no.... just absolutely no... that's not how exposure works at all buddy... exposure doesn't change based off of the medium size.... the depth of field would roughtly (not really) scale with the sensor size... the exposure doesn't.... f4, 1/500th sec at ISO400 will give you the exact same exposure on a phone sensor as on 4x5... jesus@@houghwhite411
@@houghwhite411 to be very honest, their has certainly been a lot of improvement in the low light iso performance of apsc cameras. Like APSC color images are pretty usable till 6400 these days, back when I started photography using nikon d5100, one cannot fathom going past 1600 and the low light pictures looked terrible. That's 2 stops of improvement over a span of more then a decade. I remember using the 35mm 1.8 back in the day and the 23mm f2 i use today is leaps and bound better in low light due to the greater iso control.
I love that expression "Honeymoon Phase"... lol.. but never hold back. You're an amazing photographer, way above average! Are New Yorkers your main audience? I'm a random guy in a small town in Canada, and I've been following your channel for years. You inspire me, and for sure countless others. Never apologize. Go for it! You're a true artist. There's no such thing as cliche, except to intellectuals.
Faizal, f/2.8 is a fast lens. That’s why it the constant max for the fastest zooms. The f/2 on the X100V is super-fast. Let’s see what you can do at f/4
@@djstuc No it isn't. Crop sensors are objectively worse in low light compared to full frame at the same f-stop. Full frame aren't better because they have better f-stop (they don't) - they're better because they have bigger sensors with `photosites (pixels) that usually gather more photons each - resulting in less variance that causes ISO fuzz. I still prefer crop sensor (I'm on an X-T5) because I think the trade-off is worth the lighter camera. But for low light, full frame has an advantage. To clarify - both sensors record the same intensity. But full frame grabs more photons. If you took my X-T5 and doubled its size, it'd grab twice as many photos per pixel and get better ISO (and I think dynamic range) as a result.
@@djstuc And then the crop sensor 'crops' out a lot of the light that's gathered. Hence why so many professional, high-end photographers out there explained the low-light benefits of full frame. There's a reason why astronomers like bigger sensors, not just bigger lenses.
@@djstuc I don't know what you are on about. The only thing I commented on is the incorrect... click-bait - title. It says you don't need a fast lens and then Faizel sets out with only fast lenses to demonstrate. To square with his title he should be showing us how to shoot with a kit-lens zoom with a max aperture of f/3.5. It would be tricky. But just about feasible. I would not take it on, though. I think you DO need a fast lens for night time shooting... f/2.8 or faster. I did a two-year project of night time street photography with a f/1.4 lens. Some years later I did another night time project (and made it into a couple of books) with a Fuji f/2 lens. Improvements in sensors meant it was much easier shooting with the f/2. ISO1600 and 3200 showed no appreciable noise in the books I had printed.
in my experience, you can go with 2.0 and slower for a really low light night photos if you have both or one of those: - camera that handles high iso really good, like 6k or smth - you have some kind of stabilisation, either build in or a gimble or just a stand, that will allow you to slow down your shutter without making shaky photos My X-T1 got none of those, so 1.4 is the answer. 2.0 also works, just not that great also that heavily depends on the city, New York, Bangkok, Tokyo and all that have enormous amounts of night lights, go to Berlin and you would be suffering
Great video Faizal, F2 is super perfect for night shooting, great photos, Love the pix you took of the empty diner in China Town, very eerie! you have such a great eye!!!
Awesome video again man! Love seeing your mindset and your pics. If you posted an unedited vid of a shooting session I’d watch the whole thing, it’s so relaxing!
Night photography is a lot of fun and can get very moody. It brings out another dimension most of us don't pay much attention to. I'm sure the non-photographers consider noght to be an inconvenience. Those of us that enjoy it understand the moodiness and beauty that can be found at night. Darkness is particularly good for capturing liminal images. Cheers to you Faizal for showing just how interesting night pics can be.
My first experiences with night time street photography was when I was moving across the US. I drove to see a friend in Chicago and walked around with them and my zeiss 135mm 2.8 shooting around 1/60 and ISO 3200-5000 It was a wonderful experience. Two days later I was in NYC with another friend shooting with that same setup. Some of the best photos I've taken to date were on those two days. A year or so later I walked around Boston at night with a 500c loaded with delta 3200 and night-time street photography is one of my favorite things to do.
I was about to save up for the 56 1.2 WR. I already have the 23 1.4 wr - and think it’s a bit big! This 50 f2 is super tempting also for its size. Thank you for making me less skeptical for the main weakness I assumed the lens would have.
Just got a backpack clip for my Osmo Pocket 3, kinda nice cause you can also have the pocket be "horizontal as well. I haven't tried making a "photo walk" video yet - but imagine it might work well for you!
I recently bought a pocket tripod that extends to just over 3ft and for my night photography it's been a game changer. Certainly breathes new life into my slower lenses. It's the kind of tripod to make most photographers wince (myself included) but the fact it can go in your back pocket and be ready to use within 3 seconds makes it an essential part of my kit going forward. Typically, tripods (even the regular travel tripods) make you stand out plus they need to be carried in a separate bag but with this thing it's a no brainer. More night photography guys should definitely consider using one. Though, good luck trying to find one. The only one I could find that was small enough for a trouser pocket but extendable to 3.5ft was by Hama. As far as I can tell, nothing else like it exists. Wouldn't dream of using it with my D810 though. Strictly a Fuji X100 and Sony RX1 tripod.
Those filters look cool! I have a couple of Urth lens adapters and I'm really happy with them. For winter photography I got a cheap pair of cycling gloves on Amazon from a brand called Ozero that are thin enough that I can mostly still control my camera, they have a little conductive fabric on the index finger for touch screen use, and they're waterproof. They definitely make winter photography more bearable!
You got some wonderful shots on that photo walk. I really appreciate you sharing those filters, I was not familiar with them. I need to check them out. I love the affect they had on your images.
Love a lot of the shots you took in this video, I highly recommend going back to Chinatown on a night when there is light snow/rain you'll get some really cool cyberpunk looking shots
I have some F1.4 even F0.95 lenses, but they are quite dim wide open, so it's rare that I can take nice and sharp photos at that aperture. I also prefer to use them F2 and up. Also keep in mind that Fujifilm focuses on the nose instead of the eyes lol :D so if you take a head shot @1.4, the eyes are already gonna be blur. I would like to add tho, that F2, F2.8 are still fast lenses. What you're trying to show on this video should make sense if you shoot F4 or F5.6. Those are apertures of cheap kit lenses.
@@ichheissedamian of course it has, that's what I'm talking about. It locks on the eye, but when you zoom in on your computer, it won't be the eyes that's sharp... misfocuses, so it's normally the face or the top of the nasal bone that's sharp, but not the iris
Absolutely amazing pictures and a great idea for such a walk. The night city is most inspiring for me. But I guess it would be a bit scary to walk alone at night. 😅
F2 is totally fine if the scene is well lit. However, try the same thing on the city outskirts and without f1.4 or greater, high ISO or tripod, or at least good IBIS or OIS, you might have a problem...
Great pics, as always, I need to get some nighy street photography in my portfolio. For the POV camera, there isn't an elegant solution for the Osmo Pocket, so might be best to just use if when talking to camera (looks good in low light btw), then use GoPro/Osmo Action for POV. You could use the Insta360 Go 3 for both, as you could mount that quickly to your chest, then pop into the action pod for vlogging. But it won't be as good in low light as it's a smaller sensor and doesn't fo 4k. Maybe the go 4 will do. Keep up the great videos and photos!
Great shots and inspiring video as always. You make the process seem so effortless. How do you go about making sure things are in focus? In the video it just looked like you were shooting from the hip one handed but still get crisp subjects.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. So are you getting your subject in the bright light then focussing with half shutter press then recomposing? It’s the way you’re doing it so effortlessly and one handed that made me curious. Again really great content and thanks for the reply.
Great work Faizal, as always. Also, congratulations on your move to NY. You deserve every success. It's been great watching the channel grow. Keep going, don't give up and all 223k of us will continue to watch. Have an epic 2024.
Very creative and interesting video, Faizal. The dark city streets, the rain, the color & reflections... as well as the music made me think I was rewatching Blade Runner. Watch out for those replicants at night! 😉📸
When I shoot at night I usually use an f/2 or f/1.8 lens, any faster isn’t really needed. But I did a (short albeit) night shoot with an f/4 zoom lens at one point and it worked perfectly fine on my canon R6 mk2 at iso 6400.
Wow! What an incredible video! The music and atmosphere are absolutely mesmerizing. I'm curious, could you share the photometry and exposure dial settings you used?
Cinematography, especially the music, was awesome this video. I kinda just zoned out, it was great. Hope to find the essence of this video in future content also!!
I mean, try shooting all that without ibis, which the XT5 has and is pretty solid for still. I had an XT2, great camera even in 2024, but unless you crank up the ISO, you better have surgeon still hands or a tripod.
Hey Faizal, great video as always. Love the music. The Blackmist filters are great too. You mentioned that you were testing the Osmo Pocket 3 for low light use. What did you think?
Great video. Thank you. Really good capture of NY at "night". But just FYI -- I consider an f2 as a fast lens. Wherein, I would consider something like a f3.5-5.6 to be a slow lens. And anything less, like an f1.2 or f0.8 to be "God-like" fast apertures. So f2? It's a fast lens in my book. Either way, great use of mist filters. Cool images. And I really liked it's use on the video, too.
F2 is pretty fast regardless crop of full frame sensor. You gain at least 1-stop compared to your zoom lens which can be really helpful in night photography. 1/15 > 1/30s SS without IS.
Hey, just wondering if you plan on keeping the lumix after this "trying out" period ends? Would appreciate some extended thoughts now that you've had it for awhile
Hello Faizal, i’ve been watching all your video those past month. And sometimes I caught myself having feeling of a spider sens tanglling for candid photography. Those past months i was deeging a lot in camera gear and really liked the fuji_xE4 for is spec and esthetics. But i realized that in your last videos you are haven.t used it. Have you sell it ? Have you been bother by anything ? would love to know why if you can share more details here or in dm. Thank you a lot for your content it is very relaxing and educative cheers from france 🎉
Ethereal vibes, very cool results. It seems like you are using the electronic shutter in this video, do you not see any banding issues with the artificial lighting?
@@julesc5571 No, the light gathering capability doesn't change regardless of the sensor size. It is still f/2. What changes is the depth of field, which would make an f/2 lens have f/3 full-frame equivalent DOF.
Great video! I also believe that photographers use a faster lens to shoot at night without having to increase their ISO. Resulting a noisy image which some people don't like. But who cares.
This guy: FranceWheeler - rides a powered wheel through Paris. He shoots video with what looks like an Osmo Pocket 3 mounted up above his shoulder on some kind of harness/rig. He doesn't say what gear he uses but I noticed a shadow in one of his two most recent videos. Very smooth imagery - video POV higher than a bicycle and just above car roofs.
last time i was in nyc my sleep schedule was messed up so i spent 9 nights straight just walking around shooting. i got like 150 instagram posts out of like 4000+ shots. bad timing though because it was right when stills died out on instagram
Phew now i fell better about ordering the 23mm f2, i wanted to get the 35mm 1.4 but then i mostly shoot street and 50mm ff equivalent is a bit tight. Was worried about missing in that 1 stop of light and dof but i feel easy after reading the comments. I got thr xpro3 so no ibis for me but i think i would be carrying a tripod with me on night photowalks. Thought about getting that old 23mm 1.4 but that lens is huge and ruins the reason of getting the xpro in the first place. Can someone also share their experience with using manual focus in night time street photograohy with fuji ? I am tempted on getting them but i am worried about on lack of manual focussing skills.
Were you using Mechanical or Electronic Shutter? I often wonder this when there are a lot of subjects that might react to the sound and sight of a camera. I suspect the shutter noise was simply lost to the street, but I am curious.
I was shooting few days ago in a snow area in one nice Moscow park. There were no food nearby, very few ppl. I was happy that I've put a worm porridge (in a wide thermos jug) in my backpack. Thus I've got some energy before the dark. So after that I've continued to shoot in the beautiful "light gallery". There is a place where a lot of stylized lamps are installed. It's practically in a wood (narrow area almost near water canal). LEDs changes colors so I was tooking different photographs standing in the places where I was thinking that I get some really nice shots. It was about -10 - -15C! :) So it's not NY's temperatures I guess. Take a warm case for your camera and you'll not get your hands frozen!
I was about to say the same, plenty of light in a city. What I call low light is clearly not what he calls it! I simply could not use a lens at f/2 for my night time shots.
dude you're going out in the brightest parts of New York with an f2 lens and then make a video about the fact that "You Don't Need a Fast Lens for Night Photography"
Oh yeah, that is in NY with the newest camera with crazy high iso ;-) right one does not need. Lets repeat that statement with f4.5 and max non-mushy iso of 800 otside of the biggest megapolis in the world wo long exposure
Shooting in burts will help you with motion blur due to camera shake when you press the shutter button. Once you hold the shutter down, the camera will have stabilised by the time the 3rd photo is taken. I learnt this from one of Roman Fox's videos. Really helps with using low shutter speed at night.
no need for a silly filter if simply one considers the lighting and manually adjust to your desired exposure, its called photography, but for those bipods who want to point and shoot hundreds of snaps on P with 18,000 af points then buy away
Oh my gosh, one of your best videos yet and that’s saying a lot. Very motivating. Agree @jpp5485 on the "Honeymoon Phase" phrasing but my favorite quote is "if you can't accept being a little weird, what are you doing?". Hilarious. Thanks Faizal!!!!
