The Camera

So this last month I went to the NAB/BEA (National Association of Broadcasters/ Broadcast Education Association) conference in Las Vegas with my professors and a couple other students to go to seminars and for my professors to pick out new equipment. While there I looked at lots of different technology alongside my professors.  While my professors were looking into cameras, I had suggested that we might want to go with at least one DSLR. They liked the idea, looked into it, and allowed me to help them look through the different options available for DSLR cameras. The one that obviously caught our eye was the Canon 5D Mark II. This camera delivers such a pristine image with such a great ability for manipulation of the image that we had to get it. Ever since Hope College ordered the camera I have been reading and watching everything I can about it. This camera was not my first experience with DSLR’s but any insecurity I might have had with the technology has melted away with this new model Canon has produced. After a lot of consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of the camera I have decided that it will be what I shoot my film in. So far the school plans to have a least two lenses for the 5D by next semester, but may have a few more by then. These lenses would be the EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM and the EF 85mm f/1.8 USM. I am excited about these two lenses because the 24-105 will give a lot of flexibility in my shots and the 85 mm should give me beautiful portrait like dialogue shots. We may add a bit more to our lens options later, but for now I don’t really know and won’t really know until I put a budget together. If we do add lenses they would probably be some sort of wide angle (or maybe a tilt-shift if we’re lucky) and a good macro lens. I’ll keep you updated.