Filmmaking Tips with a 50mm Lens [feat. Kase Wolverine Magnetic VND Filters]

What's your favorite 50mm lens for video (and why)?

So when you use the Viltrox 50mm lens to film the character from wide to close up, you use the AF? Wouldn't it either get the wrong focus or out of focus when the character moves closer?

I am a beginner and I just got my canon c100 mark ii and I want a beginner lens for filmmaking I was thinking to buy canon 50mm lens is it good? I have heard 50mm lenses are pretty popular in filmmaking.

Thank you, I feel like a learned a lot here.

Don't have a 50mm but I do have 35mm and when in 4k60 it crops near 50mm. Does this count or do I need a true 50mm?

How about a Video Maker's tips... We are beyond using film, yet you keep injecting the wrong term. We are Digital. We make movies, if you like, moving pictures. You are too young to have enjoyed nothing but film like Kodachrome and the abundance of FILM at stores and Kodak everywhere. I miss Kodachrome. But my Sony cameras are giving me rich colorful images much like Kodachrome. Today, I am digital, DIGITAL.

Great video!

I find it interesting that some filmmakers highly recommend buying such lenses as the 24mm, 35mm, 85mm or 105mm than the 50mm lens. If they can afford those lenses, fine. I can't and won't buy them.

That was awesome and super satisfying. Thanks.

can you please suggested me a lens for videography and photography i decided to buy zv e 10

If you had to pick one filter due to budget.. which one would you choose for indoor shots (I shoot mechanic garages) and some outdoor rallies.

Hello! Amazing video of course!!

Just wondering, why not recording with the EF or AF instead of Manuel mode?

Thanks!

Can we use other filters when Using the wolverine magnetic ? if yes, does it have to be magnetic as well or not, and if yes, does it have to be Kase filter or it can be from any brand ? Also, did you notice color shift or vignetting using the Kase ?

Best❤❤

Hey Brandon, was wondering if I purchase the wolverine 1,5-9 stops (coming soon as I see available for preorder) vs to get 1,5-5 and 6-9 filters, if money is not a problem, does the 1,5-9 produce the same quality, or there is a "price" you pay by getting just one filter vs 2..I mean there has to be at least a disantvantage like X shadow or something? Thanks

Can u tell Best lens for apsc a6300 shoot a video?

I might be different in that regard , but I really like depth of field in videos, in relation to what you said about video at f9.0 with 50mm lenses :-)
I’m actually thinking of making a documentary only with 50mm

I'm wondering your videos. Few years ago you showed your 10 liked lenses for filmmaking. But my question is that now what is that 5 lenses you would offer for filmmaking (Sony E)??

How do you avoid judder when you do “tracking motion across frame”?

Hey Brandon, love your work!

I was wondering how you get those shots, especially in Morocco Arise that seem like a ronin on a pole. Or is that literally the rig you use?

Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick have a few things to say about deep depth of field looking bad.

so thats good broiiiii

You’re the master of movement Brandon! I would love to see you do a video on what emotions different movements creates in a film.

You could draw from scenes in movies you like. Thanks for all the knowledge you’re sharing🤩

Chiang Mai 🤭

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These were really great tips, thanks!

thanks! Hakuna matata

I gots to know - how did you get such perfect focus when the subject hadn't yet entered the frame and the also walked behind things?

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Cheers Brandon, it's a very practical video, and thank you for featuring the magnetic VND filter with this video.

Hi Brandon, I used to own the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX1R II Full Frame Digital Camera but sold it because I felt the lens didn't offer enough flexibility. Would you have a similar recommendation for a very small high quality travel camera?

Hey Brandon,

Why didn't you made an detailed video of Vivo X90 pro smartphone cameras....?!

Will you be willing to do so....

Pls pls
Waiting.....

Thank you

Really valuable info! Thanks for sharing :)

do you see any vignetting with the nd filters?

Fantastic as always. So much useful information presented in the perfect way.

Now i want a 50mm 😢😢😢

Is very difficult to make the movement like in the final part of the video with follow focus on the gimbal?

Hi! Important gear question...what type of hat do you wear in the Gimbal masterclass videos? 😂 love the style but not sure what to search for 🙂
Btw awesome video, really like the scene breakdown with the motivated movement and layers explanation 🙂

And can't wait for the fusion filmmaking course 🙂

I know you primarily use full frame, but it'd be super helpful for the super 35 recommendations for these great lens guides/tips. I shoot with a FS5 and A6500 primarily and just wonder what you'd suggest to be the "nifty" fifty for those.

Hi brother Brandon Plz make a video about Sony fx 30 .... Plz

The question is… how does ur footage always look so movie like ?

Great video! And nice to see you filming in Chiang Mai! I know that cafe haha

Your video content is always great. Would love to see you do a vlog maybe about traveling and surviving on the land as a more nomadic filmmaker. As someone who wants to travel and shoot film I'm always curious how you can go from place to place with just the gear on you your back. Like how does one survive as a filmmaker on the go? if you get my drift. Anyways please keep posting. Iv'e learned a lot from your videos.

Cool!✌️

There was a definite color shift in the filters, aren't ND filters that have a color shift considered bad?

What a perfectly simplified explanation of the nifty fifty and ND filters 🙌🏼 awesome as always, duder!

I struggle the most figuring out what aperture value to use when filming multiple subjects at once. Like my wife and newborn, one always ends up out of focus and since it's always on the fly I tend to error to closing it down more then a probably need. Of course I would use focus peaking but it's not available in autofocus. Guess I should just shoot wide open and change focus between to two as I intend to lead the eye.

Superb video Brandon, as is all your work. I love the 50 1.2 GM, but the new 50 1.4 GM may be even better for gimbal work as it is smaller and lighter....