INDEX BELOW:
#1: 0:52 – Your lens’ SWEET SPOT probably isn’t f/8
#2: 1:43 – FOCUS BREATHING might make your lens short
#3: 6:37 – The RECIPROCAL RULE isn’t a rule at all
#4: 10:58 – Buying a camera without checking the lenses
#5: 12:23 – Using INFINITY FOCUS to get everything in focus
#6: 13:22 – DEPTH-OF-FIELD isn’t real at all
#7: 14:25 – 4K is great even if your screen isn’t
#8: 16:00 – Printing at 300 DPI doesn’t mean perfect sharpness
#9: 16:45 – F/STOPs don’t tell you the exposure, T-STOPS do
#10: 18:12 – FULL FRAME LENSES on CROP BODIES are less sharp
#11: 20:39 – FILTERS aren’t worth it for many photographers
#12: 21:37 – Many REVIEWS aren’t TRUSTWORTHY
#13: 27:04 – Cropping a sharper, short lens beats longer lenses
#14: 29:22 – Apply the CROP FACTOR to focal length & f/stop
#15: 32:38 – HIGH MEGAPIXELS doesn’t mean HIGH NOISE
#16: 34:00 – Noise at base ISO is important
#17: 35:25 – ISO is not an acronym, and is “eye-so”, not I-S-O
#18: 36:11 – AUTOFOCUS is more accurate than MANUAL FOCUS
#19: 38:23 – AUTOEXPOSURE is better than LIGHT METERS
#20: 41:07 – ART is more important than TECHNOLOGY
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Tony…you are a douche
Such a shame. Tony is so knowledgeable yet so boring to listen to. Tony step it up. Love everything you do. Just don’t see any excitement out of you.
#20 … even though I bought the most expensive hammer, it doesn't mean I can build a house like an experienced carpenter.
ISO stands for International Standards Organisation (not eye-so): Read the Wikipedia article that talks about ISO values, ASA, values, and DIN values. Start with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed#ASA. This is the only point of contention I have with Tony at this point. I like that he researches the technical aspects and follows on with the anomalous behaviour of camera equipment – things that people don't often think about. That's my kind of thinking. But it really is I.S.O. (International Standards Organisation – they also helped to propagate the metric system). ISO has a standard "ISO 12232:2019(en)" that talks about ISO film speed ratings: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:12232:ed-3:v1:en
35:25 ISO is Finnish and means "big".
#12 that's really annoying. Every successful photographer is an ambassador of some brand. In their every youtube video they pay WAY too much attention to the brand they are using. Jason Lanier is a good example. At least he is honest about the sponsorship of Sony, mut it's kind of cute how excited he is about every Sony camera he uses 😀
Great work, great background information. Thanks a lot for your videos and especially this one!
People with Detailed Facts and Definitive Opinions will always be “controversial” because most people are wishy-washy and more interesting in flocking with the public pigeons (not a spell check interpolation) and do NOT want to get into a debate because with will expose bias and a lack (or indifference) for facts…
LENS!!!
Lend BEFORE body… good dating tip!
why the audio in these videos is very weird?
The reciprocal rule remains regardless of what size the image sensor! So smaller the sensor, so less you shake because the focal length is also shorter for the same size of the subject in the frame… And this you can try out with every bridge camera or smartphone… Even you don't believe me … do you think that the center of the sensor is shaking more than the rim/whole sensor? it is actually so, that the smaller sensor is just only the center of the sensor… Or do you think in crop-mode your camera will shake more???
Please stop that noise canceling on your microphone. Its sooooo anoing.
I like this video, it is a really good one 🙂
This channel is great just another example of a fine video put out by these two
Excellent. I annoy the crap out of my astronomical group as the all do scientific photos and I do artistic shots. Makes me giggle, makes them fume! Thank you.
#2 Can't you just test focus breathing by focusing all the way to infinity first, and then focusing closer and checking whether the framing goes wider while you're adjusting the focus? Obvisouly it won't be a very precise measurement of the amount of focus breathing, but surely it'll give you a very good idea? Not everybody has extension tubes lying around.
Thumbs up for the tea mug!
Good stuff, I learned some key things that I assumed I already knew.
#20 the best point. I can relate 100%.