I recently purchased a Sony 35mm F1.8 lens (SEL35F18F) and paired it with my A7C to make this review. The low light performance is very good, but at the end of the video I was overly optimistic about the low light performance (I literally shut all of the lights off), as expected the ISO ramped […]
Read More Sony 35mm F 1.8 Lens ReviewMy self-education of videography and lighting continues. I recently purchased a black/white pop up background and a fairly professional light. I did some experiments on both background colors with different lights to see if I could get desired outcomes… with mixed results. Genaray AK-230 Light: https://bhpho.to/2SO8tv8 Black/White Background: https://amzn.to/3pbSK5o
Read More Black Screens & LightingThis is a short video of me messing around with a new green screen. I bought a pull-up style green screen (vs the bendable version) to see if it would be easier to set up and create less shadows (since it wasn’t hanging). Set up was definitely easier, but lighting is lighting (unfortunately). Link to […]
Read More More Fun With Green ScreensA quick follow-up on the “Old Canon Lenses” vlog I posted a few weeks ago… Those over-exposed pictures really bothered me and I realized that the aperture blades in the lens were not moving when I moved the ring. Canon FD aperture blades will lock at 5.6 if you don’t manually unlock them or make […]
Read More Canon FD Lens Aperture LockI am so tired of having to take mounting plates off my camera and screwing new ones on when I need to use different sized tripods. After looking at a Peak Design video for their newish tripod, I saw how their one mounting plate interchanged with all of their capture systems – and I wondered […]
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