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Hey thanks for watching. As you might have figured from the intro, I intended for this to be ready much sooner 😂

​I love it! We are all just a humans. Thank you for your work and time and things we can learn from you 😊

I think I made it sound like more of an issue than it actually is. I’d prefer it to be longer, but it’s a fantastic little lens. It just gets a bit tricky with moving subjects even stopped down to f4-5.6 where I was mostly shooting. I’d say it’s more of a quirk to get used to rather than an issue 🖖

Yeah it’s quite possibly just my copy and the scratchy part isn’t super noticeable once you’re using it, I only mentioned it because I noticed it almost immediately but it doesn’t affect performance, the focus throw too I suspect is something that I’d get to grips with the more I use it. The lens is a great performer optically so I don’t think those things would put me off using it🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial Roughly how many degrees rotation are we talking btw?(maybe you said and I missed it)

@LadyBovine I’d say it’s approximately 90 degrees at most with a 20cm/8inch minimum focus distance.

The performance might be different on apsc, but from my use of the m4/3 copy, it’s well worth the small price tag 🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial I love them little Manual lenses, ATM I'm having fun with the ttartisan 50mm, 35mm and 23mm and they perform superb so I can't imagine the pergear been much different with a aps-c body.

I used the ttartisan trio on Sony apsc and they were very good. It’s great to see third party options that are worth considering 🖖

I may or may not be a clairvoyant but for now I’ll just stick with the photography nerd title 😂

@electronic I coupled the TTArtisan f2 25 mm lens with my em10 mkii which I find to be a nice balance combo.

It’s right there in the title mate, 50mm f1.8 which on the 7D gives around an 80mm full frame equivalent field of view (1.6x crop) 🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial so might be me but is it the Sony 50mm f1.8 the sigma is 1.6

@deancarter4109 it’s all Canon. It’s the super cheap plastic 50mm f1.8, not the newer stm one

@@DavidFlowerOfficial is it in your links? I’m thinking of trying the 7D currently have the lumix G7 and heard good things about the 7D

@deancarter4109 It was a camera I borrowed from @ChrisBaitson for a few weeks so if you want more videos and info about it, his channel might be a better place to look👍

Surprisingly good in decent light. Of course it’s not going to compete with more modern cameras, but I’ve never noticed any issues with it. It gets a bit shaky in low light but then again, this whole camera is a bit shaky in low light😂 Thanks for watching 🖖

Haha, what a great story. You’re absolutely right in the this little camera is incredibly fun to use. I have the em1 mkii and a whole bunch of others including full frame, but the em10 mkii is just magic🖖

If 1080p is good enough for your needs then yes, it’s a great camera. It doesn’t have any super fancy video features, but it will get the job done. If you want 4k there are always things like the Dji Osmo pocket which are great vlogging cameras or even a reasonably modern phone can look and sound good with the right lighting and microphone🖖

I think it’s hard to recommend also because of it being a dead system. I understand the NX1 holds up, but I’ve no personal experience with it so I’m just going off what I’ve read. Thanks for watching 🖖

The camera is a big help though, hard to take pictures without it 🖖

Oh that’s an easy one. Just get a card reader capable of reading cf cards. You could also just use the mini usb port on the camera if memory serves but the transfer rates are always super slow compared with a card reader. The reader I use is just an incredibly cheap Polaroid branded one I got from a supermarket which cost me about £7🖖

Yeah I always shoot raw if the camera is capable. It just gives a clearer picture of how flexible the images are if you choose to edit. The scene modes I think were jpeg only (I can’t check because I gave the GF2 to a friend), but everything else was raw. Thanks for watching 🖖

​@@DavidFlowerOfficial The GF2 jpegs aren't great so shooting RAW or RAW plus jpeg is probably the way to go.

The V3 firmware came in 2019 and brought some much needed updates to the camera including pdaf in video. I think the most recent one is v3.7 or so 🖖

Absolutely! Some of the older Minolta A mount lenses are incredibly cheap. I just picked up a 50mm f1.8 for less than £40

Photography definitely has too many options and the larger problem is that for the last decade or so, most of them have been good. I think both fixed lens and interchangeable lens cameras have their benefits. Compacts are a 1 and done solution and you don’t need to carry anything else, but ILC cameras offer a lot more creative options and some practical benefits when it comes to shooting a wide range of subjects and lighting conditions.

@@DavidFlowerOfficial I’ve got a tripod so i want something with a easier access than my 5d mark II I can take with me everyday and Thai I can shoot landscape with too. I think you guys liked the Olympus 10 mark II. The 5 mark II is pretty much the same camera but without Wi-Fi but with weather sealing 👍🏻

@brunodrakenas9575 Yeah the em5 mkii is the same sensor as the em10 mkii so you’re gonna get pretty much the same image with the added bonus of the weather sealing you mentioned and the flippy screen for any odd angles you might want to capture 🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial just bought a ME 10 mark II with the 14-42 kit lens for 145 quid. I feel like it’s a fairly good price. It was that perfect combo, a girl that bought it new and only used it the first year very “sparsely” before her interest in photography died 👍🏻

Yeah that’s a bargain. The kit lenses on m4/3 are surprisingly good. Probably the best of any system I’ve used. I had the lumix 14-42 super plastic kit lens and the image quality was very good 🖖

I’ve not used it so I can’t really say. I’d expect it to be a step or two up from the G10 though 🖖

It has its limitations but it’s a great camera for shooting in decent light. There are much newer options around and given how the price of these older ccd models has gone crazy, it might be best to shop around a bit🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial thanks so much. Trying work it out soon, travelling through turkey. Cheers

Em10 mkii all day long for image quality and lens options, but if 28-140 zoom is enough and you don’t intend to shoot at higher ISO, the G10 is solid.

We’ve borrowed cameras from each other in the past so it depends which you’re referring to. I borrowed his canon 7D, 1diii and I made a video with his RP. The rest are mine, I’m a bit of a camera nerd 👍😁

@@DavidFlowerOfficial thinking about the em1 mkii, Canon 40d and probably a few more. I’m watching a lot of TH-cam in hunt for the perfect camera so I might have mixed you up with other British lads 🤷🏽 the GAS runs deep!

We both have the em1 mkii and the 40d was mine and I think he may have used that at one point. For me I’m a bit of a collector and like to use the older cameras as a bit of a challenge. Like if I can get a decent picture with a 20 year old potato, I can get a shot with pretty much anything 😂

I’d say so. Here in the UK the a6000 is around the £300-400 mark used for the body only🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial thx a lot.😊

It depends on what look you want. If you’re just getting started a phone with 4k is good enough if you make sure you have good audio because people will let you know about bad audio before bad video. If you want something a bit more capable, the Olympus EM1 mkii is a great photo and video body with excellent ibis, great af and a nice cinema 4k codec🖖

Thanks very much. I don’t make shorts often but that sunset was something else 🖖

A speedbooster is on the cards for the gh5. Some of that canon glass is crazy good🖖

Does everything work ok on the GH1, it lists it as not being compatible on the speedbooster website

@@WiL1982 GH1 works with both 0.64x and 0.71x speedboosters but you can only use 0.64x in video mode or electronic shutter because the shutter curtain will hit the rear glass.

I’d never heard of this until just now but upon having a look at it, it’s more like the Alice camera and requires a phone for more than basic blind snapping. Very interesting idea and I seem to recall Sony making something similar? In everything I read I never even saw this mentioned, even by Olympus so maybe even they themselves don’t put it in the same category as the pen mini or lumix gm1.

@@DavidFlowerOfficial The idea to have a small box with just the mount and sensor and use it with the smartphone has surfaced several times but it never took off. You can build your own body around it, mount it on a drone or in other difficult places but at the end, the market for this is very small. The next problem is the software that needs to be maintained and updated for new versions of smartphones and in this case, even a company like Olympus decided to drop the development and leave the customers with a fading out usability after a few years.

I haven’t used the PL2 but I do have the pen mini which is basically an EPL3 and I had the EPL3 itself a few years ago. From an image quality standpoint, they’re all pretty much the same but when using the pen mini I did miss the touch screen and nicer body feel of the GF2🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial Cheers David! Nice to hear. Just ordered a GF2 a few minutes ago. I'll use ist with the 20mm 1.7 ii. But..prices go skyrocket..puh.

There was nothing done in post to add sharpness, the Olympus ibis is just that good. I just applied a preset and tweaked the exposure. Either way the ibis in the EM1 mk ii you can easily hand hold shots up to 1 second depending on focal length🖖

That’s gonna depend on what you intend to shoot with it. For pure picture quality and a much slower approach the A7 has the edge, but only as a photo camera. As an all rounder for faster shooting like wildlife and sport or as a hybrid for photo and video I’d go with the a6000. They’re surprisingly close in terms of both dynamic range and iso performance (the A7 is pretty bad at iso 1600+). For vintage glass use or portraits I’d go A7, for everything else, A6000

@@DavidFlowerOfficial thx a lot..

The 7D is a fantastic camera. You might find it a little on the large side for travel but it’s not too bad with either a standard prime or a single wide range zoom. Thanks for watching 🖖

It’s kinda bad because without that zoom, your phone is better and phones compared to actual cameras are garbage. It’s a fun camera for sure but the image quality is pants. For any beginner wanting to learn they’d be much better off buying an ancient dslr and kit lens as the image quality would be significantly better and when it comes to editing, they’d have the option to shoot in RAW unlike with this camera.

@@DavidFlowerOfficial Fair enough. But for the price and features? You’ll invest far more time and money into an ancient DSLR. I guess it all depends on how much experience and effort someone can put into it.

@Gubers canon 400d regularly runs at about £30 and they practically give away those kit lenses. I just bought a Sony Nex 3 for £31 so there are far better options out there for not a lot of money, but to each their own.

It doesn’t matter which you choose. They’re comparable cameras and both systems have an amazing lens selection. Thanks for watching🖖

Yeah it’s very much like they saw me, saw the phone and just continued on without further thought. As I said, I don’t particularly care for that type of image, but the fact that you can get them and no one seems to care is quite interesting. I was a fairly early adopter of the smart phone with one of my earliest being the Sony Ericsson P800 and as you’d expect they have just become more and more streamlined since then. I can’t use a phone without a case because I’d drop the thing in a heartbeat 😂

Your video made me wonder how many times I've been shot as I walk innocently down the street - although I'm sure they'd delete the image once they'd looked at it!!!

@GrumpyTim I’ve always been something of a people watcher, human behaviour fascinates me, but getting up close and personal to photograph it never appealed to me which is why I’m more comfortable shooting from afar safe distance. And I just realised that sentence made me sound a bit like an alien, I guess my secret is out😂 I’ve long since dismissed any illusions about privacy being old enough to have existed before the modern internet so I’ve no doubt that most of us appear on phone cameras, dashcams and even doorbells on a daily basis

Very kind of you. Thanks for watching 🖖

I’ve been using Davinci Resolve since I started the channel and even the free version is very powerful🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial can't thank you enough, David! Much appreciate it!

I really appreciate that, thank you🖖

Thanks Alex🖖😁

My biggest problem with a phone is that to get anything like a camera experience, you need extra stuff which soon starts to make the phone bigger than some cameras you can get but with worse image quality. I recently picket up a Sony Nex 3 for £31 and the image quality is far superior as you’d expect from a much larger sensor and it’s not a lot bigger than the phone. It was fun to get a few shots and no one take you seriously, I think that’s the phones super power🖖

Exactly, they’re so convenient! Thanks for watching 🖖😁

@@RealBesty thank you very much :)

Honestly I’d much rather use a little compact over the phone. Coincidentally I saw an iPod touch today and I’d forgotten those things existed 😂 Thanks for watching 🖖

@@DavidFlowerOfficial Oh, I agree entirely that a compact is much preferable :)