once the video has started you can't autofocus... you'll have to do what the pro's do and use the manual focus.

In video mode go to the menu and set Movie Exposure to manual.
Assuming you are going to film in 1080 HD at 24 fps, set your shutter speed to 1/50.
(If your filming at 30fps, you'd set the shutter speed to 1/60).
Using the Live View adjust the f-stop and/or ISO to get correct exposure.
You can then half press the shutter to get the first focus if you need to.
Press the red button on the back and film away.
Manually focus now as required... this takes a bit of practice on the live view screen but you soon get used to it.

Also on the 3rd Menu page your Picture Style will affect the final video.

If you want the camera to Autofocus you'll be better off with the 70D. But even then AF in video is only possible with the new STM lenses. Any other lens still requires manual focus.

Even with STM you'll still want to manual focus since the camera can't guess what you want the focus set to. 8/10 times it'll focus on something else.

If it fits, it can take flicks.

thanks for the replies.

maverick75 wrote in post #16419125
Even with STM you'll still want to manual focus since the camera can't guess what you want the focus set to. 8/10 times it'll focus on something else.

STM has nothing to do with it - the 60D can't servo AF once the video starts.

keyan, what about the other focus options? will they work in video mode?

PH68 wrote in post #16419122
...Remember that once the video has started you can't autofocus... you'll have to do what the pro's do and use the manual focus....

Are you saying it's not preferable? The 60D does autofocus in movie mode.

2005GLI wrote in post #16419298
keyan, what about the other focus options? will they work in video mode?

You can set it so that if you half press the shutter it will run the contrast AF again - but it makes the image go out and back into focus as it runs the contrast AF again, and if the subject is moving it will probably never lock on.

You can run contrast or the "quick mode" AF before you start recording, but once it starts, you are pretty much stuck with focusing manually.

aquaforester wrote in post #16419310
Are you saying it's not preferable? The 60D does autofocus in movie mode.

Not after you start the video. As I said above, you can configure it to run contrast detection again after the video recording starts. You don't have full time autofocus like a camcorder. The T4i, T5i, M, and SL1 have full time AF during video using some of the sensor pixels as phase detection points. The results from that are OK, it has a tendency to wait until the subject is drifting slightly out of focus before refocusing.

The 70D has a totally different way of doing AF during video using every pixel as a phase detection point and the full time video AF performance during video is the best of every DSLR out there.

As above.
The 60D does not do full AF when filming at all.
I sometimes use AF before I begin to get the focus, but as soon as you start recording you really need to be manually focusing.
As I also said don't rely on the Auto exposure with movies... you need manual to get the best results (pretty much like still photography).

The 70D is a different beast as it does have full AF, but ONLY with the STM lenses... use any other lens with it and it doesn't have full AF.

Even if a camera (or camcorder for that matter) did have AF for video you will still have far better results when you use manual focus... YOU need to choose what you want in focus and NOT the camera.

I'm no expert but as far as the 70D goes I think full auto focus ONLY with STM lenses is not true.
Continued video auto focus will work with any Canon lens.

PH68 wrote in post #16420276
As above.
The 60D does not do full AF when filming at all.
I sometimes use AF before I begin to get the focus, but as soon as you start recording you really need to be manually focusing.
As I also said don't rely on the Auto exposure with movies... you need manual to get the best results (pretty much like still photography).

The 70D is a different beast as it does have full AF, but ONLY with the STM lenses... use any other lens with it and it doesn't have full AF.

Even if a camera (or camcorder for that matter) did have AF for video you will still have far better results when you use manual focus... YOU need to choose what you want in focus and NOT the camera.

Not true at all on the 70D and STM, I have no idea how people got this idea but it seems to be running rampant on the forum. The 70D will use the dual pixel full time AF with over 100 Canon lenses, including during video recording. It does a great job. When not using an STM lens and the internal mics you will get some focus motor noise.

With the touchscreen, you CAN choose what the camera focuses on. Just tap it and it locks on to your subject and tracks it as it moves in the frame. Alternatively set a focus box on what you want and move the camera to track.

STM lenses are only a requirement for the t4i continuous AF in video mode. The 70D uses the sensor itself to AF.

STM lenses uses a quieter motor so you don't hear the AF while filming video.

Only t4i, t5i and 70d can AF while in video mode with any canon lenses.

All other Canon DSLR that can do video will need MF.

Now with other Canon DSLR that does not have AF for video, you can still AF before you film but when you start recording, you will need to MF.