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In this episode of the vlog I’m briefly talking about the rumors surrounding a Canon pro level mirrorless camera, some of my though processes for using rear button focusing, and the lessons I learned in shooting my dual rear button focusing video.
A few months ago I posted a video describing a hack that I was using that allowed me to use my colorimeter as a basic light meter. In response to that video, someone suggested that I should really just get a light meter. Of course that was my plan all along, but I didn’t want to stop shooting just to find and buy a light meter.
In this video I’m revisiting the the topic of light meters, this time with my own; a Sekonic L-308X-U(Affiliate Link) .
In the past I’ve written down my take on what I though about the features of recently announced cameras. Now that I’m diving into doing video, I thought I’d take a stab at doing that same thing but as a video.
In this case, Canon recently announced the latest generation of the EOS-1DX, the EOS-1DX Mark III. And while in many respects, the camera is really just yet another evolution of the professional DSLR, there are some interesting new features in the design, that I wanted to talk about.
Storage is one of the biggest unanticipated hurdles that I’ve come across when it comes to shooting and working with video. And not in the field actually, my biggest problems are storing and backing up the video I shoot in a reasonable way.
Good audio is easily half of what makes a good video, and audio is probably the one area where I have the most problems when it comes to trying to wrap my head around what’s going on. In this episode of the vlog, I’m going to talk about my most recent frustrations with trying to figure out audio as a photographer turned videographer.
I’ve had a number of conversations with people where Apple’s new Mac Pro and its, in their words, “insane pricing,” has come up and I wanted to talk about that. Largely because I think Apple has a branding problem now around what they mean when they attach the word Pro to a product.
Additionally, Canon, at least as of December 15 to 18th, though they may go on longer, has been running some pretty substantial rebates on many of their cameras, including the EOS R. In the past, I’ve talked about wanting to pick up an EOS R but it not finding the right value in it at the $1700, and $2000 price points it was at prior to these sales. However, even with the camera discounted to a mere $1350, I still haven’t picked up an EOS R, and I wanted to talk about why the value proposition still isn’t there for me.
Peta Pixel recently posted an asking if Sony’s pace of “innovation” was hurting the camera industry. Well I don’t agree, and in this video I lay out why.
In this vlog I talk a bit about the struggle of creative’s doubt, when we’re not sure if we did something the right way, and how the simple reality is that if the results look or sound good, they are in fact good.