I also have the panasonic 170 with zakuto rails and letus extreme on a manfrotto 503 tripod kit but this gets kind of heavy as a handheld when you throw on some lenses.

I got the 5DmkII as an upgrade to my existing still camera (the original 5D) and discovered to my delight the video quality. So now I’m working out if I really need 2 video cameras. Everything I’m doing while I’m learning is now with the canon 5dMkII. It seems so easy, but I’m still very green and haven’t done a lot, so don’t know what I’ll need as I (hopefully) improve over the next year.

Do you have a handheld rig?

I’m trying to piece together the leanest, meanest, run and gun film making kit possible, so anything I can’t carry on me isn’t even considered. I already had a lot of these lenses for my 5D before I got the 5d/2 and became film happy. (I love photography as a hobby)

Hey, I had a look at your finished ad. Love what you did. Isn’t it such a shame that so much work has to go into what ends up being just a 30 second piece. I’m sure you could put together a nice 3 minute promo with the same material you have from the shoot.

In fact, if you haven’t already done so, maybe you could suggest this company pay you a little extra to edit together a longer version for their web site or perhaps their reception waiting area (flat screen TV in reception playing promotional material). That might earn you another dollar or two. Sorry… pound or two.

Cheers from Perth, Australia!

Sell the Zeiss 50mm as you have the 50mm f1.2 but keep the 85mm zeiss

the zacuto z-finder isnt out till the end of August so save up for that…The DS10 is cheaper and will work as well!

That first lens…is that a typo. There isn’t a 24mm-105mm f1.4. If there was everyone would have one and it would be huge and V expensive!

Those are all really good lenses. The Sigma is quite slow but a nice range. The Macro is v useful too. Its hard for me as love lenses and would hate to part with any!

I’m just curious – When I first bought my 5d/2 I also bought a couple of manual lenses (due to the firmware/expose issue that’s now solved) They were a Carl Zeiss Planar 1.4/85 and a Carl Zeiss planar 1.4/50, both have adapters to work with the 5D/2.

However I want to buy a zacuto tactical kit and eye piece and a miller ds20, so I have to sell some stuff I just had to get before to help me buy some more stuff that I just have to get now.

So here’s my problem. Do I sell the Zeiss ones (which were second hand) or keep them and sell one or two of the ones below? Which would you keep?

Here’s the other lenses.

Canon EF 1.4/24mm-105mm IS USM
Canon EF 1.2/50mm USM
Canon EF 2.8/70mm-200mm ultrasonic white lens (with extender EF 2x II)
Canon EF 2.8/100mm macro USM
Sigma 4.5-5.6/12-24mm DG HSM

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Regards
Rudy…

Thanks for the answer. What is your favorite set of lenses?

VZ

I think you are confused as to why I use Nikons and more. I own many Nikons first and foremost. I love controlling aperture via the lens, it’s a video camera thing and an old fashioned film camera thing for me. You can now control the aperture in video mode from the camera on the 5d due to new firmware. So ignore the links. It’s just personal preference. Nothing more!!

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The set you have is enough for your work with 5D, isn’t it?

Don’t know if it is safe though

Another link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotographs/3094873460/