Hey Everyone! To answer all the questions about my gear, you can find my camera / lenses, my overhead camera build, editing build and video gear right here: www.amazon.com/shop/weeattogether
There's a skill in using old gear which doesn't have the latest technology. It forces you to be creative and think outside the box to achieve the results you want. That, is a much better skill then upgrading a camera every year or month....
Calling old tech to a high tech camera is still a problem in our minds, i mean im not blaming your just they way we say this in general. a 5D Mark I is still a perfect camera well used, like everything. In his case, that cameras has not worst image quality than a modern, the only thing is the mirrorless workflow, but that is simply different not better... the only thing that improved a ton is the autofocus, but just for sports and moving objects...
Hi, love your videos, thankyou! Can you please tell me what size table you have? Here are the options- Surface size: 48 x 24, 48 x 30, 55 x 28, 60 x 24, 60 x 30, 72 x 30, 80 x 30 inches
It’s always interesting to me how when you watch a RUclips channel from an actual, working photographer, or a professional anything for that matter, gear is so secondary, and they rarely have the latest stuff. Then there’s the channels that only talk about gear (most of the channels), and you’re sitting there thinking your stuff is totally worthless because it’s ten minutes old. Those channels are often insulting to gear they raved about two years ago. A certain very popular photography gear channel hailed the D850 as the greatest camera in the history of the universe (I’m exaggerating a bit) just 5 short years ago, but today make it sound as though it is practically unusable. Did it stop being great? I think not, but when it’s all about the gear, it has to keep changing or there’s no reason to keep making videos. Helps to have some perspective, and this video was a good reminder.
I've never used it. But it looks like a camera that is pretty future-proof, at least for a while anyway. I was interested in it, but I balked at having to change my lenses or use an adapter. Instead, I bought my BMPCC 6kPro just for video and kept my 5ds for stills.
6:30 on Godox, I've been using the AD400 strobe with a 36" softbox now little over a year now, and that's my main light I use on all my photo shoots. Great for portraits, food, product, everything. Well worth the $650... then paired with the wireless receiver - done!
this is maybe because of the nature of your photography jobs. Shooting photos or videos of still items, tethered, where you have all the time you need, can be really done with very old equipment 100%. If you were shooting in nightclubs or events or motorsports or WEDDINGS...the advanced autofocus of the newer cameras would help a looooot... and if you didn't have it, you would just be falling behind other photographers that would have it. I know the gear doesn't make the photographer...but in some cases new gear with advanced technology helps a lot!
Yes and no, those things have always been photographed, and I haven't noticed huge improvements in the types of images produced over the last 15 or so years. Maybe they make the photographer's life easier, but they still have to get the shot. I did notice a huge change in the types of images when most changed from film to digital, but a D3 or 1Ds is still a great camera years later. When I first started out, we had to train on highway overpasses capturing license plates using film and manual focus. Nothing like speeding California drivers to help you focus. I'm not against buying new gear if it's a smart business move, but I often find the money can serve better in other areas. And like i said in the video, all the grip equipment and slow mo cams like phantoms and stuff like that, I rent.
Ive been shooting food and drink for about 8 years now, but Im being asked to take a few video clips when Ive taken the shot. Can anyone recommend a turntable that is cordless - needs to be rebust and quick to use. Thanks
i run a canon t100 with a kit 18 x 55, in my bag is my work horse a 50mm prime f2.8 and a 55 x200 for distance photography i dont intend to buy anything for a while until i set up a studio then its a couple lights and a background setup
I love how you're confident with your expenses. Not everyone would put a sit/stand desk ahead of a new camera body, but I can totally see why you do. Solid info, thanks!
I’ve used my canon 80d for 10 years. Just bought a canon r6 mark II just to get that 4k video and 180fps 1080p. I got some new clients that wanted that.
You should try 50 1.8 STM, it's really good for closeup photography since it focuses closer than 50L and it's way sharper wide open. 50L is a steal for creamy lifestyle photos but it doesn't make sense to use on matrix above 20mpix. Easily the lens with the best ROI in my collection.
Great video!! Btw, I totally agree with you, I upgraded my camera the day my 5D Mark III died 😣 I would still shoot with it. My friends sometimes ask me why I don’t buy the newest models with the sensor stabilization, more resolution, better af bla bla, and I got happy to find someone who thinks the same way as I do 😆
I'm mostly on the video side of things so a little different, but probably the two things I have sitting around collecting dust the most around my studio are actually old computers (particularly laptops) and cheap shoulder rigs. Laptops have kind of accumulated starting from when I pretty much lived out of a backpack, I needed something beefy that could handle video at the time and I needed to be able to do same day edits/proofs in the field, and it would never fail I'd use a laptop for about a year and then either software updates would render the laptop almost useless for pro level work or demands of clients would shift and I'd have to upgrade again. So I'd have a mostly good laptop that I'd tell myself I'll use for something else someday (instead of selling it used) and I'd factor in the cost of a new laptop into upcoming gigs. This cycle finally mostly ended in 2012 when I bought my first house and my first desktop pc in probably 12 years. I used that pc from 2012 till 2021 when windows bricked the motherboard only upgrading small components here and there as needed, and then when I upgraded to the next pc I took all those upgraded components with me, much better system. I still have a travel laptop that's maybe six years old now, that I barely ever use, and definitely can't handle the video I'm shooting today but it's enough for transfering files and checking emails on the road, if I had to do travel edits I'd probably still be stuck in the old cycle. As far as shoulder rigs go I'd just see stuff on youtube and be like "oh that'll help and it's only $10, 20 30 etc. and I'd shoot with them like twice before I went back to just shooting handheld with a top handle or on a steady cam, I like to think I've wisened up about this over the years but I still buy random cheap doo dads to slap on my cam cage and they still mostly collect dust.
That's true, I definitely have more doo dads for video that I probably don't need. About laptops though, I was the same and decided to go the DIY desktop a few years ago. Now I use a tablet for tethering my camera and emailing, then on location I'll rent a laptop. For me it makes more sense then having duplicates of things like computers.
Nice video bro! I've been watching a ton of contents from other creators and all of them have this "It's nice to have" philosophy about every single piece of gear, and most of the time this is not even closer to be sustainable, like - "You know, I don't *always* use 5 cameras, 23 lenses and 6 Aputures 1200d, BUT, it's nice to have...", and frequently it sounds like you gonna be a better professional if you have all this gear, when the reality is pretty much what you said. You're one of the first creators that don't "recommend" the others to buy A TON of stuff to get the job done. Thanks for that! Take care bro. Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷
G.A.S. is real. The tough thing is that with creators we tend to get a lot of equipment for free (either to test out or promote) other than merch or courses, it's one of the few ways to pay the bills. Plus, it's exciting to get to try out the newest tech. But I think if you polled most creators on RUclips, (not just in the photography genre) they would probably say everyone should do more with less.
@@skylerburtphotos Yeah, there is this side of the business, I get it. Btw, a few weeks ago I got my first job in food photography (I'm not a food photographer at all, I'm more a videographer, but when the job comes... We need to be prepared) and your content was extremely helpful for me! I figured out lots of things by watching your videos and tips!
Try the 50mm STM lens, works better for technical photos with 5Ds, it's lighter and it's hard to beat in terms of value. I've bought the 1.8 as a backup and it ended up being my main one.
Is that an original 24-70mm, not the “II” version? Has been one of my fav’s for a long time. Lotta mileage out of that lens. Saves gym workouts too - good bit of heft to it. :-)
It is the original, it's actually my oldest lens now and still going strong. I don't use it as much as the others, but it never disappoints. You're right it probably weighs as much as my other three combined!
I also share your philosophy on gear, my canon 60D is from 2010 and I still use it in some occasions, I moved to sony but use my canon lenses the 70-200f4, canon 40f2.8, and a sigma for canon 17-50f2.8 with an MC-11 adapter, for native sony i have a 90f2.8 macro, 18-105f4 and 16-50f3.5/5.6. the main ones are the 90macro and 18-105, i use the rest of course, but those two are my go to lenses, as for camera body 2x A6400 since i do corporate videos and always use 2 cams, but yeah, every piece of gear has to justify their purchased, if they don't show on 70% of my shooting needs i wont buy it.
Useless gear would be cheap led lights from when I first started and a cheap speed light as well. Also I wish you knew how cheap clients are in the country I'm working in, they do not expect you to rent, they expect the world but want to pay pennies 🥸
Yeah, that happens. The type of lightning is different for every genre, but it's not an area you want to cheap out on. Try your hardest to avoid cheap clients
It's tough, I don't know what new camera body or lens combo would fit under that budget specifically, but I would spend around 50/50. I think you can find a 50mm lens for pretty cheap, or an vintage lens with an adapter. The camera body, is tough because it's a balance between MegaPixels and Video. If video is not a concern than you can find a body that's used with a good sensor for pretty cheap as well. An old 5DMK2 or MK3 might come under that budget. Like I said in the video you can buy my camera the Canon 5Ds brand new for 1,300. So it might be worth it to save a few hundred more.
Thanks for sharing your gear setup. Here is the gear I use for medical/scientific/close-up/table-top photography: Nikon full-frame film or digital SLR camera 105mm f/2.8 macro 55mm f/3.5 macro 28mm f/3.5 Lens reversal ring Lens extension tubes Bellows unit Mamiya RB67 6x7cm medium format film SLR camera 90mm f/3.8 140mm f/4.5 macro Lens extension tube (45mm) Lens extension tube (82mm) Prism finder Waist-level finder Continuous lighting Flash lighting Light stands Light diffusers Light reflective panels Film Memory cards Heavy tripod Tabletop tripod Table Copy stand Cable release Background Tape measure Specimen jar Knee and elbow pads
That's really interesting, do you do your own film processing for the medium format or do you send it off to a lab. Or do you have a digital back? My wife uses MF 120 film but the processing and film is pretty expensive now.
@@skylerburtphotos Years ago, I developed my own large format, medium format, and 35mm black & white film and printed my own black & white prints. I have a wet darkroom and a digital darkroom. I still develop black & white film, but I rarely do black & white wet printing. Instead, I scan my negatives and digitally print my black & white images. I used Kodak E-4 chemistry and E-6 chemistry to develop color transparency film. When I started shooting digital, I stopped using color transparency film. I do not have medium format digital cameras or backs. I only use small format digital (full-frame, APS-C, micro 4/3, and compact digital). For years, I sent my color print film to a professional lab for developing and printing. When I started shooting digital, I stopped using color print films.
Super cool!! Thank you for sharing!! Don’t forget about sand bags for those c-stands. I’ve had lots of success with rolling c-stands when on location and no assistants. Cheers 🎉🎉🎉
Hey Everyone! To answer all the questions about my gear, you can find my camera / lenses, my overhead camera build, editing build and video gear right here: www.amazon.com/shop/weeattogether
what apps did you use on your ipad?
thank you
There's a skill in using old gear which doesn't have the latest technology. It forces you to be creative and think outside the box to achieve the results you want. That, is a much better skill then upgrading a camera every year or month....
I stick by the assumption that 90% of camera tech goes unused
Calling old tech to a high tech camera is still a problem in our minds, i mean im not blaming your just they way we say this in general. a 5D Mark I is still a perfect camera well used, like everything. In his case, that cameras has not worst image quality than a modern, the only thing is the mirrorless workflow, but that is simply different not better... the only thing that improved a ton is the autofocus, but just for sports and moving objects...
I have a studio FULL of useless gear haha. Pretty much use one light, one camera and one lens for 99.999999% of my work.
There needs to be a website titled RUclipsrs Useless Gear For Sale
I also agree with you. I still use my 5DsR which I have had from the week it came out and it is a fantastic piece of kit.
Same here. I got mine right when it came out
Nice Advice and the table idea is awesome.
Once you get one, it's hard to go back to anything else
Excellent point of view. Unfortunatelly, the majority is very impressed by the influencers paid by the companies
Yeah its always cool to show of the latest tech, but you have to be aware of G.A.S.
Hi, love your videos, thankyou! Can you please tell me what size table you have? Here are the options- Surface size: 48 x 24, 48 x 30, 55 x 28, 60 x 24, 60 x 30, 72 x 30, 80 x 30 inches
It’s always interesting to me how when you watch a RUclips channel from an actual, working photographer, or a professional anything for that matter, gear is so secondary, and they rarely have the latest stuff. Then there’s the channels that only talk about gear (most of the channels), and you’re sitting there thinking your stuff is totally worthless because it’s ten minutes old. Those channels are often insulting to gear they raved about two years ago. A certain very popular photography gear channel hailed the D850 as the greatest camera in the history of the universe (I’m exaggerating a bit) just 5 short years ago, but today make it sound as though it is practically unusable. Did it stop being great? I think not, but when it’s all about the gear, it has to keep changing or there’s no reason to keep making videos. Helps to have some perspective, and this video was a good reminder.
What are your thoughts on the R5? I upgraded from a Canon 40D
I've never used it. But it looks like a camera that is pretty future-proof, at least for a while anyway. I was interested in it, but I balked at having to change my lenses or use an adapter. Instead, I bought my BMPCC 6kPro just for video and kept my 5ds for stills.
Hey I am from India and I love your videos
Please make full length tutorial on how asmr cooking videos shoot and edited
6:30 on Godox, I've been using the AD400 strobe with a 36" softbox now little over a year now, and that's my main light I use on all my photo shoots. Great for portraits, food, product, everything. Well worth the $650... then paired with the wireless receiver - done!
Yeah, that's awesome. It's funny they used to be really cheap stuff, but they've been uping their game in the last few years
Informative, Thanks!
this is maybe because of the nature of your photography jobs. Shooting photos or videos of still items, tethered, where you have all the time you need, can be really done with very old equipment 100%. If you were shooting in nightclubs or events or motorsports or WEDDINGS...the advanced autofocus of the newer cameras would help a looooot... and if you didn't have it, you would just be falling behind other photographers that would have it. I know the gear doesn't make the photographer...but in some cases new gear with advanced technology helps a lot!
Yes and no, those things have always been photographed, and I haven't noticed huge improvements in the types of images produced over the last 15 or so years. Maybe they make the photographer's life easier, but they still have to get the shot. I did notice a huge change in the types of images when most changed from film to digital, but a D3 or 1Ds is still a great camera years later. When I first started out, we had to train on highway overpasses capturing license plates using film and manual focus. Nothing like speeding California drivers to help you focus. I'm not against buying new gear if it's a smart business move, but I often find the money can serve better in other areas. And like i said in the video, all the grip equipment and slow mo cams like phantoms and stuff like that, I rent.
Plenty of food for thought here. Thank you.
Ive been shooting food and drink for about 8 years now, but Im being asked to take a few video clips when Ive taken the shot. Can anyone recommend a turntable that is cordless - needs to be rebust and quick to use. Thanks
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i run a canon t100 with a kit 18 x 55, in my bag is my work horse a 50mm prime f2.8 and a 55 x200 for distance photography i dont intend to buy anything for a while until i set up a studio then its a couple lights and a background setup
What kind of lights you looking at?
I know pro people using 5DmkIII... I still use D3s, D810 and even D90...
I have a friend who shoots with a D3s and loves it. The D810 is an amazing camera. Although Nikon is the weaker camera 😉
I love how you're confident with your expenses. Not everyone would put a sit/stand desk ahead of a new camera body, but I can totally see why you do. Solid info, thanks!
That's a great observation. I now want to do a video titled 10 things I would buy before a new camera
+ Photoshop
That is for sure gear I forgot and of course DaVinci or some other editing software
I’ve used my canon 80d for 10 years. Just bought a canon r6 mark II just to get that 4k video and 180fps 1080p. I got some new clients that wanted that.
You should try 50 1.8 STM, it's really good for closeup photography since it focuses closer than 50L and it's way sharper wide open. 50L is a steal for creamy lifestyle photos but it doesn't make sense to use on matrix above 20mpix. Easily the lens with the best ROI in my collection.
Hey to the point! I do agree with you.
Great video!! Btw, I totally agree with you, I upgraded my camera the day my 5D Mark III died 😣 I would still shoot with it. My friends sometimes ask me why I don’t buy the newest models with the sensor stabilization, more resolution, better af bla bla, and I got happy to find someone who thinks the same way as I do 😆
Checked out your gear links. What screen are you tethering your Canon too?
It's tethered to my PC which is mirrored to my Samsung tab S8
I'm mostly on the video side of things so a little different, but probably the two things I have sitting around collecting dust the most around my studio are actually old computers (particularly laptops) and cheap shoulder rigs. Laptops have kind of accumulated starting from when I pretty much lived out of a backpack, I needed something beefy that could handle video at the time and I needed to be able to do same day edits/proofs in the field, and it would never fail I'd use a laptop for about a year and then either software updates would render the laptop almost useless for pro level work or demands of clients would shift and I'd have to upgrade again. So I'd have a mostly good laptop that I'd tell myself I'll use for something else someday (instead of selling it used) and I'd factor in the cost of a new laptop into upcoming gigs. This cycle finally mostly ended in 2012 when I bought my first house and my first desktop pc in probably 12 years. I used that pc from 2012 till 2021 when windows bricked the motherboard only upgrading small components here and there as needed, and then when I upgraded to the next pc I took all those upgraded components with me, much better system. I still have a travel laptop that's maybe six years old now, that I barely ever use, and definitely can't handle the video I'm shooting today but it's enough for transfering files and checking emails on the road, if I had to do travel edits I'd probably still be stuck in the old cycle. As far as shoulder rigs go I'd just see stuff on youtube and be like "oh that'll help and it's only $10, 20 30 etc. and I'd shoot with them like twice before I went back to just shooting handheld with a top handle or on a steady cam, I like to think I've wisened up about this over the years but I still buy random cheap doo dads to slap on my cam cage and they still mostly collect dust.
That's true, I definitely have more doo dads for video that I probably don't need. About laptops though, I was the same and decided to go the DIY desktop a few years ago. Now I use a tablet for tethering my camera and emailing, then on location I'll rent a laptop. For me it makes more sense then having duplicates of things like computers.
@@skylerburtphotos Yeah think I might look into the laptop rental idea next time I have a big gig that requires editing on the road.
@@who2999 It really saves on weight and from my experience all the software was already pre-loaded.
Nice video bro! I've been watching a ton of contents from other creators and all of them have this "It's nice to have" philosophy about every single piece of gear, and most of the time this is not even closer to be sustainable, like - "You know, I don't *always* use 5 cameras, 23 lenses and 6 Aputures 1200d, BUT, it's nice to have...", and frequently it sounds like you gonna be a better professional if you have all this gear, when the reality is pretty much what you said. You're one of the first creators that don't "recommend" the others to buy A TON of stuff to get the job done. Thanks for that! Take care bro. Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷
G.A.S. is real. The tough thing is that with creators we tend to get a lot of equipment for free (either to test out or promote) other than merch or courses, it's one of the few ways to pay the bills. Plus, it's exciting to get to try out the newest tech. But I think if you polled most creators on RUclips, (not just in the photography genre) they would probably say everyone should do more with less.
@@skylerburtphotos Yeah, there is this side of the business, I get it. Btw, a few weeks ago I got my first job in food photography (I'm not a food photographer at all, I'm more a videographer, but when the job comes... We need to be prepared) and your content was extremely helpful for me! I figured out lots of things by watching your videos and tips!
@@TiagoJardim That's awesome, congrats!!
Try the 50mm STM lens, works better for technical photos with 5Ds, it's lighter and it's hard to beat in terms of value. I've bought the 1.8 as a backup and it ended up being my main one.
And probably sharper too
Is that an original 24-70mm, not the “II” version? Has been one of my fav’s for a long time. Lotta mileage out of that lens. Saves gym workouts too - good bit of heft to it. :-)
It is the original, it's actually my oldest lens now and still going strong. I don't use it as much as the others, but it never disappoints. You're right it probably weighs as much as my other three combined!
I also share your philosophy on gear, my canon 60D is from 2010 and I still use it in some occasions, I moved to sony but use my canon lenses the 70-200f4, canon 40f2.8, and a sigma for canon 17-50f2.8 with an MC-11 adapter, for native sony i have a 90f2.8 macro, 18-105f4 and 16-50f3.5/5.6. the main ones are the 90macro and 18-105, i use the rest of course, but those two are my go to lenses, as for camera body 2x A6400 since i do corporate videos and always use 2 cams, but yeah, every piece of gear has to justify their purchased, if they don't show on 70% of my shooting needs i wont buy it.
If you take care of the gear, it should last a very long time
Useless gear would be cheap led lights from when I first started and a cheap speed light as well. Also I wish you knew how cheap clients are in the country I'm working in, they do not expect you to rent, they expect the world but want to pay pennies 🥸
Yeah, that happens. The type of lightning is different for every genre, but it's not an area you want to cheap out on. Try your hardest to avoid cheap clients
Great videos, subbed today
Thanks for the sub!
Great advice. I remember my commercial days. I owned dynalite but rented profoto on big shoot days.
Thats the way to go.
If you were starting off today with a budget of $1000, what camera body and lens would you get?
It's tough, I don't know what new camera body or lens combo would fit under that budget specifically, but I would spend around 50/50. I think you can find a 50mm lens for pretty cheap, or an vintage lens with an adapter. The camera body, is tough because it's a balance between MegaPixels and Video. If video is not a concern than you can find a body that's used with a good sensor for pretty cheap as well. An old 5DMK2 or MK3 might come under that budget. Like I said in the video you can buy my camera the Canon 5Ds brand new for 1,300. So it might be worth it to save a few hundred more.
Hello, what is this screen on the table? It's amazing, thanks! 🎉😊
That's a tablet, it's the Samsung Tab S8 Ultra
Thanks for sharing your gear setup.
Here is the gear I use for medical/scientific/close-up/table-top photography:
Nikon full-frame film or digital SLR camera
105mm f/2.8 macro
55mm f/3.5 macro
28mm f/3.5
Lens reversal ring
Lens extension tubes
Bellows unit
Mamiya RB67 6x7cm medium format film SLR camera
90mm f/3.8
140mm f/4.5 macro
Lens extension tube (45mm)
Lens extension tube (82mm)
Prism finder
Waist-level finder
Continuous lighting
Flash lighting
Light stands
Light diffusers
Light reflective panels
Film
Memory cards
Heavy tripod
Tabletop tripod
Table
Copy stand
Cable release
Background
Tape measure
Specimen jar
Knee and elbow pads
That's really interesting, do you do your own film processing for the medium format or do you send it off to a lab. Or do you have a digital back? My wife uses MF 120 film but the processing and film is pretty expensive now.
@@skylerburtphotos
Years ago, I developed my own large format, medium format, and 35mm black & white film and printed my own black & white prints. I have a wet darkroom and a digital darkroom. I still develop black & white film, but I rarely do black & white wet printing. Instead, I scan my negatives and digitally print my black & white images.
I used Kodak E-4 chemistry and E-6 chemistry to develop color transparency film. When I started shooting digital, I stopped using color transparency film. I do not have medium format digital cameras or backs. I only use small format digital (full-frame, APS-C, micro 4/3, and compact digital).
For years, I sent my color print film to a professional lab for developing and printing. When I started shooting digital, I stopped using color print films.
Which Pelican case is that?
This case is a little old, I don't think they sell it anymore, however, I would buy something like their 1510 case as it has wheels.
Using a standing desk is brilliant!
2:30 Words of wisdom.
Thanks!
still want to know about your tablet setup 😊
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@@skylerburtphotos NICE 🥰 can't sleep anymore 😅🤗
Tripods.. tripods… tripods - way too many 🙈
Thats really interesting, I never thought people might have too many tripods
Love your videos, and I enjoyed this one a lot! I have to ask, what brand is your cap?
Thanks! Its Outdoor Research
@@skylerburtphotos Thank you, I appreciate that!
Super cool!! Thank you for sharing!! Don’t forget about sand bags for those c-stands. I’ve had lots of success with rolling c-stands when on location and no assistants. Cheers 🎉🎉🎉
Right! Everything that can go on wheels should if you can
@@skylerburtphotos life saver for me for sure!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Appreciating your work and content!!