From the course: Video Production and Post Tips
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Using aperture
- As a newer photographer or videographer, I find that, at the beginning of my career, I would sort of cheat. I would buy the lens that I thought I could afford. I never really looked at the faster glass. - The physics of the whole exposure triangle, right? - Yeah, yeah, you're just like, "Wow, you know, "that F/4 lens is super reasonable. "But wow, that 2.8 is so much more expensive." Or, you know, if you've ever looked at 50 millimeters, it's like... Well, the 1.8 is, like, what? 120 bucks? - Yeah, the nifty fifty, as they like to call those ones. - You go to the 1.2, and it's seven times more expensive. - It's true, and there's a reason, right? As you decide to step up in lens quality and go to lower apertures, that's a lower number, you're letting in more light. And the manufacturing of those lenses give you the ability to do that, as well as things like, even like lens coatings and all the other things that go into making those lenses becomes more technically and physically…
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