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I have a slight variation of this often-posed question: while I need the 7D for video business purposes, I'm curious as to whether I need to upgrade lens(es) first. The budget won't allow both. Current gear:

Canon 50D
Canon 70-200 f/4L
Tamron 17-50 f/2.8
Canon 50 f/1.8
Canon 28-135 (which I will be selling soon either way.)

Thanks!
 
HumphriesBunch said:
I have a slight variation of this often-posed question: while I need the 7D for video business purposes, I'm curious as to whether I need to upgrade lens(es) first.
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Seeing your list of lenses I'd say you are fine for the switch. The only concern I'd have is that the Tamron 17-50mm isn't parfocal (the 70-200 f/4L USM IMHO is near parfocal - focused at the long end when zooming out your subject stays in focus) which means that you shouldn't change focal length while recording video with this lens.
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Karl Günter Wünsch
 
Lens wise you're in pretty good shape. But I suggest looking into the 60d as well for video. If I understand it the 60d has a bit more control over things like sound over the 7d's controls. Personally I use a 50d and 7d. But do very little video.

Andy
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What about the Canon 24-70 L? Honestly, I hadn't thought of the focusing issues you brought up for video. I can sell both the wide zooms and make up the cost difference pretty quickly.
 
The price of lenses goes up , bodies come down .
There is no choice if you need video .
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1st it's a hobby
7D gripped XTI gripped
Canon - efs 10-22 , 17-55 , ef 18-55 IS
EF 28-90 , 28 @ 2.8 , 50 @1.8 , 28-135 IS
L's 35-350 , 70-200 MK II IS
Quantaray lens 70-300 macro
Sigma 135 - 400 , 180 MACRO
2X III , Life Size converter
KSM filters for all
kenko auto tubes , EF 25
 
Really. If you're happy with the lenses on your 50D, they'll be just as good or maybe even better on a 7D. Or a 60D, or a 550D, or a 600D, all of which have video capability and the same or similar sensor to the 7D.

FF.
 
Well, I actually said 50D, not 30D. But I probably would have said the same of the 30D. :)

I've never understood--and never experienced--the phenomenon of a lens working less well on a higher-resolution sensor than on a lower-resolution sensor. For example, I have a 12 MP Canon 450D/Xsi and an 18 MP Canon 7D, and every lens I own produces images that look as good or better on the 7D. It is true that when I put my 70-200 f/2.8L lens on the 7D I was blown away; I'd never known just how good it was. But the images I get from lesser lenses on the 7D are just as good as on the XSi.

FF
 
...you know something "New" is coming in 2012! Sit-back and wait... watch!

With the competition coming out with game-changing gear lately, Canon will trump it soon, in 2012...
 
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