If you made F-stop vs T-stop test for lenses, I would actually watch it (seriously). Think about how many people are buying fast and expensive lenses so they can shoot in low light.
THIS. RIGHT HERE. 🙌🏻 I never had a "wise family member" say it, but ever since I was a teenager I always said I refuse to pay to be a beta tester. I always try to get new phones or cameras that are steps up but not total redesigns because with big redesigns, you never know what you're gonna get. And then simply allowing others to be the ones to preorder and stand in wild lines to be the first to get ahold of something… I don't know where everyone else on here hails from, but where I'm from, people don't just have money to set a match to like that. Every purchase has to be responsibly made and accounted for.
I have often used this same strategy. However, I may very well break tradition and change my ways with the immed purchase of an R3 body, once it becomes available for pre-order. Blessed are the early adopters, for they discover and report all the initial problems on a new offering, as well as pay for the Mfgs' R&D costs. We thank them.
Yes I totally agree with this 100% after having a bad situation with a a big truck that was a total redesign back in 1996. It was 1 month after coming out and i was crossing the USA in Nebraska and it started to get chilly and i went to turn the heat on and i hearda pop and leaking air, which is very dangerous with tractor trailer as air runs your brakes, and i could not get the air to stop. I was able to get to a truck stop and call someone and long story short i was stuck for 3 weeks in Mid America for one 2 inch part that had to come from Europe. From then on I will never buy a new design and wait until the kinks are worked out and then I will buy something especially if it is a very large price purchase.
@@alexk7977 Is that uploaded to your phone or on the wireless app preview? Because idk about other brands, but the previews of images on the Canon Connect app are HORRIBLE. But once you download the JPEG to your phone's Photos and pinch in, it looks solid.
@@longliveclassicmusic uploaded to the phone. I just meant that you can't tell if it's out of focus or the colors are off in a strange way or whatever. it's just much harder to see problems on the small low resolution screen of the camera.
Very helpful video! But one suggestion: could you make use of the youtube 'chapters' feature? For a video like this, it would be useful to see it divided into the specific topic areas. That way, if I want to go back and review one of them, it is easy to find.
What is going on with the audio? Ouch. Yet, I'm reading that apparently it has been made better?? Good interesting content so I'll try to stick it out. :-) Peace.
Weather sealing is another area with a lot of misleading marketing on both camera bodies and lenses. They pretty much never obtain an actual IP code rating for weather resistance. Many heavily market their toughness and show their cameras getting soaked in heavy rains or huge ocean waves but the fine print always says they are light splash and dust resistant only.
@Photo Bunny Panasonic repaired my Lumix S1 and 24-105mm lens for water ingress without charge but based on the warranty fine print could easily have said no so kudos to them for that but it doesn't replace the disconnect between marketing and the actual design capabilities of not just them but all manufacturers.
At least on smart phone marketing many manufacturers know their product withstands submerging to water even, but the official rating costs a lot of money so they don't get the seal of quality despite having that quality. It's similar to how for example in Finland you get the finnish flag on your product (say veggies) if it's grown and produced in Finland, but it costs 5000e and it scales upwards, so many choose not to get it, despite being eligible. It's a balance of value vs cost, the badge doesn't bring as much value as it costs. And I believe you can't legally state that the product is let's say water sealed if you don't go through the validation. And perhaps they also don't want to encourage people to challenge their camera's water sealing unnecessarily, to avoid unnecessary warranty cases, and it also takes their legal liability of warranty away. In a sense everybody wins when the camera is water sealed, but nobody tries it purposely, so you avoid the camera being rendered useless without good reason and you're still protected against it happening.
here is one that mislead me i had a Nikon D7100 and used a 18-140 lens, then got a fuji X-T3 with a 18-135 lens and found out that if your shooting at 3200 ISO with the Fuji, it's the same Exposure at the Nikon D7100 at ISO 1600, So the ISO with my Fuji X-T3 is a lie, if your at ISO 3200 it's really 1600 from all the other camera's i tested.. I think Fuji does this to make people think that Fuji's Camera shoots cleaner images at ISO 3200, which it does not lol Very misleading if you ask me..
I actually made a video about this a couple of weeks ago. So many people cannot believe this LOL. But sadly this is true, they cheat, or forget to tell us LOL.
IMO Tony is at his absolute best in videos like this. And that is why his science video series is so good. Thanks for this Tony. - The one spec that always troubles me is Mag-factor. Buying longer lenses don't always give you more magnification. And minimum focus distance is rarely discussed.
Panasonic lenses have very little focus breathing. Love their lenses, hate their prices. Also love their evfs and and screens. They are terrible at marketing.
Could you guys do a video about how to get the best with camera you have now? Instead of so much focus on the latest and greatest that we all can’t afford to blow $3,000-4,000+ on ? I shoot with a 60d, and that’s what I have. I watch a lot of videos trying to make the best of what I have to work with, but to be honest I feel lost a lot. Should I just hunker down and take the “no duh” approach and read the whole manual back to back ? Lol or do you have any tips just for me to get better, sharper results? Honest question lol
I find that the way to go about it is use what you have to get what you want. And you should expand what results you want and challenge yourself. I use a z6 now and that’s very helpful but I hardly use any of the features, just the full frame aspect and 4K video basically. I don’t even use autofocus lenses. I use manual lenses and even before that ive used a d3500 for 3 years, the super no frills camera from Nikon that’ll only take 5 shots before buffering. No biggie because I learned to adapt to it. Anyways my point is that the camera doesn’t really do much for you, it’s the lenses and it’s the ideas in your noggin that let you get the best out of your camera. Shoot everything and see what you like, what could be better, what’s just terrible. You don’t know how many ideas I thought were good but ended up turning out like crap. Mastery over your gear comes from using it. Same with your artistic touch, gotta just get out there and use it. Biggest things to actually seriously know is Framing, lighting, exposure triangle. And you should know how to do these things with your camera of course. If that means front to back in the manual then go for it. With those 3 things, you add in a little bit of yourself and you’ll learn what to do and how to do it.
@@aliendroneservices6621 of course there is. ISO * Exposure Time * Aperture or T-stop if you’re fancy. The three things that influence the exposure of your image. I guess I don’t think of it as a triangle, maybe a balance but yeah good concept. I don’t generally think too hard in it unless I’m doing long exposures tho.
I remember shooting a 36 frame roll at 5 fps with my Olympus OM-2 and Motor Drive 2. No buffering. Pretty good performance, even today. I never got the 250 film back though.
Love what you guys do - thank goodness YOU do it, because I would pull out the few remaining hairs on my head trying to figure out stuff like this on my own! 💯🥰
I believe that a lot of us (at the least me) would rather wait for a trusted reviewer to release their complete review than any random review hitting the tube right when the product is released. Maybe less views, but the views will be more impactful. Moral of the story - keep producing great reviews and always sacrifice minute-of-release video releases for truth and thoroughness.
You guys are saying you’ll get demolished if you post a poor resolution video, but your audio clipping is atrocious on this video! Sorry, I had so show my audio snobbery after your video bashing comment! lol. In all seriousness you guys are great. Love your videos!
Hi Ed. A real question. I'm truly not having audio clipping. I just wonder why you are, and I'm not, an really because I question the delivery of our internet, as well as equipment, etc. I'm not better or worse than you, I just wonder what it is. I love their video's also, but I do have some issue with them - which I will bring up maybe in the next one. They are well prepared, and thought out though. I just want to get to know their motivation as well as how they prepare to make their videos. It's different from many other videos I've seen. I do like them though.
@@kevinwells4986 There are definitely audio issues with this video. Clipping is sometimes not always obvious. I've watch videos where the person is giving an example of clipping and I don't hear it, and other times I do. I think this one is more noticeable. It's also a bit muffled. But I think most of their videos are muffled. The are emphasizing the low and mid frequencies. They need to boost some higher frequencies to get more clarity. Each person's voice has ideal frequencies to improve the overall sound and it can be a PIA to figure out. I have a preset for me that seems to improve my voice over no EQ, but I'm sure an audio engineer would completely change it. There's also a couple times you hear some noise from transient blowing into their lavs. Tony more than Chelsea. Very minor. Really no way to fix that afterwards without using the high end RX audio software. They tend to not use windscreens for their studio work from what I've noticed. Most of the time it doesn't matter, but occasionally it does.
@@zacharybohlman4069 Personal preference now. Not a fan of their use of DOF on these videos. It's not the background blur, it's the foreground blur in every video. It's distracting to me that hands and really anything closer to the camera is out of focus.
Forget the quality of the year camera screens, sunlight makes them very difficult to read in even reasonable sunshine, I still rely, almost 100% on the EVF!
but the EVF has similar issues. Sometimes they're higher dots but they are field sequential so they have lower frame rates and less true pixels, plus the latency can be worse than on the main monitor. I think their point is that the pentaprism works better even if mirrorless is attractive, except on the newest cameras where the cpus are fast enough to have a decent live mode
Why do camera manufactures use such crappy screens when our phones now are incredibly pixel dense and bright? One of the main functions of a camera is image quality. It's crazy they come with screens so ancient that it limits your ability to scrutinize your work in the field
@@staticv3570 That's happening at every resolution of this video, so the source video is probably like it. That audio is also not well synchronized. Do you see that as well?
The irony that the topic of this video is about AA filters, focus breathing & weird stuff happening to your source footage and then i see the warping top edge of the frame! Just spent five minutes skim-watching a tonne of other videos and havent seen anything like this; plus it happens on every angle cut (maybe they did it deliberately to catch us out haha!)
When Pentax came out with an electronic AA filter, I said, "Whaaaat?" It was then I realized what was really going on with optical AA filters. Pentax took it out but realized the problem with the "corduroy fashion moire" could bite them so they gave you the option of shaking the sensor, just a little, to re-blur, just like an optical AA filter would. I thought reducing sharpness was a rather odd "feature", and in 5 years, I've used it once. I'm pretty happy they took this rather strange approach, because the other 99.99% of my pictures were noticeably sharper.
16:58 I GREATLY prefer an accurate review over a fast review. People are relying on these reviews to help them make purchasing decisions for equipment that costs thousands of dollars. Discovering a fatal flaw post-purchase that the reviewers could have noticed had they taken the proper time to evaluate the camera brings the reviewers trustworthiness into question.
I trusted Nikon on the 12 FPs for the Z6. Well it can do the 12 FPS but when it does the EVF shows a slideshow which makes following a fast moving subject almost impossible. Unfortunately I found only a single review of the Z6 II which states that it also has this issue. Manufacturers should be called out for stuff like this so they fix it (at least in the next model). Since basically no one called out Nikon for this they did nit fix it.
The AA filter is not a "coating" on the sensor. It is a separate discrete filter element that overlays the sensor. I had the AA filter removed on my D800 three years ago by a company called LifePixel turning it into a D800e. They also performed the same mod to my D600.
To check T stop, shoot on a bright sunny day at midday using the sunny f/16 rule. The amount of underexposure you get(if any)is the difference between f stop and T stop.
Chels and Tony! Please talk about the importance of knowing the pixel pitch aka. sensor pixel density of a camera! One of the most important "specs" to know when buying a camera for low light action, sports and wildlife photography.
Pixel pitch doesn't really matter unless you're switching between sensor sizes. Otherwise, with very little exception, a higher MP sensor is going to always have a more dense pixel pitch. Which, with modern sensors, doesn't seem to have much of a bearing on IQ as it used to, m4/3rds sensors and lower, aside.
@@caodesignworks2407 It's not the iq I was referring to, although there is quite a noticeable difference in iq, especially colors, when comparing e.g., an image taken with a 20MP FF sensor and a picture taken with a 40MP FF sensor. The 20MP sensor will gather 100% more data aka. light or colors... Pixel pitch aka. Pixel size affects image data gathering (light, color, etc.) The bigger the pixels, the more data aka light, etc. the sensor gathers.
@@nogerboher5266 Sorry I didn't specify light gathering abilities. I assumed you already knew that as you were inquiring about pixel pitch. But for the laymen, higher density sensors equals smaller pixels/ pixel pitch. However, once again, modern sensors, especially FF are far more performant than even lower resolution cameras of a few years ago.
@@caodesignworks2407 They are, however if you compare two modern sensors, e.g; Z6ll and a7RIV, the higher PD sensor from the Z6ll will still perform much, much better.
I have been fooled with FPS in the past. I typically don’t chase specs and understand it’s the amalgamation of all the components together that are often the difference between a good and a great product.
One spec I always have a hard time finding is jitter for videos. Some cameras advertise an fps but is not performing like one. Some advertise 24p but produce 23.976 fps. Others advertise 24p but create it using 29.976 using telecine techniques . This creates jitter effects and the footage appears to skip from frame to frame. Also the compression rates or codecs are rarely mentioned. As well as the mic specs such as the frequency in Hz, polar pick up patterns, and gain db level, and types of amps used. Eventhough you may be using on board mic for scratch audio its still important to know it for specific situations. I also would like to know stabilization specs. For how strong is the stabilization. Many cameras and lenses have OIS , EIS, or IBIS, but some are way better than others. I wish there was a way they could measure these.
I thought the jitter is the result of a literally low frame rate (24 fps) combined with bad compatibility of 24 fps with 60 Hz monitors. Apparently, 120 Hz tV sets can reproduce 24fps without that skipping/pull-down. I do not like 24 fps in any motion picture.
I normally don't mind all the cuts/edits but this video was over the top for me - too jarring/distracting. That's just me though. I know a lot goes into the amount of retakes that it takes to film something and even the length of the video and how that feeds into the algorithm, but for me personally I don't mind um's and ah's. That's just part of natural speaking and videos with technical topics are expected to be a bit longer. Cheers.
It's less efficient than that. If you compared video lenses that has been converted from photography lenses, for example: Samyang, or Tokina, they are selling f1.4 primes as T1.5 video lenses, which is about 25% of difference. For f2.8 zooms they would generally sell as t3.5, which is about 60% difference
Really liked your video here. I know well about resolutions and pixels. I am a bit of a fanatic about it to say the least. I started out in computers back before Windows... I used CPM and monitors were very small and primitive! To this day I refuse to use my cell phone to do what only computers and 4K HD large screens should be doing. And I will NEVER understand why people are such fanatics about narrow portrait pictures??? Photos with the sides blurred out to "guide my eyes" to see what they want me to look at? Sorry, but I am NOT brain dead as to the point to need instructions on how to look at a photo! Additionally what's so damned ironic about it all is why are all the TV manufacturers and monitor manufacturers making such beautiful wide screens with super high resolutions but almost all the "phone photography" is coming out in "Horse Blinder" form? I've NEVER had an issue or the NEED to have my eyes "guided" to any photograph. Are people that dumb these days to not know how to move their eyeballs UP - DOWN - RIGHT - LEFT? It seems like it's taken 60 years for people to get some excellent visual devices and amazingly there are still so many people that don't know the difference or are able to SEE the difference between 720p / 1080p or 4K! And yes I am 69 years old... NOT 16!
I had exactly the same problem as you with my XT3. I was shooting group of kids playing in the park and later when I saw them on computer, almost half of them were out of focus. Now I know why.
A barely know where to begin. So much, so wrong. The purple and green effect, that’s chromatic aberration. Your Nikon 70-200 is really a 135mm??!! Focus breathing - to that extent? Your Chanel has it’s place. Not for the informed.
There is also no information about the Focus-Speed of the lenses. How long [ms] takes it from Infinity-to-2m, Closest-Distance-to-infinity etc. - I bought once the 85/1.8, just because the Focus was much faster then on the 85/1.4.. (Nikon AF-S)
The Sony A7C is advertised at 5 stops of image stabilization, which is the same spec as the Olympus EM5ii. In practice however, the A7C is significantly worse (especially noticeable in video) than the Olympus EM5ii. Still not sure how to compare IBIS from one mfg to another.
I recently got a Nikon Z5, and the EVF has no lag when you're just looking around, but as soon as you engage the AF, the latency slows waaaayyyyyy down and I've actually missed shots because of it! Mirrorless sucks, they overcomplicate the process of taking a damn photo. Thank goodness for my D4S, which is and will always be a perfect photo-taking experience (with no lag!!!)
The information you put out is great and very useful for those people who are technically sound... But such people always have workarounds to compensate for gear deficiencies... There is no gear that's PERFECT.. A great photo sums up the skills of the person behind the gear with all it's imperfections !!
tony's voice is coming from right speaker and chelsea's from left..........why not both? on my laptop, speakers are already tiny so cant listen properly. please fix this.
The processor speed. I tried Nikon D3500 for a few days and then I tried the Nikon D5600 (same kit lenses) The difference in focusing speed was huge. The D5600 focus was much faster and much more accurate In the specs they had exactly the same processor. I kept the D5600 of course.
Tony! Can you help me figure out why my Canon R5's EVF is super laggy and choppy in low light indoors with a slower f4 lens? Works amazing outside but once i get indoors and crank the ISO a bit, the EVF becomes nearly unusable. The LCD does not have that problem.
Is the AA filter the same as the IR filter? In cleaning the sensor on my 5D4 I scratched it. I'm being told that I did not scratch the sensor but did scratch the filter on the sensor. I do mostly landscape. So should I just have the filter removed? Love your vids, guys. TY!
THANK GOD, He mentioned T stops! Hooray, now we are moving forward. Now if we can stop ridiculing DXO, as they are the only people testing T stops, and giving that info away for free.
640 x 480 is what I finished half life 1 in. Zooming in one 20mb image will be fine 🤣 Good enough for me is what I'm saying. If it's not good enough for you, keep it in your own comments 😘😘
Funny thing about t-stops - I measured my cheap Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 against my equivalent Nikon 50mm f/1.8 G lens, and the Yongnuo was actually about a third of a stop brighter! Turns out the Nikon lens has a transmission of 2 t-stops according to DXOMark. They don't have measurements for the Yongnuo, but it's seemingly closer to the actual maximum f-stop, which I found surprising. You would think the lower-quality lens would be darker, but I'd guess that the lower optical complexity probably helps, as does its tendency to flare (which could theoretically contribute to the extra exposure, though it appeared to happen in all situations). I was planning to sell it, but it does render things surprisingly nicely given the lower overall optical quality. Unfortunately the autofocus is slow and sounds like heavy machinery in need of serious maintenance, so I don't get a lot of use out of it day-to-day.
i think it's posible that they for some reason didn't want to mess up there marketing material and having 2 separate resolutions ia 4k recording and vga playback listet in pixels may confuse "some people" so just use a different unit problem solved
Guys, if you're talking to your audience in a video, please make sure you're looking at us. There's nothing more annoying for a viewer to see the speaker looking off camera on every other angle. It's just a thought.
I’m laughing here. Great discussion and explanation of some technical aspects of photography. People taking still images wanting a shooting rate that meets or exceeds video. That’s funny right there. Remember the days of advancing film with a lever. So many of us have become soooo spoiled by technology.
Nothing about ISO 100 being different between bodies? The same lens with the same aperture and ISO setting can require a longer shutter time for the same exposure on different bodies
It's not about highlighting faults, it's about full disclosure; facts a buyer needs to know. Don't gloss over or obscure what you cannot do (at about 14:00).
To be fair, the focal length of a lens IS determined by infinity focusing. It's literally how the focal length it assigned to the lens. View camera users understand this.
You dont actually need special equipment to measure the focal length you get. All you need is a 2 long ruler, a measuring tape and a calculator. What you do is you use the 2 rulers in like an X, Y coordinate system and the law of perspective to calculate the angular size of the rulers. The law of perspective being a = 2*arctan(g)/2r, where a is the angular size of the object, g is the actual size of the object and r is the distance to the object. You can then compare it to the field of view in degrees that the lens has at certain focal lengths.
I fell in the specs trap at least twice: first with the Oly EM1X that did not impress me at all on paper, until I held it in my hand and used it. Then again with the plastic Oly EM5 iii, not interested until I had it in my hands. The key factors are simply not in the specs, some reviews however at least mentioned relevant characteristics. I dig your video on this topic!
I have a weird question, about the frame per second !! You guys buy a lot of great cameras, but cannot acheive 30fps, instead you get around 13. But , I'm also reading that a gopro takes video at 4k 60 pfs, and that we can get a picture from any of the frame, so we get 60 to choose from , is this right or I'm I missing something ?
Huge difference. Burst photos will be full resolution (example in video is 26mp) and JPG or Raw. The GoPro's 60fps is video, so the still will be 4k (around 8mp) and more compressed than a normal JPG, therefore lower quality. Another factor is that GoPros have fixed focus lenses (relying on wide angle, small aperture and small sensor), so they don't need to focus the image between frames.
The only thing that ever was a "head scratcher" for me was years ago I was shooting with a D2xs and I switched from "full frame" to cropped mode after shooting a burst and the display showed "Busy" and I could not shoot for what seemed a long time. Of course I missed some action while this was happening. I learned fast that if I wanted to make that change from 12 megs Full to 6megs cropped I would have to make the change ahead of time. Recalling this I'm not sure if this was a Camera issue or the CF cards write speed was the problem. Cameras have advanced and cards have advanced, So thankfully I don't have any issues with my equipment.
I am BLOWN AWAY how well my Canon EF lenses work on my R5 and R6; not even considering buying many RF lenses. Having said that, the 600mm and new 100mm Mac in RF ARE TEMPINNG me! :0)))
Which is the least costly APS-C or Full Frame mirrorless without viewfinder lag for wildlife action currently available ? Mainly in Nikon, Canon or Sony but other brands will also do.
Great commentary and good food for thought. That being said, wish I knew how to find the difference, if any, in T stops between Canon's RF24-70 F2.8L lens and their RF28-70 F2L lens, both shot at say, F2.8, lenses you both have used, reviewed and/or own.
i remember my first digital camera, before the internet was full of info and reviews, it had 3.2mp and an eyepiece viewfinder. It had a bout 3 week lag between view and photo, so it was like a skill test anticipating the aircraft being in the right framing, no idea it would be like this when i bought it.
Your F-Stop / T-Stop item reminds me of horsepower vs. torque in the automotive world. Race car design legend Carroll Shelby once said "Horsepower sells cars; torque wins races." I suppose a corollary would be "F-stop sells lenses; T-stop gets the shot."
Hehe honestly, for a few purposes I'd love to have a lens with incredible focus breathing. Like if I had a lens that would be wide angle when something is close and a telephoto when it is far away. would be perfect for taking photos of a soccer game, for example, where sometimes players are almost in front of you while the next moment, action is on the other side of the pitch.
Your sound ist off in this vid. Its like you cranked up the sound from en external mic or like the input of near mics is spiking. Pls fix :) just wanna let you know
Glad you pointed out the crappy resolution of EVFs. I was/still am hugely disappointed in the "2.3m dot" EVF in my Sony a6400. After I started using this camera, I thought, "really? this is acceptable to everyone?" I really miss an OVF. (I also appreciated Chelsea's explanation for leaving Sony. I agree with many of her complaints.)
I also have one (sort of), about sony focusing speed, precision and accuracy in different focusing modes. Continuous autofocus works much faster, with much more precision and accuracy while single shot autofocus is (at least for me) works so much worse for some reason. It shouldn't, but it does. So if user doesn't use back button AF, he or she does not get advertised focusing performance with AF-S.
Yeah guys, we need some other benchmark system than dxomark, because they don't benching new cameras and lenses anymore, they are addicted to review only smartphones.
When someone asks you if you want a nerdy explanation on why the focus breathing happens, YOU SAY YES!
It was a "sideways" way of advertising a different video they made. Surprised you didn't catch that.
@@chuckm482 BINGO
If you made F-stop vs T-stop test for lenses, I would actually watch it (seriously). Think about how many people are buying fast and expensive lenses so they can shoot in low light.
I follow Grandpa's advice and let other people use stuff for at least 6 months so they can figure out the good and the bad. Then I consider buying.
THIS. RIGHT HERE. 🙌🏻 I never had a "wise family member" say it, but ever since I was a teenager I always said I refuse to pay to be a beta tester. I always try to get new phones or cameras that are steps up but not total redesigns because with big redesigns, you never know what you're gonna get. And then simply allowing others to be the ones to preorder and stand in wild lines to be the first to get ahold of something… I don't know where everyone else on here hails from, but where I'm from, people don't just have money to set a match to like that. Every purchase has to be responsibly made and accounted for.
I have often used this same strategy. However, I may very well break tradition and change my ways with the immed purchase of an R3 body, once it becomes available for pre-order. Blessed are the early adopters, for they discover and report all the initial problems on a new offering, as well as pay for the Mfgs' R&D costs. We thank them.
Exactly. That is why you never upgrade software the day it was released. Let other suffer.
Yes I totally agree with this 100% after having a bad situation with a a big truck that was a total redesign back in 1996. It was 1 month after coming out and i was crossing the USA in Nebraska and it started to get chilly and i went to turn the heat on and i hearda pop and leaking air, which is very dangerous with tractor trailer as air runs your brakes, and i could not get the air to stop. I was able to get to a truck stop and call someone and long story short i was stuck for 3 weeks in Mid America for one 2 inch part that had to come from Europe. From then on I will never buy a new design and wait until the kinks are worked out and then I will buy something especially if it is a very large price purchase.
Yep, I always stay 2 generations behind.
Me: Smiling as I load another roll of Acros 120 into the back of my RZ67 Pro ii
So glad to hear that I'm not the only one that has a hard time telling if the picture is in focus on the camera screen.
Same for me!
Yeah, even with 10x zoom I'm still not sure it the focus is right
Its so annoying! A photo that looks great on the camera looks terrible on my phone.
@@alexk7977 Is that uploaded to your phone or on the wireless app preview? Because idk about other brands, but the previews of images on the Canon Connect app are HORRIBLE. But once you download the JPEG to your phone's Photos and pinch in, it looks solid.
@@longliveclassicmusic uploaded to the phone. I just meant that you can't tell if it's out of focus or the colors are off in a strange way or whatever. it's just much harder to see problems on the small low resolution screen of the camera.
Very helpful video! But one suggestion: could you make use of the youtube 'chapters' feature? For a video like this, it would be useful to see it divided into the specific topic areas. That way, if I want to go back and review one of them, it is easy to find.
What is going on with the audio? Ouch. Yet, I'm reading that apparently it has been made better??
Good interesting content so I'll try to stick it out. :-) Peace.
Weather sealing is another area with a lot of misleading marketing on both camera bodies and lenses. They pretty much never obtain an actual IP code rating for weather resistance. Many heavily market their toughness and show their cameras getting soaked in heavy rains or huge ocean waves but the fine print always says they are light splash and dust resistant only.
@Photo Bunny Panasonic repaired my Lumix S1 and 24-105mm lens for water ingress without charge but based on the warranty fine print could easily have said no so kudos to them for that but it doesn't replace the disconnect between marketing and the actual design capabilities of not just them but all manufacturers.
That’s because they charge $500 for a $0.01 rubber gasket.. That’s literally all weather sealing is.
At least on smart phone marketing many manufacturers know their product withstands submerging to water even, but the official rating costs a lot of money so they don't get the seal of quality despite having that quality. It's similar to how for example in Finland you get the finnish flag on your product (say veggies) if it's grown and produced in Finland, but it costs 5000e and it scales upwards, so many choose not to get it, despite being eligible. It's a balance of value vs cost, the badge doesn't bring as much value as it costs. And I believe you can't legally state that the product is let's say water sealed if you don't go through the validation. And perhaps they also don't want to encourage people to challenge their camera's water sealing unnecessarily, to avoid unnecessary warranty cases, and it also takes their legal liability of warranty away. In a sense everybody wins when the camera is water sealed, but nobody tries it purposely, so you avoid the camera being rendered useless without good reason and you're still protected against it happening.
here is one that mislead me i had a Nikon D7100 and used a 18-140 lens, then got a fuji X-T3 with a 18-135 lens and found out that if your shooting at 3200 ISO with the Fuji, it's the same Exposure at the Nikon D7100 at ISO 1600, So the ISO with my Fuji X-T3 is a lie, if your at ISO 3200 it's really 1600 from all the other camera's i tested..
I think Fuji does this to make people think that Fuji's Camera shoots cleaner images at ISO 3200, which it does not lol
Very misleading if you ask me..
I did notice my new RF 70-200mm does not Zoom in as much as the EF version. Kind of a bummer.
I actually made a video about this a couple of weeks ago. So many people cannot believe this LOL. But sadly this is true, they cheat, or forget to tell us LOL.
IMO Tony is at his absolute best in videos like this. And that is why his science video series is so good. Thanks for this Tony. - The one spec that always troubles me is Mag-factor. Buying longer lenses don't always give you more magnification. And minimum focus distance is rarely discussed.
You should name this episode "hard way". Thanks much for doing all hard work so we learn this easy way :)
Sorry, think that name was used for a '90s Porno.
Panasonic lenses have very little focus breathing. Love their lenses, hate their prices. Also love their evfs and and screens. They are terrible at marketing.
Could you guys do a video about how to get the best with camera you have now? Instead of so much focus on the latest and greatest that we all can’t afford to blow $3,000-4,000+ on ?
I shoot with a 60d, and that’s what I have. I watch a lot of videos trying to make the best of what I have to work with, but to be honest I feel lost a lot. Should I just hunker down and take the “no duh” approach and read the whole manual back to back ? Lol or do you have any tips just for me to get better, sharper results?
Honest question lol
I find that the way to go about it is use what you have to get what you want. And you should expand what results you want and challenge yourself. I use a z6 now and that’s very helpful but I hardly use any of the features, just the full frame aspect and 4K video basically. I don’t even use autofocus lenses. I use manual lenses and even before that ive used a d3500 for 3 years, the super no frills camera from Nikon that’ll only take 5 shots before buffering. No biggie because I learned to adapt to it. Anyways my point is that the camera doesn’t really do much for you, it’s the lenses and it’s the ideas in your noggin that let you get the best out of your camera. Shoot everything and see what you like, what could be better, what’s just terrible. You don’t know how many ideas I thought were good but ended up turning out like crap. Mastery over your gear comes from using it. Same with your artistic touch, gotta just get out there and use it.
Biggest things to actually seriously know is
Framing, lighting, exposure triangle.
And you should know how to do these things with your camera of course. If that means front to back in the manual then go for it.
With those 3 things, you add in a little bit of yourself and you’ll learn what to do and how to do it.
@@Dudeitsbrian nice advice! Thanks I’ll put that into practice !
@@Dudeitsbrian There's no such thing as an "exposure triangle".
@@aliendroneservices6621 of course there is. ISO * Exposure Time * Aperture or T-stop if you’re fancy. The three things that influence the exposure of your image.
I guess I don’t think of it as a triangle, maybe a balance but yeah good concept. I don’t generally think too hard in it unless I’m doing long exposures tho.
I remember shooting a 36 frame roll at 5 fps with my Olympus OM-2 and Motor Drive 2. No buffering. Pretty good performance, even today. I never got the 250 film back though.
great info guys! but please fix the audio :)
Love what you guys do - thank goodness YOU do it, because I would pull out the few remaining hairs on my head trying to figure out stuff like this on my own! 💯🥰
Backslapping TH-camrs😏
I believe that a lot of us (at the least me) would rather wait for a trusted reviewer to release their complete review than any random review hitting the tube right when the product is released. Maybe less views, but the views will be more impactful. Moral of the story - keep producing great reviews and always sacrifice minute-of-release video releases for truth and thoroughness.
You guys are saying you’ll get demolished if you post a poor resolution video, but your audio clipping is atrocious on this video! Sorry, I had so show my audio snobbery after your video bashing comment! lol. In all seriousness you guys are great. Love your videos!
Hi Ed. A real question. I'm truly not having audio clipping. I just wonder why you are, and I'm not, an really because I question the delivery of our internet, as well as equipment, etc. I'm not better or worse than you, I just wonder what it is. I love their video's also, but I do have some issue with them - which I will bring up maybe in the next one. They are well prepared, and thought out though. I just want to get to know their motivation as well as how they prepare to make their videos. It's different from many other videos I've seen. I do like them though.
I also experienced significant audio clipping on this video - something I hadn’t seen on a Tony and Chelsea video hitherto.
@@kevinwells4986 There are definitely audio issues with this video. Clipping is sometimes not always obvious. I've watch videos where the person is giving an example of clipping and I don't hear it, and other times I do. I think this one is more noticeable. It's also a bit muffled. But I think most of their videos are muffled. The are emphasizing the low and mid frequencies.
They need to boost some higher frequencies to get more clarity. Each person's voice has ideal frequencies to improve the overall sound and it can be a PIA to figure out. I have a preset for me that seems to improve my voice over no EQ, but I'm sure an audio engineer would completely change it.
There's also a couple times you hear some noise from transient blowing into their lavs. Tony more than Chelsea. Very minor. Really no way to fix that afterwards without using the high end RX audio software. They tend to not use windscreens for their studio work from what I've noticed. Most of the time it doesn't matter, but occasionally it does.
And if we're being picky, the second camera angle for Chelsea like at 5:06 shows the edge of the backdrop and some equipment which seems sloppy.
@@zacharybohlman4069 Personal preference now. Not a fan of their use of DOF on these videos. It's not the background blur, it's the foreground blur in every video. It's distracting to me that hands and really anything closer to the camera is out of focus.
Forget the quality of the year camera screens, sunlight makes them very difficult to read in even reasonable sunshine, I still rely, almost 100% on the EVF!
but the EVF has similar issues. Sometimes they're higher dots but they are field sequential so they have lower frame rates and less true pixels, plus the latency can be worse than on the main monitor. I think their point is that the pentaprism works better even if mirrorless is attractive, except on the newest cameras where the cpus are fast enough to have a decent live mode
I would appreciate if you created a T-Stop bench mark as I mostly do low light/Astrophotography.
This is why photography is still an art and a science.
Dxomark records the light transmission of lenses
Why do camera manufactures use such crappy screens when our phones now are incredibly pixel dense and bright? One of the main functions of a camera is image quality. It's crazy they come with screens so ancient that it limits your ability to scrutinize your work in the field
The top edge of the video is flickering up and down for some reason. How does that happen?!
I think the image stabilization has not been cropped out, or the sensor is messed up
@@nivethofficial I recently saw a video where the right edge was flickering just like here. It might be a bug in TH-cam's video processing pipeline.
@@staticv3570 That's happening at every resolution of this video, so the source video is probably like it. That audio is also not well synchronized. Do you see that as well?
glad its not just my monitor having a seisure
The irony that the topic of this video is about AA filters, focus breathing & weird stuff happening to your source footage and then i see the warping top edge of the frame! Just spent five minutes skim-watching a tonne of other videos and havent seen anything like this; plus it happens on every angle cut (maybe they did it deliberately to catch us out haha!)
Thank you! You guys have answered so many of the things I wondered about.
Another great video 👍🏻
When Pentax came out with an electronic AA filter, I said, "Whaaaat?" It was then I realized what was really going on with optical AA filters. Pentax took it out but realized the problem with the "corduroy fashion moire" could bite them so they gave you the option of shaking the sensor, just a little, to re-blur, just like an optical AA filter would. I thought reducing sharpness was a rather odd "feature", and in 5 years, I've used it once. I'm pretty happy they took this rather strange approach, because the other 99.99% of my pictures were noticeably sharper.
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I GREATLY prefer an accurate review over a fast review.
People are relying on these reviews to help them make purchasing decisions for equipment that costs thousands of dollars.
Discovering a fatal flaw post-purchase that the reviewers could have noticed had they taken the proper time to evaluate the camera brings the reviewers trustworthiness into question.
I trusted Nikon on the 12 FPs for the Z6. Well it can do the 12 FPS but when it does the EVF shows a slideshow which makes following a fast moving subject almost impossible. Unfortunately I found only a single review of the Z6 II which states that it also has this issue. Manufacturers should be called out for stuff like this so they fix it (at least in the next model). Since basically no one called out Nikon for this they did nit fix it.
I’m not buying a new camera till 2022. Actually, I can get by longer.
The AA filter is not a "coating" on the sensor. It is a separate discrete filter element that overlays the sensor. I had the AA filter removed on my D800 three years ago by a company called LifePixel turning it into a D800e. They also performed the same mod to my D600.
Yeah but why did you export this at 24fps? 60p into a 24p timeline looks ultra choppy, especially at 1/125
What's the ultimate way of shooting and exporting in your opinion?
I'm out. Audio is too jarring. Hopefully this can be reuploaded without the clipping. Thanks guys!
And if you plug HDMI into your Sony you lose your AF capabilities)) Oh f.cking Sony!)))
whhaaaaaat! Which cams?
To check T stop, shoot on a bright sunny day at midday using the sunny f/16 rule. The amount of underexposure you get(if any)is the difference between f stop and T stop.
both of your mics are clipping, we want Justin back!!
Chels and Tony! Please talk about the importance of knowing the pixel pitch aka. sensor pixel density of a camera! One of the most important "specs" to know when buying a camera for low light action, sports and wildlife photography.
Pixel pitch doesn't really matter unless you're switching between sensor sizes. Otherwise, with very little exception, a higher MP sensor is going to always have a more dense pixel pitch. Which, with modern sensors, doesn't seem to have much of a bearing on IQ as it used to, m4/3rds sensors and lower, aside.
@@caodesignworks2407 It's not the iq I was referring to, although there is quite a noticeable difference in iq, especially colors, when comparing e.g., an image taken with a 20MP FF sensor and a picture taken with a 40MP FF sensor. The 20MP sensor will gather 100% more data aka. light or colors... Pixel pitch aka. Pixel size affects image data gathering (light, color, etc.) The bigger the pixels, the more data aka light, etc. the sensor gathers.
@@nogerboher5266 Sorry I didn't specify light gathering abilities. I assumed you already knew that as you were inquiring about pixel pitch. But for the laymen, higher density sensors equals smaller pixels/ pixel pitch.
However, once again, modern sensors, especially FF are far more performant than even lower resolution cameras of a few years ago.
@@caodesignworks2407 They are, however if you compare two modern sensors, e.g; Z6ll and a7RIV, the higher PD sensor from the Z6ll will still perform much, much better.
I have been fooled with FPS in the past.
I typically don’t chase specs and understand it’s the amalgamation of all the components together that are often the difference between a good and a great product.
One spec I always have a hard time finding is jitter for videos. Some cameras advertise an fps but is not performing like one. Some advertise 24p but produce 23.976 fps. Others advertise 24p but create it using 29.976 using telecine techniques . This creates jitter effects and the footage appears to skip from frame to frame.
Also the compression rates or codecs are rarely mentioned. As well as the mic specs such as the frequency in Hz, polar pick up patterns, and gain db level, and types of amps used. Eventhough you may be using on board mic for scratch audio its still important to know it for specific situations.
I also would like to know stabilization specs. For how strong is the stabilization. Many cameras and lenses have OIS , EIS, or IBIS, but some are way better than others. I wish there was a way they could measure these.
I thought the jitter is the result of a literally low frame rate (24 fps) combined with bad compatibility of 24 fps with 60 Hz monitors. Apparently, 120 Hz tV sets can reproduce 24fps without that skipping/pull-down. I do not like 24 fps in any motion picture.
How do you mess up the audio so badly. It hurts to listen to
I normally don't mind all the cuts/edits but this video was over the top for me - too jarring/distracting. That's just me though. I know a lot goes into the amount of retakes that it takes to film something and even the length of the video and how that feeds into the algorithm, but for me personally I don't mind um's and ah's. That's just part of natural speaking and videos with technical topics are expected to be a bit longer. Cheers.
is there a typical efficiency of lens ( f stop vs t stop)? Is it say 90% on average?
It's less efficient than that. If you compared video lenses that has been converted from photography lenses, for example: Samyang, or Tokina, they are selling f1.4 primes as T1.5 video lenses, which is about 25% of difference.
For f2.8 zooms they would generally sell as t3.5, which is about 60% difference
Really liked your video here. I know well about resolutions and pixels. I am a bit of a fanatic about it to say the least. I started out in computers back before Windows... I used CPM and monitors were very small and primitive! To this day I refuse to use my cell phone to do what only computers and 4K HD large screens should be doing. And I will NEVER understand why people are such fanatics about narrow portrait pictures??? Photos with the sides blurred out to "guide my eyes" to see what they want me to look at? Sorry, but I am NOT brain dead as to the point to need instructions on how to look at a photo! Additionally what's so damned ironic about it all is why are all the TV manufacturers and monitor manufacturers making such beautiful wide screens with super high resolutions but almost all the "phone photography" is coming out in "Horse Blinder" form? I've NEVER had an issue or the NEED to have my eyes "guided" to any photograph. Are people that dumb these days to not know how to move their eyeballs UP - DOWN - RIGHT - LEFT? It seems like it's taken 60 years for people to get some excellent visual devices and amazingly there are still so many people that don't know the difference or are able to SEE the difference between 720p / 1080p or 4K! And yes I am 69 years old... NOT 16!
I had exactly the same problem as you with my XT3. I was shooting group of kids playing in the park and later when I saw them on computer, almost half of them were out of focus. Now I know why.
A barely know where to begin. So much, so wrong. The purple and green effect, that’s chromatic aberration. Your Nikon 70-200 is really a 135mm??!! Focus breathing - to that extent? Your Chanel has it’s place. Not for the informed.
I believed Canon when they advertised the 90D with 10 fps. Ha! Real world the best I can get is 5 fps. And that is rare. It's normally 3 - 4 fps.
There is also no information about the Focus-Speed of the lenses. How long [ms] takes it from Infinity-to-2m, Closest-Distance-to-infinity etc. - I bought once the 85/1.8, just because the Focus was much faster then on the 85/1.4.. (Nikon AF-S)
The Sony A7C is advertised at 5 stops of image stabilization, which is the same spec as the Olympus EM5ii. In practice however, the A7C is significantly worse (especially noticeable in video) than the Olympus EM5ii. Still not sure how to compare IBIS from one mfg to another.
Thank you for this. I found it informative, inspiring, and enjoyable. Cheers!
So, has Tony ever addressed why the top of his videos sometimes flicker? Cuz it's really distracting. Is this just me?
I recently got a Nikon Z5, and the EVF has no lag when you're just looking around, but as soon as you engage the AF, the latency slows waaaayyyyyy down and I've actually missed shots because of it! Mirrorless sucks, they overcomplicate the process of taking a damn photo. Thank goodness for my D4S, which is and will always be a perfect photo-taking experience (with no lag!!!)
The information you put out is great and very useful for those people who are technically sound... But such people always have workarounds to compensate for gear deficiencies...
There is no gear that's PERFECT..
A great photo sums up the skills of the person behind the gear with all it's imperfections !!
tony's voice is coming from right speaker and chelsea's from left..........why not both? on my laptop, speakers are already tiny so cant listen properly. please fix this.
The processor speed. I tried Nikon D3500 for a few days and then I tried the Nikon D5600 (same kit lenses) The difference in focusing speed was huge. The D5600 focus was much faster and much more accurate In the specs they had exactly the same processor. I kept the D5600 of course.
Tony! Can you help me figure out why my Canon R5's EVF is super laggy and choppy in low light indoors with a slower f4 lens? Works amazing outside but once i get indoors and crank the ISO a bit, the EVF becomes nearly unusable. The LCD does not have that problem.
Is the AA filter the same as the IR filter? In cleaning the sensor on my 5D4 I scratched it. I'm being told that I did not scratch the sensor but did scratch the filter on the sensor. I do mostly landscape. So should I just have the filter removed? Love your vids, guys. TY!
THANK GOD, He mentioned T stops!
Hooray, now we are moving forward.
Now if we can stop ridiculing DXO, as they are the only people testing T stops, and giving that info away for free.
640 x 480 is what I finished half life 1 in. Zooming in one 20mb image will be fine 🤣
Good enough for me is what I'm saying. If it's not good enough for you, keep it in your own comments 😘😘
I have a nikkor 70-300 mm 4.5-5.6 G....the images aren’t sharp at close / further up distances. Something confusing.
Funny thing about t-stops - I measured my cheap Yongnuo 50mm f/1.8 against my equivalent Nikon 50mm f/1.8 G lens, and the Yongnuo was actually about a third of a stop brighter! Turns out the Nikon lens has a transmission of 2 t-stops according to DXOMark. They don't have measurements for the Yongnuo, but it's seemingly closer to the actual maximum f-stop, which I found surprising.
You would think the lower-quality lens would be darker, but I'd guess that the lower optical complexity probably helps, as does its tendency to flare (which could theoretically contribute to the extra exposure, though it appeared to happen in all situations). I was planning to sell it, but it does render things surprisingly nicely given the lower overall optical quality. Unfortunately the autofocus is slow and sounds like heavy machinery in need of serious maintenance, so I don't get a lot of use out of it day-to-day.
i think it's posible that they for some reason didn't want to mess up there marketing material and having 2 separate resolutions ia 4k recording and vga playback listet in pixels may confuse "some people" so just use a different unit problem solved
127 marketing people from camera manufacturers have donwvoted this video so far. Good job, Northrups! I loved this video.
Guys, if you're talking to your audience in a video, please make sure you're looking at us. There's nothing more annoying for a viewer to see the speaker looking off camera on every other angle. It's just a thought.
I still don't know if my Sony a6300 has an AA filter. Some say that it does, but it's "weak", so no worries. No official info, though.
I’m laughing here. Great discussion and explanation of some technical aspects of photography.
People taking still images wanting a shooting rate that meets or exceeds video. That’s funny right there.
Remember the days of advancing film with a lever. So many of us have become soooo spoiled by technology.
I think this is a very good presentation, especially the F-stop / T-stop discussion.
Nothing about ISO 100 being different between bodies? The same lens with the same aperture and ISO setting can require a longer shutter time for the same exposure on different bodies
I think Camera screen should have a resolution that's high enough that people can't see the dots. It's like should have dpi of 300+
Hey have you SEEN the Nikon Balance sheet just announced >> the Tiger is BACK in the Black $ 165M I heard
It's not about highlighting faults, it's about full disclosure; facts a buyer needs to know. Don't gloss over or obscure what you cannot do (at about 14:00).
To be fair, the focal length of a lens IS determined by infinity focusing. It's literally how the focal length it assigned to the lens. View camera users understand this.
You dont actually need special equipment to measure the focal length you get.
All you need is a 2 long ruler, a measuring tape and a calculator.
What you do is you use the 2 rulers in like an X, Y coordinate system and the law of perspective to calculate the angular size of the rulers.
The law of perspective being a = 2*arctan(g)/2r, where a is the angular size of the object, g is the actual size of the object and r is the distance to the object.
You can then compare it to the field of view in degrees that the lens has at certain focal lengths.
I fell in the specs trap at least twice: first with the Oly EM1X that did not impress me at all on paper, until I held it in my hand and used it. Then again with the plastic Oly EM5 iii, not interested until I had it in my hands. The key factors are simply not in the specs, some reviews however at least mentioned relevant characteristics. I dig your video on this topic!
I have a weird question, about the frame per second !! You guys buy a lot of great cameras, but cannot acheive 30fps, instead you get around 13. But , I'm also reading that a gopro takes video at 4k 60 pfs, and that we can get a picture from any of the frame, so we get 60 to choose from , is this right or I'm I missing something ?
Huge difference. Burst photos will be full resolution (example in video is 26mp) and JPG or Raw. The GoPro's 60fps is video, so the still will be 4k (around 8mp) and more compressed than a normal JPG, therefore lower quality. Another factor is that GoPros have fixed focus lenses (relying on wide angle, small aperture and small sensor), so they don't need to focus the image between frames.
Incredibly valuable information! Thank you Tony and Chelsea! This vid is going into my favorites for reference. :)
F stops are brake horsepower (HP of the engine removed from the car)
T stops are wheel horsepower (HP actually transmitted to the wheels)
Nikon LIED about the 70-200 f2.8vr. I hated that lens and it is 1 of the reasons I switched back to Canon.
The only thing that ever was a "head scratcher" for me was years ago I was shooting with a D2xs and I switched from "full frame" to cropped mode after shooting a burst and the display showed "Busy" and I could not shoot for what seemed a long time. Of course I missed some action while this was happening.
I learned fast that if I wanted to make that change from 12 megs Full to 6megs cropped I would have to make the change ahead of time. Recalling this I'm not sure if this was a Camera issue or the CF cards write speed was the problem. Cameras have advanced and cards have advanced, So thankfully I don't have any issues with my equipment.
The next time you both comment on 'lag', maybe you could discuss what it might be like to use a "beam-splitter" built into the lens.
i still dont know what "i o slash sfalvnwnervwn" is. Am i alone here?
Btw it's been years now since i started to watch your vids xD
The back screen... I am not caring about it being low rez; the higher the resolution, the more power it takes! 800x600 on my D500 is fine.
Chelsea is fairly consistently looking somewhere just to her right of the camera. I find it very off-putting.
I am BLOWN AWAY how well my Canon EF lenses work on my R5 and R6; not even considering buying many RF lenses. Having said that, the 600mm and new 100mm Mac in RF ARE TEMPINNG me! :0)))
Which is the least costly APS-C or Full Frame mirrorless without viewfinder lag for wildlife action currently available ? Mainly in Nikon, Canon or Sony but other brands will also do.
Tony, could you tether an iPad Pro in the field to your camera for better resolution to review photos, albeit a slower and bulkier setup?
Great commentary and good food for thought. That being said, wish I knew how to find the difference, if any, in T stops between Canon's RF24-70 F2.8L lens and their RF28-70 F2L lens, both shot at say, F2.8, lenses you both have used, reviewed and/or own.
i remember my first digital camera, before the internet was full of info and reviews, it had 3.2mp and an eyepiece viewfinder. It had a bout 3 week lag between view and photo, so it was like a skill test anticipating the aircraft being in the right framing, no idea it would be like this when i bought it.
There has to be standards for specs as well.
Your F-Stop / T-Stop item reminds me of horsepower vs. torque in the automotive world. Race car design legend Carroll Shelby once said "Horsepower sells cars; torque wins races." I suppose a corollary would be "F-stop sells lenses; T-stop gets the shot."
Hehe honestly, for a few purposes I'd love to have a lens with incredible focus breathing. Like if I had a lens that would be wide angle when something is close and a telephoto when it is far away. would be perfect for taking photos of a soccer game, for example, where sometimes players are almost in front of you while the next moment, action is on the other side of the pitch.
I didn't know what I didn't know. Thank, this is so helpful.
Wow, let's take a physics course. Do you really not know how focal length is calculated?
Focus breathing is a non issue, as you say, at infinity you are getting the 200 so the rest is just physics and not a conspiracy.
Jump cuts for audio gap removal is really distracting to watch 👀
Your sound ist off in this vid. Its like you cranked up the sound from en external mic or like the input of near mics is spiking. Pls fix :) just wanna let you know
Mics clipping?
Glad you pointed out the crappy resolution of EVFs. I was/still am hugely disappointed in the "2.3m dot" EVF in my Sony a6400. After I started using this camera, I thought, "really? this is acceptable to everyone?" I really miss an OVF.
(I also appreciated Chelsea's explanation for leaving Sony. I agree with many of her complaints.)
I also have one (sort of), about sony focusing speed, precision and accuracy in different focusing modes. Continuous autofocus works much faster, with much more precision and accuracy while single shot autofocus is (at least for me) works so much worse for some reason. It shouldn't, but it does. So if user doesn't use back button AF, he or she does not get advertised focusing performance with AF-S.
I stopped this video twice to check who was at my doors. Turned out it was your "ring the bell" audio effect.
me, once. That was annoying.
Audio is still AWFUL.
Yeah guys, we need some other benchmark system than dxomark, because they don't benching new cameras and lenses anymore, they are addicted to review only smartphones.