Inheritance Lens Research

Due to the fact that Inheritance will be shot on my own DSLr (Cannon 750D) I have the luxury of interchangeable lenses and as such I have acquired a few which I can use in the film to give different looks and feels to my shots, obviously however, I wouldn't want to be just blindly using lenses without knowing what there capabilities are.

The first lens available to me is the one which the camera came with: 18-55mm lens. This lens is completely fine, although it will never be anything more than fine. It offers nothing special and as such should really only be used if a lens that does something that you specifically want isn't available. It's kind of like a Swiss army knife lens, it does okay at a number of things but realistically if I have multiple lenses (which I do) then there is no need for this lens.

The next lens available to me is the Cannon 50mm f.1.8, this is the lens I intend to use most as it can produce a very nice and shallow depth of field due to the low fstop of 1.8. This means that I can get some nice focus pulls as well as add some much needed depth to what I am shooting. It also means I can comfortably shoot at a higher frame rate to reduce motion blur due to the low fstop. In addition to this it is also fantastic in low lighting again due to that amazing f.1.8 which will make it ideal for the night shoots whereby there wont be an awful lot of light to work with so this lens will make the absolute most of what there is.

The third lens available to me is the sigma 70-300mm lens with macro feature. Firstly a macro feature means this is perfect for extreme close-ups as this will focus very sharply on close things when it is zoomed into 200-300mm meaning that I can zoom right in to (for example) a needle head and then focus right in so it is pin sharp on the focus. Apart from this it has a good zoom range that means I can film things far away if needs be and I can also do forced perspective via telephoto if I needed it. One other thing worth mentioning about this lens is the Fstop pull down. This means that when fully zoomed out the fstop is 4 but when you zoom in it goes to a minimum of F5.6 to compensate for the zoom, this means I will require more light if I am using the zoom on this lens.

The fourth and final lens is the Samyang 35mm F1.4, this is a great lens and is comfortably the most expensive of the lot but it is almost certainly the best quality of the lot. This does essentially the same job as the 50mm but does it better, excellent sharpness and colour as well as really easy depth creation and an even lower Fstop than the 50mm it is an amazing lens that I will be sure to utilise when shooting Inheritance due to it almost certain aiding me in achieving the look I want for the film, particularly in the night scenes.