I think in the past I've said I had zero interest in video, but that just changed almost overnight. For whatever reason, I've decided to go try the "product reviews on youtube" thing myself, concentrating towards computer hardware to start with (as I have a LOT of it). Putting aside that there's a LOT of people doing that already, and I've yet to figure out what I'm going to do different to try and get noticed, I have to get things in place to even start.

Last week I started tidying up a space in my gecko room and I have somewhere to work now, although it is a tight space. I have some continuous diffuse lights bought ages ago so I've already extracted and set them up again, eating into the little space remaining.

I bought a low cost external mic which I haven't even tested yet. Camera wise I'm tripping over DSLRs so I have no shortage of those. Lenses are where it gets more interesting. For stills, I rarely use wide angle, and that is the first videography hurdle I'm hitting. My widest prime is 35mm, and even on 5D2 that's nowhere near wide enough. I have two rubbish 28-xx mm zooms somewhere I'm about to fish out, but if I need wider than that I'm stuck. Well, I have the 15-85 I can put on one of the 7Ds for 24mm equiv., but that remains to be tested too. I think I will choose between which has least geometric distortion providing any of them are ok at 1080p otherwise.

Beyond that I think I'll have to look at lower cost wide angle primes. At 1080p I don't think resolution will be any problem, as long as CA and distortion are adequately controlled. I will be mostly be using fixed focus and stopped down I think.

Does that about sum up the typical process so far? No doubt I'll find other "nice to have" things along the way. Maybe I should blog that! Something like "mistakes I made setting up a youtube channel"...