The top five annoying camera quirks
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- We spend a lot of time discussing the major strengths and weaknesses of the cameras we review, but what about the small irritations? Chris and Jordan highlight the top five things annoy the daylights out of them.
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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - Sony’s lack of in-camera raw processing
2:33 - OM System OM-1 10-bit profiles
3:36 - Separate subject detection and face detect menus
5:28 - GH6 punch-in magnifier
6:48 - HDR confusion
9:03 - Honourable mention
10:58 - Grown men whining
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"If I'm in the rainforest and my autofocus box goes green I'm f***ed." - 10:40
Best quote of 2022 so far 😂😂
I wish our cameras would tell us what settings are causing certain features to be greyed-out/unusable. Simply telling us that we can't use a feature because of the way the camera is set up is no help at all, you might as well just show a picture of someone giving us the finger.
100 percent agreed. Would save several minutes of googling every time.
isn't that what the zebra lines show? overexposure
Fuji especially annoyed me…. There are so many cross-incompatible settings that are also nowhere near each other nor obvious to the user. But then once in a while they DO add a note that this is greyed out for a specific reason, showing that yes, they CAN do that, its just that they gave up after adding the first few….
I think Olympus does that, and some Sony’s also.
@@d3xmeister Canon does it as well. It won’t provide a shortcut to that setting(s), but it will tell the user which setting(s) is/are blocking what he intends to change.
What I love about this channel is the way they introduce humour into informative content. It doesn't feel forced and makes video amazingly interesting. Also, the chemistry between you guys is amazing.
As a wildlife photographer my biggest gripe with Sony are all those G series lenses that have a custom function button that you cannot use to set a focus distance recall. How hard is this? Long press to set, short press to recall... fixes 99% of the "stuck on the busy background" focusing issues.
I'll second this.
great idea!
Is a shame more primitive and older cameras like my Panasonic G9 have the option to program buttons for close and long distances focus
I too found this option in G9 (my son's) a great help. Mapped some buttons to do Near/Far AF focus
I spent an hour searching for this exact function that doesn't exist on Sony. It's a shame because the camera is otherwise extremely customizable.
“Selfish lover” 👀 Chris and Jordan shippers gonna have a field day with this one.
My biggest gripe is the apps! all the camera companies advertise WIFI! and Bluetooth! etc.. but the "free" apps are so unreliable and they never update them until a new camera comes out. just make them open source or something.
Do you guys read these comments? Could you do a shoot out with the camera apps and give a zero score to any camera that doesn't connect reliably 10 out of 10 times. and show average people trying to pair phone to camera for the first time etc..
It's crazy how these top of the line machines have to used like they are still in the stone age of taking out the sd card. And now smartphones are getting so good it's already killed point and shoot, dslrs might have a problem if they don't innovate more.
I wholeheartedly vote for that quick minimum shutter speed in auto iso. I need that all the time!
On my a7iv at least you can set it to a button (but unfortunately not to one of the many dials!)
@@sjc9832 I just checked on my om-1 and couldn’t find something equivalent. Om system, if you’re listening… :)
it's CRAZY to me how no manufacturer is doing it, and not many people gripe about it. It really would be the best shooting mode: aperture priority all the time, auto ISO, back wheel for min speed. Freeze motion as fast as you wish just like in Manual, but never blowout a photo again if there is a sudden sun streak.
@@beetrootize sony does it
The very worst quirk is Sony making 4k TV and phone screens but putting original gameboy screens on their $2-6k cameras…..that shoot 4k🥴
screens drain battery life the most so that is probably why
@@LewyKablooe make a bigger body/battery.
The cameras are too capable to not be able to see what the cameras are displaying near the quality they are being displayed on bigger screens
@@RockyMaiviaMiami " make a bigger body/battery. "
No thanks.
I think the worst quirk is when a brand launches a model with faults such as overheating or without basic things like a stabilizer, memory slot, etc. and after a few months they launch an improved version with the letter S or C. All the people who bought the first model, I bet they have that feeling of being scammed with infinite irritation
This duo is just absolutely amazing. It doesn't get any better than this!
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That dutch angle shot on Jordan is doing a good job of making him seem insane
Seem?
After two years of frustration with Sony cameras, it was enough to convince me to add Fujifilm X-series cameras back into my camera eco-system for certain features.
1) No in-camera focus bracketing
2) The smallest focusing point is not small enough and requires me to switch to manual focus much faster compared to the Fujifilm cameras (for my Sony system, I switched to manual focus lenses for macro)
3) Only way to have up 1/32000 second is with the stacked sensor cameras
4) Cameras cannot be metered for longer than 30 seconds (Fujifilm gives me 900 seconds)
The lack of focus bracketing is a dealbreaker for me.
I double this! Listen Sony! Simple things like this can make you switch brands! It's not all about more megapixels! Lack of these simple things can makes your great camera worthless in certain situations.
Just wondering: why do you need 1/32000 sec for micro?
@@s87343jim My list is not limited to just micro. :)
It's irritating how some cameras don't completely split up settings for photo and video. Say I'd want to use wide AF area with face detect in video but in photo I'd want to use a simple pinpoint AF box. I can think of a few cameras that don't save that setting between photo/video modes so I have to switch it manually. I want every setting to be saved per mode (especially per custom setting save mode when a camera has that feature)
The reflective Jordan in the end was just the cherry on top, too many channels thinking being whiny is a selling point
You guys are great! I've been following you since your Camera Store days and bought my D850 from Chris.Glad to see you guys doing well with DP Review!
Chris’s grin after the cold open made my day! Yall seem like great friends and It would be a lot of fun to shoot with yall!
“Sometime things change in a shot, that’s the amazing thing about video” 😹
You guys, you complain and xxxxxx about stuff and it’s still fun to watch !!
So much fun, love these style videos!
totally agree on lockable mode button, especially if the edge of the mode wheel sticks out beyond the body of the camera
As an old dude with sensitive ears, I really appreciate the beeps! Thanks.
You're two grown men? Well you do have some nice toys. :) Thanks for a great vid and thanks to DPReview TV for hosting these grown men. That's why I'm *SUBSCRIBED!*
The 10 bit heif is my number one annoyance. Glad you raise this. Unbelievable how the camera industry can be so insanely slow adapting this standard. I want to look at hdr photos on my hdr iPad.
you can
Quickly adjusting minimum shutter speed for auto ISO is actually very possible on Sony cameras. I have the rear wheel configured to change ISO, and a right side press on that wheel (where it says ISO) brings up minimum shutter speed for auto ISO. It's adjustable with one button press on the back of the camera. You're welcome. ;)
Sidenote: This capability (and customisability in general) is actually the number one reason why Sony has the best controls in the business in my opinion. Yes, you read that right. :D
Sidenote 2: You can also adjust the colour of the autofocus box on the newer Sonys.
guys, you're by far my f*beep*g favourite photography channel in the YT universe. And a couple of other universes, too. May the force... oops, wrong shortcut! Always two extra photons hitting your sensors...
Autofocus square should automatically adjust to be the opposite of the display.
"It'll be like a SquareSoft Japanese RPG, and we'll all love it, everybody'll be happy"
Add in the menu selection sound effects and I'm sold.
Thanks, great video. Most annoying thing amongst all camera manufacturers: give us good anti-theft measures for our equipment!
Totally concur with all of those quirks!! Some of them are so simple and yet....here we are..
Loved this video. And you're so right: it is soooo hard to find videos of grown men whining on the interweb, so thanks!
Great insights, thanks guys!
I KNEW the GH6 punch in was soft ! I'm having a hard time focusing sometimes, and compared it to my G9 and its almost night and day, it looks waaaay better on the G9... I thought I was crazy :'( really hope Panasonic fixes that ...
we need another video like this, companies need to see this
Love the vid. My "honourable mention" - on mirrorless why can't we specify our own crop ratios and at the least get more than 3:2, 1:1, 16:9. Fuji's GFX and to some extent Canon R allows this then passes on the cropping info in the raw file. Bonus crop ratio gripe - Nikon mirrorless: why tf do you throw out data in the raw file when I choose a crop other than 3:2?!
Yes, I don't understand why we can have more crop options too.
Yeah this totally! I find 3x2 an awkward ratio for most things, especially in portrait. It would be nice to be able to set up a list of custom preview ratios and get it perfect in the field instead of having to guess and crop later.
I print to A4, A3, etc paper sizes. It is an international standard (with notable exceptions, of course). I would like to see it as an option. I would love a grid display showing 16:9, 3:2, and 1:1.4142 (A4 etc) for the viewfinder on all cameras. (8.5:11 ?) maybe?
Amen to that, that's ridiculous, that camera brands are not offering more apect ratios.
Non-locking dials are a big pet peeve of mine. At least it seems most nicer cameras have them. But they would be useful on compact travel cameras that are often in and out of a case or pocket in quickly changing situations, especially if you just are expecting it to stay on auto. Please keep reporting the annoying quirks! As an engineer, I usually have a list in my head after a day with a new device, and some things are shocking to me, so I'm glad to see I'm not the only one! Also, no one makes the outdoor compact camera I want, but that's a whole other topic.
I love this video. Is there any chance you could do a viewer poll about the top five annoying things about Chris and Jordan? I'll just throw out pants selection as a possible category.
Sony needs built in focus stacking mode. As a landscape photographer I envy Nikon and Canon users that have that, shouldn’t be hard to implement but they just won’t do it for whatever reason.
Yup. I will not buy a Sony camera for this reason.
Use Fuji
I shoot Canon, but an older aps-c without focus bracketing. I want to upgrade but the R5 is very very expensive and I’m not sure I need 45mp but I wish the R6 had MORE mp than 20. I’ve strongly considered switching to Fuji but I’d like to go full frame.
The horizon level indicators are vastly inadaquate. It indicates green for far to broad a range. Why not have a third color, blue, to indicate a more precise leveling. And make it easier to see on the screen for people shooting from the hip or in high glare conditions. Maybe light up the corners instead of this useless thin line. And Sony, allow the level indicator on the info screens, not just the leveling screen.
THIS. TOTALLY THIS. I'm a Real Estate photographer, I rely every second on the horizon level. When I was in pentax it was a good experience, the green range was very small and a quick check to frame lines on the screen could help mitigate small imperfections. Since I moved to Sony I find myself getting the verticals wrong more often than I'd like because of the horizon's huge range
Also in some cameras the level is way to large and you can‘t see s#!t when it‘s enabled (looking at you Z6)
Great thumbnail Chris! Repeat after me "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
I agree the grammar thing on Canon bugs me. There’s other areas of Canon menus where there’s something similar. Is anyone at Canon listening?
As for Sony-shocking you can’t process raws in camera. You could do this with Fujifilm from day 1 in 2012.
That "few are" comment from Jordan had me in tears.
Here's my 5. Micro HDMI, lack of 2.5k video resolution for no technical reason, Panasonic's contrast af, lack of firmware releases that could easily add new features. Proprietary mounts (there needs to be more shared mounts like the L)
I think the autofocus gripe is not "minor" enough for this topic.
Great video guys. 👌👌
Canon seems very reluctant to report aperture on their LCD unless in aperture priority mode.
They are far less shy about reporting shutter speed; why is that?
10:08 knew this one was coming. 😆
Please do more, I love it 🤣.
The lens cleaning sketch video gave me nightmares for weeks.
I want you guys to know how much I like you guys. A lot. I like you guys and your videos a lot.
Good content from Statler and Waldorf!
Waveform monitoring in photo mode, in all cameras, now! :)
"Liked Drive My Car" lol that must've stung Jordan deeply
Lol, Jordan - 'internet videos of grown men whining...', hahaha. Love you guys.
I can't figure out this desire for a lock button on the exposure mode dial. I have never even once accidentally moved that dial in decades of shooting. How can you accidentally move a flat dial sitting on top of the camera? I far prefer not having a lock.
That soooo many people ( myself included) have the desire for a lock button must mean something.....? It has only happened to me once and it messed up my shooting trying to figure what was wrong so I missed shots. If not a lock button, perhaps make a dial that is stiffer to turn thus reducing the likelihood of accidentally moving the setting?
9:06 I used to have a problem with this all the time with Canon EOS M50. I'd set shutter speed to 1/1000s, shoot football for 20min, and then notice that I had accidentally changed it to 1/640s. Outcome: all of those photos are now burned because aperture and ISO were set to non-auto as well. I was really glad to see that Canon EOS R6 had a lock button but then I never ended up using it because for whatever reason I don't accidentally bump the dials anymore. Maybe M50 just taught me to constantly and neurotically check the settings every minute :).
HLG does not need any real grading. You can even upload it directly to RUclips.
Sony has annoying issue with horizon level in video too. You can either see main stats or horizon level, not both.
Why Japanese companies have so horrible and limited software customization? Because of their extremely outdated software testing process, even for biggest companies. Everything 15 years outdated. Everything is done manually and their main testing software is MS Excel. If they need to provide customization for every feature it will require maybe a month for development and half a year for testing.
This video is funny and useful. Great to pick the basic stuff in the industry which needs to get improved :)
I'd add:
- Canon not putting the on/off switch where it should be (around the shutter button)
- Sony only letting you change auto ISO min shutter speed in 1-stop increments
- Cameras that require you to use the touch screen for certain autofocus functions
- Sony wiping some of your custom modes when formatting your cards
- Cameras that autofocus in self-timer mode when the shutter button is pressed instead of when the photo is taken
"it'll be like a squaresoft Japanese RPG" that had me dying laughing.
You guys are the actually best
Thanks guys. I’m in the process of buying/waiting for a new camera. And hearing about the flaws in both software and hardware is going to help with the decision. But mostly I want to film in 8k. Have you had any problems there? Cheers
Yes! 100% agree on quick adjustment of minimum shutter speed. Sony has a decent implementation as other comments have mentioned, but other manufacturers need to update theirs.
Minimum shutter speed is at the top of my list. I use and adjust it *constantly*. It's a shooting setting, not a configuration setting. Even a button is too far away; I want to assign it to a command dial (on cameras with three dials).
Shoot manual?
@@burritobrosvideos8060 I do believe that option has crossed the minds of most people talking about this issue. For most photography I do, I want to use aperture priority with a minimum shutter speed I specify. If I shoot manual, I will end up with the same settings, but more time spent adjusting them. More of my focus will be on settings, distracting me from composition and timing.
@@ZakWilson you only need to put shutter speed on one dial and leave iso auto with parameters. Its really easy
@@burritobrosvideos8060 I know how to use both manual with auto ISO and full manual. I am not fast at adjusting the shutter speed as the computer chip in my camera and I never will be, nor do I want to be thinking about it for every shot.
@@ZakWilson we get it, you're slow. This feature isn't going to be in cameras in you're lifetime so you better get used to it grandpa.
I love your shirt, Jordan!
Hi, Chris and Jordan, I´m from Germany and first THANK´S a lot for your informative and entertaining videos. Well, that´s a funny thing with Canon´s "enable" and "disable". When you choose German language in the Menu, we in Deutschland don´t have this problem.
Canon writes the verb and you have to klick, then it the action will happen. In English they write the verb, but mean the article. That´s really crazy. So I think, you better learn Deutsch and put the Menu into "German", :)).
What I don´t understand: There are millions of English and American users, but you can´t make Canon to change this.
My best wishes and stay healthy.
GRAMMATICAL: CANON please learn how to use PAST TENSE!!! As in the word "enabled" and "not enabled"!!!!!
For your next edition of "Annoying camera quirks" (there must be material for a lot of entertaining and irritating episodes) I want to add Canons very limited interval photography feature. It is only possible to program up to 99 exposures. Most other camera makers allow for 9999. I'm doing a lot of timelapse with this feature - have to use the unlimited setting and set the timer on my phone. I guess a few lines of simple code could solve this. One more Canon: Why not a setting where user can choose between in camera stabilization only, lens stabilization only or both? When filming some adapted IS EF lenses perform worse than most non IS adapted lenses. Beeing able to use only in body IS will most likely solve this.
Transparent menus? In 1980, Ben Shneiderman published a book on "Software Psychology" and it listed all sorts of crap that tech developers - aka nerds - were capable of. Take "commands" in one operating system. A research of that era made short descriptions in everyday laymen's language of what commands would do and asked respondents to come up with a short name for that. 80% of laymen respondents came up with the one-and-the-same term but that never was what the techies had invented.
Human-machine interaction is a serious subject, study, discipline. In the 1990s, I worked with copying/printing machines that had a very intuitive UI. Then "management" closed a deal with another brand for the institution. The new UI was not intuitive at all and I went from 0% wrong jobs to 20%. It made the cheaper machines expensive in their operation, plus my time.
The problem we are presented with is twofold: (1) managers approve of things going live or to market but actually not understanding what they approve of and (2) in the void of leadership, developers thinking that "user friendliness" means that the user should stay friendly all the time.
amen why can I NOT see my horizon level when recording on Canon!! It's so annoying
Beyond in-camera raw processing, I am extremely jealous of how much you can tweak in Fujifilm cameras compared to my Canons' basic 'Sharpness, Contrast, Saturation, Color tone"... why is clarity in a different menu??? WTF does color tone do? (it's just tint). Fuji gives you dynamic range adjustments, grain, film sims!, CURVES!!
It sounds like Olym... OM Systems is more like Fuji. So called computational photography is definitely the future, with cell phones leading the way. Flexibility, that leads to capability, as you mentioned, will win out eventually. At some point, someone will come up with a UI that ignores traditional photography terms and it will catch on, inflaming and confusing traditional photographers!
Very funny (especially the refrigerator notes) and great points! Also, how about camera manufacturers being more up-front in their specs about the eye-point of their viewfinders?
It's kind of amazing that it wasn't that many years ago that all one had to consider on a camera was Film speed/ASA , aperture, and shutter speed. I suppose that is why I set my camera on manual mode and kind of ignore the rest.
This is my adult version of Saturday morning cartoons.
I feel the same
You definitely whine with the best of them. Thanks for the show. I just wish the user manual was written for users, and actually told me how to use all these superb features that they keep releasing.
You guys are the best
Complaints list:
Take the 10 seconds it would take to program in shutter speeds longer than 30 seconds
No more screens that only flip up for low horizontal shots
Stop equating light weight with beginner photographers; build some light weight but high image quality full frame gear (bodies and lenses)
The horizon level issue on Canon is why I don't already own a R5 or at least R6... or heck, I may have gotten a C200 even a few years back.
A point I'd like to see is great 1080p footage, or 1440p. As much as space is really cheap I don't really need them. A sharp, 10bit 422 1080p footage will be so good and that does not demand a lot of the sensor. Because a lot about video quality is down to colour grading not resolution, I don't need to vlog in sharp 8k anyway.
Agreed about 1080p or 1440p. Camera companies please put more effort into improving this kind of video instead of giving us 8k where there are still too few ways of then watching 8k video for the majority of the world.
Lack of customisation in "custom" functions. Let me freakin' select ANY function to add to a button
The lock for the shutter speed/angle and customizing colours should've been #1 and #2 respectively. Great video
You guys are fun.
I would LOVE to be able to change the color of the AF point! Black does not show well in darker areas where the wild life I shoot tends to hang out!
The biggest quirk I noticed on the Q2 Monochrome when I tested it at the Leica store was the price.
10:25 I'm here with you on that!!
one thing that's not annoying is that pretty stellar sound from those DJI mics...
My gripe is a missing function - depth of field calculation. The camera has all the info available to do this, why not show it numerically in the display instead of trying to see it visually in the viewfinder/display or having to consult an external app. This would be so useful for flower/insect photos.
I think Fuji shows it in the on-screen focus scale.
Fuji does this, but it's not really that useful. Depth of field is not an abrupt transition from 100% sharp to 100% soft, it's a continuous transition.
I think old Canon P&S cameras had this.
Use an OLD model Canon DSLR or EOS M and load Magic Lantern
“…this video of grown men whining…” 🤩
Wow those sticky notes are really personal! 😂
For me is the lack of built in GPS. Doing nature or travel photography I would like to know where the picture was taken without pairing my phone.
I decided the easier thing is to record a track on a phone or GPS and use a utility later to update the photo metadata from the gpx file. Then any digital camera will do, if it has the correct time stamp. But as with anything technical like this I assume there's some arcane reason that this won't work for everyone.
Fingerprint reader in the shutter button (with a pin code fallback of course) to prevent theft?
And if i may, if we're talking about annoying things, am i allowed to mention the audio levels of your videos? Not all the time but dunno, every tenth. And this one for example.
I loved this video
I wish cameras would gradually vary the shutter sound according to how fast / slow it is. Getting higher as speed increases, lower as it decreases - photographing events, sometimes there simply isn't time to to move one's eye from the subject to the shutter speed and back again.
" ..two grown men whining." Thanks for yet another great "review."
"I just actually scratch the letter d lower case right behind where it is on the LCD screen itself problem fixed" 😂 lol
My 3 issues with Fuji Cameras 1. Metering with face/eye detect. Fuji cameras go to another metering mode when this is enabled, but you will be hard-pressed to find what it is using and of course if you leave face detect on, you will never understand why your meter dial is not have any effect. I would like the option to choose please Fuji.
2. Auto mode. Fuji makes a big thing about the retro feel and most Fuji users love the tactile feel, but at the end of the day it is a computer with a lens attached. Most cameras switching to auto is a dial twist. On a Fuji it is checking lens is set to A , check ISO, check speed, see if are in manual focus. What I want is a switch that just reverts everything to auto so that if something unexpected happens I can quickly change modes.
3. The lack of separate A button on prime lens. To switch to auto aperture on a prime means moving the dial to A settings which is fine, but it is after F22. Most photographers operate at the wider aperture or A mode, so it makes more sense for the A to be at the wider end. Worse, if you are in A mode and nudge the dial, you end up at F22, which is rarely used and means your images are generally used.
Great and funny video. I would like to see the ability to bracket ISO in Canon cameras. Especially retro fitted to my 5D mk iv.
What has to be removed completely from any cameras is a PAL/NTSC switch. I'm so much loving the elegant way Nikon did with their Z cameras (you just set the 50/60 Hz zone settings for a flickering light and that's it) but it drives me nuts in Sony cameras. I just want to set any frame rate I want (24, 25, 50,60 etc)
I only have a few issues I can think of, mostly Panasonic GH6:
1. Panasonic GH6 screen being reflective and not matt. I like you can set the screen brightness higher than previous GH cameras and that really helps you be able to see it, but the reflections are still issues in some lighting conditions if you look at the screen from certain angles, especially for me since I don't use the viewfinder when taking videos as I have a microphone mounted on the camera hotshoe.
2.Having some features automatic only is a minor issue for me. On the GH6, I would have liked it if you could set the dynamic range boost off if you use ISOs in video lower than the minimum ISO for when the boost is on, then have an option to either keep it off or to turn on automatically when at the minimum ISO dynamic range boost uses when ON, depending on the picture mode.
Not only that, an auto off for dynamic range boost would be better when trying to switch to a recording mode than only works with it off, rather than having to turn dynamic range boost off first, then select the recording mode.
Also the option to turn on or off dynamic range boost in photo modes instead of it as automatic which hopefully might help the poor dynamic range for photos and give us better photos as the GH6 seems like it should be capable of producing great photos, but its not for some reason.
3. Cameras that limit certain tools/features in certain modes or crop in when using certain video recording modes. While not a big issue, when using the GH6 in focus transition for focus pulls, you lose the waveform monitor. I know you get the 1,2,3 focus area touch buttons on the screen and the waveform monitor would take up more of the screen, but in situations where the lighting is constantly changing, such as daylight with cloud, I have to go off the focus transition, re-expose then go back onto it.
4. No dual CFExpress card slots. I get that CFExpress cards are expensive compared to SD (there are a few UHS-II SD Cards that are quite expensive) but I miss on the GH6 not having the option to either have backup video recording on my GH6 at high framerates and higher than 4K recording or just automatically recoding from one card to the next without having to swap out cards when one is full or very close to full.
I agree what you said about the punch in magnifier on the GH6. I noticed when you go to maximum magnification with it, there seem to be less focus peaking than using it at less magnifications which has made has made nailing focus manually a little tricky for me sometimes, especially when trying to focus on fine objects like a thin grass blade or infinity focus for landscapes. Someone asked on one of the Lumix Live streams about increasing the magnification on it, and Sean said he'd ask the development team if they could increase the magnification like you can get on some other Panasonic cameras.
Dave's Nature: your point nr one I can address, the rest I cannot since while have Panasonic cameras I do not have a GH6.
It sounds like you say you cannot use the EVF because of the microphone on the hot shoe. There are shotgun microphones where the cable out to the camera leaves the microphone from the side or from the lower front. There are also shotgun mounts that help shift the microphone forward. Together this makes the EVF usable with video again. So it is the fault of the microphone, not the camera. Check out Sennheiser shotgun microphones e.g. don't just stick with Røde like most people.
@@joestrahl6980 I mostly take videos on a tripod and I wear glasses so that is the main reason I don't use the EVF. and I use the screen. I don't use Rode microphones. I did at one point but they didn't suit my voice or what I was doing. I use 2 microphones, a Sennheiser ME66 & K6 and a Sennheiser MKH 416 with a Tascam 701D audio recorder mounted on a shock mount on the camera and the audio recorder mounted below the camera.
@@DynamixWarePro sorry ...However this is what you wrote in your original post, verbatim under point 1.:
"...since I don't us the viewfinder when taking videos as I have a microphone mounted in the camera hot shoe."
And I responded to exactly that, exactly what you wrote. I could not know about glasses etc etc since you did not write about that in your original post that you might want to consult (?).
I also love Drive My Car! Jordan FTW 0:30
Another minor annoyance, cameras should follow Panasonic when it comes to displaying the exposure value in log video recording. Correct me if I'm wrong but +0ev on a Panasonic V-log is well exposed, whereas on a Fuji or Sony, it needs to be +1.3 or more. Problem is we don't see anything past +2ev so it could well be +2.3 or way more and it's just kinda annoying.
I think the correct exposure for V-Log is to have the midtones at 42 IRE on the waveform monitor, so that can often be above +0ev. Sometimes on my GH6 the best exposure is 2/3 over exposed, or +1 etc.. depending on the scene, to get the correct midtone exposure.
Related to the dial-lock request: on the fuji x-t30, I bump the q button ALL the time. Could that be made “push twice to activate”, something like the way you can lock the joystick?
😂 Thanks! Lovely. You made my day