Why Lens Choice Matters In Cinematography | Focal Lengths

So well done! As a beginner filmmaker, this is really helpful and inspiring. Thank you!

So many errors in this video.
Focal length is meaningless without knowing the sensor size. Both are needed to define the field of view, which is the relevant metric.
Long lenses don't cause more background blur. The only thing affecting background blur is the distance to the subject and the effective entrance pupil size.
Why do you teach about lenses to others without first learning the basics yourself?

There is a school that does not agree with your analysis in the opening section of the video. The position of the camera vs the subject defines most of the look and feel. The lens choice drives the FOV, no more. As you touch on later If you want for example to feel intimate you might place the camera at 3 feet from the subject, this may then drive you to choose a 16.. but it might not. The three foot is what drives the intimacy. Again be 100foot back and the shot will feel 'remote' even if you fill the frame with a 500mm.

This is a great video. Like the pace.

Great review!
What is the name of the music track used?

Awesome, awesome video. Thank you.

Thanks, I didn't understand the way my film textbook explained it, you cleared this up for me.

Had to use this video because the links my professor gives sometimes just don't even work. Thanks though I definitely learned a lot from this video!

That last quote is dope 💯🫡

Bro you just made me realise I can do so much more with my camera now. Thankyou very much 🫂

Please clear my doubt 🙋
IMAX movies are usually 16:9 aspect ratio so do they use a spherical lens or do they use an anamorphic with a wider FOV and crop from that ?

Memories of muder shooted at which mm lens ?

Without a lens a camera is blind ….lenses are like mirrors….a distorted mirror produces distorted images….similarly a distorted lens produces distorted images….

Long lenses can also convey the feeling of looking at human beings as animals in a jungle….

Shallow depth of field basically means that more area is out of focus….

What lenses were used in the 50s…any idea…I mean which were the brands…back then…for example what 50 mm lens would Ozu use in his films…

Post some Cinematography of christopher doyle please.

This video is too good, quality, background music, everything is impressive

I love you so much. Thank you for making this so calming and easy to listen to. It takes what could be a daunting subject and makes it clean and clear to understand.

Please do make a video on Satyajit Ray . The way you explain everything is great and very helpful and it seems that you will do justice to Mr. Ray's films too. I hope you recognize him. Greetings from Calcutta,India.

Lovely, as always. Thanks for creating.

This video is quite confusing. Sometimes you're talking about specific lenses and their actual physical focal length and other times it sounds like you're talking about full frame equivalency.
You said 50mm looks natural and close to how the human eye sees, but that's only on full frame (it's actually closer to 40mm if I'm not mistaken). On Super35 that would more be something in the range of 28-35mm.

Simply a great explanatory video, hats off!

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This video's been curated super well

You have such a calming voice - great video!

good content - cut the music. it is uneccesary and distracting, can' t hear the audio over the music clearly.

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Great as always

Bro! I just want to say a huge thank you for your work and this channel. Thanks to your work, I'm obsessed with learning about film making now.

I think the human eye (using a 35mm full frame sensor size) is something like 17mm in focal length, but I'm not sure whether that factors in what our binocular vision looks like or if that's monocular.

You're South African. Also great vide. Was really informative

Elaborate and entertaining! Thank you so much

Could you make a few more videos on lighting and talking about bounce and diffusion and things like that?

Hey fallen angels wasn’t shot on a 6.5 it was filmed on Kinoptik 9.8 like Kubricks wides. However angels used a .71 century wide lens adapter.

Wonderful breakdown! Thank you!

35 & 50mm distinction was confusing to me until you placed 50mm in a “natural” classification

Please do a video on Christopher Doyle sometime! I love his work

This is actually a very informative video on cinematography for new filmmakers,but minor correction:Fallen angels was shot mostly on a Kinoptik Tegea 9.8mm rectilinear lens with an adapter that turns it into a 6.8mm lens,it is not fisheye.

Is that compression effect also equivalent to equivalent focal lengths when it comes to smaller sensors? For example, my point and shoot has a 8-132mm lens, but is equivalent to 24-360 due to its smaller sensor. Would the compression at 132/360mm be equivalent to a 360mm full size lens, or a 132mm one?

I really dig your videos and knowledge, but the adds every two minutes are going to make me look elsewhere. It's every video you put out, constantly.

Thank you for this video! So much insight that finally clicked for me!

beautiful video

Are these focal lengths based on super35 or full frame

Brillant intro to the basics of cinematography. Perfectly clear and clever!