Tokina 11-16mm Lens: #BoringTestVideo
Channel: Ray Ortega
Date: 2015-12-18

Gear linked below & http://thepodcastersstudio.com/gear

I wanted to see for myself how shallow the depth of field would be on this Tokina 11-16mm wide angle lens. This is only a test that I thought I'd share. I may have created a new show in the process: "Boring, Test Video."

Because of the short focal length of this lens, it's harder to drop the background out of focus. An 85mm lens at this aperture (f2.8) and distance (2 feet away from the subject) with a lot room between the foreground and background, would have a much blurrier background. 

Because this is one of my newest  lenses and it's also a very specialized lens, I haven't shot on it as much I would like. Therefore I wanted to see how it looked in a typical talking head setup, not that I will use it this way most of the time.

The image looks good overall. I appear to be in sharp focus and the colors seem accurate. I don't see any noticeable fringing or other artifacts. 

If you need a lens that can capture much more of the scene in a single shot, this Tokina is a good buy and will get the job done quite nicely. It has some strange quirks like the way you change from manual to auto focus (slider ring on front of the lens) but it seems to shoot nice video. I believe I've seen some heavy fringing when looking at very fine photo detail of this lens but that's not how I'll use it. 

It's an APS-C lens which means it's specifically made for crop sensor cameras like the Canon 60D that this was shot with. They also come in various mounts that includes Nikon. 

*Gear used to make this video:

Tokina 11-16mm Canon mount, APS-C http://podhelp.me/tokina11-16CanonAPSCBH
Canon 60D DSLR camera http://podhelp.me/60DbodyBH
Transcend SD card 32GB Class 10 UHS1 http://podhelp.me/trans32gbC10Ultim600_32GBU1
Rode VideoMic Pro http://podhelp.me/RbPLrq

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