I getcha, well I just ordered my 550D there, thanks for all the help. Any recommendations on stuff like SD cards or lenses or anything? Cheap recording equipment?
get a 32gb or 16gb class 10 transcend and if you can a prime lens like a 50mm (maybe too tight for video) or a 35mm 2.8
Where could I pick one if them up for cheap? The lens I got with the camera is a EF-S 18-55mm IS Lens, is that lens decent or is it a standard lens?
It's standard but it isn't bad. You can work with it for a while if you're just starting out.
Alright thanks a lot. I was asked to do a skate thing for a friend of mine with a possibility of getting paid, and I was wondering, how much would it cost for a fish eye lens for the 550D?
you prolly won't need it, just put the 18-55 at 18mm but if you need one, an 8mm fisheye is about £230
Oh would that give it a fisheye sort of look? I don't really know too much about lenses :S
Some fish eyes are damn expensive. I think Canon only has fish eyes in their L Lens category. I'm not too sure. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Is there other ways to get the fisheye effect?
Cheapest Nikon fisheye is about £500.
You can get fisheye adapters for lenses but they make your pictures soft, ghosty and awful.
Dayum son. Wouldn't be able to afford that anytime soon. While I am here in this thread, any opinions on a film I shot on my friends 550D, it is only my second film, but a lot of you here would know about this sort of stuff, so any opinions would be good :)
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Canon HV40 is what your looking for if you want roughly the camcorder equivalent, had mine for about a year now and its pretty decent, as for taking pictures its not that bad either, I used it throughout my whole photography course.
For a better fish eye effect I'd stick to a fish eye lens. You can always edit in a fish eye effect but it's not the same.
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I'd make the colours more saturated. It looks quite flat.
Could you explain a bit more about the saturation?
Bring out the colours more. Making them more vivid. Know what I mean?
Oh yeah yeah I see what you mean, just played around with them for a bit there. If you have ever seen any of Julian Smiths videos, any ideas on how he achieves that look in his videos, I think they are nicely color corrected.
No clue, bud. I'm not good with video editting.
Ah okay cheers for the help anyway mate
Anytime. :)
d7000 + 80-200mm afd
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[QUOTE=Andy;28875138]Oh would that give it a fisheye sort of look? I don't really know too much about lenses :S[/QUOTE]
if you want a fisheye you could get a Peleng 8mm, it's manual focus (wouldn't matter that much with a fisheye really) but much cheaper than AF ones from canon, sigma etc and pretty decent quality
[QUOTE=Andy;28882129]Oh yeah yeah I see what you mean, just played around with them for a bit there. If you have ever seen any of Julian Smiths videos, any ideas on how he achieves that look in his videos, I think they are nicely color corrected.[/QUOTE]
I think he mostly played with the colors of the shadows and highlights. He made the shadows somewhat purple and the highlights a bit more yellow. There isn't much contrast either
Thanks very much for the help. Going to give it a go now!
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