So here we are at the Osprey Hotel in Nice for the video skills how to shoot a better
interview workshop. Today we're going to be interviewing Barry Doyle from Canon who's
one of their video product reps covering the East Coast of Ireland. Hi Barry, could you
tell us a little bit about your history in the industry and also what your role is within
Canon? Yep, I'm a rep for steel and video products for Canon. I have a background in
photography and I have my own small production company as well. I use a lot of Canon products
in my own work and I got a job with Canon about three years ago. We're shooting with
the Canon XF305 today. Could you tell us what you think of the three key features of that
camera that are going to appeal to the videographer? Well they're going to love that it uses compact
flash cards. They're a lot cheaper and easier to get than some of the alternatives. They're
very reliable and they're very fast and they're great for non-linear editing workflows afterwards.
The footage from it's actually 100% approved by the BBC for programming which is a first
for a product in this category. That's going to be a very big deal. It's going to allow
people to do things with much smaller cameras and much smaller crews than they would have
in the past and has a fantastic codec. It's an MPEG 2, 50 megabit a second, 422 colour
sub-sampled codec so it's great for grading, great for green screen work. With the advent
of video-enabled DSLRs, what evidence have you seen of the so-called fusion between photography
and video? There are a huge amount of people now who would have been doing predominantly
still photography for weddings and corporate type work who are now doing as a sideline,
as an additional revenue stream, a bit of video and it's actually becoming expected
of a lot of photographers that they'll have some kind of at least freebie video product
with their albums. There's a lot of video people as well buying these cameras, the 5D,
the 70 and the 60D especially, who are buying them for a video and discovering that they're
actually great still cameras as well and getting into the still market.
If you were going to invest in a DSLR today for shooting video, what camera body would
you choose and say what's your top three lenses?
I'd probably pick the 5D because it has unique capabilities in terms of low light shooting.
It's a huge chip, much bigger than you'll get on any comparable video camera. Great
for getting shallow depth of field, great for getting tilt shift effects. In lenses
that go for probably some of the best zooms Canon make would be the 24-70mm f2.8. It's
a good standard zoom, very smooth focus and zoom. They also make a great 70-200mm f2.8
range stabilised lens and they make a number of good prime lenses, a 35mm f1.4 and a 50mm
f1.4 which would be great for shooting in very, very low light conditions.
Well thanks for coming to speak to us today and giving us an insight into your WorldBerry.
Cheers.
Thanks very much, Kevin.
