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Tony and Chelsea talk about misleading information and some broken promises of the camera industry, including promised features that only deliver disappointment, impossible zooms, and the marketing that drives it all.
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As overall performance: would be better using a dslr with a superzoom lens like a 18 400, or a bridge camera with a costant aperture of f 2.8 or a high end performing 1 inch sensor sony rx10 mk 4?
two ways of looking at the X times zoom factor:
1) the human vision is comparable with a 50mm lens. A 10 times zoom (i.e. of common binoculars) is therefore the equivalent of a 500mm zoom lens.
2) factor = maximum focal length / minimum focal length. I have an old Sony cam corder with an optical zoom of 20x. The lens says 3.6mm – 72mm focal length. 72/3.6 = 20 (of course the focal length value can't be compared to a full frame camera lens, as the chip on this old cam corder has for sure a pretty high crop factor). It also says it has an 80 times digital zoom, which is of course absolute bogus.
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your f stop conclusions are not correct I won't go into why I say this but think of a pinhole camera.
THIS influencer…. loves it. DOUBLE SIGH HAHAhahahahaha
cool video!!!
Purportedly, if you peep upon some problems, you're going to be properly perplexed! 😛
"This influencer loves it." I've been seeing that lately with respect to the DJI Osmo Pocket. Finally, they came out with a 3.5mm audio adapter that only costs $49.00 with shipping. And, 90% of the reviewers have been gushing over it, with only the lightest negative comments on the price. What's worse is that there is still a lot of variability in the performance of using an external mic, and none of these reviewers have been covering that. The only people talking about it are the aveage Joe who really wanted to use an external mic, but was disappointed to find that good audio was sort of a coin toss.
"You don't talk about it enough!"
That's amore!
Hello Tony , I want a suggestion from you , I own a d500 and know which lens to get nikkor 500mm f5.6 pf vr or 200-500mm f5.6 vr , thanks
One of your best videos
My ultimate vlogging camera would be a body like the canon M50 with better preamps and an APSC DPAF 4k native sensor (something like the GH5s), sold with the 11-22mm (or something wide, fast and stabilized) and maybe in a kit with the new Rode WirelessGo and a small tripod. UHD@30fps FHD@24-30-60-120fps. BT and WIFIac connectivity to phones is a must. But canon never listens. They think they protect their EosCinema cameras but in fact they are protecting the sony and panasonic mirroless cameras. (vloggers dont need 10bit RAW video files) 😐
A extra battery in the kit would be awesome and a free video version of the CanonPhotoProfesional would be a delight but all this paragraph just turned into an unrealistic dream.
BTW. You should review the new Rode WirelessGo
In terms of how much light the sensor gets per mm^2, the f-stop actually tells you exactly what you would expect. The crop factor doesn't matter for this. It only matters for depth of field. If you'd take a picture with a full frame camera at 25 mm f/2.8 ISO100, you would get approximately the same result in terms of exposure as with the 5-115 mm camera at 5 mm, f/2.8, ISO 100.
It would be incredibly inconvenient if they would actually sell it as a 5-115. The focal length does look like a 25-600 because of the crop factor.
People are used to see focal lengths as a full frame equivalent – and this makes sense, because like that they can easily be compared.
Great show, thank you.
My fav reply for blurry cell pictures: When somebody says oh I see some really cool lights in the sky. Then they respond with it: " You should have taken a picture you had your cell phone " or " Why is this so blurry, I can't tell what it is.? I tell people go outside and take a picture of a bird about 4 or 5 truck lengths away from you. Then look at that photo and zoom in on it….now how's your detail.? Cell phone cameras are good in the house or in a vehicle.
Landscapes without vegetation or water… LOL | $1,000 on a brick LOL LOL!
In the film industry, it is called "product placement"…in my business, fashion, beauty, it is called "advertorials" or "co-branding". You could be paid for an advertorial, but you wouldn't want to call it a review. You could present an expose or a feature about a camera or product that is basically an infomercial or advertorial. But the people watching your vlog would know it was produced by the manufacturer. Just another advertising break in your vlog post. Oh and by the way, I have been sponsored by the likes of Canon, Fujifilm (in the real film days), Agfa and Pentax and in all cases, they approached me. I did not have to promote their products, but I certainly did nonetheless just by virtue of using them. 🙂
I loved Tony's Matrix analogy!
"I'm extremely optimistic…" So am I 😘 🙌🏻 That was very sweet indeed! 🙂
Tony, I like your pants.
Interesting topics, thanks for talking and sharing about it. All those "lies" (marketing vibes of great new features and improvement over their previous models, new innovation and technology etc.) from the camera makers doesn't affect me much since I will only buy a camera after many reviewers publish their reviews/opinions (not that I understand all of it anyway) AND more importantly, I will only buy once the price drop a little bit (maybe during one of those stock clearance sales). In 2019, still using the good old 7-8 years old Fujifilm X10.
Chelsea you'd be good looking with a camera set a 0 shutter speed, 0 ISO, and the lens cap on. Now that's a true vlogger's concept of vanity. And Tony is dropping F-Bombs.
When I'm ready for another lens for my Canon I really like Christopher Frost. And he didn't pay me to say that. hehe.
It was a BIG FLAW… OK so Nikon was bribing reviewers of their mirrorless cameras so they dont mention poor AF right? 😛