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Have you ever tried low element vintage glasses like Zeiss Tessar(4) Coop triplet lens like TTArtisan 100mm F2.8, or SMC Pentax-M 50mm F1.7 (6element) maybe you find some hidden gem with better microcontrast...more 3D pop? 🤔 These are cheap hobo m42 lenses, you can adapt them with any milc system.
@@cameraconspiracies I see my comment got deleted... What you don't think you look like a total psychopath with your shirt buttoned all the way up lol 🤣
That c100 mk11 image is among the best I've seen on your channel, you will never beat the older cameras, some of the best images you've shot, great video, 👌
Within the context of this video, this was nothing short of amazing. The video editing, the information and the entertainment were all superb. Highly recommended. So good.
@@abavariannormiepleb9470 Dang! Now that you've replied, I'm obligated to watch that segment again to evaluate your position on the matter. Sigh, the demands of an honorable existence...
The thing about the zoom is it's consistency of exposure and colour. If you're switching between primes from different manufacturers is their inconsistency with each other. And, of course, you only have to take one lens with you, instead of several primes and also don't have to keep swapping them on and off. That's before you even mention the pain of manually focusing all the time. EF/EF-S lenses work great when adapted to my EOS M100. So, yeah, I have a bunch of vintage manual primes but, BUT, I use them (adapted) for photography, not video, on my Olympus and Lumix bodies. If I shoot video, I use AF lenses.
My favorite clip portion of this or any other video Kasey has done starts at 8:43 where he is "filming women who definitely want to be filmed guaranteed". 🤣🤣🤣 The woman with the blonde streaked red hair looked like she was so happy, she was going to scream with joy....okay, maybe just scream "PERVERT", or something equally joyful. What I would like to see is how Kasey is positioning his camera. How obvious is it that he is filming? I will say that plenty of women scrupulously avoid eye contact, so it's not so difficult if you aren't totally obvious. Since I haven't done this kind of "camera work", I have no idea where to draw the line. So, instead of constantly yammering about lens choice or camera choice, maybe it's time to describe "fieldcraft". How do get video's of elusive "wild" life on city streets, without being attacked by dangerous subjects.
I think that having a lens with character (3D pop or whatever you want to call it) is far less important than filming in good lighting and properly exposing, white balancing, color grading, and composing your shots. If you're just starting out, it's better to get a cheap zoom, practice, improve, and then, once you get somewhat good, invest in a lens with a character you like. I love lenses with character, but if your lighting and composition suck, your shot will look bad no matter what lens you use. Just my 2 cents.
After months of listening to you harp on about how awesome the A7s3 was, I dropped £3K (British pounds, not your Canadian pesetas) buying one. Now you crushed my realised dream with this video. I'll never buy one of your t-shirts now, "bro." 😔
Ehh, as long as they are the same color, they match. Green matches green, blue matches blue... But she does know this about me and tends to pick out my clothes. Lol
I wish there was an adapter that could take old A-mount or Minolta lenses and make them autofocus with E-mount. The Sony AE-5 or whatever only works with photos for focusing. I have some old Minolta lenses that have a “look” to them from the 90’s. microcontrast and a wonderful yellow “retro” tint to them. Gah…
Native AF lenses for the Sony system with 3D pop are definitely something I would appreciate. Currently my super sharp E-mount Sigma 24-70 F/2.8 is hard to beat overall. But on occasion I do see the pop in other (manual focus) lenses...
Since I got my Zeiss 55 1.8 there's no way back, especially in automotive content, where 3D pop is even more noticeable. So I ended up doing almost entire aftermovie on this lens.
For science, it would be interesting to see you try the autofocus Leica M to Nikon Z adapter. Then adapting m39/m42 lens to M mount and then onto Nikon for the vintage lens + autofocus 👀
You know what really makes a film clip cinematic is that there is a guy whose only job is to pull focus, and another guy whose only job is to pull aperture, and another guy whose only job is to point the camera. You need three Kaseys.
Oh come on dude. You already have the Canon R5 MKII and 600mm f11 in a shopping cart and for sale photos of your Nikon stuff ready to go on your desktop, don't yeah? 😉😆
Swapping the Nikon 600mm to the canon f11 one would be a backward step I think. F11 is a joke maximum aperture. The canon won’t be nearly as good for wildlife compared to the Nikon glass.
Autofocus must have been off for that opening clip with the 24-105. Was 4 feet behind you the whole time. Love the look of that EF 135 t2 though. I'll never let go of mine.
Interesting comparison... Love that 85mm and 135mm look opened up. I have the OG XF56 T1.2 and the XF90 T2 and just love them. I think that location for the VP video about bread would have been better for this video. That lake footage would have been epic. What if you got an FX3? Could start a war? Nice comparison here. Have a great weekend.
The 85-135mm range shots looked better, almost as if they would call that portrait focal length. The 135mm has the nicest treatment. The 24-105 is soft and out of focus mostly.
I can’t believe you hold The Angry Photographer in such high regard. He’s never ever taken a decent photo. He doesn’t know how to edit. He’s the most extreme case of Kruger Dunning I have ever come across. He genuinely believes that every atomic physicist in the world doesn’t know what they are on about and he does. He pretends to have friends. He only has two shirts. He has a pathological hatred of Sony and sigma. He has more lenses than god but doesn’t use them and I’m fairly certain he bases all his reviews on what other people have said before.
Wow "I wish your Mom wasn't real" that one cuts deep. On another note the Canon EF Lenses are some of the best, this my friend is true 😍 That 24-105mm f4 is butter 👍👍 The Canon C100 Mark II is looking good👀
Have you tried adding auto-focus to your manual vintage lenses with a DJI Focus Pro with LiDAR? I find that tech fascinating and the current second generation has improved a lot.
One reason the 24mm looks better than the 24-105mm was when you moved back and then forward the C100 didn't refocus You're out of focus. If you look at the split screen 1:20 you can see the branches behind you to the left is what's in focus. As a result the 24 prime background has a softer more pleasing blur and you are sharp and clean looking giving it more pop. It's not to say the prime isn't better.
I liked the flashback montage with the other lenses on the hillside overlooking the water - the "3d pop" ones - pleasing images. WIth the 24-105 Zoom you looked like you were in front of a green screen, there was like a weird ripple around you, maybe you were about to be sucked into another dimension by space marauders. Total trash until you got to 85mm (good) and 105mm (really good). But agree, crushed by the primes. Yes, the 24-105 worked in studio- but I just don't think I'd want to lug around a zoom outside, too much thinking required. Then again I am almost entirely doing photography - I need all my thinking power to create existential narratives to accompany my art.
I have the Canon FD 80-200 f4 L and really love it, using it as my only tele on a Fuji X-S10 for landscape and wildlife (as much as you can do at 300mm). Manual focus has been just fine for what I do, plus I'm poor so a fringer and EF L glass is outside my budget lol. I know your conclusion about AF in this video, but have you used any Canon FD lenses in the past?
Since we just seemed to determine that F4 has too little toneh, and F1.2 sometimes has too much, where is the sweet spot? 1.4? 2.0? 2.8? For example Canon makes a 24/2.8 USM that is smaller/lighter/cheaper than the 24/1.4 - might that substitute for some large percentage of the 1.4's use cases? Of course the 3D pop is THE most important "use case".
I recently bought the 24-105 f4... There is a reason most videographers get this do it all lens. It keeps amazing me on my S5 for video work, plus f4 is equivalent to f2 M43s and that is plenty Bokeh. As you proved in this video.
I went into the rabbit hole that was adapting ef glass to Canon. Don’t go there. Same ef lenses with OIS worked a little bit worse with r8 than none native BM6KFF with L mount to EF adapter. The supposedly decent rolling shutter resulted in a lot of weird warping of the image while stabilised. When I tried the electronic stabilisation it completely didn’t work with ef OIS. All the footage could go straight into the bin. I thought that possibly getting R6II with ibis would help, but that made things worse. The footage is full of micro shakes on telephoto end. It can’t be stabilised in post as it gets super warpy. One the wide end canons are simply abysmal. No wonder they quote stabilisation value to be different in the centre of image and in corners. As you can imagine the image is a warpy mess straight out of camera. Nothing can be done do help. I’m pulling an eject lever from this Canon platform and getting the ZV-E1 again.
On topic, the original 25-105mm L might not be perfect, but it is versatile unlike the primes. So that single zoom could be used for all those shots, whereas the primes excelled in their faster apertures and arguably more pleasing character. So the winner is you, because you have both the versatility of the zoom and the specialty of the primes, enhanced by the improvements of the EOS R system - while also being able to use EF mount bodies.
I would love to see a Knaf's pocket knife with 2 blades, one spear point the other serrated, along with a cap lifter/flat blade and a fold out phillips screwdriver. Add the very nice tweezers and metal toothpick like you showed us today and I will buy it! 2.5"&2" blades would be perfect in a 2 layer configuration, sort of a mash up of the Buck Canoe and the Benchmade Weekender. D2 steel or better and we have a dream knife! I can dream! (Ok Kickstarter anyone?) Right!
Woah, I hadn't seen the Hollister logo in forever. Makes me wanna go fire up season 1 of the OC and rip some holes in my jeans. Put affiliate links to your clothes also.
Lidar is the only consistent enough system to fix canon autofocus. The cheapest I've seen is 500 usd for the "focus" only. It the 700$ dji one for focus, zoom and toneh.
Have you ever tried rifle stocks for cameras? I have the vintage photosniper, and it is ridiculous how good the contraption works. The camera obviously doesn't shoot video, but the frequency of jitter decreases by orders of magnitude. Actually, I should measure that maybe.
I think the 24mm prime does look better, if you pixel peep but most people aren't going to care that much. Having said that I don't think that Canon 100 renders that great of an image (based on this). It seems to lack detail if you look at the skin. It also has a bit of a noisey look to it. I can't totally put my finger on it, but I am not blown away by this image. It is kind of like when Kasey used the cheaper Nikon and people said, wow what a good image at a low price, why spend the money. I didn't like the image at all.
What about autofocus adapters on your manual focus stuff, like an electronic follow focus adapter? Might not be worth the messing about with batteries/wires/stupid rigging though.
Rip A7s3. At first I thought the idea of the c100 MK2 was going to be a bad idea, even though I love camcorder style cameras. I have to say it is a fantastic looking image with your L lenses even though it lacks the 10bit. Edit to add: Isn't there a Leica M mount adapter that gives autofocus on manual glass? I think they may only be Sony at the moment but that could be another rabbit hole for Leica and Voigtlander SMALL full frame lenses.
