OMG I’m studying photography and I was expecting to learn about editing and my camera and how everything works only to be told “oh we don’t do that in class we do most of that in the higher level” and you’re like BRO WTF you’d expect them to teach you all that shit BEFORE going higher. Most of the things we have done is useless pointless PowerPoints. We also have been told to go around taking pics of the COLLEGE and the college is not pretty at all. Like so many areas you’re not allowed in due to covid and we were expecting to be told sometimes “just go out and go and take pictures” we also thought we would actually do things about photography but one of our lecturers teaches about how to analyse news paper articles like what the fuck has that to do with photography. Another thing we do a lot is “writing about our weaknesses and strengths and how to improve them. Like we did that shit in school. It’s so annoying I’ve been in college for months now and barely learned anything.
@@Username-pg5jt i feel this bro my sophomore year and junior year of hs were shit literally never got to fully learn about photography mostly storing files and editing in photoshop which helped but i mean i joined photography to learn about taking photos
Photography degrees are a total waste of money. They only exist to provide teaching jobs to those people who couldn't make it in photography. The same is usually true of art degrees and many other subjects. In most cases, you can learn the required skills without taking out a fortune in student loans.
Me too! I'm at Fullerton College and they have good photography department, but this is such an education! I wish we had this info in class. We missed most of this, like all of it.
I have a Tamron 16-300mm super zoom lens and it's just so convenient for vacation photos. Granted that the image quality isn't the greatest, but good enough for viewing on computer screen or a normal size print to hang on the wall. Not needing to switch lenses during shoots and miss out on the moment is sometimes more important than a pixel perfect shot.
This is seriously GOOD. Only for those who seriously know what it is all about (And probably don't need it but enjoy to hear it). The main thing here is to get that impatient, short temper photographer to seat and learn this priceless lesions and hope these folks get it... No not the topic but the provocation to seat for once and learn it al light speed (Under 2 hours forty five minutes) rather waiting to turn their hair white first! so short advice to more novice ones out there: "Get it or GET IT". & needless to say, "Have Fun" Plenty of it as I did from every minutes of this clip and wish ALL could understand the value presented here, in such a great condensed form.
this is an end to end encyclopedia of lenses. No snake oil, no confundus obscura, just real hands on technical comparison *thank you* for putting this together
This tutorial is perfect. I refer back to it often when trying to configure my set-up, or when arguing online with other photographers lol. High production value, clear and concise descriptions, and every segment starts out covering the most basic concepts, and ends with the most complex, so it's great for beginners and pros alike. Very well done, thank you for making this, it must have been quite the undertaking to put it all together.
Sometimes camera/lens videos get confusing as three different camera systems (full, cropped, m4/3) are being discussed at the same time. It's like learning calculus in english, french, mandarin at the same time. But great video just the same. And thanks to your beautiful family too!
This would have made our training in various combat camera units so much simpler! Speaking as a videographer for the last 30 years, you truly have a lot of current info densely packed! Thank you.
Words like 'excellent' are very good, because, sometimes, you cannot describe things exactly, with other words. I cannot describe this fantastic course with other words, so, I just say, it is excellent. If I may suggest, I think, you might make several parts of this video, in addition, and let people use each of them, as thy need for that specific subject.
So to make a face look its very best in headshots with the M43 system, the ideal focal length range to use is between 60mm to 80mm (120mm-160mm FF equivalent, 75mm-100mm APSC equivalent). M43 users, take note: 25-40mm will look okay, 40mm-60mm will look good, 60mm-80mm is perfect 👌. Got it 👍 Hope my calculations are spot on! Thank you for the video 😊 I just scored an Olympus 75mm 1.8 prime lens for cheap, and I’m excited to use it 👏
Hi. Thank you for all the effort. I just have one recommendation. When comparing images, it is better to make a info mark on the images, so inexperienced viewers could identify the difference a lot easier.
Man... the amount of professionalism and skill in this video, damn. Im not even into photography; however, if I was, I would come here to learn from you. Thanks for your hard work and passion for your field.
This just GREAT! I'm embarrassed to admit that I have Canon (Rebel ...something with 2 lenses, which I absolutely enjoy) for almost 10 years and don't know its full potential. The camera's manual looked "scary" and too complicated. This video is absolutely the best! Thank you very much!
i’m well aware of 100% of this, & already versed in about 90% of this stuff, but i’m watching anyway bc i’m a camera geek. that’s what it takes- interest/passion & the drive to familiarize yourself w/ equipment in order to grasp the tools enough to know what you’re doing & how to skillfully achieve looks technically speaking. you’re then able to more proficiently collect what you need & be comfortable w/ any piece of gear, flowing through your shoots to where you only need to think about the creative aspect of what you’re trying to accomplish. it irks me seeing photographers who on shoots fiddle w/ or obsess over their gear. i always suggest ppl take a couple of years learning the ins & outs of photo gear & doing experimental shoots before trying to commit themselves to this line of work professionally.
Very clear explanation of a topic that confuses many beginner and amateur photographers. 35mm film cameras became a standard in terms of explaining the field of view related to lens focal length because they were smaller and easier to handle than cameras that used larger film sizes. They were more popular because of this. Kodak introduced the APSC smaller film format at one point, but the quality of images from a smaller piece of film was not very good. These film size standards were adopted for use in digital cameras because photographers were familiar with them. With film, ISO speeds were considerably slower than current digital cameras can achieve. ISO 100 gave a very good image. Photographers would use film rated around ISO 64 or slower for the best quality image possible. Fast film was rated at ISO 400, but could be pushed to 800 during chemical development. Just before digital cameras started to achieve usable quality levels, the top speed available with film was ISO 3200 - which was a pretty grainy image. Digital cameras have surpassed that over the last ten years.
So much excellent info here, but meeting his family, his wife and kids, was a nice bonus to the video. He appears to be a really lucky guy, and appreciative of that fact
This is everything I've been looking for since I bought my camera in 2024. You are Very didactic approaching this conten. Your voice and communication is pretty good, congratulations for your skills and also for providing usefull knowledge to us for free ❤
at the portrait focal distance discussion around 2:15:00 it is also necessary to mention that moving the subject away from the lens also decreases the exaggerated perspective shifts as seen in the next segment, so it is easy to think of the longer lenses as a zoom into the subject when placed further away with a wider lens: cropping an image with a wider lens would produce the same angle as a portrait from the same distance with a tighter lens. this is an important factor considering the type of photography intended for a lens to be used with.
Most don't know that "All lenses focused at the same distance with the same aperture have the same depth of field". This can be demonstrated by taking a photo of a bottle for example. Using a zoom lens take a photo of the bottle at the wide angle length and at the telephoto length. Produce an images on computer or paper with the bottle reproduced the same size. When compared you will notice that the depth of field is the same. The focal length does not affect the depth of field.
Been a photographer for 8 years, so watched to make sure I knew everything lol. thankfully I learnt something new - the differences between coatings on the filters! Thanks! Haha
I wish I could print all this out for reference. I’m just trying to learn by myself. I need to decide on a camera for movie set photography of the actors. I need to learn fast. So many options and nothing with everything one wants. I have a headache from all the videos I’ve watched and still don’t know what to purchase. This video is awesome and I will have to listen and replay each segment 15 times to grasp the concept of how each works and why. Great job! Thank you for putting it all in one place.
Great Vid. I wish I would have seen this about $8,000 ago. Learned a lot about full frame. My understanding of aperture is not cloudy like it used to be. I am very much considering adding a full frame camera to my collection now. I currently have a canon m50 (very first camera), BMPCC 6K Pro (the more I learn about the camera the better the videos are), and Lumix GH5S (just learning more about it, it has been my least favorite as it has been hard to get the good video I like). I shoot mostly sports video and prefer deep DOF because I like to see the reactions of others around plays. I shoot primarily football, basketball, and track. The BMPCC 6K Pro, strangely enough, has been my primary because I have put the most money into it. I tripod up in the stands, make what feels like a thousand adjustments and I go to town. So if were to entertain an FF cam just because I am curious, what would be a good FF to start with?
Thank you so much for this video! I inherited my father’s cameras a year and a half ago and I didn’t know where to start trying to figure out what to do with them. This is exactly what I needed to grasp basic concepts and lingo of photography.
With head shots, the distance to the subject is what determines the distortion of the face. Note that he changes that distance with each focal length. If he had stood in one spot, the face would have looked about the same for all focal lengths. What the zoom changes is the field of view. The reason that for FF, 85mm to 110mm or a bit more looks pleasing for head shots is that it puts you the right distance from the subject to get the right field of view.
Regarding aperture, whether or not you need a wider aperture does not always depend on light. This tripped me up for a long time because of the way tutorials explain aperture. Because they create a narrow depth of field, types of photography where you want the entire image in focus or where you only want motion blur are not conducive to wide apertures. Examples of this would be landscape, sunrise/sunset, and waterfalls or any moving body of water if you want the smooth water effect, as well as a number of types of night photography. Additionally, shooting outside does NOT always mean you have plenty of light. Even during the brightest part of the day it depends on location, the environment, weather conditions, the position and direction of the sun, etc. And as I said there are a number of types of night photography that take place outside. These all require narrow apertures with slower shutter speeds and/or higher ISOs.
This video was a fantastic education on lenses. Thank you! I am new to digital photography and was looking for information to help my build my kit strategically. This was a valuable must watch video.
On lenses, I saved and got a cheap Canon Rebel t100 . GREAT, blew my phone away at what i could do. Then of course i want more then the 18-55mm kit lens it came with. I found refurbished Canon web site and got a Cheap lens i could afford first. 75-300mm EF full frame. So i can Zoom in like a champ. Birds, squirrels, Deer, and the Moon..... Now i know WHY. Full frame lens on Crop sensor. Not sure what it would be at that point. But anyways... Back to video, AND THANK YOU. i love learning. I do photos for Fun :)
excellent. concise and touches perfectly on what needs to be understood without all the "sports type commentary" in current youtube tutes. this is a perfect video tutorials. thanks
I dont worry about contrast in lenses as much as distortion and softness in the lens. Pictures can always be adjusted. IN fact less contrast gives you more flexibility with grading the picture/color later of course this is up to a limit. Of course I am not talking about improperly exposed pictures .
What a tutorial.incredible and fabulous with in detail explanation step by step.its a reference tutorial. Never seen such a wealth of information in RUclips channel. Great. It shows your expertise in the field and ability to explain convincingly. Thank you so much. 🙏👍💐
The difference in the image sensors is not explained so you get the actual facts, but more whether you are an amateur or a professional photographer. MP is crucial to the number of points your photo consists of. The same applies if you use a black and white, grayscale or color filter.
Absolutely great job. Just one request, please do some video on "HOW TO SEE AND USE LIGHT" in photography. I think this is something we all need to learn, thanks a lot.
Wow is this ever a fantastic tutorial that answers just about any and all questions you ever had on lenses. I’ve saved this video for future references. Thank you for such a great video
That's some very in depth knowledge most other videos don't even teach you. Good job. I got alot out of it except the excitement from fisheye lenses. Gonna watch the depth of field video next.
Great video, thanks for the clear information…and an even bigger thanks for not having music playing while your talking( its a pet hate but this drives me mad in so many videos!).
Truly excellent - this was a long video but definitely a good use my time. I know a bit about photography, but learned a lot from your lessons - especially about face distortion at variousl focal lenghts, compression of background objects when using telephoto lenses, a great explanation of chromatic aberration, purple fringing, barrel distortion and pincushion (and the reasons it occurs), the value of coatings on filters and how they work and how a fisheye works. Thank you so much - I would recommend this to both the beginner as well as the intermediate photographer!
Thank you so much for this video. Absolutely incredible how packed full of concise information this is, can't find this anywhere else at this quality and professionalism. You guys are the best :)
Wow wow wow, I can't find words to to say thank you or describe how grateful I am that I came across this video and tutorial, you have one more SUBCRIBER, blessings to you and your crew for the rest of 2023, and beyond,
07:43 It is instructive to note that moving back and zooming in may render a similar "composition" (angle of view), but it will render a very different perspective. I get a kick out of some of these photographers who say that a long lens compresses the scene. I have been shooting for over 50 years, and I have never seen a long lens compress anything. All it does is magnify and crop. If you were to shoot the same scene with a normal lens and then a long lens, without moving the camera, and then crop and enlarged the image captured with the normal lens (failing aberrations, of course), you would get exactly the same picture.
Yup. I was wrong when I described lens compressing using telephoto lenses. When I created this course (in early 2014), the term compression was used a lot (around the web) when describing moving back and creating the same framing with a longer lens. Later in the course, I show a bunch of examples that show this effect, but you are correct. It isn't compressing anything!
It's true that extension tubes allow you to experiment with macro photography. But once you decide that it's for you, you definitely want a true macro lens. And don't expect them to go beyond 1:1. There are lenses out there that do that, but they are extremely difficult to handle. A smaller sensor (APSC) helps when it comes to larger prints.
For Canon APSC DSLRs, a 55-250mm zoom or 17-85 zoom lens reverse mounted with a "Movo AF (auto focus) Reverse Mount Macro Lens Converter for Canon EOS DSLR" beats any "true" macro lens. The AF converter only cost about $60.
@@set3777 Kidding, right? There's no way they will "beat" a true macro. True macro lenses are corrected for the macro range, they have minimal distortion, and high flatness of field. They can be used beyond 1:1 with extension tubes or bellows. A high quality teleconverter can be used to increase image magnification while maintaining minimum focus distance. Reversing a prime lens, like a 35 or a 50, will give better results than a zoom.
Rarely learnt so much good stuff from just one video! I am surprised this did not make thousands of likes. The software and lens hacks are awesome too. Thanks
I appreciate this tutorial and the clarity of the speaker. I had to set my television to Natural picture mode because in calibrated modes the chromatic aberrations were not apparent at all.
Wow, I've never watched a more useful, organized and informative video course about anything, let alone lenses. Thanks much for all your time and information put in to this. It's to the point without a bunch of unnecessary banter and "selling" one brand over another. I think the only reason it doesn't have many more views yet is due to the obscure name. I'll share it and hope others do too.
Excellent information. Subject matter is presented in a very clear, concise and easy to understand way. So many aspiring photographers often times run into walls when trying to navigate through technical jargon and the presenter attempting to impress other experts. Great job!
Thank you, you wouldn't believe the amount of so called photography experts that maintain an aps-c sensor is giving you more zoom on any particular lens added to it, hopefully people will use this excellent reference to make sense of it all. Great info here.
oo0Spyder0oo: They give the EFFECT of "more zoom" which is why they're good for subjects that you can't get close to such as wildlife. The effect is caused by the narrower FOV.
I've just started watching this video and I'm only 3mins into it but already I can tell this is so good and so informative. If I was starting out as a photographer or had to recommend a tutorial video to a newbie I would hands down recommend this video in a heartbeat. You speak so well and so clear. It's always good to go back to basics so I will definitely put this video in my saved videos. We'll done 😀
Excellent comparison👍🏻 I’m assuming the P2 with a bit of zoom corrects the barrel distortion and if so, have you had a chance to test a comparison with P1 and P2 at that same focal length? (26mm or whatever the P1 native is) I’m guessing the larger megapixel count and sensor size on the P2 would look very similar to P1 when digitally zoomed/cropped to achieve the look of the P1. And if I am correct for that comparison, I would assume that the P2 would look better with the increased dynamic range. I know I’m getting all technical here but if the P2 looks better than P1 at the 26mm equivalent (dynamic wise) that would really give P2 a decent advantage as a dual purpose device (wide angle use and a great b-roll cam) Last but not least, are we looking pretty good stability-wise with a zoom of around 50mm equivalent on the P2?
Another thank you for your time in sharing your knowledge to a newbie. Coming from a sound background, you'd think i would get it, but it finally dawned on me how images compress and expand shot from different distances. To think of it this way and then choose a lens or focal length. Great teacher.
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I learned more in three hours with you than in a whole semester of photography classes. Thank you so much!
OMG I’m studying photography and I was expecting to learn about editing and my camera and how everything works only to be told “oh we don’t do that in class we do most of that in the higher level” and you’re like BRO WTF you’d expect them to teach you all that shit BEFORE going higher. Most of the things we have done is useless pointless PowerPoints. We also have been told to go around taking pics of the COLLEGE and the college is not pretty at all.
Like so many areas you’re not allowed in due to covid and we were expecting to be told sometimes “just go out and go and take pictures” we also thought we would actually do things about photography but one of our lecturers teaches about how to analyse news paper articles like what the fuck has that to do with photography. Another thing we do a lot is “writing about our weaknesses and strengths and how to improve them. Like we did that shit in school. It’s so annoying I’ve been in college for months now and barely learned anything.
@@Username-pg5jt i feel this bro my sophomore year and junior year of hs were shit literally never got to fully learn about photography mostly storing files and editing in photoshop which helped but i mean i joined photography to learn about taking photos
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Photography degrees are a total waste of money. They only exist to provide teaching jobs to those people who couldn't make it in photography. The same is usually true of art degrees and many other subjects.
In most cases, you can learn the required skills without taking out a fortune in student loans.
Me too! I'm at Fullerton College and they have good photography department, but this is such an education! I wish we had this info in class. We missed most of this, like all of it.
Commit to watching this. You won't regret it. Every second is straightforward and packed with information.
This is a lot more informative than the kinda "classes" you get on Skillshare. Might just stick to youtube
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I have a Tamron 16-300mm super zoom lens and it's just so convenient for vacation photos. Granted that the image quality isn't the greatest, but good enough for viewing on computer screen or a normal size print to hang on the wall. Not needing to switch lenses during shoots and miss out on the moment is sometimes more important than a pixel perfect shot.
This is seriously GOOD. Only for those who seriously know what it is all about (And probably don't need it but enjoy to hear it). The main thing here is to get that impatient, short temper photographer to seat and learn this priceless lesions and hope these folks get it... No not the topic but the provocation to seat for once and learn it al light speed (Under 2 hours forty five minutes) rather waiting to turn their hair white first! so short advice to more novice ones out there: "Get it or GET IT". & needless to say, "Have Fun" Plenty of it as I did from every minutes of this clip and wish ALL could understand the value presented here, in such a great condensed form.
this is an end to end encyclopedia of lenses. No snake oil, no confundus obscura, just real hands on technical comparison
*thank you* for putting this together
This tutorial is perfect. I refer back to it often when trying to configure my set-up, or when arguing online with other photographers lol.
High production value, clear and concise descriptions, and every segment starts out covering the most basic concepts, and ends with the most complex, so it's great for beginners and pros alike. Very well done, thank you for making this, it must have been quite the undertaking to put it all together.
Sometimes camera/lens videos get confusing as three different camera systems (full, cropped, m4/3) are being discussed at the same time. It's like learning calculus in english, french, mandarin at the same time. But great video just the same. And thanks to your beautiful family too!
This would have made our training in various combat camera units so much simpler! Speaking as a videographer for the last 30 years, you truly have a lot of current info densely packed! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Words like 'excellent' are very good, because, sometimes, you cannot describe things exactly, with other words. I cannot describe this fantastic course with other words, so, I just say, it is excellent.
If I may suggest, I think, you might make several parts of this video, in addition, and let people use each of them, as thy need for that specific subject.
I didn’t need to go to college for photography, I just needed these videos
So to make a face look its very best in headshots with the M43 system, the ideal focal length range to use is between 60mm to 80mm (120mm-160mm FF equivalent, 75mm-100mm APSC equivalent). M43 users, take note: 25-40mm will look okay, 40mm-60mm will look good, 60mm-80mm is perfect 👌. Got it 👍 Hope my calculations are spot on! Thank you for the video 😊 I just scored an Olympus 75mm 1.8 prime lens for cheap, and I’m excited to use it 👏
Hi. Thank you for all the effort. I just have one recommendation. When comparing images, it is better to make a info mark on the images, so inexperienced viewers could identify the difference a lot easier.
Man... the amount of professionalism and skill in this video, damn. Im not even into photography; however, if I was, I would come here to learn from you. Thanks for your hard work and passion for your field.
This just GREAT! I'm embarrassed to admit that I have Canon (Rebel ...something with 2 lenses, which I absolutely enjoy) for almost 10 years and don't know its full potential. The camera's manual looked "scary" and too complicated.
This video is absolutely the best! Thank you very much!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for going back to basics on various lenses! Photographers of all levels can appreciate this video lesson...THANKS!
i’m well aware of 100% of this, & already versed in about 90% of this stuff, but i’m watching anyway bc i’m a camera geek. that’s what it takes- interest/passion & the drive to familiarize yourself w/ equipment in order to grasp the tools enough to know what you’re doing & how to skillfully achieve looks technically speaking. you’re then able to more proficiently collect what you need & be comfortable w/ any piece of gear, flowing through your shoots to where you only need to think about the creative aspect of what you’re trying to accomplish. it irks me seeing photographers who on shoots fiddle w/ or obsess over their gear. i always suggest ppl take a couple of years learning the ins & outs of photo gear & doing experimental shoots before trying to commit themselves to this line of work professionally.
Very clear explanation of a topic that confuses many beginner and amateur photographers.
35mm film cameras became a standard in terms of explaining the field of view related to lens focal length because they were smaller and easier to handle than cameras that used larger film sizes. They were more popular because of this. Kodak introduced the APSC smaller film format at one point, but the quality of images from a smaller piece of film was not very good. These film size standards were adopted for use in digital cameras because photographers were familiar with them.
With film, ISO speeds were considerably slower than current digital cameras can achieve. ISO 100 gave a very good image. Photographers would use film rated around ISO 64 or slower for the best quality image possible. Fast film was rated at ISO 400, but could be pushed to 800 during chemical development. Just before digital cameras started to achieve usable quality levels, the top speed available with film was ISO 3200 - which was a pretty grainy image. Digital cameras have surpassed that over the last ten years.
So much excellent info here, but meeting his family, his wife and kids, was a nice bonus to the video. He appears to be a really lucky guy, and appreciative of that fact
Excellent, excellent, excellent! Clear concise explanations of photography in today's "digital" world. Thank you so much.
This is everything I've been looking for since I bought my camera in 2024. You are Very didactic approaching this conten. Your voice and communication is pretty good, congratulations for your skills and also for providing usefull knowledge to us for free ❤
at the portrait focal distance discussion around 2:15:00 it is also necessary to mention that moving the subject away from the lens also decreases the exaggerated perspective shifts as seen in the next segment, so it is easy to think of the longer lenses as a zoom into the subject when placed further away with a wider lens: cropping an image with a wider lens would produce the same angle as a portrait from the same distance with a tighter lens. this is an important factor considering the type of photography intended for a lens to be used with.
this feels very much like a udemy course. love it.
thank you for making this public and freely available!
Most don't know that "All lenses focused at the same distance with the same aperture have the same depth of field". This can be demonstrated by taking a photo of a bottle for example. Using a zoom lens take a photo of the bottle at the wide angle length and at the telephoto length. Produce an images on computer or paper with the bottle reproduced the same size. When compared you will notice that the depth of field is the same. The focal length does not affect the depth of field.
The first video I have watched for almost 3 hours without feeling bored. Thank you very much.
53:33 - *Canon* also has *AFD* (arc-form drive), *STM* (stepping motor), *Nano-USM* and simple micromotor.
From a to zero for almost all photographers. Awesome video. One lesson to cover most about photography.
This video is absolutely the best! Thank you very much!
Been a photographer for 8 years, so watched to make sure I knew everything lol. thankfully I learnt something new - the differences between coatings on the filters! Thanks! Haha
I wish I could print all this out for reference. I’m just trying to learn by myself. I need to decide on a camera for movie set photography of the actors. I need to learn fast. So many options and nothing with everything one wants. I have a headache from all the videos I’ve watched and still don’t know what to purchase.
This video is awesome and I will have to listen and replay each segment 15 times to grasp the concept of how each works and why. Great job! Thank you for putting it all in one place.
Subscribed ❤
This is the most comprehensive lesson on lenses I have found. Well done.
One of the most comprehensive courses I've ever seen - thank you.
I learned so much from the end of this class. I had no idea of the degree to which focal length affects perspective. Thanks for making this video!
You're very welcome!
Great Vid. I wish I would have seen this about $8,000 ago. Learned a lot about full frame. My understanding of aperture is not cloudy like it used to be. I am very much considering adding a full frame camera to my collection now. I currently have a canon m50 (very first camera), BMPCC 6K Pro (the more I learn about the camera the better the videos are), and Lumix GH5S (just learning more about it, it has been my least favorite as it has been hard to get the good video I like). I shoot mostly sports video and prefer deep DOF because I like to see the reactions of others around plays. I shoot primarily football, basketball, and track. The BMPCC 6K Pro, strangely enough, has been my primary because I have put the most money into it. I tripod up in the stands, make what feels like a thousand adjustments and I go to town. So if were to entertain an FF cam just because I am curious, what would be a good FF to start with?
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO!
Im two minutes in and im “sold”. Seems legit and educated. I like it
The best and the most extensive knowledge sharing on photography I have come across on RUclips.....
Thank you so much for this video! I inherited my father’s cameras a year and a half ago and I didn’t know where to start trying to figure out what to do with them. This is exactly what I needed to grasp basic concepts and lingo of photography.
With head shots, the distance to the subject is what determines the distortion of the face. Note that he changes that distance with each focal length. If he had stood in one spot, the face would have looked about the same for all focal lengths. What the zoom changes is the field of view. The reason that for FF, 85mm to 110mm or a bit more looks pleasing for head shots is that it puts you the right distance from the subject to get the right field of view.
This was so helpful I learned so many things and have a better understanding about lenses
Regarding aperture, whether or not you need a wider aperture does not always depend on light. This tripped me up for a long time because of the way tutorials explain aperture. Because they create a narrow depth of field, types of photography where you want the entire image in focus or where you only want motion blur are not conducive to wide apertures. Examples of this would be landscape, sunrise/sunset, and waterfalls or any moving body of water if you want the smooth water effect, as well as a number of types of night photography. Additionally, shooting outside does NOT always mean you have plenty of light. Even during the brightest part of the day it depends on location, the environment, weather conditions, the position and direction of the sun, etc. And as I said there are a number of types of night photography that take place outside. These all require narrow apertures with slower shutter speeds and/or higher ISOs.
Good vid. I've been listening to this for 26min and I've learned so much already. Great Stuff. Saving this to my watch later so i can come back to it.
I am just extremely lucky YT recommended this video to me. This is superb. Thank you so so much
This video was a fantastic education on lenses. Thank you! I am new to digital photography and was looking for information to help my build my kit strategically. This was a valuable must watch video.
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Here for the 1st time. About 30 minutes in and i think im going to restart the video and get my notebook.
On lenses, I saved and got a cheap Canon Rebel t100 . GREAT, blew my phone away at what i could do. Then of course i want more then the 18-55mm kit lens it came with. I found refurbished Canon web site and got a Cheap lens i could afford first. 75-300mm EF full frame. So i can Zoom in like a champ. Birds, squirrels, Deer, and the Moon..... Now i know WHY. Full frame lens on Crop sensor. Not sure what it would be at that point. But anyways... Back to video, AND THANK YOU. i love learning. I do photos for Fun :)
excellent. concise and touches perfectly on what needs to be understood without all the "sports type commentary" in current youtube tutes. this is a perfect video tutorials. thanks
Feynman said if you can't explain a thing simply, you don't understand it. You do a great job here of explaining things simply. Ty
I dont worry about contrast in lenses as much as distortion and softness in the lens. Pictures can always be adjusted. IN fact less contrast gives you more flexibility with grading the picture/color later of course this is up to a limit. Of course I am not talking about improperly exposed pictures .
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Thank you, probably the best video ive seen on the topic
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I feel like I get lost at times, I need it more fluid and less like a class at school, some pov’s I appreciated
What a tutorial.incredible and fabulous with in detail explanation step by step.its a reference tutorial. Never seen such a wealth of information in RUclips channel. Great. It shows your expertise in the field and ability to explain convincingly. Thank you so much. 🙏👍💐
RUclips recommended this to me at 12:27AM on a Thursday...
The difference in the image sensors is not explained so you get the actual facts, but more whether you are an amateur or a professional photographer. MP is crucial to the number of points your photo consists of. The same applies if you use a black and white, grayscale or color filter.
Very good to the point class, great job presenting / explaining ! Wish I had found this years ago .
Absolutely great job. Just one request, please do some video on "HOW TO SEE AND USE LIGHT" in photography. I think this is something we all need to learn, thanks a lot.
The most comprehensive & to-the-points lecture on camera lenses in the entire universe.
Thank you so much! You gave me all the answers to questions I wouldn't have known enough to ask but wanted to learn.
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Thank you for all of this info. It’s come at a good time for me and my photography journey.
Wow is this ever a fantastic tutorial that answers just about any and all questions you ever had on lenses. I’ve saved this video for future references. Thank you for such a great video
Will this video help me as a videographer?
One of the best lessons I have ever heard/seen. Thank you 😊
Wow, thank you!
That's some very in depth knowledge most other videos don't even teach you. Good job. I got alot out of it except the excitement from fisheye lenses. Gonna watch the depth of field video next.
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Great video, thanks for the clear information…and an even bigger thanks for not having music playing while your talking( its a pet hate but this drives me mad in so many videos!).
Very well said , Thank you for sharing this video very informative your'e a genius ..👏👍🏼
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Absolutely the best info presented the best on Youtubies... Thank You for this great "defraction" from the rest out there!
Finally someone speaking thouroughly and without confusing people who're watching the video. 👍🏻👏🏻
cool course, ive watched a good few courses from you and your channel, but this one is bringing everything together !
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This is a masterpiece video ! Tons of excellent and valuable information. Thanks a lot !
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Truly excellent - this was a long video but definitely a good use my time. I know a bit about photography, but learned a lot from your lessons - especially about face distortion at variousl focal lenghts, compression of background objects when using telephoto lenses, a great explanation of chromatic aberration, purple fringing, barrel distortion and pincushion (and the reasons it occurs), the value of coatings on filters and how they work and how a fisheye works. Thank you so much - I would recommend this to both the beginner as well as the intermediate photographer!
Thank you so much for this video. Absolutely incredible how packed full of concise information this is, can't find this anywhere else at this quality and professionalism. You guys are the best :)
Wow wow wow, I can't find words to to say thank you or describe how grateful I am that I came across this video and tutorial, you have one more SUBCRIBER, blessings to you and your crew for the rest of 2023, and beyond,
Lecture go with picture and why. Perfect video.
Thank you for the video. I learned a lot and i am really excited about what all the lens options can do. Thanks again!
extremely helpful. your explanations and definitions of terms helped me understand so much more about photography. you are a great teacher.
07:43 It is instructive to note that moving back and zooming in may render a similar "composition" (angle of view), but it will render a very different perspective. I get a kick out of some of these photographers who say that a long lens compresses the scene. I have been shooting for over 50 years, and I have never seen a long lens compress anything. All it does is magnify and crop. If you were to shoot the same scene with a normal lens and then a long lens, without moving the camera, and then crop and enlarged the image captured with the normal lens (failing aberrations, of course), you would get exactly the same picture.
Yup. I was wrong when I described lens compressing using telephoto lenses. When I created this course (in early 2014), the term compression was used a lot (around the web) when describing moving back and creating the same framing with a longer lens. Later in the course, I show a bunch of examples that show this effect, but you are correct. It isn't compressing anything!
This is a great video! I understand so much more! You are a perfect teacher! Thank you!
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It's true that extension tubes allow you to experiment with macro photography. But once you decide that it's for you, you definitely want a true macro lens. And don't expect them to go beyond 1:1. There are lenses out there that do that, but they are extremely difficult to handle. A smaller sensor (APSC) helps when it comes to larger prints.
For Canon APSC DSLRs, a 55-250mm zoom or 17-85 zoom lens reverse mounted with a "Movo AF (auto focus) Reverse Mount Macro Lens Converter for Canon EOS DSLR" beats any "true" macro lens.
The AF converter only cost about $60.
@@set3777 Kidding, right? There's no way they will "beat" a true macro. True macro lenses are corrected for the macro range, they have minimal distortion, and high flatness of field. They can be used beyond 1:1 with extension tubes or bellows. A high quality teleconverter can be used to increase image magnification while maintaining minimum focus distance. Reversing a prime lens, like a 35 or a 50, will give better results than a zoom.
Rarely learnt so much good stuff from just one video! I am surprised this did not make thousands of likes. The software and lens hacks are awesome too. Thanks
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Thank you so much, I was looking for like this explanation for the last 6 years, I even went to college 😅. Thank you ❤
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Absolutely lovely description of lenses thank you
Thanks for this video, soon I will buy my very first DSLR, so this video is going to be really helpful.
So comprehensive buy easy to understand... Thanks sir for sharing this video, very helpful
I appreciate this tutorial and the clarity of the speaker. I had to set my television to Natural picture mode because in calibrated modes the chromatic aberrations were not apparent at all.
Wow, I've never watched a more useful, organized and informative video course about anything, let alone lenses. Thanks much for all your time and information put in to this. It's to the point without a bunch of unnecessary banter and "selling" one brand over another. I think the only reason it doesn't have many more views yet is due to the obscure name. I'll share it and hope others do too.
My thoughts exactly. Well-structured, informative, practical, calm - you don't see that often. Very good job.
Excellent information. Subject matter is presented in a very clear, concise and easy to understand way. So many aspiring photographers often times run into walls when trying to navigate through technical jargon and the presenter attempting to impress other experts. Great job!
YES, Well organized and the vocabulary he speaks with is clear, precise and proper information. One hell of a dude here, Vote him in for President!
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Thank you, you wouldn't believe the amount of so called photography experts that maintain an aps-c sensor is giving you more zoom on any particular lens added to it, hopefully people will use this excellent reference to make sense of it all. Great info here.
oo0Spyder0oo: They give the EFFECT of "more zoom" which is why they're good for subjects that you can't get close to such as wildlife. The effect is caused by the narrower FOV.
This course is very complete
Thank you very much for this course! It's super helpful!
Very clear nd well explained .thank you
It is a wonderful tutorial lesson. I learned a lot from this lesson. thank you so much.
Like how you get straight to the point, thank you!
Excellent information with super excellent explanation 🌷.
Canon users never learn about configurable automatic ISO. Nikon has found the perfect auto implementation for perfect Auto-ISO.
I've just started watching this video and I'm only 3mins into it but already I can tell this is so good and so informative. If I was starting out as a photographer or had to recommend a tutorial video to a newbie I would hands down recommend this video in a heartbeat. You speak so well and so clear. It's always good to go back to basics so I will definitely put this video in my saved videos. We'll done 😀
A long video but it really covers all the bases.
I really like your standard lens photos
Excellent comparison👍🏻 I’m assuming the P2 with a bit of zoom corrects the barrel distortion and if so, have you had a chance to test a comparison with P1 and P2 at that same focal length? (26mm or whatever the P1 native is) I’m guessing the larger megapixel count and sensor size on the P2 would look very similar to P1 when digitally zoomed/cropped to achieve the look of the P1.
And if I am correct for that comparison, I would assume that the P2 would look better with the increased dynamic range. I know I’m getting all technical here but if the P2 looks better than P1 at the 26mm equivalent (dynamic wise) that would really give P2 a decent advantage as a dual purpose device (wide angle use and a great b-roll cam)
Last but not least, are we looking pretty good stability-wise with a zoom of around 50mm equivalent on the P2?
Another thank you for your time in sharing your knowledge to a newbie. Coming from a sound background, you'd think i would get it, but it finally dawned on me how images compress and expand shot from different distances. To think of it this way and then choose a lens or focal length. Great teacher.