I kinda agree with the Sigma guy. Y'all gonna talk about what you want, and I appreciate the stance that "we mention it because it's there, up to the viewer to determine if it's important," but... RUclipsrs are influential, what you talk about becomes what the community talks about, becomes what people make purchase decisions on. And RUclips reviewers (I'm one of 'em) will often talk about things that are easy to evaluate, but not the most meaningful measures. I have noticed the rise of the sunstar barometer, which seems recent in photography RUclips and have thought to myself, "I sure hope people new to this hobby don't get the impression that this actually matters." I am reminded of my frustration with speed limits on public roads and how an easy measure becomes disproportionately enforced. Cops have a tool they can point at a car and get a pass/fail answer indicating "this person is dangerous." And it gets used, a lot. Meanwhile, more difficult measures of dangerous driving (e.g. distraction) get enforced less frequently because it's not easy to evaluate. The sunstar barometer reminds me of that. And specs on smart phones and laptops. Does a new wireless headphone have a USB-C port. How much piano black is in this car interior. Is it made of metal or plastic. Etc. etc. It's not that the measures are actually meaningless, and yes to some people it's very pertinent information. It's just that the ease of the measurement contributes to the proliferation of it, moreso than the usefulness of the measure, and results in a lot of disproportionate community attention on trivial things. IMO.
"Life size" made a lot more sense with film. It just meant when you got your negative back, at 1:1 ratio, the size of the object on the film negative would be the same size as the actual subject. It also mattered a lot more with film because generally the detail limiter was film grain.
Thanks for another great podcast. I find this more informative and entertaining than 90% of the stuff on television. I look forward to every Wednesday. Keep up the good work.
Lens breathing performance is crucial for my type of photography: focus stacking for product, scale model, and dioramas. If you have never stacked dozens of frames from MFD to mid-distance (not to mention infinity focus), you'll never understand how big of a pain it is to correct all the misalignments and artifacts later manually after stacking if the lens breathed a lot. And yes, those flaws need to be corrected. I don't want my photos to look like a product of AI image generation. In this sense it almost felt like Nikon read my mind in terms of understanding my needs, and designed their Z lenses in a way that is perfect for my use case scenarios - lack of breathing, at the expense of size and weight. Absolute sharpness is nice to have but not the most important criteria for me because a product of focus stacking will be sharper than anything taken in a single shot. Breathing is one of the first important criteria i look out for before buying a lens, followed by CA. Focus stacking boosts sharpness - and also CA, so that's one more reason you do not want to use crap lenses for stacking. Sony is the absolute worst choice for me when only about 2 bodies they sell currently offer focus bracketing, while their lenses breathe so much that i feel like I'm using a zoom lens when i rack focus.
Same here! ALso on street photogrpahy as I just commented, tere are lenses which require distortion correction + focus breathing = eats some millimeters and lens ends ups being nothing for what you pay. So ended up using Z system for same reason.
I feel the same way about video work. Before I owned my Z8 I was renting an fx3 or a7s3 but sony and 3rd part lenses had horrific breathing. Now I get the best of both worlds with the Z8. Amazing video quality with native lenses that are beautiful.
Sony user here, thanks for that explanation. I’ve never tried focus stacking and you have got me spooked now haha. Does this apply to macro lenses as well?
@@sneakingelephant applies on any lens. As an example the Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G has focus breathing and is almost useless with stacking. ALso a too soft lens, just the center is somehow sharp.
I recomended the SanDisk Extreme to my wife. She needed a new backup drive. I have two of the first gen drive no probs. The drive she ordered arrived the day of your last podcast. I had to explain who you guys are and why she needs to return the first drive she has purchased in many years... She thinks the Samsung drive is adorable. Thanks.
I had to go immediately to the camera store TV channel and look at the oldest videos. Lumix GF1 was the first video. Then a few videos down I enjoyed "The Hood is Good." One thing I did learn, the intro song has never changed.
Thanks guys for another great conversation Honestly i am a big fan..lots if info and a good laugh I usually listen to it on my desk while working and i keep laughing people will think i am mad hahaha Still waiting for the battle of the tele zooms for the E mount
The first Sigma lens I bought was a 28-200. I found that at closest focusing distance it was more like 28-135. But rather than being annoyed I thought, hey - 135 mm isn't so bad. And I think the Tamron 18-400 is like 18-270 mm at closest focusing distance, but if you know in advance, it's not a big deal I think.
A couple suggestions for Joseph's tech question.. 1. Try hanging the camera off of your neck and bracing it against your chest so you don't have to hold the camera with the right hand. Then use your left hand to manipulate the dials and press the shutter. A flipped-out screen will be key for you to compose while the camera is hanging from your neck. 2. 3rd party chest mounts exist for cameras. I think they're intended for videographers but they could be useful. A "Velocity clip" is an option. 3. A tripod or any kind of mount is a great option. -Your friendly neighborhood bilateral amputee and occupational therapist, John
For left-hand only use of a system camera, I would just use a tripod. Once you get the camera mounted on the tripod, you shouldn't have much difficultly moving it around, changing controls, zooming, and shooting with one hand. For more portable/casual shooting, you will probably have to settle for a compact camera on a neck strap. Let it dangle from the strap while you fiddle with controls and then hold it upside down in your left hand and push the shutter with your thumb. And of course, most people can probably take photos with their smartphone one-handed (again with maybe a strap for safety).
One feature I often find over done in reviews "is build quality" being linked to both weight and using metal. One of the great thing about mirrorless cameras is we can now carry smaller and lighter kit. But reviewers complaining about the use of plastics means metal construction is still seen as premium, when in many cases it's not needed.
The details of the drive failures are more nuanced than the flash make. Some (WD) drive controllers will do strange things like encrypt the storage with hardware non user changeable keys. Meaning data recovery shops may be able to read the data but it's in an encrypted form that they can't do anything with. The other failure mode is when the flash modules can no longer be read/written from (short version is after a certain number of cycles no amount of voltage will read or write to the flash modules). So one other thing to ask the manufacturers is if the controllers do anything weird to the storage on the flash making it hard to recover data in the case of a controller failure (but where the flash is still useable).
Would be great for you guys to include more pictures of the things you talk about, linear motors, etc, barrel and pincushion could have some examples, would help for sure to understand. Off topic entirely, whats that LED thing behind Jaron?!
Let it be known, on this day, my wireless BT earbuds died, and audio switched to my laptop speakers at work, just in time for one word to make it's way out into the office at full volume. That word... "NIPPLES". Carry on.
For the HDR photo question @1:00 You can convert the photo to DNG Raw using Adobe's RAW converter and then import it into Davinchi and it will show it correctly in a HDR timeline.
I also think Sigma Final Boss is mostly on point. So are reviewers. It should be commented on as part of a technical review. It should perhaps not have as much gravity as it does.
For Joseph - much like other commenters, possibility of using a remote shooting app? The Panasonic G9 with the Lumix Sync app is pretty good. Can do auto or manual exposure controls from the phone, auto or manual focus, and fire the shutter, plus you get the display preview. Praps on a chest mount as discussed by others.
Thanks guys for another great conversation. Some good news and info in there and a good laugh too! I am more a photographer than videographer, but Im with Jordan on fishing 😀 . Keep up the swimming and I am more a ladder than flounder guy these days. Look forward to next time. PS: I am trying to get more into video with my OM 1, so any tips next time on video in general and audio / external mics would be appreciated .. Cheers all.
As a reviewer, 100% agree with Sigma. It's a lazy thing for reviewers to "a-ha!" about when it barely matters. Next time you're watching a movie and there's a scene with an obvious focus pull in a static shot, look at the edges and you'll see Hollywood doesn't care either. EDIT: Reviewers should also be opinionated about what matters and what doesn't. When people align with your views, it makes reviews so much more valuable than another Joe Shmoe listing the spec sheet. If they don't align, they have 30 other reviews they can look at. Sorry buds, 0/2
Focus breathing is as significant to the "eye feel" of a shot as the micro focus hunting on the CDAF Panasonic bodies. Annoying background movement and flickering can really throw the viewer out of the moment.
I have a HP laser jet pro mfp m125a and I never had any ink issues. I've had it for about 9 years, changed the black toner twice for a Peach branded one and still prints well.
I bought a WD SSD a month ago. It arrived, I transferred my image data to it ("Finally! Devoted memory for my photography!") and had a smile. Since then, whether or not I can access my data depends on which computer it is connected to, what day of the week it is and whether or not I had my Cornflakes for breakfast (FYI, if I have eaten breakfast, I can't access my data!). The big escape for WD is that it was a budget hit to get the drive, but it wasn't enough to be worth taking legal action...
Aggressively corrected lenses for distortion are a problem for me. It looks good if you shoot brick walls, but when you shoot objects with curved, round shapes, it looks awful. I use dslr lenses for wide angles to get over this issue.
I think the valid point just adjacent to the focus breathing discussion is "the long term effect of being a video-focused content creator changing focus and the preferences of audiences over time". Because the nature of reviewing cameras on youtube requires a focus on video most creators, over time, start to value video features stronger than their audience might actually need. You guys tend to hedge this by having a "photo guy" and "video guy" perspective. But you can see the manufacturers try and cater to the preferences of content creators over time. And that might be totally fine, or be pushing the overall market forward. But there's certainly a warping effect going on, I'd love to hear you guys contemplate that at some point.
The photographic terminology discussions remind me of good old Sgt Chris and his favorite Pvt Drake, haven’t seen them for quite a while, hope they are all well, miss them so much…
I still use an 18 year old Brother laser printer where the toner cartridges last a long time. It is plugged into an iMac which acts as print server for the other Mac computers in the house. MacOS has that all built in.
I am also running two B&W Brother laser printers. They work flawlessly (and do accept 3rd party toners). One of them is connected via Ethernet to the WIFI router. One day I discovered that Android supports printing on that printer natively (with lots of options, too). It was a pleasant surprise. One older brother laser printer I had to get rid off - because the rubber rollers that transport the paper had gotten too old. But that may have been caused by poor paper quality.
I had head that the Epson eco tank thing had a part that wears out so you have to replace the printer long before you would like and, in the end, that cost kind of balances out the less expensive ink. Not sure if it is true, but, that is what I have heard.
Main problem with focus breathing compensation are that you have no clue what the actual focus length you are using. Like when 24mm suddenly became something close to 30 and it becomes nightmare to properly setup. I mean one of the reason why Lumix still alive are their glass that just work.
The original Sony FE lenses had linear electromagnetic focusing motors. They are not new. They were a fairly common failure point since glue was used for installation.
2nd comment, about lenses: Starting photographers or videographers do not yet always know what they need or do not need so when talking about things like focus breathing, perhaps there should be a bit more explanation when this is or is not an issue. For myself, I found out about focus breathing when trying to do macro focus stacking before I heard the term in reviews... And about parfocal zoom lens design, this is also a bit of an issue when shooting wildlife with long zoom lenses and zooming in / out while trying to maintain focus. Modern cameras will try to maintain the focus distance while zooming even on non-parfocal lenses but that is prone to inaccuracies.
Now, it's driving me crazy and I have to ask this: What hair products does Chris use? I mean, his hair looks on point all the time. Would even go as far as to ask to make a video on it.
@@ibadribaWell I'm gonna assume that we have different hair types. My asian hair naturally wants to explode straight outward, straight as can be. So luckily it doesn't naturally want to lie flat. If anything I'm trying to keep it from sticking straight up. But it's also very heavy hair so if it grows too long it wants to curl over. It's a delicate balancing act.
Sony makes the GP-VPT2BT which Iuse due to limited use of my right arm and poor dexterity of right hand. I use it with the Sony rx100 M7 and find it very functional.
1:1 life size ratio works on all size sensors, not just full frame sensors. The only difference is how wide would that image be according to the sensor size; but life size is always just that - life size on any sensor. An example would be 2 maps with the same scale ruler printed, one being a city map another being a state map, if both being say 1cm : 1000m, then both are just that but the city map would be a smaller physical map and thus a smaller sensor; and the state map would be a much large physical map and thus a much larger "sensor". One can put the city map on the state map and both would superimpose the exact size of the city in relation to each other.
Years ago I had 4 Western Digital external hard drives all fail on me at different times. Since 2016 I switched to using Seagate drives. I have about 10 of them and none of them have failed so far. As for focus breathing. I have only used one Sigma lens, the Sigma 105mm DG DN f/2.8 macro and it has very noticeable focus breathing. I use my Panasonic S5 II and use focus transitions with it for focus pulls when shooting video of wild plants and other close up shots, and it is noticeable on that lens.
That picture of Jordan was taken on the south side walkway of the Chinese Cultural Centre - looking east. Did The Camera Store used to be in that area of d/t? I thought it's always been in the beltline.
TCS is in the beltline, we walked down to Chinatown for our very fun Kai W style X-10 review: ruclips.net/video/HjUuDcn0DSQ/видео.htmlsi=7PPpeeRLiWDCOJU4 - Jordan
I think the author is conflating different canon news in making his statement. The canon/Amazon news was regarding counterfeit products marked as OEM canon gear. It wasn't related to third party products. Like there are third party batteries that are canon compatible but they don't carry the canon packaging or make themselves appear as official canon products.
My dad and I (stupidly) bought several HP devices over the years. Every one of them stopped working shortly after the warranty ran out. Except my first scanner. But the latest firmware of it remained version 1.01 forever. The scanning was extremely slow, and if you wanted to scan at a resolution higher than 200 dpi, you had to set it for every new picture you wanted to scan. It was not possible to change the default setting.
It is and it isn't IMO. It depends on the scenario -- for video, it can be a problem, although it can add a bit of an artistic effect to video, but for stills, I would think it's less important since people likely only see one frame (image) and will not necessarily know if one image was intentionally zoomed slightly versus focus breathing, so I would say yes it's being blown out of proportion but for some scenarios there is good reason for concern. Me personally I never really found it to be a huge problem (as I mostly shoot stills myself) and whether something is at 200mm or equivalent 205mm or 195mm is not that relevant to my work, as the slight change in "effective" (or equivalent) focal length is not that important for my shooting style.
Isn't focus breathing corrected internally in some cameras? Of course that means adding some cropping, but technically you can already get rid of it. I still remember when Canon printers "cleaned" themselves each time you plug them in. So you if you unplugged them just to plug them into a different socket, another $2.50 worth of ink was used for cleaning. If distortion is corrected in the EVF, for me that feels like cheating by the manufacturers. They try to hide lens imperfections. If a lot of the image is cropped because of the distortion, it no longer is a full frame image. A lot of the light is lost.
Distortion Corrected lenses + focus breathing = eats some millimeters and lens ends up being nothing of what you pay for. Had cases shooting street parades where hands and some heads get out of frame used to equipments without thos issues on same focal distance
I've been seeing a lot of articles recently about people complaining about how printers are difficult to use, and I have to ask are people just not installing printer drivers and expecting them to auto-install? That may work in the majority of cases, but downloading a printer driver is literally a matter of picking one file off of vendor's website and installing it. What am I missing here?
Focus Breathing: As a Photographer, I´ve tested many bad lenses and for example there are some in Sony and RF line up where is not just the lens breathes but also it´s already cutting edges from digital corrections. On 35mm lens with this issues you end up using a 42mm one o even more for such money. The RF 70-200 F4 or Sony 200-600 are sweet expensive examples. They are just fooling us
I had $100 Canon printer and came across the similar results of 35 sheets before ink cartridge empties. ... although, I bought the Canon P1000 printer hopefully those results are better.
NIce work on the fly rods, which CTS blanks did you use? Nearly all my rods are AFF X, because it is the only blank I know (maybe with the Loomis CC GLX) which has that timeless feel to it. My buddies and I always say that CTS has made the blank that Sage is desperately trying to make in the past decades.
@@niccollsvideo Cool! I find the AFF X the best 8-weight I have ever used, even better than the CC GLX (Loomis). I have troubleswith the AFF M, not sure why. It feels unbalanced to me. Swing weight doesn't feel right, like they put the butt and tip of two different rods together. Matter of taste I guess.
Canon contributing to landfill like a mountain building champion. Meanwhile my easy to connect Fuji xerox laser printer is chugging along beautifully after several years. The amount of pages is written on the cartridge
Chris: "This is the free market working." WD to customers: "F you" Chris: "Exactly. After you lose your data, you think about an alternative source." Chris, as an image creation educator, it does include saying which situations a particular characteristic matters. For example, Jordan saying that focus breathing rarely matters to photographers, with focus stacking being the exception is excellent teaching.
@@niccollsvideo [16:50] Because of Jordan's reaction to your comment about the "free market". [22:35] "And then it's up to the consumer to decide if that's a major factor for them." Often the consumer is unsure if it is a major factor for them. Yes, they could go somewhere to learn. Like the Chris & Jordan videos on Petapixel. Both topics have the "buyer beware", laissez-faire mindset. But you know people need more help, it's why the next 20 minutes was spent educating viewers about lens terms.
13:20: the funny thing is HP and Canon share same technology. They have same cartridge I dont have any problem with them because I use windows PC and black and white printer
My Canon genuine cartridge packets have 12.6 ml written on them so if it was found that there was actually less ink in the cartridge, surely they would be culpable.
I've been using inkjet printers since they came to market. I have NEVER bought replacement OEM ink cartridges. OEM ink costs between $1,000 and $5,000 per gallon. I have refilled OEM HP and Cannon cartridges at home for decades. Currently, I'm refilling and using a HP8610 and a Canon MB2720. I just purchased an Epson 3850 Eco Tank and I'm using aftermarket ink in it. Epson EcoTanks are the way to go. JUST MAKE SURE THE MODEL YOU BUY HAS A REPLACEABLE WASTE TANK. All inkjet printers use ink to prime an clean the print head(s). The waste ink is collected and when that tank filled up, the printer bricks. The waste tanks for the ET3850 are about $15 from Epson. If you do your research, you can find reputable companies in the US and Canada that sell high quality ink matched to specific printers. Don't buy from offshore sellers. I do not have experience with high end photo printers.
the whole focus breathing point kinda boils down to a problem we have these days.... image quality on sensors has plateaued.... glass on lenses have plateaued.... the only real difference between the brands are minor tiny details like AF speed or focus breathing... that nobody actually cares about or needs because it's at such a high level that you can't realistically perceive the difference outside of a review... Every Sigma, Panasonic, Sony, Canon etc etc lens is so good that what a review is kinda pointless...
Three rods he made himself, actually! We talk about it in the "What have you been up to" section. In fact, every week he'll detail what he brings on the show in that section. -Jaron
My, admittedly pessimistic, view on Canon third party glass is that they plan on releasing enough technology and advancements in their cameras and lenses to keep them in first or second place in the market. Then they are going to let every other company not selling as well leave the market. Once it is a market of only two, and from their point of view ideally one, they don't have to let third parties make lenses, they will make all their lenses, and keep all the profit, because there aren't competitors. Sony has deep pockets, and I don't think they are going to leave the market anytime soon though - maybe Canon thinks they can be extremely profitable being locked down, when there are only two options. They kinda want to be the apple of the photography.
I've had 6-7 inkjet printers from several brands and they're all shit. When you print occasionally, the printer nozzles are always clogged. They're empty far too soon. I bought a cheap b/w laserprinter and that always works. All this because printers are sold far too cheaply so they can make ludicrously high margins on ink. That business model sucks.
The Sandisk situation and WD giving no answers is more or less because WD literally doesn't know what could be going on. SanDisk is not fully integrated with WD yet and they still use separate production facilities. If you ask SanDisk, they won't know what they're allowed to say. It's just THAT stage of a takeover, it takes much longer in the storage space than in any other tech.
The printer cartridge thing has always been a scam. I remember when Epson came out with the P700, the initial ink charge would use something like 75% of all of the ink in the cartridges. And that's like $300 worth of ink, just gone. The supertanks are definitely the future, but the print head tech is still prone to clogs and other failures.
I kinda agree with the Sigma guy.
Y'all gonna talk about what you want, and I appreciate the stance that "we mention it because it's there, up to the viewer to determine if it's important," but... RUclipsrs are influential, what you talk about becomes what the community talks about, becomes what people make purchase decisions on. And RUclips reviewers (I'm one of 'em) will often talk about things that are easy to evaluate, but not the most meaningful measures.
I have noticed the rise of the sunstar barometer, which seems recent in photography RUclips and have thought to myself, "I sure hope people new to this hobby don't get the impression that this actually matters."
I am reminded of my frustration with speed limits on public roads and how an easy measure becomes disproportionately enforced. Cops have a tool they can point at a car and get a pass/fail answer indicating "this person is dangerous." And it gets used, a lot. Meanwhile, more difficult measures of dangerous driving (e.g. distraction) get enforced less frequently because it's not easy to evaluate.
The sunstar barometer reminds me of that. And specs on smart phones and laptops. Does a new wireless headphone have a USB-C port. How much piano black is in this car interior. Is it made of metal or plastic. Etc. etc.
It's not that the measures are actually meaningless, and yes to some people it's very pertinent information. It's just that the ease of the measurement contributes to the proliferation of it, moreso than the usefulness of the measure, and results in a lot of disproportionate community attention on trivial things.
IMO.
"Life size" made a lot more sense with film. It just meant when you got your negative back, at 1:1 ratio, the size of the object on the film negative would be the same size as the actual subject. It also mattered a lot more with film because generally the detail limiter was film grain.
Thanks for another great podcast. I find this more informative and entertaining than 90% of the stuff on television. I look forward to every Wednesday. Keep up the good work.
Lens breathing performance is crucial for my type of photography: focus stacking for product, scale model, and dioramas. If you have never stacked dozens of frames from MFD to mid-distance (not to mention infinity focus), you'll never understand how big of a pain it is to correct all the misalignments and artifacts later manually after stacking if the lens breathed a lot. And yes, those flaws need to be corrected. I don't want my photos to look like a product of AI image generation.
In this sense it almost felt like Nikon read my mind in terms of understanding my needs, and designed their Z lenses in a way that is perfect for my use case scenarios - lack of breathing, at the expense of size and weight. Absolute sharpness is nice to have but not the most important criteria for me because a product of focus stacking will be sharper than anything taken in a single shot. Breathing is one of the first important criteria i look out for before buying a lens, followed by CA. Focus stacking boosts sharpness - and also CA, so that's one more reason you do not want to use crap lenses for stacking.
Sony is the absolute worst choice for me when only about 2 bodies they sell currently offer focus bracketing, while their lenses breathe so much that i feel like I'm using a zoom lens when i rack focus.
Same here! ALso on street photogrpahy as I just commented, tere are lenses which require distortion correction + focus breathing = eats some millimeters and lens ends ups being nothing for what you pay. So ended up using Z system for same reason.
I feel the same way about video work. Before I owned my Z8 I was renting an fx3 or a7s3 but sony and 3rd part lenses had horrific breathing.
Now I get the best of both worlds with the Z8. Amazing video quality with native lenses that are beautiful.
Which are those 2 bodies?
Sony user here, thanks for that explanation. I’ve never tried focus stacking and you have got me spooked now haha. Does this apply to macro lenses as well?
@@sneakingelephant applies on any lens. As an example the Sony FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G has focus breathing and is almost useless with stacking. ALso a too soft lens, just the center is somehow sharp.
I recomended the SanDisk Extreme to my wife. She needed a new backup drive. I have two of the first gen drive no probs. The drive she ordered arrived the day of your last podcast. I had to explain who you guys are and why she needs to return the first drive she has purchased in many years... She thinks the Samsung drive is adorable. Thanks.
I had to go immediately to the camera store TV channel and look at the oldest videos. Lumix GF1 was the first video. Then a few videos down I enjoyed "The Hood is Good." One thing I did learn, the intro song has never changed.
The printer rant was SO FUNNY 🤣🤣🤣,
because they are so true. 😢😢😢
Based on price, original ink cartriges are more expensive per ml of ink than Chanel №5 per ml of parfume.
Do you know where to find a cyan Channel 5?
I believe it's even more expensive than human blood.
@@AlainKapture I don't know. I only use magenta Chanel №5.
Thanks guys for another great conversation
Honestly i am a big fan..lots if info and a good laugh
I usually listen to it on my desk while working and i keep laughing people will think i am mad hahaha
Still waiting for the battle of the tele zooms for the E mount
Each time the word L mount alliance is uttered, I hear Jared Polin screaming.
The first Sigma lens I bought was a 28-200. I found that at closest focusing distance it was more like 28-135. But rather than being annoyed I thought, hey - 135 mm isn't so bad.
And I think the Tamron 18-400 is like 18-270 mm at closest focusing distance, but if you know in advance, it's not a big deal I think.
A couple suggestions for Joseph's tech question..
1. Try hanging the camera off of your neck and bracing it against your chest so you don't have to hold the camera with the right hand. Then use your left hand to manipulate the dials and press the shutter. A flipped-out screen will be key for you to compose while the camera is hanging from your neck.
2. 3rd party chest mounts exist for cameras. I think they're intended for videographers but they could be useful. A "Velocity clip" is an option.
3. A tripod or any kind of mount is a great option.
-Your friendly neighborhood bilateral amputee and occupational therapist, John
For left-hand only use of a system camera, I would just use a tripod. Once you get the camera mounted on the tripod, you shouldn't have much difficultly moving it around, changing controls, zooming, and shooting with one hand. For more portable/casual shooting, you will probably have to settle for a compact camera on a neck strap. Let it dangle from the strap while you fiddle with controls and then hold it upside down in your left hand and push the shutter with your thumb. And of course, most people can probably take photos with their smartphone one-handed (again with maybe a strap for safety).
One feature I often find over done in reviews "is build quality" being linked to both weight and using metal. One of the great thing about mirrorless cameras is we can now carry smaller and lighter kit. But reviewers complaining about the use of plastics means metal construction is still seen as premium, when in many cases it's not needed.
Best fishtography channel on RUclips.
The details of the drive failures are more nuanced than the flash make. Some (WD) drive controllers will do strange things like encrypt the storage with hardware non user changeable keys. Meaning data recovery shops may be able to read the data but it's in an encrypted form that they can't do anything with.
The other failure mode is when the flash modules can no longer be read/written from (short version is after a certain number of cycles no amount of voltage will read or write to the flash modules).
So one other thing to ask the manufacturers is if the controllers do anything weird to the storage on the flash making it hard to recover data in the case of a controller failure (but where the flash is still useable).
What an entertaining episode. Nice fly rods Chris!
Thanks Jaron, had to get that t-shirt so 45 minutes later I'm getting a bunch of t-shirts off e-bay... lol
Why are Jarron and Chris BOTH Keanu’s long lost cousins? 😂 Much Respect to my Dark haired Kings.
Would be great for you guys to include more pictures of the things you talk about, linear motors, etc, barrel and pincushion could have some examples, would help for sure to understand.
Off topic entirely, whats that LED thing behind Jaron?!
Let it be known, on this day, my wireless BT earbuds died, and audio switched to my laptop speakers at work, just in time for one word to make it's way out into the office at full volume. That word... "NIPPLES". Carry on.
I’m sorry for your embarrassment, but this made my day.
- Jordan
For the HDR photo question @1:00 You can convert the photo to DNG Raw using Adobe's RAW converter and then import it into Davinchi and it will show it correctly in a HDR timeline.
1:05:41 Another way to shoot is you can enable touch to shoot function. Most Panasonic camera have this function
I also think Sigma Final Boss is mostly on point. So are reviewers. It should be commented on as part of a technical review. It should perhaps not have as much gravity as it does.
For Joseph - much like other commenters, possibility of using a remote shooting app? The Panasonic G9 with the Lumix Sync app is pretty good. Can do auto or manual exposure controls from the phone, auto or manual focus, and fire the shutter, plus you get the display preview. Praps on a chest mount as discussed by others.
I was one of those ink injectors! It worked great and saved a ton of money 🤷
I love you guys. Best photo pod cast ever.
Great show guys. I'm a regular fan.
Thanks guys for another great conversation. Some good news and info in there and a good laugh too! I am more a photographer than videographer, but Im with Jordan on fishing 😀 . Keep up the swimming and I am more a ladder than flounder guy these days. Look forward to next time. PS: I am trying to get more into video with my OM 1, so any tips next time on video in general and audio / external mics would be appreciated .. Cheers all.
As a reviewer, 100% agree with Sigma. It's a lazy thing for reviewers to "a-ha!" about when it barely matters. Next time you're watching a movie and there's a scene with an obvious focus pull in a static shot, look at the edges and you'll see Hollywood doesn't care either. EDIT: Reviewers should also be opinionated about what matters and what doesn't. When people align with your views, it makes reviews so much more valuable than another Joe Shmoe listing the spec sheet. If they don't align, they have 30 other reviews they can look at. Sorry buds, 0/2
Focus breathing is as significant to the "eye feel" of a shot as the micro focus hunting on the CDAF Panasonic bodies. Annoying background movement and flickering can really throw the viewer out of the moment.
This was the most fun episode yet😂
Great episode!
Bonifacio is in Corsica, a FRENCH island, where... Napoleon was born !! 😎🟦⬜🟥
But still interesting and fun to watch/listen to you 🙂
I have a HP laser jet pro mfp m125a and I never had any ink issues. I've had it for about 9 years, changed the black toner twice for a Peach branded one and still prints well.
Really enjoying these episodes.
Could you elaborate on CLOG3 methods of recoding without a ND Filter?
That OM system is actually a good deal. I already own that lens and it is very nice.
I bought a WD SSD a month ago. It arrived, I transferred my image data to it ("Finally! Devoted memory for my photography!") and had a smile. Since then, whether or not I can access my data depends on which computer it is connected to, what day of the week it is and whether or not I had my Cornflakes for breakfast (FYI, if I have eaten breakfast, I can't access my data!).
The big escape for WD is that it was a budget hit to get the drive, but it wasn't enough to be worth taking legal action...
Aggressively corrected lenses for distortion are a problem for me. It looks good if you shoot brick walls, but when you shoot objects with curved, round shapes, it looks awful. I use dslr lenses for wide angles to get over this issue.
I think the valid point just adjacent to the focus breathing discussion is "the long term effect of being a video-focused content creator changing focus and the preferences of audiences over time". Because the nature of reviewing cameras on youtube requires a focus on video most creators, over time, start to value video features stronger than their audience might actually need. You guys tend to hedge this by having a "photo guy" and "video guy" perspective. But you can see the manufacturers try and cater to the preferences of content creators over time. And that might be totally fine, or be pushing the overall market forward. But there's certainly a warping effect going on, I'd love to hear you guys contemplate that at some point.
The photographic terminology discussions remind me of good old Sgt Chris and his favorite Pvt Drake, haven’t seen them for quite a while, hope they are all well, miss them so much…
I still use an 18 year old Brother laser printer where the toner cartridges last a long time. It is plugged into an iMac which acts as print server for the other Mac computers in the house. MacOS has that all built in.
I am also running two B&W Brother laser printers. They work flawlessly (and do accept 3rd party toners). One of them is connected via Ethernet to the WIFI router. One day I discovered that Android supports printing on that printer natively (with lots of options, too). It was a pleasant surprise. One older brother laser printer I had to get rid off - because the rubber rollers that transport the paper had gotten too old. But that may have been caused by poor paper quality.
I am patiently waiting for the PetePixel guide to fly fishing photography...
I had head that the Epson eco tank thing had a part that wears out so you have to replace the printer long before you would like and, in the end, that cost kind of balances out the less expensive ink. Not sure if it is true, but, that is what I have heard.
Main problem with focus breathing compensation are that you have no clue what the actual focus length you are using. Like when 24mm suddenly became something close to 30 and it becomes nightmare to properly setup. I mean one of the reason why Lumix still alive are their glass that just work.
Woo hello petapickles.
Thoughts on -- R9 - RETRO OF THE F-1 with the Olympic Paris symbol and the winder grip -- that would be awesome!!!
I’ve literally never cared for one second about focus breathing.
The original Sony FE lenses had linear electromagnetic focusing motors. They are not new. They were a fairly common failure point since glue was used for installation.
I kinda like these awesome intros XD
2nd comment, about lenses:
Starting photographers or videographers do not yet always know what they need or do not need so when talking about things like focus breathing, perhaps there should be a bit more explanation when this is or is not an issue.
For myself, I found out about focus breathing when trying to do macro focus stacking before I heard the term in reviews...
And about parfocal zoom lens design, this is also a bit of an issue when shooting wildlife with long zoom lenses and zooming in / out while trying to maintain focus. Modern cameras will try to maintain the focus distance while zooming even on non-parfocal lenses but that is prone to inaccuracies.
Now, it's driving me crazy and I have to ask this: What hair products does Chris use? I mean, his hair looks on point all the time. Would even go as far as to ask to make a video on it.
I use L'Oreal 24 hr remix. I have been a faithful user for a decade.
@@niccollsvideo thanks. Any tips on how to get your hair or that look last all day? Mine kinda look flat and "out of style" after some hour or so
@@ibadribaWell I'm gonna assume that we have different hair types. My asian hair naturally wants to explode straight outward, straight as can be. So luckily it doesn't naturally want to lie flat. If anything I'm trying to keep it from sticking straight up. But it's also very heavy hair so if it grows too long it wants to curl over. It's a delicate balancing act.
Sony makes the GP-VPT2BT which Iuse due to limited use of my right arm and poor dexterity of right hand. I use it with the Sony rx100 M7 and find it very functional.
1:1 life size ratio works on all size sensors, not just full frame sensors. The only difference is how wide would that image be according to the sensor size; but life size is always just that - life size on any sensor. An example would be 2 maps with the same scale ruler printed, one being a city map another being a state map, if both being say 1cm : 1000m, then both are just that but the city map would be a smaller physical map and thus a smaller sensor; and the state map would be a much large physical map and thus a much larger "sensor". One can put the city map on the state map and both would superimpose the exact size of the city in relation to each other.
Years ago I had 4 Western Digital external hard drives all fail on me at different times. Since 2016 I switched to using Seagate drives. I have about 10 of them and none of them have failed so far.
As for focus breathing. I have only used one Sigma lens, the Sigma 105mm DG DN f/2.8 macro and it has very noticeable focus breathing. I use my Panasonic S5 II and use focus transitions with it for focus pulls when shooting video of wild plants and other close up shots, and it is noticeable on that lens.
of course it is along with the "overheating" of hybrid cameras that shoot in 10bit 4k 60p...
Dear sir plz say the sigma make 18-50 f2.8 for the z Mount plz
I bought the sigma 24-70 art because it had little focus breathing. I'm always rack focusing
That picture of Jordan was taken on the south side walkway of the Chinese Cultural Centre - looking east. Did The Camera Store used to be in that area of d/t? I thought it's always been in the beltline.
TCS is in the beltline, we walked down to Chinatown for our very fun Kai W style X-10 review:
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- Jordan
I think the author is conflating different canon news in making his statement. The canon/Amazon news was regarding counterfeit products marked as OEM canon gear. It wasn't related to third party products. Like there are third party batteries that are canon compatible but they don't carry the canon packaging or make themselves appear as official canon products.
Can you guys recommend a good tripod for around 200-250 CAD? Seems like the only tripods I can find are either cheap junk or really expensive.
I remembered an interesting question for Chris: Why do you hate the 35mm focal distance so much?
Why was the name of this episode not: PC Load Letter
My dad and I (stupidly) bought several HP devices over the years. Every one of them stopped working shortly after the warranty ran out. Except my first scanner. But the latest firmware of it remained version 1.01 forever. The scanning was extremely slow, and if you wanted to scan at a resolution higher than 200 dpi, you had to set it for every new picture you wanted to scan. It was not possible to change the default setting.
It is and it isn't IMO. It depends on the scenario -- for video, it can be a problem, although it can add a bit of an artistic effect to video, but for stills, I would think it's less important since people likely only see one frame (image) and will not necessarily know if one image was intentionally zoomed slightly versus focus breathing, so I would say yes it's being blown out of proportion but for some scenarios there is good reason for concern. Me personally I never really found it to be a huge problem (as I mostly shoot stills myself) and whether something is at 200mm or equivalent 205mm or 195mm is not that relevant to my work, as the slight change in "effective" (or equivalent) focal length is not that important for my shooting style.
Isn't focus breathing corrected internally in some cameras? Of course that means adding some cropping, but technically you can already get rid of it.
I still remember when Canon printers "cleaned" themselves each time you plug them in. So you if you unplugged them just to plug them into a different socket, another $2.50 worth of ink was used for cleaning.
If distortion is corrected in the EVF, for me that feels like cheating by the manufacturers. They try to hide lens imperfections. If a lot of the image is cropped because of the distortion, it no longer is a full frame image. A lot of the light is lost.
Distortion Corrected lenses + focus breathing = eats some millimeters and lens ends up being nothing of what you pay for. Had cases shooting street parades where hands and some heads get out of frame used to equipments without thos issues on same focal distance
I've been seeing a lot of articles recently about people complaining about how printers are difficult to use, and I have to ask are people just not installing printer drivers and expecting them to auto-install? That may work in the majority of cases, but downloading a printer driver is literally a matter of picking one file off of vendor's website and installing it. What am I missing here?
Focus Breathing: As a Photographer, I´ve tested many bad lenses and for example there are some in Sony and RF line up where is not just the lens breathes but also it´s already cutting edges from digital corrections. On 35mm lens with this issues you end up using a 42mm one o even more for such money. The RF 70-200 F4 or Sony 200-600 are sweet expensive examples. They are just fooling us
I had $100 Canon printer and came across the similar results of 35 sheets before ink cartridge empties. ... although, I bought the Canon P1000 printer hopefully those results are better.
NIce work on the fly rods, which CTS blanks did you use? Nearly all my rods are AFF X, because it is the only blank I know (maybe with the Loomis CC GLX) which has that timeless feel to it. My buddies and I always say that CTS has made the blank that Sage is desperately trying to make in the past decades.
I built the 8 weight from an affinity X and love it. I built the 6 from the affinity M, and it's very nice casting, maybe a little on the slow side.
@@niccollsvideo Cool! I find the AFF X the best 8-weight I have ever used, even better than the CC GLX (Loomis). I have troubleswith the AFF M, not sure why. It feels unbalanced to me. Swing weight doesn't feel right, like they put the butt and tip of two different rods together. Matter of taste I guess.
@3:37. That's not Jordan. That's Alex Lifeson. :)
Canon contributing to landfill like a mountain building champion. Meanwhile my easy to connect Fuji xerox laser printer is chugging along beautifully after several years. The amount of pages is written on the cartridge
Chris: "This is the free market working."
WD to customers: "F you"
Chris: "Exactly. After you lose your data, you think about an alternative source."
Chris, as an image creation educator, it does include saying which situations a particular characteristic matters. For example, Jordan saying that focus breathing rarely matters to photographers, with focus stacking being the exception is excellent teaching.
I fail to see why that's directed at me. I agree with you of course.
@@niccollsvideo [16:50] Because of Jordan's reaction to your comment about the "free market".
[22:35] "And then it's up to the consumer to decide if that's a major factor for them." Often the consumer is unsure if it is a major factor for them. Yes, they could go somewhere to learn. Like the Chris & Jordan videos on Petapixel.
Both topics have the "buyer beware", laissez-faire mindset. But you know people need more help, it's why the next 20 minutes was spent educating viewers about lens terms.
13:20: the funny thing is HP and Canon share same technology. They have same cartridge
I dont have any problem with them because I use windows PC and black and white printer
Chris is Mao Zedong, Jordan is Ernesto "Che " Guevara and Jaron is Leonid Brezhnev... Ha Ha.
That’s it I’m never buying another Sigma lens again! Ok that’s not true 😂 So funny to hear about that whole thing
"Long and awful"?? Long and beautiful is more to the point, Jordan!
BTW doesn't Sigma make actual low end cinema lenses? Do they breath?
My Canon genuine cartridge packets have 12.6 ml written on them so if it was found that there was actually less ink in the cartridge, surely they would be culpable.
In the name of balance, how about some youthful haitrtastrophes from Chris & Jaron..?
Where's the link to the young Jordan video?
People are really asking for RF f/1.4 primes like it's gonna make them a better photographer lol
We all had hair like that back then, no shame in it :P
I've been using inkjet printers since they came to market. I have NEVER bought replacement OEM ink cartridges. OEM ink costs between $1,000 and $5,000 per gallon. I have refilled OEM HP and Cannon cartridges at home for decades. Currently, I'm refilling and using a HP8610 and a Canon MB2720. I just purchased an Epson 3850 Eco Tank and I'm using aftermarket ink in it.
Epson EcoTanks are the way to go. JUST MAKE SURE THE MODEL YOU BUY HAS A REPLACEABLE WASTE TANK. All inkjet printers use ink to prime an clean the print head(s). The waste ink is collected and when that tank filled up, the printer bricks. The waste tanks for the ET3850 are about $15 from Epson.
If you do your research, you can find reputable companies in the US and Canada that sell high quality ink matched to specific printers. Don't buy from offshore sellers.
I do not have experience with high end photo printers.
Why are the weeks moving so fast oh my god 😅
You're too busy
the whole focus breathing point kinda boils down to a problem we have these days.... image quality on sensors has plateaued.... glass on lenses have plateaued.... the only real difference between the brands are minor tiny details like AF speed or focus breathing... that nobody actually cares about or needs because it's at such a high level that you can't realistically perceive the difference outside of a review... Every Sigma, Panasonic, Sony, Canon etc etc lens is so good that what a review is kinda pointless...
I love Jordan with long hair!
Impossible.
- Jordan
3:35 Correction: The hair is long and GLORIOUS!
What's the stuff in front of Chris? Fishing rods?
Three rods he made himself, actually! We talk about it in the "What have you been up to" section. In fact, every week he'll detail what he brings on the show in that section. -Jaron
@@PetaPixel Thanks! Sorry I missed that, I watched the lens specific chapters of the video only :-/
My, admittedly pessimistic, view on Canon third party glass is that they plan on releasing enough technology and advancements in their cameras and lenses to keep them in first or second place in the market. Then they are going to let every other company not selling as well leave the market. Once it is a market of only two, and from their point of view ideally one, they don't have to let third parties make lenses, they will make all their lenses, and keep all the profit, because there aren't competitors. Sony has deep pockets, and I don't think they are going to leave the market anytime soon though - maybe Canon thinks they can be extremely profitable being locked down, when there are only two options. They kinda want to be the apple of the photography.
Ah, the notorious Canon cripple hammer…it’ll be 2036 before it has a useable RF mid-range lens line-up 😂
I have Samsung laser printer and it works...
So we learned Jordan had a bowl hair cut at one time and has a SCIF for printing.
I've had 6-7 inkjet printers from several brands and they're all shit. When you print occasionally, the printer nozzles are always clogged. They're empty far too soon. I bought a cheap b/w laserprinter and that always works.
All this because printers are sold far too cheaply so they can make ludicrously high margins on ink. That business model sucks.
What camera is Jordan using here?
Panasonic S5 II, it’s my regular camera for the podcast.
- Jordan
@@PetaPixel nice one looks best
20-105mm F2-8 - 4.0 (or even F2.8 all the way) Macro OIS, anyone? 🤯
Panasonic? Sigma? You there? 😝
There shold be a classaction lawsuite against these ink cartridge producers and Canaon
The Sandisk situation and WD giving no answers is more or less because WD literally doesn't know what could be going on. SanDisk is not fully integrated with WD yet and they still use separate production facilities. If you ask SanDisk, they won't know what they're allowed to say. It's just THAT stage of a takeover, it takes much longer in the storage space than in any other tech.
Sigma tries to play down focus breathing because all the brands have launched focus breathing compensation for their own first party lenses.
nikon just builds their lenses properly and doesnt rely on firmware for it
The printer cartridge thing has always been a scam. I remember when Epson came out with the P700, the initial ink charge would use something like 75% of all of the ink in the cartridges. And that's like $300 worth of ink, just gone. The supertanks are definitely the future, but the print head tech is still prone to clogs and other failures.