Lens for recording videos

davido_labido

davido_labido

davido_labido

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Well, not Photography & Video section, Hello! I rarely enter this realm of mystery as it baffles me, but lately I have been taking a lot of pictures of products for review/buildlogs etc.

Now, this is the kit I have already:

700D
sigma 17-50mm f2.8
Sigma 105mm f/2.8
Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

now, what I could do with (if they exist) is some kind of lense like the 17-50mm that has a silent autozoom or something. If i record whilst using that, it has just the right ability, just is silly noisy. I have used it, then dubbed audio over it after, but it creates twice the work and obviously i lose what ever audio is in the room with me.

What do you guys suggest?
 
i believe that's what i mean haha, i am not sure! The problem I am having is that i am doing videos close to the product i am trying to show off and it always seems to be out of focus, so i have to stop, refocus, start again, stop refocus...


e.g:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qo0eh79b1w

so, i put the card there so i could focus on it, but then realised everything in front was going to be out of focus... half way through the video lol)

When i am doing video of my computers it will be diffrent and i will need to focus manually, i understand that, but i want something that will just auto focus on this...

Ashens on youtube has a good autofocus thing, but not sure what he uses.
 
Right, ok guys, thanks for that, as you can tell I am very new to this so I'm glad it's as close to layman terms as it can be.

I can get more light cheaper than I can do anything else, so I will try what you guys suggest, and if I need more light, I can grab a bulb and fitting, I already have a soft box, but I use it for a flash, I could easily use it on a continuous light source though.

Il have a play later and get back to you folks, I have a new keyboard which I can record =D
 
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